New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-01

very lightweight and very fat-bot-
toned vessel to navigate it. From
Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory, where
the stream is formed by the junction of
the Lewis and Policy rivers, it flows
northwestward into Alaska, where it
takes generally southwest course, after
meandering over a great territory,
empties into the Boring sea.
The mariner regards the delta Of the
Yukon as impossible Of navigation. The
stream, to begin with, empties great
quantities of sediment, so that not only
the narrow passes of the stream, but
sections of the sea beyond, are filled with
the deposit. Only few feet of water
can be found for long distance from
the twenty-six outlets. For this reason,
seagoing vessels are forced to transfer
! their freight to stern-wheelers at St.
Michael, seventy miles to the north,
from which place there is navigation
for comparatively good-sized craft during
the summer months, to Dawson. In
the upper river steamers ply between
Dawson and White Horse. the terminal
OF the White Pass & Yukon railroad,
and navigation is continuous between
White Horse and the mouth of the river.
The Yukon became suddenly famous
with the discovery of gold on Klondike
Creek, one of it's tributaries. The town
OF Dawson, Province of Yukon, Canada,
where the creek empties into the river,
owes it's existence to this discovery,
and is the principal town in that dis
trict. Memories are aroused of the days
when thousands of adventures were
Hitting the Yukon trail" Mining, whe-
Their for gold or for less valuable metals,
has settled down to a regular business
in that region; the days of lawlessness
are past, and much of the romantic
atmosphere that once hung around
Alaska are gone; yet the Yukon river
offers many inducements to the traveller
and explorer.
Roger Foster, a Massachusetts man,
has recently made the journey up the
Yukon, and has written an interesting
series of articles for an eastern publication
describing his trip. He says that the
primeval forests on the river banks
have, in most places, no inhabitants
except the moose, caribou, lynx and
other wild animals. Here and there
are few Indian cabins, or the lodge of
woodchopper who supplies wood to the
steamer or now and then a mining camp.
The country, he says, is still rough,
but not inhospitable. The old Alaskans
are a sturdy race, Mr.. Foster declared;
intemperance among them is rare, which
is not true of the Gamers of clans and
salmon on the. coast. The country
is full of prospectors. ''Winter after
WINTER" Mr.. Foster writes, for. fifteen
years, many of them have gone alone,
or with single partner into the wilder
ness in the search of mines. After careful
inquiry could not find a single case
where .prospector had returned with a
fortune or even a competency, as the
result of his discovery
Travellers, in the far Northwest, in
Guiding Mr.. Foster, confess that there
is a fascination about Alaskan life,
which despite it's privations, make
men loath to leave it and eager to re-
turn.
By reason of disturbed conditions in
all other parts of the world, more sight
seers have been going into Alaska from
the United States in the past two years
than ever before, and most of them re-
turned pleased with their experience.