Show situation at dyes port townsend wash sept 8 S from a letter received here last lait night from john tames james who left here s six i ix weeks ago for the alaskan gold fields an idea of the present condition at dyea may be obtained james and his partner lawrence succeeded in packing 1200 pounds pound of brov provisions inions r over the chilkoot chilkott Chil koot pass to lake linderman the letter says that heavy rains have mado made the trail impassible with abe result that horses which two weeks previous were selling idling at per lead head are now on the market at to horse feed is selling belling at 70 per ton loo and is liard hard to get at any price james says it will be cheaper tor for those who cannot cross the pass tills this fall to kill their horses now and ship in fit others in the spring lie he says language is inadequate to describe tile the terrors of the pass since the rainy began |