The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-01
VERLAND TRIP TO THE YUKON
tEW sPAPER MAN WRITES A STORY
OF HIS JOURNEY.

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q Copyright by the Associated Press9
$ualone. N. ", Feb. 2S.-Lueius C. Pease,
Newspaper man well known on the coast.
a. left a position on the Seattle Post
4nelligencer for trip TO the Yukon,
xrtes the following interesting letter to
IA. aunt. Mrs. Sarah ]. Chesley, of Ma
&ne. n. Y:
q Last Timber, Skaguay Pass, jan %, 1898.
"a can scarcely excuse myself for delay
{ writing you but everyone that attempts
H. trip knows how it is. There is bare
time for more than a line and I want
Il TO wait until / could send full partic-
3 srs. and this first stormy day gives me
4 Ine chance We brought four big oxen
H. three months feed for them. / decid-
IN upon oxen for two reasons. The man
q non whom we had depended for dogs
$Isised the price to double that agreed
vIpon, but fortunately I had learned some
1ng by a trip l made to Skaguay and
lyea some two months ago for the pur-
se of acquainting myself with the needs
Il the trip. found that oxen were about
Il most satisfactory animals of all the
Areties of quadrupeds that have been
met Willis Thorpe, the old timer, who
: made money during the past two
jasons taking stock to the Yukon over
he Dalton trail. He said oxen would go
Ihere horses could not be made to go and
Hal they would haul twice as much on
same feed and could stand more cold.
dog will not haul much more than to
H. himself in the journey to Dawson,
H. YOU have got to take a lot Of dogs
4 haul a mans outfit. When l returned
h hm Skaguay my partner agreed with
be- and when the dog man wired us
Lat he could not give us the dogs for
b; than $50 each, we telegraphed back,
NO dogs; thanks. We shall put out trust
Cod and oxen" and We have been hug
.I.ng ourselves ever since that we did SO.
raked the country with five toothed
Enb to get just the oxen 1 wanted, and
Ishteen hundred pounds each. They are
IDung lively and exceedingly gentle and
fork singly in harness. each drawing a
lge toboggan fourteen feet long, with
Glree shoes bolted on the bottom TO pro-
~ ii from the wear of the ice and rough
Bound and to keep it from sliding
.fdeways down slope. Each
IDboggan will take as a nice shaped load,
I'D hundred pounds of pressed hay, 900
Pounds of corn and barley, and 500 pounds
outfit for ourselves. This is forty days
Fovisons for the OK, and four toboggans
Il Ike our entire outfit which weighs 5000
Pounds. and includes tools and one years
.Iovisons for the men. The oxen travel
single file stringing out into quite a re-
xIecta BILE caravan. You should have heard
Pc comments as we passed up through the
{fnter of Skaguay from the dock. There
Pes the newspaper syndicate outfit"
II hats the most sensible Klondike outfit
Pat has ever struck this trail;' beats
1ogs all hollow, don't it?'' eyes, and then
'Eok 1t all that beef too!'' The town is full
"A all sorts of ours. You see men with all
~ way from one to six dogs, and small
PED endeavoring to train the former to
pun with the latter. If one knows nothing
III this Alaska excitement and should
appen unexpectedly upon this town he
jRouid be apt to thinkvthat many of Its clti-
Eens had returned early to their child
|hood- so Juvenile does 1t seem to these big
Inaps tearing about with the poor little
loss shouting ''Mooshl Mooshr' which
feems to be dog for ''get up" There is
something so laughable about the
Epectacle of a bearded Klondiker
umped up on little sled
is face set with the expression of bicy-
lie scorcher doing his best TO control the
|novements of a lot of eapricious dogs. AT
east, ave could afford to smile, for the
COMPARISON was by far in our favor. 1t
Fcmains to be seen how we shall get along
with them in the interior II is certain.
however, that they will take US to the
axes, and that is always looked upon as
an the journey. We shelter them every
!ght IN tent by. themselves.
A list of our grub outfit may prove
Interesting to you: Beverages, % pounds,
cans condensed coffee and milk; D
ounds coffee: u cans extract of beef; So
ans condensed milk: Cereals, 100 pounds
lot bread; 100 pounds cornmeal; 100
|ounds peameal; so pounds wheat flour; 6
ozen cans baked beans; 100 pounds rice;
1 pounds barley; $50 pounds small beans;
Il pounds rolled oats. Meats, so pounds
4 utter; 250 pounds bacon: 100 pounds salt
|ork;so pounds cheese; pounds smoked
[errinsi 5 pounds ham. Besides this, we
4 aye good deal of fresh meat 20 eat and
En- have about a ton and a half to sch
Sl50 a pound) when we butcher our
PSen- Sweets, 1000 sacharine tablets; 100
pounds sugar; 5 cans of molasses. Evap-
I@'ed goods, Is pounds soup vegetables.
pounds potatoes; 50 pounds onions; 3
ounds raw onions; pounds squash; >
'unds evaporated eggs. Dried fruit, IS
ounds raisins 50 pounds apricots; b
3duds piums % pounds peaches 12J
'uads French prunes; 25 pounds cur
mis- Miscellaneous. / can pepper; 20
lads salt; pounds baking powder, mus
l'l soda. celery salt. horseradish; 10
Us soap; 2 cans coal oil; boxes can
les matches galore. Total weight, $3.50
-unds, with boxes. Total cost $500.
We are now near the summit, where the
timber is found and l can scarcely
eaAze that nearly a month has gone since
began this. / haven't written a line m
nat time and my pencil feels unnatural
| my fingers, which have already grown
|aloused with work We are camped down
Il very Wild gorge, the rocks towering
III above us on all sides. Our tent is
tched on the snow, which Is about 10 feet
eeD under us. | am seated. Turkish fash
~ ON my sleeping bag, which is spread
p a few armsful Of evergreen boughs
astily gathered In The neighborhood. a
FOOD fire is roaring In our Yukon stove,
|nd the north wind Is bowling and drift
ng the snow outside. Our cattle are still
lat and in good condition. and are snugiy