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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-25
the Upper Yukon, Alaska's Greatest River

death-like valleys below" We are in
the country of Robert Service, the poet
of the Yukon, and some of his verses
come to our minds.
I've stood in mighty -mouthed hollow
That's plumb-ful Of hush to the brfm;
I've watched the big. husky sun wallow
In crimson and gold. and grow dim.
Till the moon set the pesriy peaks cleaning
And the stars tumbied out. neck and crop:
And I've thought that I surely was dreaming.
With the peace o. the world piled on top
There are no settlements on the Yu-
kon between White Horse and Dawson.
The distance is $50 miles and we do not
see half dozen people at any stop OF
the steamer, although there are here
and there deserted camps with the
abandoned cabins of prospectors and
woodchoppers. One such is at Chisana,
near the mouth of the White river. II
rose during the rush to the Chisana
gold mines. and for time was thriv-
ing village with government tele-
graph office, hotel of two stories and
a log stable that would accommodate
a dozen horses and numerous sled
dogs. The White Pass and Yukon
Company built the hotel and the sta
BILE, expecting to bring the miners in
by its steamers and send them into
the interior with horses and dogs. IL
kept relays of teams here and had ken
nels for the dogs II did good
business until about two years ago.
when the bubble burst and the camp
deserted. All of the cabins except that
of the woodchopper are empty, and un-
der the wires leading into one of them
is a notice. written in pencil: Gov
eminent telegraph, closed August },
1914"
The woodman's cabin is open. There
is horseshoe nailed over the door and
rifle stands on the porch at the side.
On the wall at the back of the hut a
dog harness hangs to peg. The skin
of a freshly killed bear is tackled up on
one side. and the remains of rabbit
skins lie here and there on the ground.
The cabin itself is not more than
eight feet in height 1t has earth
banked up about the foundation. 1t is
made of logs well chinked, and there is
Misunderstanding of bagging nailed
TO the doorposts. The door is frame
work. filled in with sections of con-
densed milk boxes for panels. Enter
ing we find that the cabin consists OF
two rooms. one is a kitchen. and the
other the living room and bedroom
combined. Three rude cots, made of
poles and covered with blankets form
the beds. There are some benches for
seats and knocked-up table stands
under the window. Clothes of the own
ers hang from the walls or lie upon the
floor. The kitchen has a stove and
ia Bile. The latter is covered with un-
washed dishes. There is guitar on
the shelf near the stove and A pack OF
cards on ledge in the logs. The
whole is by means inviting. but |
doubt not ii is a fair type of the home
of the prospectors and woodmen
throughout this whole region.
FRANK C. CARPENTER.
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Copyright by G. V. Buck.)

(tOpyrlgnt Dy IT, v. buchJ
in the senate on all matters of prime
Importance to the state.
"Of the thirty-three senators, five were
democrats and one was a socialist. The
rest were republicans. So you see the
were powerless to accomplish
anything when operating. alone. AS
for La Toilette himself. J never met
him until after / was elected to the
Office / now hold"
g TATESMEN. dipiomatists and soldiers
~ met at The Hague in 1899 to re
model the laws of war for the civilized
world" 1t was the Car of Russia who
suggested that great conference. Gen.
william Crozier. then a captain, the
brilliant officer of ordnance, was the
military representative of the United
States. President Mckinley chose him
for the duty.
"a curious discussion arose, in the
light of subsequent events, while we
were considering peace and the settle
ment of disputes among nations by
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sheep and the mooing of the cattle we
seem TO be in barnyard floating down
stream Every now and then the boat
excites the live stock. The barge is
swung this way and that and when it
touches the bank the sheep pile up one
over the other, some of the cattle are
thrown from their feet and the chick
enc cluck out a protest.
The Selkirk burns wood and we stop
several times a day to take on this
fuel. Great piles of cord wood have
heen stacked up on the banks, and this
is wheeled in barrows over gang
plank to the steamer In many of the
places the only dwelling is the ca bin
of the wood chopper, who supplies the
ship at so much cord. The purser
measures the amount taken with ten
foot pole. The cost is Sc or 81. and.
down stream. the Selkirk burns about
against the current. the conSump-
ton is often four times as much. The
wood is largely spruce trees from three
to six inches in diameter. The logs are
sawed and split and carefully piled.
Many of the little islands we pass are
covered with the stumps of trees cut for
the steamers but most of the wood sta
lions are on the mainland, the cutting
having been done on the banks or in
the valleys back from the river.
The scenery of the Yukon abounds IN
strange features. Our whole trip is
through the wilderness. We seem to
have joined the army of early explor-
ers and to be steaming through a new
world. We pass places
Where the mountains are nameless.
And the rivers all run, God knows
where.
Except at the wood piles where we
take on our fuel there are no signs or
life and we ride for miles seeing only
ar Indian tent or cabin. The coun-
try has not been touched since Column
bus landed on the West Indies Islands.
1t is much the same as it was when
the cave dwellers. the ancestors of the
Eskimos. wrought with their tools of
stone.
l have seen most of the great rivers
of the world, the Rhine, the Danube,
the Volga, the Nile, the Zambesi, the
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This makes the country look, when
seen from a distance, as though it were
cultivated. There is a scanty grass
between the patches of forests. and the
whole is like a mighty farm planted by
the genii of the far north.
The scenery changes from time to
time as we go down the river. Here
the banks. are almost fiat and covered
with bushes. There on the opposite
sides they are of bare sandy glacial
alluvial. At times the earth is so
fra BILE that it rolls down in avalanches
and blast from our steam whistle
will start the sand flowing. It makes
one think of the loess cliffs on the
plains of north China. Those cliffs con-
tain some of the richest fertilizing
matter on earth, and their dust car
ried by the wind enriches the country
upon which it drops the silt from
the Abyssinian highlands enriches the
Nile.
The soil from the upper Yukon is
poorer than that which surrounds the
Dead sea at the lower end of the Jor-
dan. 1t lacks fertilizing qualities and
some of 1T rests on a bed of prehistoric
ice. which carries off the rainfall,
leaving no moisture for plant life. The
glacial ice is seldom more than three
feet under the surface. The rain sinks
through the sand and then flows off in
streams 1t is as though the land was
laid down on plates of smooth copper
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pares in it's difficulties with that of
the Mississippi. 1t makes you think of
Mark Twain's description of the great
river, which he knew so well as pilot.
He said: IF you will peel an apple in
one long pairing and throw 1t over your
head, the shape it will have when it
falls on the floor will represent the or
binary curves of the river" We shall
find this true of the upper Yukon. The
stream winds about like a snake. 1t
narrows and widens Now it is only a
few hundred feet from bank to bank,
and now almost a lake. The river is
full of sandbanks and there are rocky
canyons through which the boat
shoots. almost grazing the cliffs.
Our ship is the little steamer Sell
kirk. 1t is of only five hundred tons
and it draws but four or five feet of
water. Nevertheless il is so we'll man
aged that it twists and turns with the
current. | believe il could turn in
its own length, for at times it swings
about as though on pivot. Now the
pilot throws the boat across the stream
and let's the current do the work, apd
now shoots It through the rapids, puS
ting on steam to make the paddles go
faster.
In addition to the boat itself we have
a great barge to care for. The most of
the freight which goes down the
Yukon is carried on DafgeS winch are
pushed along in front of the steamers.
The load of today consists largely of
cattle. The barge is inclosed in high
board fence, within which are eight
great COW pens and double-deck
sheep fold al the back. There are $50
beef cattle in the pens and 200 live
sheen in the fold. The animals have
been brought from the other side of the
Rockies by rail from Calgary to Van
couver AL Vancouver they were load
ed on a Canadian Pacific steamer for
Skagway, and carried through the
thousand miles of inland waterways
that border the west coast of the con-
tinent They were taken over the
on the White Pass railway,
and are now on their way to Dawson,
where they will get another steamer
that will push them a thousand or
fifteen. hundred miles more down the
Yukon and up the Tanana to FAR
banks.
The steamer trip will be more than
week, and they have already been
weeks on the way. Do you wonder that
good animals are selected? They have
to be good to stand the heavy cost OF
the freight. The steers viii average
three -fourths of ton and several OF
them weigh close to 1000 pounds each.
They were raised upon grass and are
now fed on the bales of alfalfa piled
around the edge of the barge.
But we have other live stock on
board. Down in the hold there are 500
chickens bound for the hen fanciers of
interior Alaska. They crow night and
morning, and with the baaing of the
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Copyrighted. 1916. by Frank C. carpenter.)

DAWSON. Yukon Territory.
IN UCKLE ON your shoulders the
~ wings of your imagination and
" come with me for a 500-mile
- trip on the headwaters of the
Yukon. Within the past fifteen days
have made most of the journey on foot.
on rail and on steamer. and can point
out the sights as we go. We begin in
the coast range of mountains only If
teen miles from the Pacific ocean. Here
the river has one of its sources 1t
starts as trickling stream of icyr cold
water and wi its way down the hills
and pours into Lake Bennett. We take
the White Pass railway and ride twen-
;y-five miles along the east shore of
that lake to Caribou. and thence
an hour or farther to the town
Of White Horse. We are now at
the heai Of the steam navigation of
the mighty river. and can sail for more
than 5000 miles to where il pours into
Boring sea. not far from the Arctic
ocean.
Eut before we take ship at White
Horse let us look at the size of the
Yukon. The river is one of the largest
of the world There are only four on
the North American continent that sur
pass il in length and in the area of
the basin it drains. These are the Mis-
Observation-Disclosures which rises far up in
the Rockies and is lost in the Mexican
gulf; the Winnipeg Nelson that begins
with the saskatchewan in southern
i,,ta Ind
sons bay, the Mackenzie that flows to
the north and empties into the Arctic
ocean and the st. Lawrence. the down
spout which carries the waters of the
great lakes into the Atlantic.
The length of the Yukon, from the
source of its longest tributary to Ber-
ing sea- is as great the distance
from Boston to Salt Lake City, and the
navigabl streams which flow into it. if
jointed together. would make canal
fit for low-draft steamers that would
reach as far as from Seattle to Shang
hal.
The volume of the Yukon is about
half that of the ST. Lawrence and two
thirds that of the Mississippi-Miss
II is three times as long the
Rhine, Ave hundred miles longer than
the Danube. and of just the same
length as the Volga.
The basin of the ssissippi- Missouri
takes in one-third of the United States,
and the basin OF the Yukon has an
area equal to one-tenth or one-eleventh
of all the lands under the American
flag.
The navigation of the Yukon com
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CARPENTER Steamer Sk-How Cattle and
Nnes-Scene Which Makes Feel Like Con
Rap-e Wdemes-A Pospeors Cabin
of BoasU ont Yukon-In Valleys
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street and some benevolent gentleman
takes it and gives him few cats and
dogs in exchange and the episode is
AT end.
Are there large crops of wheat cot
ton. corn. hay and oats? How many
empty railroad cars are standing on
side tracks? Is there an increase or
decrease in bank clearances throughout
up or down? Answers to these ques-
tions constitute what is called knowl-
edge of fundamental conditions.
Thus a man learns when to buy and
when to sell. But that is not all. If
the signs tell him to buy. what stocks
should he purchase? Here again he
must be posted. There are hundreds
of stocks for sale at our exchanges.
are middiine The prudent and wise
Spectator knows them from top to
bottom.
Indeed, the successful Spectator is
about as scarce as the American buff
falo. What. then. you ask. keeps Wall
street going? Commissions pouring in
from all directions. If a Spectator
was TO break even in all OF his trans
actions and were to stay in the game
long enough his broker would event
uaIly have all of his money.
Even the shrewd and knowing
giants of finance have to keep their
wits at an edge If they hope to hold
what they have. A few years ago in
siders. understanding what was 70 he
done because they were going TO do
IL themselves. rushed to the market and
sold Louisville and Nashville railroad
shares, short. at sos. John w. Gates
ran the stock up TO $3.50. cornered the
market and the insiders paid him mil
lions TO settle"
IT. HREE Indians are now in the Sem
u ate instead of two. Charles Cur
tbs. the Kaw from Kansas. and Rob-
ert l.. Owen, the Cherokee from Okla
homa, have been reinforced by Paul
o. Husting. the Mepomnee from Wis
consin.
Curtis and Owen look like Indians.
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John the That Eighty Five
Wall Speculative Purposes lo-Anothe
Wisconsin, the United
Politics.
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IT HOUGH he is a lawyer, a stump
u orator and a government officer,
Terence V. Powderly, three times mayor
of Scranton, Pa, still claims that he is
machinist. He went to the trade
when he was seventeen, having worked
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Fingers between i and O'Clock in the
morning. when the sun is just rising.
This is the land of the midnight sun,
and there are places not far from where
we are where on one or two days of
the year the sun does not sink below
the horizon. Even here. at midnight. 1t
is hard to tell sunrise from sunset.
There is A long twilight, and the glory
of the rising and setting sun seems al
most commingled. have seen one sum
set on the Yukon which was lost in the
moonrise. and to this day ! am not sure
whether the sun was setting or rising.
/ only know that it was light until 1
o'clock in the morning, and. that l was
able to make notes at midnight by the
light that came in through my cabin
windows
And this brings to mind the great
change in the skies of the Yukon and
interior Alaska from those of the rainy
southeastern part of the territory. We
have left the wet lands, and are now in
the dry belt of the great Yukon val
ley. The air here is a clear that of
Colorado. The sky is deep blue. The
clouds are often snow white. and they
chase each other over the heavens,
making moving patches of blue velvet
plush on the green hills when they
cross the face of the sun. The clouds
hang low, and we seem to be on the
very roof of the world, with the deep
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-25
By JAMES B. MORROW.

- oONEY can be made in Wall
I'M VAL street. John Moody says, by
U\VII leveI-headed men, who have
SOS thorough knowledge of fun
damental conditions and tight grip
on themselves.
But-and that is what keeps Wall
street alive-level-headed men tmean-
ing outsiders, of course) are scarce.
about as scarce as Shakespeares ana
Napoleons. George washingtons and
Gen. Grants OF the hundreds who
daily speculate in New York and other
parts Of the country, John Moody thinks
little can he said of their wisdom, knowl-
edge or self-control.
For twenty-five years John Moody
has spent his waking hours in Wall
street. He is a financial chemist for
bankers and investors. who get from
him analyses of railroads. manufactur-
ing establishments and so forth. He
breaks up business enterprises into
their original elements and learns of
what they are composed-whether of
water and atmosphere, principally, or
of such organic matter as roadbeds,
steel rails. bridges and machinery.
Il am acquainted with a man. he told
me, who is worth s2-oGo.00o. His only
business is to speculate il Wal! street
with his own money. HIS profits aver
age - re- cer- {, year Az expert in
his ero giedgs % fundamental condi
tions he knows when to buy and when
10 sell. There are only few men in
tho World like him.
r.iur.-;iVe per cent of the money
corning iato wall street for purely
spccuIa live purposes is lost. That is
because sensible men in other matters
rush into wall street and act like fools.
They takc ali kinds Of chances and buy
stun that is worthless.
IF such men we're to keen their heads
On their shoulders and say. a profit of
10 or Is per cent year is large enough
tor us.' they might MAKE even more
than thai. But they are so greedy and
egotisticaI that they think in millions
aud dream Of fortunes piled up while
they sleep.
THE merchant who starts in business
on "A corner and gays: Within IA year
I'll have store as big as John Wanna
makers Will fail. On The other hand
if ne says: I'll build slowly-I0 per
ccnt annually is all ! can reasonably
expect he will succeed. provided he
knows all about the business in which
he is engaged.
knowing all about ones business is
necessary in wall street. Back Of
every share Of stock is railroad or an
Industrial plant nov many spectators
know anything about that railroad or
that plant? Not one. perhaps. In "A
thousand. and yet all Of them hope to get
rich with a rush.
The man OF my acquaintance whose
profits average 20 per cent a year is
thoroughly familiar with fundamental
conditions. A barometer ones porch
tells the state Of the atmosphere. Fun
damental conditions indicate with GER
tainty the state of the business atmos-
phere.
But there is whole lot of bother
in getting information about funda-
mental conditions. II takes time. study
and common sense. Meanwhile the
man who is in hurry TO become rich
totes his bundle of money into Wall
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rock that rise to the height of six
story house, right in the channel
through which the steamers must go.
We make our trip down this part of
the river between l and o'clock in the
morning. when. at this time of the
year. the sun is just rising. The cur
rent is swift and 1t takes careful pilot
ing. The ship must go just right or 1T
will be dashed to pieces against the
great rocks. The captain guided the
barge of cattle to the heart of the
channel. He puts the barge and the
steamer right in the heart of the cur
rent and we shot down between two of
these mighty fingers of rock with
rush into the rapids below. As we
pass it seems as though the rocks
are not more than three feet away on
each side of our steamer.
A little farther on we ride under
precipices of sand that extend straight
up from the water as though they were
cut by a knife, and the strata are as
regular as those of layer cake. Inc
cliffs rise to the height of the Wshing-
ton Monument. They seem to be made
of volcanic ash glacial clay They
are absolutely bare of vegetation save
for the lean spruce and pine on the
tops
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-ONEY can be made in Wall
I'M Ml street, John Moody says, by
U\VIl leveI-headed men, who have
q VIZ thorough knowledge of fun
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DA w Sun, Yukon Territory.
!: !: + : i; i:
- trip on the headwaters of the
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Immediate relief to chapped face
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