Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-29
HERE'S YOUR INFORMATION
J. Q. Leighty Inspects the Lake
 Teslin Trail.
REPORTS TO MINERS.
Says Ii Is Good Trail. prospectors. riacken- zie X Mann Said to have Signed Contract 10 Build TesIin Road. To Look for Gold.
Glenora News. June 13.

ze X Mann Said to have Signed Contract 10
 Build Tesln Road. To Look for Gold.
 Glenora News, June i3.
 At the miners mass meeting held last week to discuss matters and things one of the most forcible spea lers was Mir. ]. Q. Leighty of Ironton. Ohio. His party had undergone the greatest hardships of the winter trip up the Stikeen. had lost 55p0 pounds of sup plies. and had experienced tireSome de lays of various natures. Ee thought the government should be censured for encouraging people to come to Glenora without wagon road into the beyond. over which they might proceed. How ever. with the help of God. he hoped to get through. Mr Leighty's remarks were well received. and he created a very favorable impression upon all whom he met.
 His party started on their trip to Teelin. expecting to endure further hardShips. Their wagon train is now twenty-five miles on the way to Teslin. and Mr. Lcighty finding the road so much better than he expected. walked 30 miles back to Glenora Saturday night to tell the miners the news of the trail. At the News office he said:
 Il went fifteen miles beyond Tele graph. and three miles beyond the sum. init. There is Il good wagon road for Is miles, save a connection of a half mile that is not quite completed. If the men in Gleuora will travel tOgethe. they can make d wagon road beyond that point as they go along, and make better time to Teslln than they could 'relaying.' l have hauled millions of feet of lumber over worse roads in the East than this road can be made at very little expense.
 The trail k vastly better than l eX- pected to find it. Men and animals are now working on the pack trail, putting it ill better condition and l can honest ly recommend it to men of average common sense as pack trail into the Teslin Lake country.
 On my way in overlook a man who had just come from Skaguay He spent some time there trying to get over the passes. then bought horses and came on here to go over the Teslin trail. He told me there are oyer 30,G0O people at Dyea and Skaguay waiting to get over the passes. He said that the people there had given up all hopes of getting in that way, and were selling their out fits and horses and returning home. or coming this way. To show that they had quit he stated that the two pack horses he brought with him from Skag uay cost him there just 80. each. in- cluding pack saddle and other para phernalia. They are the same kind of horses that are selling at Glenora for SlOO and 5l50 We shall push right on to Teslin with our wagon train. and eX pect to make the trip in reasonable time"
 Coming from Mr Leighty these re marks should carry weight. He went out to inspect the trail half in the in terests of the dissatisfied who have been depending on what people tell them rather than exert themselves to make a personal investigation. He was preiudiced against the road by the Skaguay and Dyea "pluggers' but he is an honest man, and he went to con siderable trouble to put the trail before the people in the proper light.
 For men with blood in their veins, brains ill their head and at least as much courage as chicken is supposed to possess, the trail from Glenora to Teslin is the best trail in existence. 1t offers less danger and less expense to the traveller than either the Dyea or Skaguay trails over the passes.
 The Tes!in trail has no hired agents at Dyea or Sk8guay trying to induce people there to come this way, and yet they are coming. The Dyea trail must be in hard shape for patronage when they send men to Gleuora to rib for that route And what these men should receive from the business men of Glenora, and our good citizens, is a cold bath in the river and swim to Wrangel.