Show OFF OF FOB FOR ST MICHAELS of staf starting ting a journey jocy on oil friday WE 1 ABD AND EH EN BOUTE 1 down D the th nil takes a fiffi art aide bid ile D the 1 rr r r Jill 1 till this tp rest size I 1 ll 11 ia 14 craft nr ST july 10 imor morning norn tB we ov 1 mil emu ani and OB ou vor or port from tend lend w V all 11 II WOW fw lorr germau maUl with a said 1 a 91 ft in her hand 1 we might have waited until bator satur day before we v set t ull nil from dawson and thus averted all of our 02 or better yet wo might have got away thursday but we wn were hll tall eiloo to take the tb trim treasure sure thip abl p aad and thus we wo philandered with fate and what vai wait the outcome on toome we lot lost thre M owr 4 71 gatior raab of the united permit ho the wiry of so 10 acres the binm on tham olata by adopt to local regulation regulations cf ct rhth ova own bare have limited the extent of claim greatly dal at lb th eSaff chloal 11 1 the tint of our misfortunes incident to bottina nil 11 oil 04 11 occurred jort just below Itani pt city now the bo etwo rule apply tu to ag ills I 1 bokou As on the art gnat at cf of voyage ufa wa it 18 1 Is iry eunoch looe ai yea go 90 with the cut rent cad keep oat out cf of katr Buived did id and found ourselves 1 M anally a poor mortal has stock fart taft on a sac acl I 1 tr alere we lay jay for 39 28 hoar bony Fini flnoy ally by dint cf content cont swearing and i arett on to the part of be the mate male to lo rethor with a haw haw r f ened tam tamed to a of timber avick fait fast in a neighboring bland island w we lowly slowly swung off lot but we lad ait not rooe oded for fr ber 3 there wre were a violent isaacc cc set et aling of the tera stern of tho the steamer and nj ft a adden sudden top stop of the machi cry tho the log hog chain had broken aud ud our steamer was v totally it would make a good tory story to declare that the tile accident WM was doe one to abe of tho the ak r aa its ari ar i IN A floon alif ocreter steil IS tun GOJ com MS rm s OFFICE Ecay llight 1303 by I 1 E boax photographer cilam lay 80 hours nu on at aud ud lur bar brue it beg chain disable I 1 cur our rudder nearly tarred starred for want of food and our boiler boilers raught caught cold and had congestion of the laabs of course we could account for the breaking of the bog chain that was caused by the weight of treasure in the bold bat but the other misfortunes were solely due to nailing on oil friday cirel city deserted it was C in the afternoon when we got ot way sway and the whole town of dawson turned out to mv u na us off speculation was tife as a to the amount of gold dust we were taking oat out and some of the more cant caution ions were sure eurene we would be waylaid and the steamer cut sent tied and robbed by river outlaw or spanish pirate pirates the fare from dawson to seattle or san francisco had bad been axed at but if it had been twice that cum sum the steamboat would have been overcrowded overcrowd Ki aa As it was there were about three times as many gersi gers as a there were accommodations for it li is something leea less than 80 miles down the river to ti the american eide side and miles tu to eagle city the camp at the gate of the new now digging diggings where gold has been found in paying quantities there thin are all on the Arneri Arn cria cL eide side the tnora more promising creeks are forty mile american and miller it seems to be the prevail ing opinion that lagle city trill eoon emu become one of the moet most important anin ing on an the yukon there are arc big quartz leals along the mountains in the locality jant their slue la is yet to be test ed ar circle city mile miles from dameon has be deserted dawsonia most 0 of tle miners left it icing long ago for the at that time more auspicious field of dawson but I 1 fancy many would like to get bak although it hae has thus far developed no mince mines of much richness I 1 should judge there were na CO 1 0 white men in the whole town and there were a core were or more log cabine cabins one could move in to their owners having abandoned them long ago in fact the only minee mines on the amer amee can eide side that are in lit ally an wa attractive enough to allure gou seekers from the klondike district ore are at rampart city whore whom pro bab 17 has ai been tak taka out from no I 1 to no 10 above discovery on ou little tb pt rost on aider creek nothing worth men dioning ban been found but russian creek looks favorable both above and below discovery dIec oTery I 1 judge there arendt are not more move than men working on an all these thew claims are lower in ia the klondike 6 and as a the he miner miners of little are only aix six miles from camp po poking lukitS coda only 10 to 15 cents centawer cen taper per pooi the tk town site of rampart city truck struck me ae as the bent best of any on taeup tho upper yukon river it Is i high fairly dry and gently lopes toward tho stream A spring of palatable atair is balso near at baal of it baa has the inevitable mout I 1 ift v 4 and the better I 1 get ac qua tinted wf th therit this the more I 1 ua am inclined tj t affirm th it Is I 1 the coon worst tt t t noire there may be apologists for Robee pierro and murat mum t ome some may clatin that WA was great and good ruler nd that Cali gul to blame but I 1 would ule 1118 to see any one apologize for the cussed little arctic alich revels in cold weather and in hot in ron amu ano an lu in shade hide in woods and in tit open by ruy aud and by night why theres not a broo nor a shrub here lu in st SL michael a and the winds bowl howl its shorn them wastes nt at all timea times yet the pesky mosquito is here from rne moon until another and the marks of his ana italian L od nd are lire pla aly visible upon astery human arca tare tum to bo the minos I 1 should not fall fail to tot t M that hat the abc rican ric an side eidels Is the place plus for tha miner this year both because of it iti far more faaoi favorable ble min ing law laws and because bemuse the klondike rethen gloo glota is already congested true ie is a lack of law on an the american side and capital will be slow to enter the field until aur uncle saw has hats supplied tho we much ranch it police end a WA W A kitha 1 a heason are i sf Ameri american coat ft jepy t pres cys u SAT fl to the stig ht of gold dust we won had on t toa J but I 1 am not so cure sure of this and it may have boon been caused by nothing more nor leei than a poorly constructed steamer after lying hel plena tor for a few hour hours we were overtaken by another teamer of the same I 1 line inn which after some persuasion took ns us in tow that night death rent his hi mee aboard and c died for a poor fellow who had bad but recently come into the country and WM was returning on account of illness he lie was a civil engineer and a young man of decided promise abo next day we stopped at ono cue of the wood stations and op up the hillside from rura the river rivers bank strong arms succeeded in thawing out the frozen ground and after boore hours of hard work vork in abug la a hallow shallow grave the hipe hips carpenter made a nicely planed coffin and ben a little den waked walked up the hill where the ma boulo burial service was held it was about aa as desolate an in affair as could be imagined dot but what does it matter where the body reata rests when the soul has ha left it our next mis misfortune fortuno vaa was due to the badden indisposition of the boilers of the steamer that had us u in tow and they had bm to be doctored for a half halt day before they could do heir their work without sound that night there was W as another ane aber death aboard tho victim being a woman who was returning with her little girl from dawson to the states she wae was buried at rt the little russian rais siou settlement of andreat eki and her little girl taken in charge by two indian vi omen pam passengers cna before wo reached st michael michaels the third death occurred on the whole I 1 cant eay say that this trip down the yukon will be a pleasant memory the stream imla itu lf id ia brownish yellow with mud and clay and it pans pass es through a country of great desola tion A few indian indiana perhaps from circle city Ci doun livo live along the riv 1 ers er bank death carries them away barly 1 few living to be over 45 year years old scarcely any gaino game ie Is to be ba 1 salmon forming three fourt fourths hii of their diet diel at circle city and north of the arctic circle we saw the enn sun above the horizon at midnight in fact them there is i no darkness in that locality or even as far fouth south an dawson for a month of the ho SO 30 or more steamers that are die at st michael michaels and are advertised for a trip up the river to dawson not a dozen will roach reach their destination ei een en I 1 if they coald secure pilot pilots which they cannot they lave no wood along shore above tor for the use of their engines and if they attempt to cut it as a it I 1 Is needed the ri verwill be frozen long before they can make male half the distance it requires over cords cards of wood to supply the engine engines on the trip down the river go ing up four times this amount will not suffice farther further the tv ty D great trading and transportation now ox asting in ia dawson havo hato not only corralled about all the convenient wood but the wood choi pen ae as well A A illi |