El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-02

tain. Indeed. ii is said that outside
Fort Yukon there are only three mel
living at intervals Of 40 or so miles
apart on the whole course of the
river. These men are woodchoppers
and hunters They sell wood to the
steamers. The captain asked one of
them the other day the price of his
wood The man replied: Dave Drol-
lette has been telling around the neigh
borhood that l have been selling wood
at IS a cord, but it amt so" The
humor of this lies in the word neigh
borhood." The mans nearest neighbor
is forty miles off and Dave Drollette
lives 100 miles up the river.
This absence of man makes the
wilderness impressive. The mighty
stream and the great dome of the sky
in which the clouds hang low, but are
apparently stationary, cause one to feel
that he is but an atom in Gods mighty
world. For the most of the time the
only living things visible are those on
our boat, and the only noises are the
splashing of the paddle wheel at the
stern, the voices of the humans on
deck, and the bowls of the dogs we are
carrying to the roadhouses down
stream.
Plan Great Alaskan Hotels.
The day will soon come when the
Yukon will be one of the tourist routes
of the world. a company is now being
10 put great nOiclS
Skagway, Dawson, Seward and Fair
banks, and to turn our European travel
to this part of the world. As soon as
the government railway is completed.
Alaska travellers will come from Uuget
sound. a thousand miles northward.
through scenery more wonderful than
that of Norway and be carried on the
White Pass railway over the Coast
Range of mountains. They will be
taken down the Yukon, past the Klon-
dixie gold region. and into the Arctic
circle, where they can see the sun shine
at midnight. From there they will go
on down the Yukon 10 the mouth OF the
Tanana and NJ that river TO Fairbanks
to connect with Uncle Sans road and
go across country to Seward On the
way they will pass through this great
inland sea known as the flats. they
will visit the widest parts of the in
terror of Alaska, and make side trips
TO Mount Mckinley, the highest peak
on our continent The course of the
Yukon from White Horse to Dawson
is as picturesque as any part of the
Rhine or the Danube, and the whole
of the journey will have all of the
wildness of a virgin country which
until now has been untouched by man.
In coming down the Upper Yukon
YOU steam by mountains that rise 10
the clouds, You pass by rocks that look
like castles and wind your way among
Nils DAduhcicN Win ltONGTS
remind you of the heather-clad hills of
old Scotland Just inside the interna-
tional boundary ! saw two rocks facing
one another on opposite sides Of the
river. They were of gigantic proper
tons. parts of the mighty cliffs that
rise up from the stream. The fOrma-
lions were such that one had the al
most perfect face of a man whereas the
profile of the other was that OF A wo-
man The rocks are known as The Old
Man" and The old Woman"
Cuts Way Through Cliffs.
a little further down stream is a
place where the Yukon cuts its way
cliffs that rise like a mighty
wall. almost straight up from the
water TO a height greater than that of
the Washington Monument The cliffs
are formed of strata of a dozen differ
ent colors, white. gold, black, brown.
green and red and they rise and fall
like the stripes Of a waving flag. They
are of different widths and as you
steam under the bluff they show q
roughness that makes them seem to
have been gnawed out by the shaggy
teeth Of Old Father Time The whole
is formation as soft rock, made of
winding ribbons Of various shades and
tints ranging in width from two or
three inches TO more than two feet The
lines are as regular as though they
were painted or laid on with a stencil.
In Europe this formation would have
some romantic title. Here il is called
The Calico Bluff" AS we went by il in
the steamer one of the passengers who
had a revolver amused himself by
sending shot into the strata, declaring
in advance just which colored ribbon
he expected to hit
Leaving the bluffs we struck a patch
Of green forest and frightened two |
moose that had come to the river TO
drink. We saw a lynx swimming the
river and mile further on passed a |
fishing wheel which. turned by tho
current, was scooping up pink salmon |
and throwing them into a wooden box
at the end Behind the wheel on the |