Salt Lake Herald | 1899-08-24 | Page 2 | Want Cheap Transportation

< W ANT CHEAP TRANSPORTATION a of Alaska Prospectors Who En I dured Many flardships Seattle Aug 23The Seattle chamber ot commerce his been asked to use its In uence to secure chop transportation for L ortelght prospectors who have reached there from Kotzebue sound Alaska The tera lavo money enough to pay a hair Lle A Weaver the spokesman ot the party tells a story of terrible hardships 1rt while on his wy overland from thc Kowa nr to St Michael and personally per-sonally koWS or the death of lInetythre lr men ll SUr drowning and stra I r ton He says o IIople wen up the t lowa river last year Weaver crossed rt 1 from the bead ot th Kowak 3 miles Lbe Kotzel3ue sound 10 the Parr river i and after being snowbound for live vepks went across the divide and 110 10 r mlC down the Kooukuk river to Bergman Berg-man In the spring he went down the ioyuimk aDd Yukon to SL Michael where he met his friends and other who bad ben taken there by the revenue cut l tcr Bear