Trails of the Gold Hunters in Northern Seas and on Mountain Passes. Five Passes to the Yukon Gold Fields. John Muir's Letter on the Condition of the Trails. The Best Route Next Spring Will Be by the Way of Dyea. Skagway Pronounced the Worst, in Spite of Attempted Road-Building. Bread for Prospectors. As Well Take Drugs to Heaven as Medicines to Alaska, Says the Experienced Traveler.
M .ext men, gging. . .0 death di -ied on the one ashore?" . Neilson, almost .mteered. Over the with the line about tipped on the jagged xkers tossed him. Lost Jhe wreck could hear his ivened, and they thought: c became taut, and "a shout -.em that brave Neilson was .1 line a big four-inch...
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| Summary: | M .ext men, gging. . .0 death di -ied on the one ashore?" . Neilson, almost .mteered. Over the with the line about tipped on the jagged xkers tossed him. Lost Jhe wreck could hear his ivened, and they thought: c became taut, and "a shout -.em that brave Neilson was .1 line a big four-inch hawser cried the Captain above the Neilson pulled, and soon all n the beach. The men rescued , little progress. Of the three other southern passes at the head of Lynn canal, the middle one, called the Dyea or Chilcoot, though rough and difficult, especially near the summit, is nevertheless under present conditions the best for miners, and the east- most, called the Skaguay or White pass, is the worst. The Chilkat, at the head of the west branch of the canal, is the best for cattle and horses. Several droves of beef cattle have been driven in this way to the mines or to some point on the river near the mines, growing fat on the grassy plains and hills by the way. The summit of the pass is about 4,500 feet above the sea. As early. as the year 1891 Glave and Dalton led packed horses over it and thus escaped the extortionate charges aud tantalizing delays of the Indian packers. This pass has been traveled from time immemorial by the Coast Indians in their trade with the tribes of the interior. A road with easy grades may be made through it from deep water to the heart of the mining country all the way by land, and kept open both winter and summer for pack animals and horse, dog and reindeer teams. The Chilcoot is the shortest of all the passes, the distance from tide water to the navigable waters of the Yukon being but little more than twenty- two miles in a straight line. Nearly all of the prospectors and miners who have entered the Yukon basin during the last seventeen years have gone in by this old Indian pass. The summit is only about 3,500 feet above sea level. The eastmost of the three, the now famous White pass, was named by the well-known surveyor Ogilvie for the Hon. Thomas White, Canadian Minister of the Interior. Though ... |
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