The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-01-27

TeUtn lay, IuuuNfN Gttn.-f ON
Twenty-Five Mile Cabin Ia kaltag. We
started az $3.50 a. m. after an hours
work In fixing Ares and preparing the
dogs, and eating breakfast. / might
stop here to record. as ave not
done before. that mushlng dogs get
but one meal "a dag. and that an hour
or two after the days Journey Is
ended. To feed them oftencr makes
them sick. when We violated this. a
always resulted Ia sickness of the
dogs. They got tho collie nee
because of this. when we fed them a
lunch Of seal %biubber, and we had an
awful time for two or three hours
next day.
on the occasion In question, the
captain lost his temper with the dogs
for a few moments. but soon recov-
cred A.. and that night. as we'll az ON
the trail. ne gave the dogs some sort
of u powder his wife had put IN the
Kit FOR them when they started. II
did them good FOR they we're all right
next day.
After leaving twenty-five Mile. 7
ran ahead Of the dogs FOR some six
miles over the divide, where we begin
20 descend TO the mighty river The
snow soon became very deep, and
after "a while the timber grew a little
larger. and as II had recently showed
heavily, every branch and limb were
loaded down with snow. and the trail
was a trench three feet OF more
through the woods. But Il was q good
trail, and we came down speedily. and
arrived az Knitag early In the after
noon. MS first sight from the divide
Of the mighty river produced about
the same feeling as looking into the
Grand Canyon Of Arizona did. II
awed me. u n about q mile and "a
half wide az Knltaa. frozen completely
over, and am sure IN the summer
time. Il must be . noble stream Kali
tag IL about six hundred miles from
It's mouth. The roadhouae here Is
quite n place, and IS run In connection
with q saloon and a store. The pro-
prietors were away hat the man in
charge got one of their wives, "a suuaw
whom we did not see to fix our
parkns and robes FOR W.. ones
! clothing. robes and general outfit
trailing Il over Alaska, and catching
on trees and driitwoud. and being de-
molished In the capsizipg gets pretty
ragged at times. and has to be re-
paired or replaced and that costs
money, for things are high on the
yukon. The food and hunks we're
good at this place.
Eleventh day. January 30th-Kal-
tag to Nuiato. We left Kaitag al I
a. M: train the best yet over he Hat
yukon. lust Ike a floor with hnrd
snow. The dogs were In splendid
health and started down an almosi
perpendiculnr hundred-foot bank Ike
"A cannon shot. We stopped at ar
Indian cabin FOR lunch. We ate our
own lunch. and iust went In To be
warm while We ala So. The house
had two o. three families In it. IN
/ Guiding a rather sood-looking girl
who spoke English we'll. The men
we're MAILING fish traps out OF willow
While We were there. a big %ginntes'
of "A notwithstanding squnw, came
IN with q hack load Of piarmigan ano
rabbit. which she had secured IN her
snares. n WAS ON s~nowshoef, and
eVienily had been up the mountainou
north banks OF the river for the gam"
For more than q hundred miles az
ter YOU reach Kaltag. perhaps TWO
hundred. there Is nothing in sight OF
tho southeast side of the great river
nothing bat flats. on ground that D.
from twenty 10 nfty feet above
the river bed. and all of u co!upletel,
covered with a dense growth 90 Inv
ltcnt.pole timber or waffle that ! nav
described. II is. as ] ascertained
made up Of aspen, poplar, white btrel
and scrub spruce. with nee in q while
a willow mixed In, but practically ~
OF II no good as timber. The river
annually tears out miles upon miles o
the bank on that side, and carries TN
brush and timber down To the Berinf
1ca. on the north side Tor the SAINT
distance until sou get 90 Ruby, IN
river IL bordered by a |conunuou'
chain OF vory high biuns. The rive.
has shaved on the front % All thes'
mountains. until they are devoid @
timber or soil. and present a bare SUR
face 10 the river. Lateral valleys rnl
INTO tbs. river about every hnlf-mile
and therefore scallop this high mes
81 mountain RANGE prcti. evenly TO
ali that distance. Behind this mes
high s-now-capped mountains appear
and all OF T. SCRUB umpef GOWN u
the river through the valleys. tn
signal corps line runs over these seal
tops, and Us snow line where road
ways CUT through, adds a conspicuou
border to the whole undulating scent
pottic0at for miles.
just about an hour after Ozark "
arrived az the indian village of Nul
ato. which Is also a sienal corps sta
ton, and has II OF the Norther
Commercial company's great store
! there. This concern Is the bisses
thing In Alaska; Il has stores every
. where except al Nome. Some Oh
server said TO me once that yoh
: Uncle sam was soyereign Of, owne
Alaska, and paid ia bills hut that
Was run by and for the Norther
7 Commercial company. ! saw 80 niue
b OF the y. G. company during the res
OF the trip. that ! began TO think thef
might be some truth In thu appaI
entity e%xtravagant statement, especial
~ when ! learned the way this con
= Germ d~oye-tailed into everything !