Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-04-21
In An Alaska SNOW Storm.
G. W. WYLDE SAYS IT WAS so
SEVERE HE COULD NOT SEE
OBJECTS AROUND HIM.
He Speaks Of People You Know-Rev.
MI. Headington, B. r. Purcell,
Or. HALEY. Waiter Mabry, e.
n. Lakenan and Others
"A Newsy Letter.

Va ZIG LfCl&tt.
SHEEP CAMP, ALASKA, March 29.-
I will write You a few lines to let you
know how we r getting along on
the trail. The Purcell party is camped
along the Dyea trail, mostly in the
vicinity Of Sheep Camp. Some have
their goods up to The Scales, which is at
the foot of the pass. Two parties,
those from Wellsville and Martins
burg, have their goods cached on the
summit and are awaiting good wealth.
er to sled to Lake Bennett.
The majority of the Missouri party
haul their goods by hand, or with
dogs; some few hire 1T hauled and
packed. The weather on the summit
of Chilkoot Pass is stormy about three
days in a week. Yesterday and to-
day a big snow storm ragged, with a
very cold wind blowing.
Yesterday / was up where 1 could
not 9 ten feet for the binding
storm. The snow is five feet deep,
but frozen SO hard al to bear up a
constant stream of men passing up
with loads, some on sIeds, others
packing huge loads on their backs.
Every imaginable continuance is seen
dog teams, mules single file, pack
ponies, twenty eight in a string, tied
to a long rope and led up the trail;
donkeys hauling huge loads on nar-
row sleds. Yesterday a California
party passed up the trail with forty
long wooded California goats, and
hauling big loads, too. Often a single
OK or COW is seen with a large load
either ON their back or fastened to a
sled made like In Gan harrow.
Rev. Headington, with his fur hood
and Mackinaw suit and two st. Ber-
nards, goes over the trail looking
like a veteran freighter; and he
hauls good loads, too.
In all the rush and jam everyone is
courteous and obiiging and when their
sleds collide you will always hear,
excuse me, sir" In fact, everyone
is, in one sense, dependent on his
neighbor.
Thieving is not allowed. Flour,
meat, tools, clothes and bags are
piled up along the trail and are per-
fectly safe; in fact, if a man finds a
coat or pair of gloves, it is not taken,
but is hung up or put on a snow-bank
by the side of the road, and the
owner can return and get it. A few
days before we came a man was
caught stealing meat and given
eighteen lashes on his bare back and
made to leave; this happened at
Sheep Camp. So
Walter Mabry, of Montgomery
county, is here from Lake Bennett to
| administer on the estate of Mr.. See,
lately deceased. Two of his party
are at Bennett and two left two
weeks ago for the Walsh Greek DIS
trict, located near the mouth of the
Big Salmon river.
Walsh Creek enters the Yukon be-
low the Big Salmon and several big
strikes were made there late in Feb
ruary. Ali the Canadian police de-
serted from Lake Tagish and took
| claims in the Walsh Greek district.
Sergeant Walsh giving his consent,
the soldiers named the new district
after him.
I also hear of valuable and rich
finds on the American side below
Dawson City. I hope it will hold out
until the Missouri party reaches
there.
The thermometer was % below al
Lake Bennett last week, so We will
probably sled some distance down
the lakes before the spring thaw
comes.
The climate on the west side of the
coast range is healthy and it is SUR
prising the amount of work a mar
can do. The mountain air is very in
MIGRATING and gives one a fine appe'
tite.
I would advise anyone who has
weak lungs or who cannot stand hard
work to stay away from here, unless
they have plenty of money to hire
their work done.
Ihave been enquiring for Ed. Lake.
nan, brother of ]. G. Lakenan, who
left San Francisco by steamer Hum.
boldt February q, but can't hear o
him; think he must have taken soms
other route.
Some of the Paris party have re-
turned, l am told. Well, they coult
not be blamed; for it takes a lot o
nerve to haul 1900 pounds of provis
ions twenty miles up a mountain road
It is q wonder that more men do no
return.
DIR. HALEY and B. F. Purcell viii
pass over to Lake Bennett In a weel
or two If the weather Is good.
III Respectfully, G. w. WYLDE.
Miss Hansard has received one o
the most complete lines Of milliner.
ever handled in Mexico. She viii no
be undersold. wit