Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-03-24
THE KLONDIK6RS.
interesting Letters from II. L. Moses. Good
Health, Quick Trip. Brisk hppttitss. Cheap
Food.

The Lancaster party of gold seekers
are now probably over the pass and
on the trail to the interior-the land to
them of golden promise and we hope,
of golden realizations.
Mrs. Moses and Mrs. Reynolds have
letters from H.iL. Moses giving in de-
tail the trip from Seattle to Skaguay
and incidents of the journey. The
letters are dated March 3-4-5 and are
too long to be printed in full. The
following extracts will be read with
interest:
We left Seattle Feb. &c, at $50 pm.
and reached Tacoma at dusk where
we lay until day break and next land
ed at PortTownsend about midday and
lay there until Feb. p, leaving at 3 p.
m. for Victoria, where we landed at
about 5 o'clock same pm. and here we
lay until noon Feb IS. Here we re-
ceived our miners certificates for $40
apiece. The boys were in line from
a. m. until $50 before the doors
opened and those that obtained their
certificates before 9 paid soc. for the
accommodation. We got ours at
about 9:45 and so paid no extras.
would like to write long letter
about Victoria but time and space
forbid. fell in love with the place.
Quiet, old fashioned, slow and easy
going, yet good business town scat
tered all over, nearly every house has
quite yard and garden. Many
things could be purchased there for
less money than in any other place
we were in. And the lawless and
criminal class were not so much in
evidence here as they were in Uncle
Sans cities.
This was our next landing. From
Victoria we sailed out into the ocean.
We sailed or steamed up the coast at
about 100 miles from shore, but could
at any time see the mts., But not the
lowlands. We saw but one ship on
the way up, yesterday at noon we
turned toward shore and at three en-
tered the straits and at one a. m. an
chored opposite juneau. A little
place situated much like Cassville,
only snow capped mts. take the place
of bldtfs, and salt water the place of
fresh.
Our boat is very dirty and the ac-
comodations for second class passage
very bad. The company have been
cussed to the darkest corner of the
lower pit many time, but they have
our money and care not for US after
that. objected to tipping the porter
on the cars to get what we were en-
titled to but his tips were nothing to
what one has to tip here. Hal. and l
pay 25c dog for our dog feed, al
though the Co. agreed to feed them,
and other boys pay more, and to get
E'grub" that we can relish we have to
tip the cooks. Although all our tips
will not exceed $500 between us, first
class passage would have cost $4,000
per man while we only paid $500 a
piece, so we are saving considerable
after all.
Our dogs have good comfortable
quarters and with the exception of
Elwell's losing one of his best dogs no
sbad luck has happened any of the
dogs.
We sailed from Juneau between ,
and a. m. today, March 4th and
were at Skaguay at noon, here we
were at once ordered onto fiat boat
with our dogs and checked baggage
and the Lady Lake. towed us
around point and up the canal to
within one mile of Dyea, here they
left US mile from shore, with the
cheering information that when the
tide ran out we could go ashore. This
only took about q hours and then we
took our dogs and walked up on hard
firm sand. We found Accommodations
for ourselves and dogs.
Prices have not been SO high at any
point as we were led to believe.
At our hotel is bar and two gam
bling tables and am sitting at table
behind one end of the bar.
They say the pass over the mount
aims is now in good shape, and if our
freight comes up tomorrow, as expect
ed we win soon be up it. We have
found no severe weather yet, people
came to meet our ship dressed more