The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-12-28

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for an hour and u half. The whale
| was vanqushed
| On Glacier.
| Mr.. Fulton spent three hours on {,
| glacier Il half mile wide. 800 feet deep
| and no one knows how long. The ice
is of Il very dark blue and has many
| beautiful formations. 1t moves G5 in
| ches n day and empties into Glacier
| bay. that is large pieces break off with
the noise of heavy cannodinG and go
sailing to the south to be eventually
melted by the sun and the Japan cur
| rent.
| The railroad from Skagway to White
| Horse. is one of the most wonderful
pieces of engineering in the world Mr..
Fulton says. From sea level at Skag-
way to the summit of White Pass is
only twenty miles. but the railway in
| that distance reaches an altitude of
| 5000 feet. On the other side of the
| mountain the sea is 1000 miles away.
The fare on this road for one way is
| $50 for the one hundred and eleven
miles. Mr.. Fulton's cousin Alfred
Williams. is chief engineer of the road
Mr. Fulton got II pass. It's II good road
| to have free transportation over.
ON the return trip. Ar. Fulton
counted the passengers. There We're
two hundred Of them. Each. supposed-
| ly. paid $50 fare. making $1,000 for the
| run Of III miles. The superintendent
of the road stated that the company
figures on Il freight car loaded with
mixed merchandise to earn Sl,$00 ii trip
Nine cars are run in each train.
The completion of this road l.illed the
town Of Dyca, which was the original
gateway to he iilondike. The people
not only left their houses, hut also
their household furniture. The cost oi
transportation was so great that il
would not pay to take along anything
bulky. There are dishes still lying ON
tables in the deserted houses Of Dyea
The town has not II single inhabitaut
and is visited only occasionally by
some wandering Indian.
Potatoes Expensive
The captain of the steamer told Nh.
Fulton that in the spring of 1895 ht.
MAS importuned to sell som, of his
provisions To II party of Klondiker.:,
who had been living on cannr,, goods
all winter. He agreed TO dispose of u
bushe' OF potatoes ana Il crate of
oranges lie was offered and accepted
iiitN cents apiece for them. and til"
potatoes We're gone first.
In the same spring, an enlerprisin.
man took seven tons of potatoes 10
the klondike ana sold them for n
dollar potato, On the ship with Mr.
Fulton Was II woman VINO was takin,:
200 live chickens to Dawson. Sh.
bought them for % cents aniece IN
Seattle. paid $al.5o freight to Skag-
way; $,S for freightinS them over the
White Pass ana $40 for having them
carried down the Yukon to Dawson
The average price Of eggs is s. Il dozen
IN Dawson, This woman paid 81 for
two windows, sashes aud glass "a,
SkagwaN. The freight on them was
$3.50.
n sad sight in Skasway Is the ceme-
lerN. with its hundreds of graves of
victims OF III" White Pass, bt fore ln,
railroad WAS built. Hundreds of other
victims sun lie in the SNOW, where they
FELL exhausted from starvation and
cold.
contrary 10 the general Impression.
the region about Dawson grows som.
very llne vegetables, The summer Ia
only three months long, but the sun
shines continually during these three
months, ana the growth OF vegetation
Is Very rapid. Base bali is played At
midnight and photographs can be
taken any hour of the day or night.
Refrigerators Unn ecessary,
No relriserators are needed in Daw-
SON, The town is built on glacial
formation and in the summer time,
when II is desired To preserve proyis-
ions by refrigeration, il Is only neces-
sary To place them in a hole cut i'm the
ground. In the placer digginGs. frost
is still encountered, although some of
excavations have reached IL depth
100 feet The ground has To he
thawed before amy digging can no
done. Perforated bare pipes, three or
four feet in length are sunk into the
ground at short intervals and TO the
top OF them is attached hose, carrying
steam. one day the ground is thawcd
and the next day powerful streams
from force pipes washes it into the !
The Indians of Alaska, Alr. Fulton |
was surprised to learn are MOI low !
people, as many supposed !
Most OF them are fairly well-to-do, anI |
many of them have made big fortunes. |
Dawson Charley the Indian who dis, |
covered gold at Dawson, has a winter |
home in California, and his children |
are sent to the states 10 school. lie |
has "A white pONernpSS for his ENp- veap-