The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-12-12
ther are Hot Springs close here
am going to try.

ther are Hot Springs close here
am going to try.
I expect to 60 back to Dawson in
February and to Cape Nome in the
spring. If don't make anything
there ana I keep my health I will go
to the South Sea Islands and live the
rest OF my days where man can ex
ist without work, and that lie all
man can do in the states now.
III go to Cape Nome next spring !
am going to take camera and take
some views and If / do will send you
an account of my trip. 1t will consist
OF three hundred miles of ocean,
three or four hundred oversize, eigh-
teen hundred down the Yukon river
in a small boat aud then one hundred
over mountains to the new diggings.
That is not much of a trip If you say
il quick.
From Seattle here IL trip that
would do the heart of tourist good,
it is called the island sea, one thou
ssnd miles of inland dotted, handbook
cd water full of picturesque scenery
and wild game from the big grizzly
bear to the tiniest squirrel. 1t lie a
paradise for the fisherman and hunt
or.
Two hundred miles north of here
one comes to the great glazier district.
There is one that boat can sail along
it's face for a distance of seventy miles
and at some places its perpendicular
walls rise distance of mile above
the water. Continually great bergs
break off and plunge with a great
roar into the ocean. One being there
considers how small he or she lie com.
pared with the power that moves or
CONTROLS the universe.
| went from Juneau to Dyea in a
small boat with two others, distance
of about one hundred miles, in seven
days. / will never forget the trip.
seven DAYS of ever changing wild
scenery, water fowls of every descrip-
ton and eagles by the hundreds, high
mountains, water falls,miniature csta-
racts, CALLERS and the ocean ever
changing make scene that one new
err forgets.
Then from Dyes or Skaguay over
the divide into what might prosperity
be termed hesdwaiers of the Yukon
which is a small lake called Crater
Lake. There are five or six small
lakes narrowing up to a small river
and widening out again in a lake for
the distance of one hundred and twen-
ty miles to what is known as the
White Horse, where that ever in-
creasiDg body of water rolls and tum-
bles through narrow space at a rate
that makes your head swim to look at
it and the canyon just above it known
J as Miles canyon. Itmskes the hair of
the tendertoot stand on end to think OF
running them In email boat with all
o. his earthly possessions
There are small steamboats, now
plying between Miles Canyon and
Lake Bennett and railroad between
Bennett and Sksgusy and line of
lager boats below White Horse to
Dawson and all kinds of boats be-
tween Dawson at st. Michel's at the
month of the Yukon in the Behring
sea, but this up river line and railroad
were built since / went there, and of
course il much easier to make the trip
now than is was then When went
in we thought we had done great
thing when we ran seven barges or
SHOWS through the canyon and
White Horse and we had. A few
graves on the hill showed us that 9TH
ers had attempted and failed and
since then there has been many that
followed and are resting there on the