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(go;lt;1 LETT Eh FROM ALASKA.1. DOOLEY WRITES TO A GRA2i- | »” ITE G« -IXTY FRIEND.\V • ut .jol Grows From :i J lam Jet 'i Tnwu v\ Several Hui.dieil Inhabitant:*.W, W. .Caya’,, cl Drummond, re- On •• (v‘-iily received :i letter from John j*^ !) ■ ».i-v, who departed some time at-1) poj I nr th ieo-capped mountains ol' Alaska ■ p-■» in sn.ich of gold. The 1* ter is well1 jV‘ w.Yr-n and is very interesting and lt;M,ili‘.ins considerable nt a nature net cm ' i ;:m1 in the t*.su:.': Alaska litter. It tin i. us follows:1(0lort YYrungt 1, Ahv.iiu. .»Inrlt; a r. ; Ml.Iritnd I.'illy: 1 ium» nlt; -g bailed |wriiii.g yon si nee coming litre, owing! flt;« lo being unhreidoa us to my location, 1(1 1 and now i have resolved lt;i si ay hero , vr ai least i\\‘o months, as it is i in possible to cross the pass at present. Yon 1 will jo surprised, perhaps, that 1 am if not in Skagway, as I said I would go fry ii there, but I q’ it that, place and luive to coniu boro. 1 got scared there on ac- w:'VIaiAlMcount of the great amount, of sickness. a It is on account of the water. Of ilt; course, they have nothing but snow . water to use. This place is not whufc I ox ported to find ; that is. regarding the climate. There is suow hero and s‘ plenty of it. all along the Alaska coast, to a depth of two foot, and at ,H a distance of 150 miles from here there! pr aro seven feet.Fort Wrangal has turned out to bo . st; k-1 the principal point, as all the Bupplies T1tr:th
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The Philipsburg Mail
Philipsburg, Montana, US
Fri, Mar 25, 1898
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