The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-17

were persuaded to climb. They were sometimes aided by a number of men pulling at their halter ropes in the lead. Not rarely, on the animals strength giving way. or upon his losing his balance upon the treach- erous foothold, horse, pack and all rolled and slid some 40 or more feet down the crevasses which, for tunately, at this point were not deep, so that in every case, though often with great labor the animal was extricated with no other damage than profuse decorations, cuts and bruises, chiefly about the feet and legs, which at times were so severe that tight bandaging was necessary to prevent death from loss of blood, Over many of the narrower crevasses some of the horses leaped with cour- age and skill that would do credit to the most highly trained animals. They excelled the mules both in ability in leaping and in courage, skill, and effort toward aiding in their self-extrication at the critical moment.
 On the fourth bench the creyasses' were: many, and usually had trend l slightly diagonal across the glacier, but often nearly traverse At one point they were so numerous as to form most labyrinthine maze. For awhile our course was so irregular and zigzag around crevasses that we probably travelled or more miles to make one mile in advance. At one point the van of the train after tra yelling for. half an hour had not gained more than 300 feet on the course, being yet within stones throw of the rear of the train, which still had to make the half hours travel to gain this distance.
 By evening we had decended to Chenille camp, about mile below the foot of Klutena glacier. Here the wind which decended from the summit, having lost it's moisture, was cold and very dry. Farther down the valley the hillsides were clothed with variegated flowers, moss, grass and timber. Here at Onemile camp a days rest was taken and the parties were organized for work
 As the season was now already far advanced, it was quite apparent that survey to the head of the Copper and the Mr. Wrangell dis trict, as originally intended, would be impossible. The work of the writer was therefore carried down the klutena river to Copper Center on the Copper river, than down the Copper river to the mouth of the Tasnuna, and thence westward, clos ing the circuit to Valdez by way of the Tasnuna and Lowe rivers.
 On the 11th the work was carried 3 miles down the narrow canyon valley to 12 Mile camp, so called from it's supposed distance of 12 miles from the summit. Here the valley naturally widens to receive Stephens creek, or the southwest fork of the Klutena. Here also the first good timber occurs, this being practically on timber line. In cross ing the Klutena above 12 Mile camp two of our pack animals were caught by the current and swept down. stream for some distance, but were heroically rescued by the men. The fall of the. river for some miles here was found to be 60 feet to the mile,
 Twelve Mile camp, which at the time of our visit had about 100 peo- pie, is practically on timber line. Here the great majority of prospec- tors during the spring abandoned sledding and packing and began boat ing down the Klutena, the boats being built from the rough lumber Whipsawed from the native spruce. Later sawmill, which was set up about 3 miles down the river, at the confluence of the forks-the pres ent site of Sawmill camp-was for some time very prosperous.
 From l2 Mile camp the trail con- tinued down the northwestern side of the river, soon crossing Stephens creek, which was found to- be as large and swift a stream as the main fork of the Klutena, and had to be forded with care. It was seen to head in glaciers of considerable size. at apparently less than 10 miles