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LIFE IN ALASKA.:Experience of Two Women oniU4st?rtn-*of4rn-e-tndifltnff4'nforthe Skaguay Trail, as Toldby the Skaguay News.SITUATION AT DALTONMuch Hold, but No Food. Prices of Claims. Returning Miners at Skaguay.Tiro ladies, Mesdames Henry Waechfcer and Herman Steuber, wfio accompanied their husbands in a disastrous attempt to drive a herd of cattle over the Dalton trail•lt; wh-toaytoterirtunhe'a-isttoward Dawson City, and ho were compelled to return to their starting point, load their animals on barges and reship them to Skaguay, then drive them overWhite Pass to Lake Benuett, where they were slaughtered, were interviewed by a lady reporter of the News ou Monday. The party left Pyramid Harbor on September 15. They crossed the Chilkat River no less than fifty times in going the first fifteen miles of their journey. Here the bed ofthe airean is a mile wide, it beingcomposed of quicksand, a route being followed that led from one small island to another. Owing to the difficulty in traveling, the animals were unable to carry a pound of anything except their own weight, therefore all supplies and food for the cattle and horses had to be taken up the stream in canoes. About sixty miles from Pyramid Harbor the summit of the mountains was reached. For a distance of 100 miles there is asuccession of swamps, interspread• * lforced the boats to take about 150men dowu the river.Strikes have been made in September and this summer ou Sulphur Creek, a branch of Indian River. Indian flows into the Yukon about thirty miles above the mouth of the Klondike. Sulphur Creek heads aoross a range or divide 600 feet high, about sixteen miles up Bonanza Creek. Skookum Creek is a new diggings just discovered in September, where the pans run About $2.50 at first and is called the Too M uch Gold Creek. A creek running parallel with Sulphur Creek has been called “All Gold Creek.”Swiftwater Bill has one nugget worth over $450, and Mr. Doyle exhibited a nugget from Sulphur Creek off No. 1 bench claim worth about $75, aud said two men with a rocker cleared up $1300 in tw*o days there. No. 13 on El Doradois probably worth $2,000,000 and the richest claim yet located No.3 up to No. 13 are good claims. He said No. 30 and 31 on El Dorado were pretty near as rich as No. 13. On these claims all dirt worth not over 40c to the pAn issloughed off, in other words thrown away. The last pan cleared up this spring just before the thaw was worth at least $500.The police will not allow those coming in this fall to be plundered by the miners, so that unless one wishes he can keep his grub and not sell it. A person should take at least two years’ grub with him. Rice is preferred to too many beans. The cold is something terrible and a man needs fatty rations; in fact, will drink grease like water. Clothing car be secured at Dawson, but at exorbitant prices. One should take
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Townsend Winston Prospector
Townsend, Montana, US
Thu, Jan 06, 1898
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