The Alaska prospector., 1902-04-10
TRAIL NOTES.

Special dispatch to the PRosPEcroR. COPPER CENTER, Apr. lO.-Lieut. Mitchell the officer in charge of the construction work between Fort Egbert and the Panama arrived here last night. He has wire in working order from Egbert to with in forty miles of the Panama. He says we will have communication with the United States by the first of June. He will go to Tonsina today to consult with Capt. Burnell in regard to construction work and will then return to his camp.
 The arrivals today are, Billy Scott, Sam Means. Jack Miller and party. Skinner. Parke Griswold. Gutherie and Warner and North East Ohlsson and party. Kraem- CTS outfit left here April 7th.
 Fish Bros. men arrived in Cop per Center last night. King Oscar and Ray Larsen are at the Taslina, likewise Simpson and Baker. Haz- lett x Meals are on the Gokona. Dad Nokes started for the Tazlina last night. The Government have sent six soldiers to the Panama with wire, D. Davis in charge.
 Bob Coles outfit passed through here yesterday. Sam Taylor, Bert Mcdowell and Alex Ohlhausen are camped at Moose camp. Alex made the trip from Valdez to foot of lake in one day. Trail on Klu- tena is bad; river open. Hosford's sled went through ice and he lost I5 pounds grub. Tenas Rosey ar rived last Monday and will repre- sent the PRosPECToR at this place this summer. Guy Banta is not in town.
 NrMBER THREE. Apr. 1O.-The trail through the canyon and over the summit is drifted quite badly. Loomis with '. <. mail who left Valdez at 7 P. m. on Sth arrived at Tonsina at 9 p. m. on the 9th, and the mail passed through Copper Center at 9:3O this morning.
 Valdez will now have four regu- lar boats Il month, which will give Us good mail service between this place, the States and other points in Alaska. There has been some discussion as to the relative sizes of the steamers running here. The blue book of the merchant vessels of the U. S.. gives the gross tonnage as follows: Newport 331 tons. Ex- celsior $50. Bertha 926, and the santa Ana 125O tons. The New port will run between Juneau and Cnalaska and the others between here and Seattle.
 It has been decided to use the money raised by the Chamber of Commerce for bridging the lake stream, as bonus to be paid Mir, E. Rudolph for making road from Valdez to the lake stream, and running d ferry on the latter. Mir. Rudolph offers to construct bridges across the glacier streams, make and keep in repair road to the lake stream, put in a ferry there and cut road from the ferry to the government trail. which he will strike above No. 1. provided the Chamber will pay him a bonus of $225. The ferry is to have d capacity of five tons. and toll will be charged as follows: Men 25c. horses 5Oc, team and wagon $1. .OO.
 Capt. E. T. Barnett and wife of Bates rapids, on the Panama, ar rived here Wednesday afternoon and are guests at the St. Elias. Both Captain and Mrs. Bates stood the trip well, and look more as if they had been on a pleasure trip than mushing several hundred miles over mountains and glaciers with the thermometer from 10 above to 40 below zero. Capt. Bar nett is on his way to the states to purchase a steamer which will run the rapids of the Panama and he says this can easily be done. He has Il large supply of goods at his trading post and will take in much more as he believes the country will be very rich. A number of men are now prospecting on a few tributaries of the river and are finding good pay. Supplies are selling at Bates rapids at Circle City prices.