The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1902-08-23

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ening | went up on deck and found
Mr.. Heinze and Mr.. Whitmore inten-
sely interested in one of the greatest
sights have ever seen.
Here and there around us one saw
the majestic king of the sea, the
whale spouting and feeding. Some OF
them were within a hundred yards OF
our ship, and with their enormous
fins as large as the sail of a boat,
and their huge tails in the air as they
would dive, only to reappear at an
other points spouting geysers of waite
into the air, is one of the greatest
sights of the 600-mile water trip.
Dixson entrance and Milbank Sound
beware of them. Here the ocean
waves roll highest and dashed the
vessel angrily.
My desire to again set foot solid
on terri firma was finally rewarded |
early one morning as | was awakened |
by the jar of the ship landing at
warf. and as | hurriedly went ashore |
at Ketchican, Alaska. | almost though
| was in another world-for here, and |
at Wrangle one sees the environment |
of the Alaska Indian as he is. The
huge Totem poles-many of them
fifty and nearly 100 feet Highland |
five and ten feet thick. which are
deliberately carved. at the top or
which you find the carved image of
a fish or a crow, or hawk, the
whole pole carvings died with the
natural dyes which the Indians make
from herbs. They are erected in
every village and some are historic,
which are thus handed down from
father to son, Others are in commemo-
ration of battles and victorious deeds
of particular exhibitions of virtue or
bravery, etc. Here we received our
first solicitations from the Alaska In
dian vender of baskets, slippers and
esting curios. which are marvels of
their peculiar type of art and work
When one pulls away from Ketchi-
con the picturesque and interesting
part of the trip begins. Here the
great artist of natures wonders, in
the geological evolution of our earth
has created some of its greatest
splendors.. AS the ship wends away
through the tortuous Wrangel mar
rows, which are extremely dangerous,
one sees the snow-capped mountains
the summit all snow. the bases one
green mass of the verdure of the
frozen north. In the distance at va
rious points there are huge glaciers;
then again along the banks we
passed large salmon canning fac
tories, Indian villages with their host
of dogs and great canoes. Some Of
these huge canoes made out of the
skins of animals, which the Indian
braves in their hunts bring home as
trophies of their prowess. Some are
chiseled out of the huge trees of the
forest. One passes by numbers of
these canoes, some loaded with sal
mon. others going for the catch. So
great is the variety of scenery and in
cidents that there was not dull mo-
ment to Skagway. The next stop one
reaches is Jueano. and Douglass
island. On the latter island we
stopped and visited the great Tread
well gold mine, one of the great gold
producing properties CT the world.
Here. for the insessant pounding of
the stamps and the blasting of the or
makes a deafening noise. The ore
is of a very low grade; some of II
only averaging 5000 a ton. But there
. is a mountain of it, where, in the
large hole out of which they are nov
, blasting called Glory Hole, becaus,
of the numerous accidents which usu
( ally render the unfortunate victims
, towards glory above
: Skagway, which we reached after fiv
/. days on water, is the main shipping
point of Alaska, and was at the heigh
3 of the gold rush a lively town. a
e this was the point from which tn
. trails led to Klondike. At presen
the main support of the town is tn
r shops of the Yukon & White Pas
d road, and the tourists who pas
e through going on the inside of tn
. British line and others coming OF
a of the Yukon territory. Here. as tn
Ie guests of Mr.. Groves and Mr.. Newe
N respectively, president and vic
II president of the Yukon & White Pas
railroad. Occupying their private CT
70 we began our trip over the marve
x lous White Pass road.
IL shall write up the road and Of
" trip to Dawson for the next issue