The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-01

the pilot house. lie caught hlS 100 in some rope and fell down. He
 wanted to stop the boat. but forgor to ring the bell. so just shouted Whoa, whoa." There is nowhere tc stay in the Dan except in the mess. | room or engine room; there were ninety bales of hay in the engine room. but We found seats and made ourselves comfortable.
 Sept. 15. There Is nothing tc do except sit on the hay and tell stories.
 Sept. Is. At noon today we ar 1 rived at the Log Jam. It i3 small piece of land which is at present surrounded by water. There are | three tents aui between 70 and 100 tons of freight on the rivers bank The water has raised some twenty | feet and about 30 tons of freight have been carried away. Hay, oats. flour. boxed goods and trunks of | every kind have gone under tho ! logs at the jam. The tent We art. i stopping in Is little place about six feet from the waters edge. There are three of us stopping in it, and there is not much room, so I kept out of doors most of the time. When dinner was ready, papa told all the men to come in there were about twelve or four teen. It is only short distance to the place where the logs are damned, so I walked over to have a look at it. There is nothing much to see except logs and old trees. which block the river as far as one can see. The crew of the Shusand are busy unloading freight; there are 63 tons to come off the barge
 Sept. IT. There is nothing to do, so daddy and I went hunting We only got rabbit.
 Sept 18 The barge is all un- loaded, and the men say they arc going to have a dance on board We f&0k the graphCrlo"r " beard ar played most all the records. A curly headed boy whom all the men tease about liking the "squaws," sni7 he wished few were here to dance with.
 Sept. 19 The barge went down river this morning. We stood on shore and waved to those on boarl until they were out of sight The water has fallen two and one-ha.f feet, so everyone is feeling better, because the freight is safe. The tram is like the N. c. wood track. The river makes long bend, and this bend is damned full of logs. The tram takes a short cut across coun- try and meets the river.
 Sept. 20. This morairE o'r goods were taken across country over the tram and loaded into the Robert F. Lee" a small boat ope- rating on the upper Tolovana river. At s q. m. We were leaving th. log jam, headed for Trapper's cabin. The Robert E. Lee is a boat about iE2h it and far"e carry s ttns. Ire boat is launch. About eight o'clock We stopped and pitched tent Tor the night.
 Sept. 21. At about eight thirty this morning we landed at Trapper's cabin, It is a small place with d
 ew te"tS The river banks ara lew and a number of tons of freight that were on shore have been GOV cred over with sand, which was washed up by the flood, There goods of every kind strewn every where Nearly half way between Trapper's cabin and the West Fork the boat ran into sweeper, which took a couple boards off the side. GA sweeper Is a tree which has grown out over the water,l This afternoon we passed a polling boat and a small Indian camp.
 Sept. 22. At 6:15 we arrived at West Fork I was very much sur nrised to see such lively place. There are about 40 finished cab ins, three stores, four warehouses and one roadhouse The town is along the river bend, and the shore is dotted with many tents and q number of half finished cabins. Yor constantly hear the pounding of hammers and axes on half finished houses, and the falling of spruce trees. The country around here is very pretty. The woods consist mostly of spruce trees, and I never saw such handsome trees. They are about one and a half feet in diane ter. and between 70 and 100 feet high.
 Sept 24. We were to start for Mike Hess creek this morning, but the man who was to take our goods over on pack horses did not get here, so we will have to wait until tomorrow.
 Sept 25. Early this morning we started to mush to Hess creek, which is IA miles distant The road is winding and very wet. After we had gone ways we met man who walked the rest of the way with us. We passed the town of Brooks about II o'clock. At 12 we came to a roadhouse on No. above, Livengood here we stopped and had dinner We decided to stay all night, as we have walked seven miles and are all wet.
 Sept 26 This morning at o'clock we started on the last lap for home; vt 12 o'clock we arrived home. Our cabin is on the bank of Hess creek, and as we look over the country we see that 1t Is very hilly. We cooked lunch. and soon afterwards our nearest neighbor came over and invited HIS to stop in one of their cabin until ours is finished We started over about four o'clock, and when we got there we found q lovely supper awaiting us This ends our journey to Mike Hess creek We have been many days on the way but I never enjoyed anything more than my first stam- pede."
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