The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-28
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Harry ZimmerIy VIII Spend
Ten Years in Alaska.
Is DEVELOPING NEW FIELDS
That VIII Considerably In
crease the Gold Production.

Harry Zimmerly returned the first Of
/ the week, from Alaska. He has been
absent from the city about five years.
He has been all over the gold regions
around Nome and Dawson City, and is
/ at present engaged in developing a new
country 800 miles south of Nome. He
4 talked with an Eagle reporter yesterday
afternoon. about the country which he has
visited.
At Nome person will feel the cold
when the thermometer is only 20 de-
grees below zero worse than he will at
Dawson City when it is 20 below. You
see Nome is right down on the coast.
and is far more windy and cold and the
cold is also very damp; while at Dawson
city there is no wind, and the air is as
dry as a bone. We only have little
warm weather there during the year,
and some years it becomes very uncom-
Portable on account Of the heat. This
year the ice went out about three weeks
later than usual and the rivers froze up
about ten days earlier than before since
have been in that country. l left that
country about the 23d of September, and
the river froze about the 10th Of October
this year. There is no telling when the
place on earth TO pTophesy what kind Of
summer we are going to have.
4 viii be in this city about ten days,
and then go back to stay another five
years. The country around Nome is
great gold country, and win be better
ss soon as we have better courts and get
the land out of litigation. Nearly all
the valuable claims in that country are
in the courts at present. and cannot be
goes away to get supplies, and comes
back and finds another man on his prop
erty. OF course there is a contest, and
they hang on for years. The judge who
has been there for some time was not as
satisfactory as the one there now. He
did not hand down decisions that seemed
fair, and took his own time about doing
it. AS soon as these contests are dis
posed of there VIII be a big increase in
the gold shipped out Of that country.
Food is very reasonable there during
the summer when the boats can get up
the river, but in winter goods go up a
little. great many of the people in that
country come into a settlement in the
summer and go away as soon as the ice
breaks UP in the spring Probably half
of the people come in under this class.
Everyone uses dogs to travel with dur
ing the winter. We can go with a light
ltdu anu a SoDu team OF QOSS ABOUT bJ
miles a day and with heavy load about
90 miles. The dogs stand the weather
pretty well, and if taken care of are all
right. I made a trip last winter and
started with thirteen dogs. 1 got back
with three. The reason of the loss was
we were caught IN a blizzard while away
out from good shelter and had TO feed
the dogs frozen salmon, and this was the
cause of them freezing to death. We
have to give them warm food while
working. or they cannot live. The dogs
are very stout and 1890 pounds is no I'M
common load for them to haul
There is a railway from SHAGGY TO
Selkirk, and / think it viii be completed
into Dawson City, and then things viii
boom about right
Mr.. Zimmerly has some very interest
ing pictures Of scenes in that country.
lie is at home visiting his sister, Mrs.
John Bryan. He brought his dog team
with him as far as Dutch Island, and Will
return from there over the ice.