Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-18

trail the hghroad to Alaska thus making
the town in which they have invested tbsir
FUNDS and energies the leading city of
Alaska. With this incentive they are maxi
ing every effort to make the Skaguay train
me best. safest and easiest route 10 the
Yukon gold fields
The Skaguay and Chilkoot trails share
the advantages of being by far the short
est overland routes to the Grain of lakes
at The headwaters of the Yukon The Dali
ton tran from Lynn canal to Fort Selkirk
on the Yukon, 100 miles. is a good trail for
parties taking in stock as they can he
driven all the way through a country
where there is plenty of feed. The Size
keen river and Edmonton routes each re-
quire an overland trip of several hundred
miles instead of twenty-five or thirty-five
miles via. Skaguay or Dyea before reach
ing the headquarters of the Yukon and
therefore they are not worth considering.
transporting the Outfit
Selecting, then. the Skaguay route as
the best, the miner should take passage on
one of TIE regular steamers from Seattle
about March L to IT, and have his outfit
billed to Ska quay where il will be unloaded
on the wharf, an he can at once set up his
tent on shore or take a room at a boarding
nc use and commence arrangements for
getting his outfit over the pass
The best method is to take his outfit
over on sled drawn by dogs For his out
mt of LOO or 1,Soo pounds he should have
tree or four dogs. These dogs can he
bought in Seattle for from $40 to so EACH
and will sell on the Klondike for three or
four times that amount With mis- four
dogs he can easily take COO pounds at
load over the pass. and should get his en-
tire outfit 10 the lakes in ten or fifteen
days. He will still have month or six
weeks to wait before the ice in the river
breaks up. He should therefore proceed on
down Lake Bennett on the snow, which
will have a hard crust capable of support
ing the dog train and sled and over which
excellent time can he made. From Lake
Bennett through Cariboo Crossing to Windy
Arm of Lake Togish. then into Lake Marsh
and through Miles Canon and the Tahkee-
nah river and down to the lower end Of
Lake LeBarge the distance is las miles.
He is then so much nearer his destination
and past all the dangerous places in the
river such as White Horse Rapids. and at
point where the ice breaks up muca
earlier than on Lake Bennett and Lake
Tcgish, and where there is abundant TIM
Der for boat building. After arriving at
the foot of Lake LeBarge the miner should
at once go into camp and begin the con-
struction of boat, and he will have il
complete and ready for his start 10y the
time the river is free of ice.
1.-The trip from Lake LeBarge to Dawson
City is not a hard one or a dangerous one.
The only bad place in the river is Five
Finger or Rink Rapids, just above Fort
if there is a good boatman in the party
ard his crew keep cool.
mo man should attempt to go alone to
the Klondike Two or four in a party can
do much better work. save time and money
and get through quicker"
At the close of Mr.. Lewis address Mr.
Harvey of Philadelphia and Messrs. Pat
ton and French of this city gave short ad-
dresses describing the trip to the klondike,
with Washington as the starting point