The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-08
FROM ALASKA.
New London Man Writes of His Klon-
 dike Travels.


 New. London Man Writes of His Klon-
 dike Travels.
 J. R. Hamilton of New London, who is at Telegraph creek, which is the start ing point of the overland route to Lake Teslin and Hootalingua river, sends an- other letter, dated December 5, 1897, home to his friends. In substance it is as follows:
 I will write home a few lines, as l learn that there has been a man en- gagged to carry our letters to Fort Wran- gle. We are to pay him $150 for his trouble We will probably start for Lake Teslin in week or two, as we have now a foot of snow and more com- ing. The thermometer has registered P degrees below zero since I have been here and also 40 degrees above, so you can readily see that the weather is as variable here as it is in Connecticut.
 Our party numbers about seventy-five and all are in good spirits, making the best of our situation, and awaiting good travelling weather. I am one of three in the party that have horses; the rest are provided with dogs. Horses are all well enough, but are expensive keeping while hay is selling at $50 per ton. My other two horses were left at Wrangle. Here is a list of few prices that pre- vail here: Bacon, thirty cents; flour, $5 per fifty pounds; rice, twenty cents per pound; beans. fifteen cents; sugar, twenty-five cents; syrup, $1 per gallon; baking powder, ten times as high as it is at home; corn meal, $10O per ten pounds, and everything else at the same prevailing rate. A man ought to have | $1 GOO to. take him to the Klondike, when, if he is very economical, he will be all right. I started with less than l $500 and have got as much now as those who left with $500 more but it is owing | to the fact that my resources are great l CT than most Klondikers, and that can 1 turn my hand at anything from play | ing a jewsharp to doctoring man oI | beast It is great deal slower work | than I expected, but I will get there some time.
 This is a queer Indian town. I will | not have time to fully describe it to you ] in this letter, but will wait until the
 next am living with the minister Ca I missionary and our place of abode Is a l jail, but there are no prisoners. l We will have to sled our goods over the trail. There are some in the party | who have neither dogs nor horses. They I will have to drag their own sleds. One l load means from 100 to 300 pounds, ac- | cording to the condition of the road I The goods are cached along the trail 1 and the caches are situated about ter miles apart. For instance, if a. man has I 1000 pounds of supplies he will slet l 200 pounds and return for another load I and make as many trips as are neees sary to transfer the whole business l Then he moves his tent to the firs | cache and repeats the operation. It is 4 slow travelling to be sure, but it is the | only way.
 l The syndicate that will build saw 1 mill at Teslin have fifteen horses tt move their goods. l will follow then
 with my plug"
 MT. Hamilton concludes his letter D.
 writing that he Is in good health ant l spirits. He expects to prospect afte | reaching Lake Teslin. He writes tha1 l there will be only a small portion of th' party to get gold, and adds that "a birt
 in the hand is worth two in the bush. | He advises anyone to hold on to goot l job In preferenceito suffering from colo and hardships in the frozen north.
 MT. Hamilton's letter was mailed a
 Fort wrangle December g, 1897.