Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-29

it receives, while the carrier must
fight single-handed with savage ma
ture. His life and the safety of the
precious packet intrusted TO him are
at all times in the hazard.
This is tie first year in which the
post Office department of Canada has
assumed the delivery of mail in the
extreme north, the Hudson's Bay COM
pany heretofore carrying messages to
and fiom the Arctic and sub-Arctic
country Increases in the number of
trappers, missionaries, prospectors,
settlers and policemen in the extreme
north explain the taking over of re-
sponsibility by the postmaster general
of Canada.
The mail is divided into two pack
cts at Edmonton, one for points be-
tween Lac la Biche and Fort Resolu
ton and the other for the struggling
outposts of empire as far as Fort
Macpherson, the most northerly depot
even of the Hudson's Bay company,
$50 miles within the Arctic circle,
where the year is divided into single
day and night.
The Lac la Biche mail goes by horse
only 40 miles out of Edmonton.
Thenceforward the dog and the deer
are the carriers subordinates. Deliv-
cries are made at Fort McMurray
Fort Chippewan, Smiths Landing,
Fort Resolution. May River, Fort
Providence, Fort Simpson, Fort Wrig-
ley, Fort Norman, Fort Good Hope
and Fort Macpherson. From Edmon-
ton to Fort Macpherson is 1890 miles,
and the mail arrives at the fort in
April-if it has no exceptional delays.
Besides the packets just dispatched
there are several other packets going
TO the norihland within the next week
or so. so that all the posts viii receive
at least a yearly mail There is a
mail made up at Prince Albert thai
goes as far as the head of Reindeer
lake, at the edge of the great Barren
Lands. The York Factory packet
runs to the far north by way of Lake
Winnipeg and the Nelson river. The
Moose packet is made up at Matawa
and goes by way of Abitibi river.
The carriers for the east and west
shores of the great bay sometimes
meet at the southern ports ON the
shores of the bay, the meetings being
made the occasion of short but hearty
Publications. Then each passes OF
his way.
Although letters for the winter
packets are limited to an ounce Il
weight, there may be much new,
compressed by the. judicious. Yer,
thin paper as a rule is used and cross
written.
Everything is news to the people o
the Barren Lands, and the same ma.
be said of the greater part of tn,
forts. 1t doesn't matter If the new,
is late. 1t is read in sequence, an,
so what's the difference if It di,
happen six months or year earlier
The clock is simply turned back.
, Newspapers and packages are cal
! ried to the north ON the annual steam
| ers of the Hudson's Bay company u
, the Mackenzie river in the summer
OF course, letters are also carried, bu
, the newspapers convey the tidings o
the world and are treasured as fin
Jewels.
: The war in Manchuria, the revolu
dion in Russia, the great disasters o
ehe last six on ten months, all will BIZ
news to the northland when othe
| parts of the world have forgotten
them. And the people of the norti
claim a distinct advantage, even ovel
the people of supposedly more favored
lands. They never have to wadc
through a mass of uninteresting ant
and indecisiye matter for the facts o.
the story.
The main facts are all they get, ano
they must piece out the rest; and I'M
less they are 80 fortunate as to have
a large. consignment of papers the,
are enabled to settle all details as
their wishes and imaginations ordain.