The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-17
Life on the Yukon
 Iran Telegraph

 reads, in part, as follows:
 At Hazelton, about 600 miles Eorth of Vancouver, the wire, off cially known as the Dominion Goy- ernment Tel graph, crosses the rap i'd and beautiful Skeena River near the site of a famous old wooden h. dian bridge, leaves civilization and plunges into the wilderness. Either lacking the fare or afraid to risk his life on the coastwise steamers, many a hardy argonaut followed this trail from HazeIton to the Klondike in the days of '98. Glamour still clings to it, and that stretch of the wire is known all over British Co., lumbia as the ". T. IT," or Yukon Trail Telegraph.
 "A 3O-4O Winchester rifle is as much a part of the mems equipment as a pair of pliers or their jack kniVes," says John Dore, the super inIendent, recently transferred from Prince Rupert to Victoria. It is a grizzly bear country, and no one ever knows just what a grizzly will do. He may run or he may charge. A 3O-4O will knock down a grizzly bear or anything else it hits. In winter the big timber wolves that infest the country run in packs and often grow bold.
 Next to a rifle, dry matches, dry feet and potatoes are the other abso- lute necessities for the men up there, says Dore emphaucally. That vegetable is such a necessity that the Dominion Government supplies each man with 65 pounds of dehy- drated potatoes yearly. There are never any cases of scuryy among the men.
 The supplies are equally divided between the operator and the line man. After he recounted the list of articles the pack train takes in, the superintendent was asked if there weren't medicine chests at the cabins.
 The men are never sick and they look upon medicine chests as molly coddlish," he answered. Even a cold is unusual. During the thirty years that the line has been in op- eration we have had to bring out only one man because of illness. That was at the time of the diph- theria epidemic at Nome when se- rum was rushed there by dog team. ours was a counter attraction. Four men and a dog team brought a SICK operator rom Sixty Cabin to Hazel ton."
 one hears stories around Hazel ton and Prince Rupert of rich mines discovered by the telegraph men but never revealed. After they've been up there a while they grow indiffer- ent to wealth." the narrators ex- plain. Some of the men have e1- hibited big gold nuggets and never told where they found them. Most of the men save big stakes and talk the year round of what they are going to do when they go back out side. But even when they do return to civilization, few of them are con- tented, and before long are writing the superintendent for their old jobs back "at Ninth" or "at Sixth. :"
 Each cabin is Government post office. Once a month during the winter the line man out of Hazelton starts a big bundle of first class mail only, on it's long journey. By the time Telegraph Creek is reached, several weeks later, all the mail has been delivered.
 Stories of men going insane be- cause of loneliness are untrue, says Dore. The men don't go mad ana talk to trees, or send telegrams to headuuarters that they have qult and are coming out because the lineman has a funny way or snll- fling" or. "I can't stand him-ne has red hair or black whiskers' or other ridiculous things. The tact is. says the superintendent, nearly every man that works up there on that telegraph line finally yields to "the spell of the North' ana changes in the personnel are few
 1r,. ..snalIn isn't a poetic fiction, he added, and related the case or a French cable operator who left tne gav boulevards of Paris in 1soS ana took a job at North Cabin on the roorine Naas. in the Groundnos country.
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