The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-23
Long Journey on a Dollar

eepted and was al. once installed In the
clerks OtfiCe as a helper.
nat trip through Lake La Barge and
Gown The Lewes and later ON the broad
Gus delight. The scenery is s1frDa SSH civ
beautiful and The little towns and cit
i leg along tne rivers are teeming with
Fingers Selkirk and Harper and eve
Gays out of White Horse stood on the
wharf at Dawson CITY with $50 In cash
~ my pocket and enough equipment to
MAKE my contemplated trip into the
klondike and Bonanza creek country.
The captain had paid me SO for my five
Gays work and made me a present of
Dawson is by far the largest city in
the British Northwest Territory. and has
several really good business buildings.
theatres and other such adiunCts of met
Iopolitan life ] STAYED only over night
there and then struck out for Bonanza
creek. OF course I walked and carried
my pack, and camped wherever night
overlook me- / went as far ZIP the Boz
uanza as was necessary to find out that,
with my limited capital, there was no
snow for me. I could have gotten work
per day, but after trying it for q few
days discovered that / could never
stand the pace. so 1 pulled out once
more, this time on the back track and
three days later landed once more in
Dawson.
1T was after dark when I got back.
so could do nothing that night, but
early the next morning / was at the
river front looking for a chance to work
my way our. Tor, although had now
nearly 500 1t was far short Of the re-
CURED sum TO pay the fare.
II had hardly struck che Wharfb0at
before the VIII H. IsOm of the North
American ThrauspOrtati ton g. Trading
company line tied up. and down the
Eangplank came Jolly old George Clark.
Tor many years captain on the lower
MISSISSIPPI and an old friend When I
could catch him at liberty, I told him my
troubles anG he promptly gave me the
place Of a clerk who had the gold fever
in his blood and wanted to cult and
I was booked for another trip on the
mightlest river in the world, the beau
TT IS 900 miles from Dawson City to
St Micbaeis. and along this part Of
the river the country IS more thickly
settled than it is above Dawson. At
nearly every town everybody went ashore
10 look around and If they had a lean
ing toward souvenirs, buy from Indians
ard whites alike little mementoes Of this.
one Of the most weird and interesting
river voyages in the world
AT Circle City ] found in a store a
copy of the Alaska Forum a fearless
and Independent newspaper published at
Rampant Alaska. 400 miles farther down
the river. and the only paper at that
time published north OF Juneau. I tried
my best TO talk the storekeeper Out of
his prize but he insisted he had not
read II yet, and would not part with
Us AuL laLNL ll-' lGteLILDu anu at'L0A3Ltl q
dollar Tor IL. There ls more type i'm this
article three times over than Is I'M the
whole paper. and vet the publisher J..
j., " .neaJe' gets q per month is -. g
Aug. II, and the paper bears the date
of Aug. %. 1T has six saloon advertise
monts. two of pack train pr0prietOrs.
and three publication notices of the
United States district court of the Dis
triCt Of Alaska. one of which is the PEE
titiOn of native Indian Tor divorce
see that even the marital relief Of The
effete east has found fOOthold even
ia the Arctic
at Fort yukon the river runs for
nearly twenty miles directly on the Arc
tic circle vet in AUGUST the weather
was mild and balmy. AT Wearc. OF Fort
Gibhon, the Tauaua river comes into the
Nukou and mp fbe 1anaua ave some of
tie richest deposits Vet found ion Alas
ka. At koserefskv Is the HOLY Cross
mission. established nearly century ago
hv the Greek church 81 Russia and at
St Michaels. the terminus OF the river
raufo. ono sees yet the ruins IF the only
farufication Russia ever built in her New
World possessions.
can the way around Alaska. as I went.
the trim Is one pf absorbing interest and
for the capitalist thare are maEuifiCent
opening very few thousands in-
vested I'M almost any business enterprise
viii ainost surely bring wealth iu short
time. The Cauitai I did not have, and
then. too, 7 was homesick for the sieht
la WAS only until I could get boat
back to Seattle
"Ona soon came along. the Roanoke Of
the North American TRANSFORMATION COM
many and through the good offices of
Captain CLARK K Was ruahiod to work
NV passage beck On Seatile. and
landed fhere otter sea voT0ee around
law Dutch Harhor ana The AleHtan isl
ands. distance ~ 2 500 miles not mueh
s.fohnr for rav frin ~ tho lav8- ~ rof7
hni WITH hasf ~ eiaasank reoollaotioRs