The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-10
Col. a. &. Creighton First to Make
Trip With Horses.
ELEVEN YEARS IN ALASKA.
Over = Week H~ Was on short Ha-
lions Hut Had No Trouble Proc"i
ing Nutritious Grass for HIS Ao'-
nals-Couid Have Continued ."
Ar~ssc ocenu-wonders of Tanana
yaIIey-Route for Hsiiroao'

ras III n Creighton. OF the Keystone
eou1uany who is nox ia Seattle on MS way
20 PittsDurg Pa claims 10 De the hssA
man 10 make the ZIP from the Tasilsc
ocean starting ~ Faldes, 10 the hisa*s
Y ukon with horses. Aitn0usn thsfs Was
we<sk that mis- own rafions ran snort mere
was not & time when he nac trouble IN
supplying his horses win ricn native
srass4s. The colonel says that he is sat
tstleI he could have continued on TO the
Arctic ocean and given his animals sooa
grass feed ali the way.
He describes the valley Of the Tanara,
o. Tamnanna, az he says II ought to De
spelled, 81 q natural wonderland. rich
with groves, nutritious grasses. and heiis
% beautiful flowers. Houses and highways
on1y are needed 10 make 1t a tspicai farm
ing country During his wonderful JOURNEY
no did not strike mineral section uatii Is
reached the watershed OF the f0hoh, ~
81 mus. be remembered tfai ne heefs7ai ~
touched only a narrow D@Ii IN Fsf$ "ide
country =, -.ts 49,,
started from Eald-s FOR the topper rIs eI
on a ospeciiIag tour. instsai OF turning
hack when nothing aas found, he chose d
few brave companions ana Wiz oh's
compass 10 guide him pihflgsd lsleg m
wilderness Ju8y ~ be accomplished the
difficult task of swimming ais norseS
across the Copper river at copper teitsfi
IL Il.
FoYty-Mi.e creek. lie Travelled over 80
miles through a pathIess country. making
one of The greatest trips on recola.
The co.onei * magnificent specimen OF
man: six feet tail broad OF shoulders ana
deep OF chest. He Is highly educated ana
most interesting taiker: Eleven years .sso
he built boats where the town OF bennett
il now located and on July p eleven years
ago he campsd on the present site Of law
son. Yesterday he said:
Ascent of the Glacier
"a party Of twelve, Including myself
landed AZ S4laes February 70. ls.s. ana IN
fnediately bAan the difficult ascent OF the
glacier. which required two months 10
cross with cur extensive OUTFIT We went
down the Klutena river on snow ana Zee
until We reached Seven Mile camp. when
is nineteen miles from the summit Oh the
glacier Here We whipsawed lumner ana
built boats. Passing down the river aud
through the lake OF the same name we
came 10 the rapids. when are thirty thhs0
long and empty into tie copper river. u
il i.Dpra fIrable 70 either drop or shoot "a
boat through the rapids without damaging
the cargo so that It IS practically worthless.
Many people have lost their lives III tues"
has been destroyed AZ th@ junction AZ
the kluteua and Copper rivers is "a new
town called Copper cenaes.
AFTER prospecting the west side OF Cop
per river above the mouth OF the Tazisra
river we were satisfied that the upper
tributaries. OF the Copper river could not
swamps and thick underbrush. We re-
turned 60 Copper Center and fitted our
selves out with new supplies To reach
the other side Of the Copper river with our
horses X wax necessary to swim them
across. The water was very swift and IN
the center Of the current the pillows ran
four and six feet high, They would dash
over the animals heads. Looking back
from the boats We could see the horses
raising up and shaking iheir~hoads 10 get
the water out az their eyes and ears
crossed
had such time before. Although carried
down from auaFter "a hair mile We
finally reached shore on the opposite side
II had determined that If paying mines
could not he found IN the Copper river
basin 10 push ou 10 the Tanaua Crdnnan-
nat. which We hoped would prove 10 be Il
mineral country. Taking with me Robert
\. Bruce. an attorney OF Allegheny Pa
W. \ Warren. of New Whatcom, and John
q Egan, of Edinburgh. scotland three
strong resoiute, young men. OF whom
cannot say too much good We bore east
across the val.yont Of The heavy and small
timber ard iaw ground 10 an open moor
land country We skirted along The base
or Mounts Drum and stanford This j. a
hlfned-np lava-cpvcred country from
which. on clear day the smoke Of Mount
NranEei can hr seen.
Crossing the Stanford
crossing the difficult Stanford river we
reached the Copper river again AZ = not-,t
where IL flows almost directly west. W
consumed two days swimming our horses
hack and forth irving 10 ind a ford shat
low enough fog them 10 cross with their
hlgh packs OF provisions without getting
fheh Wet Notwithstanding All cur efforts
the water came we'll up on IRE si4ies Of tha
Horses wheFi - gyided them across ma
sWft running stream. We proceeded east
ward along M north bank OF he river IL
the mopih of me Siaua a large trthufarx
81 the Copper rH"T. which comes la fra-,
the north, We faliowet thc slaaa mn -
lake Manifesto from which place W. wrnt
summit or Which wasnil5reRt uannrafna
OF scenery wts taid bare before "a }, -
ths valley 81 me Tanana What a may
ittccut View II was Dn. raltft f~rs, -
eye on its varied beauties for s.ai.rs a.,
sun hong t. sac l. Vas q bread iav.i
atf+tTh az land Groves. meadows ana -.
gems OF No"eTs aua lake. Ner., xtSth.. SO
Tar rs me eye aestststt hy nelF sl..s,s
could see. fac grass Was as hlxh as