The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-10-13
ABOUT THE KLONDIKE.

st. raul, Oct. ~.
ABOUT THE KLONDIKE.
c. c. Kenney Receives a Letter
from HIS Brother.
You asked me to write to you about
my trip to Alaska, so will try to tell
you something about it. A little over
q year ago we sailed from Seattle on
the steamer Willamette and arrived
at Sksguay five days later without any
trouble. There we're about 800 peo-
pie on the boat, so we were delayed
about three days in getting our freight
from the boat. There were six in our
party and we took along provisions
enough to last us 9 year. We took
our freight in small boat and start
ed across the bay for Dyea, so as to
take the trail over Chilkoot pass,
which we believed to be the best way
to go. The first trouble we had was q
heavy wind storm, which arose on the
bay, and things looked for time as
though we might have trouble but we
at least managed to reach the shore,
and getting our boat behind point
of rocks, lay there for three or four
hours, when the wind subsidized and we
we're able to reach Dyea without fur
Their trouble. Our next move was to
start our goods over the trail to the
ferry, and from there to Finnigans
point, then Sheep camp, on to the foot
of the pass, then over Chilkoot pass
down the Crater lake, from there to
Long lake and to Deep Lake, then
down to Lake Linderman, when we
whip sawed lumber and built us q
boat, VIII ich took one week. We then
started down our river trip. We
crossed Lake Linderman, q distance
of six and one-half miles. Then came
the portage between lakes Linderman
and Burnett. We lined our boat
down the rapids, which is q very bad
place. A great many Quits are lost
there. There is a man buried there
on the bank of the river, who lost two
outfits, and after losing the last one
was SO discouraged that he shot him
self. From there we crossed the lakes
Burnett, Tagish, Marshand down the
Sixty Mile river to Grand Canyon, a
narrow place through range of
mountains, about thirty to forty feet
wide and.the water of a large river all
rushes through that narrow place and
of course runs very swiftly.
We took most of our goods through
the canyon in the boat and tied our
boat at the foot. The man who was
with me got into some trouble with
the man there, and while we we're gone
back to the head of the canyon for the
balance of our goods, he cut our boat
loose and it drifted down the river one
half of mile and stopped on a rock,
where I could wade to the boat and
get everything alright. Nothing was
hurt, not even the boat. which was
lucky for us. The crowd wanted to
hang the fellow, but l said let him go,
for / blamed the fellow who was with
me for getting into trouble with him.
, Our next move was to go through
Squaw rapids, about one mile below
the canyon. Then comes White
Horse rapids, a very rough piece of
water, but we passed through alright.
We then made Is miles more of the
Sixty Mile river, taking us out into
Lake LIE Barge, which is 81 miles wide
and very rough most of the time.
Next came the Thirty Mile river, which
is very swift and full of rocks. Many
boats we're lost on this river, but from
there down, after going into the Lew
is river, it is not very bad.
We arrived at Dawson City Oct. l6
(about three months from the time
we left Everett) and went to work
tits q pretty cold place and quite
gloomy there. For about six weeks
the sun never rose. The sky was
clear and blue. The first time We
saw the sun, after being down SC
long, just the top Of it came in sight
Deafness Cured.