Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-03-22
Norton.

Norton.
The Literary Club met with Mrs. +.
Elkins this week.
Fred Woodlands folks have moved TO
Colebrook, n. IL.
DR.. Parlm has moved into the Bishop
house.
Miss Inez Marsh is home for few
weeks.
Eddie Nelson is home from Hebron,
Me-
Henry Cunnington aud family Of
Stanhope. Que. have been having Il
serious time with the grip. They are
better at this writing
LETTER FROM fnE KLoSpIkE.
A letter was recently received by Mr.
and Mrs, James Haley from former
resident of Norton, James McClintock
now in the kondike, and as everybody
here is interested in the writer's welfare
and want to know of his doings the let
ter is furnished for publication.
Bluff City, Alaska. Nov. /, 1900.
Mr.. and HrS. Hdley:
Dear friends | now take this oppor-
tunity of breaking a long silence. Your
letter written many months ago
received three weeks ago am 6j miles
from Nome and it is very hard for us to
get our mail at all. had a wonderful
trip over the ice last winter although
the hardship was great the novelty was
greater. II was IS degrees below zero
on the coolest dav, but many OF the
nights were colder. We left Dawson
the Nth of February and arrived at
Nome the 26th of April. After we
struck the coast, lSj miles east of Nome,
there was a report of strike - miles
up the Ingetulic river. went up and
sent my partner on to Nome, found
nothing there to suit me that was not
already staked. then crossed the
mountain. distance of 80 miles, to the
head waters of the Shocktulic river. and
there staked a claim While there a
storm came on and although knew my
course | had to wait till the storm was
over ! ran ont of provisions and for
two days had nothing but one hard
tack OF course had my rifle and the
evening of the second day saw two IA
vens. lined them up and shot them
both. | cooked and ate them, and al
though it did not create hankering for
crow meat must say they tasted as
good us quail on toast. Well, | lived
through it. have a good claim at last at
Eldorado Creek, Bluff City got it too
late to make anything this fall but shall
take out a dump this winter and sluice it
in the spring. We have built us u sod
wall cabin l0xl2 on the claim and are
living in it. 1t is very warm and
comfortable. have not heard from
neither Benson nor Fenally since ! left
Dawson. There is plenty of fish here.
Trout and salmon in the rivers in the
summer and cod in the winter; ducks
and geese in abundance in summer. II
is needless to say get my share. There
is a bird called ptarmegin that is very
plentiful in winter; they sleep out on
the open plain and go i'll great hocks
and are about the size of the swamp par
fridge. In summer they turn brown,
and III winter they seem whittier than
snow; they taste like partridge. There
are only few rabbits
No doubt you read great reports about
the beach digging, 1t is not as good as
the papers state. rocked on the beach
and made a grub stake. Some have done
better than did and many not so well.
The entire beach does not carry gold
it is only at the mouth of gold bearing
creeks, and those creeks are far apart.
There is no timber within 10 or 20 miles
of the coast except strips OF willow
along the creeks. There is no end Of
red currants and blueberries. There is
another berry called the salmon berry.
1t is somewhat like the running rasp-
berry, only larger. Higher up it is bar.
rem, nothing grows, not even moss. The