The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-09
#lVI NAIL FOR THE YUKON.
STEAMER ALLIANCE WILL TAKE IT
yoRTHwARD SATURDAY.
Letters for River Points az Far Up
a. Circle City and All Newspapers
VIII Go by st. Michael-Dawsuu

The steamer Alliance leaving Saturday
next al O'Clock viii carry the largest
shipment OF mail for Yukon river points
that has ever been sent North. Piles and
piles OF big mail sacks are Piled up around
the walls OF the distributing room AT ths
postoftice. and none OF the employees has
any idea how many tons OF IL there is.
The Alliance VII carry paper mail through
10 Dawson and letters for Yukon river
points as far IN the interior as Circle City.
The mail should reach Dawson by July e.
For months newspaper mail for Dawson
and other points On the Yukon river has
been coming into the Seattle postoffice
from all parts Of the world. The papers
are thrown into a big sack, which Is re-
placed by an empty one ss soon as flied
up. 1t is in this way that considerably
more than loo sacks OF newspaper mai, has
Of the great gold country has not been
held here so long. 1t has been sent IA
Dyea and across the Chllkoot pass for
transportation down the river The paper
mail on account of its bulk could never
be taken n thar way. The reason no
Dawson letters are 10 be sent on the ALL
ance Is that nrst-ciass matter will be sent
in quicker by the overland route.
The Alliance viii have a number OF let
ter sacks for the Birch creek miners at
Circle City, the Munook gold diggers at
Rampant and for Nulato, Fort Yukon.
Weare and other stations on the river.
The Alliance will connect at St Michael
with one OF the four river boats OF the
company, named Seattle and numbered up
to four.
IL the mail steamer has luck In getting
up the river. IL is likely that the papers
viii carry the first details OF the Spanish
war 10 the miners OF the interior They
viii get letters from home that may bring
joy or sorrow according 10 the changes
that nave been made during their absence
fortune hunting At any rate the mail
boat Will be the most anxiously awaited
or any OF the steamers and the most
eagerly welcomed. Some OF the Dawson
papers will probably pass the men TO
whom they are addressed at ST. Mich
cal or on the way up the river. The for
Inmates thus missed viii be returning home
with gold dust and won't mind missing
the mail To those who expect to remain.
however, the mail will be a Godsend.
Hardly newspaper IN the United States
Is unrepresented in the many sacks piled
UP III the postoffiee, according to the men
WHO nave handled the mai. AT any rate,
all Of the prominent papers are included
"a the mail Some Of the miners have sent
out subscriptions to Eastern dailies or to
the Post-Intelligencer, and day after day
the papers have arrived at the postofiiee.
To be laid on one side until Uncle Sam
found chance to send them to their
destination. Some complete files will be
found in the sacks. The bulk of the news
paper mail, however. IS composed OF papers
bundled up by loving friends In the states
and directed to the northern camps in
hope that in course or time they will reach
those to whom they are addressed.
The amount of mail coming into the
local office has increased greatly with the
approach of the time OF departure of the
ocean steamers II Is coming in faster
every day and the end is not yet. a num-
Der OF sacks will be received before the
mail closes on Saturday morning II is
safe to assert that such an accumulation
OF Alaskan mail will never occur again.
During the summer mails viii be sent 10
the mouth or the Yukon and thence up
river regularly. Next winter travel TO the
interior viii be In such shape that papers
as well as letters will be carried in.