The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-28


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. stock farm. With 10 fne head OF cattle.
and the Indiana engage IA senersl am
Ing. There ne separated from, Hackeny.
He insuited the Indians. who retaiiafed by
driving on hie horses. and carried keE
Of dynamite. which was liable 70 explode
Al sons .s open prsss s s s1r Gu,
until We came to timber. through which
xe had to cut . tran for ten miles; AZ
Mcdonald. Of Cana6. Utah. who subse-
some k,oDdikers who had prospected the
four days on q bar and took out - cents.
This place was fnhabitated q few days
later by 90 people. who had come there
i Roadss heard e .erns. .aIs. 9. q the
hardships experienced on the Lesser Slave
trail by the people Who had taken that
route. We also heard that = or q could
later men told Us they had gotten only
- to - cents By working fourteen or nj
teen hours . day. Ny old comrades left
for they had made up their minds 4 would
ps ,ocih.rdy to g f.rshs e. joinsd s Nc
Mere MOSS and Mud.
There was more moss and mud There
II . lot Of fsh In the Halfway river.
which we reached after awhile. and four
OF US caught forty pounds Of trout in
twenty minutes There Is some gold on
ton OF quartz Over the summit OF the
main divide Of the Rocky mountains we
passed through Ave miles OF solid huckie-
berries Tie trail was both good and bad.
There II plenty OF fine gold on Finley river.
and one man took out SO in four days.
From the west fork the country Is un-
had 5000 pounds Of grub. and we're going
to spend the winter there, as the season
was rapidly coming on. We have not
heard Of tina, party since then. We went
on thirty niles to Mud river, where Nc
Donald and started on alone.
Along the Mud river We were bothered
by forest fires. which men ahead Of US
burn bur The smoke. fire and serrors Of the
trail made our journey harder than words
can ever tell. We finally left the Mud
had gone forty miles along that hard
snowstorm came up and lasted until the
snow. was foot deep on the level This
was In October. and the river was free..
through the snow. and We had to break
one.
I'VE reached the Peace river again No
we had few weeks before. We had
thrown everything away We had except
our food. blankets and guns, and had no
bacon or grease IeIt, except what We lOunO
in the remnants Of a. meal cooked by some
who had gone on before. We crossed the
river on the ice. and came to a Hudson's
Bay post. where We found high prices for
everything Flour was 80 q hundred.
bacon 10 cents pound. sugar IS cents and
rice Is cents. We got some snowshoes
and started on after resting two weeks.
Hilbert creek was our destination. a. We
heard there was q grubstake there.
Find . Little Gold.
I'VE tried to sink shaft there when the
thermometer was Is to IS below zero. and
finding that impossible worked in an old
tunnel that had been made in 1873, where
we found little money. and bought some
neighborhood. We sent on two men to
Laketon for grub. The snow and cold al.
most compelled us to give up, and one Of
us was nearly lost. Dur grub was giving
out, to make matters worse, and we had
to travel through three feet and a half
a little tea and a small loaf Of bread. We
wandered all day through the snow and
got 10 Porter's landing. where the boys
Joined W with some food.
Then We decided 70 give up the Klon-
dixie. and push out for civilization as rap
Idly as possible"
The remainder OF this terrible Journey
was but recurrence OF former expert
ences that have been encountered by hum
dreds OF dcluded proSpectors, who had
been made to think that the all-Canadian
route to the klondike was the best. The
party finally reached Telegraph creek;
Kind people they saw On the way. ana it ar
rived home on tho Cottage City Monday
morning.
Mr. Doolittle has furnished the follow
Ing table Of distances along this trail: