The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-02-03
DAWSON LINES 0N
 CARIBOU. N[lf
Flesh of the Noble Forest
 .5E Rover Is Cheap.l
JOINS 90 CENTS A POUND
Prospect for Drivers Of Big Herds in skugway Tor xiondike to make Good Profits.

Meat has touched the seventy-flve cents per pound mark in Dawson. and many oi the restaurants are serving moose and carl bou meat at a 1 wer rate and as a substl- tute for beef because it Is more plentiful. Eggs go at SO ease, having doubled In A month. Loins of beef Are worth at least % cents per pound wholesale.
 There is a likelihood, If reports be true, that those who are in Skagway with large herds of cattle for KlOndke,an those who just went through to Bennett with fresh meats, will make neat profit of their ventures in trade notwithstanding the fact hay and feed are scarce and it costs appIr- entlv almost fabulous sums to get blg bands of stock from the states to the big placer camp.
 According to a late newspaper from Daw- son, the meat now going to the Interior should sell for at least 100 per cent profit, that Is if tn. market be not overstoeked bv the sudden receipt of heavy supplies. Two hundred cattle are in Skagway or at Ben nett enroute to Dawson on the hoof, and several tons of dressed meats are already at Bennett.
 An Idea Jf the prices that are likely to greet the traders when they reach Dawson may be ga,heied from the following clip ping from the Dawson Daily News of Jan. Ia. one of the latest papers received from that citv:
 Fresh eggs have become scarce in town, Already the price of eggs fried or boiled, has been raised from ST to sI.5o in some oi the restaurants. Eggs arc sold at soo per case which Is double the current price of one month ago. Fresh eggs not frozen command a go d sum in Dawson every winter, as the price was about the same this time last winter.
 Meat has climbed 10 s cents a pound and fresh potatoes have taken jump up ward, so that 1t is hard for the restaurant man to serve ST meals and make any profit. Many of the restaurant keepers are buyius moose and caribou meat, which they ar' serving in place of beef, as the former !: much cheaper.
 The big Miller herd of cattle. compris- ing Iso head. which has been in town sev eraI days, has not yet gotten out. but like Iv will get away in a day or two. Mr Miller, who Is here personally superintend ing the big drive, Is anxious to have all his feed needed at this end of the route hurried over the railroad to Bennett first SO that he will not be found waiting there for the withal to satisfy hls numerou: charges when he strikes the food resource less region.
 Some idea of the trouble of getting thu biz herd down the Yukon from Bennett may be gathered even when 1t Is stated that 40 horses and 26 men will be required to aid Mir. Miller.
 The horses that Mr. Miller will use ar' still in the town, and lr Is planned bv hin and several others to form a combination and take the horses over the trail iron Skagway. leaving here tomorrow morning Mir. Miller once thought of taking the ent tie over the trail, but he has concluded tha the difficulty and cost of feeding would b greater than the cost of actual outlay o cash all at once In shipping them by rail w. F. Matlock, who expects to ge away tomorrow with his I6 horses, yes terday shipped three tons of meat to Ben nett, which he will take with him to tn !, Klondlke capital.