Iditarod pioneer., 1910-10-16

began when high wind blew off Ditto and shoes He always the boat while there spark of would reach out and ring the ge in the before he out of his bunk the pilot the first faint light of dawn yet streakn the horizon But bgones bygone and there was much amabe conjecture as to whether gasoline froze purchased from Stein launch Bella soemny the next morning that he could do it.
 cdenal the gasoline s4 grub the first section of the crew set forth mer The others captains who already Harry thin
 Three miles the river the first jam encountered By he'd through The chechao distinguished by step ping oyerboald on nice smooth looking bit of sank Then the volunteer at the wheel took her the sand the pump but the distracted skipper that out until late the evening" after the gasoline engine had been skipper and the chechako whose knowledge of gasoline pleasure launches took out the enrais of the oaky machine extracted the appendix of the pump and an about five minutes The rest of the day spent taking @ her" apart and putting her together again cutting remarks of the steamboat off trying start her by turning the ywhee and his yocsbu ought to have ax fix the engine seemed not be well mournuy every sympatzer the river that
 his ere ngn is all right All this ere ingn needss new lock- amned the reset again. the cabureto cleaned and the gasoline engineers the Skipper finally decided that the eccentric working accord with the piston (waeve that s In pong long twenty penny nail down hole cylinder head he let the nail fall in There then but another capital the engine taking the top of it's skull and removing the brains.
 At this juncture about miles Dikeman another big ice jam encountered Aso big gasoline boat the Co., lumbus looking much like huge NOahs ark, hard and fast aground sand bar The entire the gasoline boat the and choppers the vicinity commanded help her including the chechako who getting pretty mad and tired by this time But the Deltas hardy took mand of the operations and after much o the big boat shifted safely bank and beached The grateful captain of the Columbus maintained that she had fine gasoline except busted and wouldn't The operation getting her off largely accomplished with Spanish wndlass of which the chechako had holy terror The determined little captain of this internal machine wound small trees into big tied from the boat to the bank, and the strain on
 that caused the chechako hair stand straight time he passed under the sticks. But the boat off.
 The end of the mile further where two other
 line boats found drawn the beach, their having discovered impossible ice jam in front The launch tstea this uncture with another section of the Vermen from Dan The disabled gasoline boat assisted to the beach and all the put puts drawn ashore line There vertabe mosquito fleet at this point All that required for joint and lot staker The chechako had sleeping in the little tent that he didn't mind all that night with the little Yukon stove inside red hot comfortable enough top the Yukon feathers
 Those who had shered around the fires and dis itarod City began The out in three and four and hit the winter trail Surveyor Robe his couse there other adventuers the tra but want to hear Idarod profanity ask of the steamboat ahO aSOln