The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-24
SCENIC BEAUTY.
CY WARMAN A BELIEVER ~ the
REGIONS MINERAL WEALTH.
Peculisrities Of the Boats That Ply on the Tn.
kon-A 1hree.Room Hotel at Taku en-,
Inspiring Picture Presented BY Lake Al.
lin-Mininx Prospects Are Improved.

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At White Horse Rapids. homeward bound.
we had our frat rainy day since We left Chicago
Even at Seattle and all the way mp the sound
the sky was blue for us. Jim Thompson. nv
travelling companion. said II was not that thu
region Of the north was so favored. but because
we were good that the sun shone always ON
our trail. Well. somebody must have been bad
at White Horse. for II rained furiously for an
hour. Furthermore, we were comfortably
| tucked away on the Australian, and while
We were enjoying a hot dinner she pulled our
for Bennett.
All that afternoon she trembled up the Yukon.
! idiotically called Fifty Mile River here. All
| the water from the summit OF White Pass.
| from the chain oflakes that make the connecting
links Of the river from Taku Arm and the Al.
lintoo River. that drains Lake Atlin. roma
rushing down the Yukon. which at this point
is only about half a. wide ~ the Missouri /,
ut Omaha. Al Miles Canon IL IL a. narrow "a
the Arkansas Is where II, PUSHES through the
! Royal Gorge. SO II makes the Australian.
with her powerful engines. culver 10 40 NJ
against the current. Al first you think she viii
shake her seams all open. but she is made Of
torian, i the stoutest thing on the Yukon.
That butter deserves more than a passing notice.
II IL the same material that Sampson. Sr. used
on his hair, being a part 2f a crock that Delilah
held out when she and the strong man brooks
| M housekeeping. 1t was purchased AZ ,hs
sheriH's sale by The house Of Dunraven, brought
over OH the Nalkyrie and presented by Lord
Dunravcn to Mr.. H. Maitland Kersev of the
Canadian Development Company. which owns
and operates these splendid steamers. Jen.
nings, the chief engineer on the Victorian.
has been trying it on his. engines. He finds
that a few drops in each Of his lubricators viii
increase the speed Of MS boat by two miles an
the fact that the Victorian makes better time on
less fuel than the other boats is not due TO her
equipment, nor to the care or efficiency Of her
Because Of the conflicting reports Of The
Atlin district land because Garland. after three
months Of the terrors and %tortures Of the trail
Idetermined TO make a side trip to That camp.
boat boat line ch srssiSr 10 ms eseE Re s * h Mars yhhS S :
for Atlin and throw me, aboard, 1t was
away along toward midnight when the whistle
s : IiaStsn ma s q ,1' csms r e%t Of th w'. .hs q amp 2, IKE IKE
hill and lay rolling on the gentle waves in hailing
distance. She proved to be the William 0glvie,
son good-by j went below where the ever watct-
full Richie stood waiting TO hand me over 10
the master OF the Ogilyie.
en sddt to The petrifed msttres "si | f lei asiee er' to
wake at the elbow of Taku Arm. The sun was
blazing over The brown, broken, spljnte,ed or
had washed the earth and the air ali clean.
making a morning "a fine and fair and glorious
as l have ever known, The air was delightful.
the water calm and clear. While ] walked tho
scant upper deck, revealing in the grandeur Of
the scenery, the Japanese gentleman. who was
the car Of the. kitchen. served breakfast so
all over and we were making fast to the floating
wharf at Taku City. The purser was the only
person who took any interest in me. He took
thres-room cabin. called n hotel. faced a
wharf, Here ordered breakfast. The man
that ] could not swallow. ! asked for a cur ~
tea and got a weak solution of concentrated
lye. Seeing that ! could not eat. the boss
let me 20. l took his advice rs n point against
the wagon road that he recommended, walked the
tow path on the tramway and found the walking
than the other route. The man was a copcen-
trated liar, One Of a series. as Mark Twain
A low ridge separates the waters Of Taku Arm
rom Lake Attn. and over this ridge runs a
bne wooden railroad. but no cars. Atlintoo
tissT ridas ses eonn %saiDw AHA ana ! f Sfa with GFts fhs shgTS Ssa,
through Taku Arm. Taku City Is at the mouth
Of the river which PUSHES out so swift that tho
a mile from the shore. The moment you reach
the crest Of the low divide YOU begin TO get
glimpses Of beautiful Lake Atlin.
Capt. John I~rving's Scotia and a little bat
tered tub called the Ruth. which had been
hauled up over the rapids Of ktlintoo only
INV az iIbF ~ w Wv Iri IHFN uup
across to Atlin. which We could see sleeping
In the sur, six, miles away. The Scotia was
not going until the afternoon. but Capt. spencer.
who knew me. offered to cast on and take
me over T. had any doubts about the Ruth's
reaching the further shore,
thanked him and strolled over to the Ruth
A lady In n Nile-green dress, trimmed In fur.
was putting crimps In a freight agent.
IF you hadn't lied to me" she was saying
feroely, 4 wouldn' a-went to skagway ut
ida, I didn't mean to lie said the man
meekly; i thought i was a piano; but 1t turned
.oR. YOU IDIOT Can't you tell a piano from
u said bureau.
you're an ass. plain as the moon at midnight"
Atlin Lake Is about one hundred miles long
and an average OF sig miles " de. From the
upper deck OF this little limping steamer l
grandest., widest, most imposing, awe-in-
spring picture spread before me that mine
miles have away ever M sssn' M Fnf to ,i the north "5t =, fh ,hI.
A veil Of feecy clouds, blown across her should
s shii hung down and trailed in the water.
British Columbia and the Northwest Terri
tory, To, the south. six miles away, another
Island haa hill rises rugged and grand. pushing
steamer Scotia has sailed around the island
and found the distance to be eighty miles.
q Inc own OF q Is beautifully situated on
o''fh INV ldhc. 1IHGNH
the place was supposed to have been dead Tor
many moons, there were many signs of life. A
man had Just brought In a slab of copper, almost
pure copper, SO rich that some men pretended
10 know said II was worthless. 1t could not be
smelted, they, said. Business was fair and liv-
inG cheap You could get u cocktail or send a
.eiephone message to a man for rs rents. At
the brltish-American Corporations store bacon
was IS cents a pound and -four $40 a hundred.
a telephone line was In operation in Pine City,
eleht miles up the river, where 1000 people were
pounding away cheerful. hopeful and happy.
nere me Is a. I. people. who are taking an act
I've part In the development of the whole North
chinery, which will hasten the opening Of this
important mining district
II IL impossible to walk anywhere on The
creeks or IN the hills without stumbling over a
STAKE. and the stampeders who drove them
had no more mining sense than ground mice
have. The whole career Of one Of these pros
In the Atlin district, who came in a
tramp and went out a beggar, reveals about as
much intelligence as Is displayed in the wild
caperinRs OF a humble bee under a straw hat
And these .penniless Adventures were tho
gentlemen who damned the Atlin country.
Hall a thousand OF them left good Jobs on tho
Whlte Pass grade, jobs In which there were
three meals, As many dollars and a warm place
10 sleep, and trekked away TO the new diggings
between the rising and the setting sun. These
Oheechawkos" have nearly all tramped out
a. t1ey tiramped in, leaving the country in the
with large capital are becoming Interested in
me district. The litigation, which for a time
threatened the very life OF the camp and coun-
had been greatly lessened by the honest
EFFORTS, plain common sense and fairness ~
Judge Ervine. who has been sent out ny the
Dominion Government TO try to settle the dis
putes over claims which were causing war in
of the New York papars almost eyery