The daily Alaskan., 1906-08-23
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Weekly AdvertiS-
es Alaska and Yukon

Leslie's Weekly is publishing series
Of interesting articles on the North.
They are written and illustrated by
Mrs. c. r. Miller, who spent some time
in Skagway last spring and went down
tie Yukon on the first trip of the Casca
at the beginning of the present season.
The articles are well written, accu =
rate, and the pictures well selected.
Three articles have thus far appeared.
One of them was descriptive of Mrs.
Miller's trip into the interior and OF the
northlaud in general. The second was
devoted TO "Alaska's Deserted Village, "
Dyea, and "Its Growing and Progress
! i've Rival" Skagway. The third to
the Alaska, the Scenic Wonderland. "
In the course Of her article on the
rivalry of Skagway and Dyea and the
final supremacy of the former, Mrs.
Miller says:
"These cities were within few miles
of each o,her. Skagway, the name
meaning the Home OF The North
Wind faced one tongue Of the Lynn
Canal, hugging on either side the
mountainous slopes. Dyea, the Indian
word for TO pack or TO load, the older
Of the TWO, on the other tongue OF the
LYNN Canal, nestleed between hills not
so high, perhaps, but no less pictures
uue than It's rival, and back OF it, only
a few miles away, was the famous Chill
kOot Pass, as inseparable from Klondike
history as is Dawson itself. Tickets
were sold from all points to Dyea, and
as early as May lSt, 1897, more than
1000 people were in the little Indian
town preparing to pack over the noun
tains. Soon a steel-cable tramway was
built over the Chilkoot Pass, the msin
Office of which was in Dyea. Then
the tents gave away to substantial
frame buildings. Numerous hotels,
stores and banks opened for business,
and the once Indian village became q
thriving city of FIVE thousand people.
"SEagway also continued TO grow, but
from a different cause. The White
Pass trail was a failure during the
summer of 1897, Mud-holes and
swamps OF black loan were encounter
ed in all the ravines, and the trail along
the mountain-side lay between bolders
Of great size. Scarcely ten per cent.
of the men who used it ever reached
Lake Bennett. Hundreds gave up in
dispare and returned TO their homes in
the States, while many settled in Skag-
way and engaged in various business
enterprises,
Newspapers were established, one OF
which is still published, the Daily Alas
kan a newSy little evening paper,
which sells al ten cents copy. Here,
too, the first camp of that society
known as the Arctic Brotherhood was
formed in 1899, and its building, the
front of which is made OF Crift-wood
found on the Skagway shores, is one OF
show places OF the town. The form
alton of this society, which now has
camps iu every town and settlement in
Alaska, and whose membership runs in
to the thousands, was the result OF
conference held by q number OF young
men on their way to the gold fields. 1t
was suggested by one that, as they
would probably need friends IN that far
away country, it might be well to-
organize a mutual-beneft society. The
badge a small bronze button in the
shape of miners pan, with the letters
A B in the center, and three small gold
nuggets on the lower rim. It is
strange coincidence that on a mountain
back OF Skagway the letters A B,
formed of snow, can be plainly seen
throughout the summer season. This
is, of course, the result Of the snow fall
ingi the crevices of the rock. The cross
on the Mount of the Holy Cross, in
Colorado, is the result of a like freak Of
nature. And so Skagway rose from a