Show mams IRRIA R e i I 1 r 1 Y 1 I 1 awa F 1 vt gg 4 lp F 1 u 11 1 1 tl A vi T F A X aa vit z t 0 k at A t anz ai A 1 I W I 1 I 1 j ii I 1 1 l I 1 9 W mma I 1 t 1 5 flou lux k 7 1 I 1 THOUSANDS THO KILLED WHILE CROSSING CROSsi uG MOUNTAINS mouN jAINS I 1 I 1 11 to va ot at thes ams tran matay y avny in ch deth derth abe animal tt tatt staff iati of it I 1 chaa I 1 special letter HEN th the alit silba snow melts next anekt ake bo bones nes of alt hors horses will be I 1 uncovered on the a fiats data around skag 1 y bay bar and along the e trail to the I 1 fakes m aundre d is 1 will wil I 1 save he perished before the snow begins to fall and the remainder will be killed or die from starvation before the winter Is half over there la is no way tray around tt it the poor horses must die for weeks they have been rushed to on every steamer sailing tor for the north many of them are already useless and have been shot and thrown into the bay unfitted for the rough work the scant supply of hay bay and grain taken along has proven insufficient and many of them live but a few weeks after they are thrown overboard from steamers to swim ashore perhaps they will be used by the hungry miners for food but at any rate their frozen carcasses will be found in the spring not the least interesting part of the great rush to the Klou klondyke dyke has been the horses taken in by the hundred after the first argonauts reached guay word was waa pent back that horses were absolutely necessary it one expected to reach the lakes over the white pass trail before the river froze up and navigation was stopped they sent back for horses in numbers this move started the demand A klon dyker coald not take too many horses and avei eveia y one advised at least three to the nian man there is hardly a horse left in the entire white river valley worn out farm arm horses young colts unbroken and every sort of horse were driven to seattle by the enterprising farmers and sold to the E KIon dykers A horse market was established in one of the prominent public squares hundreds hundreds of horses were sold just before each steamer sailed for alaska oxen mules and dogs that were placed on sale with the horses were quickly purchased at the owners figures A horse was a horse it made no difference whether it was sick lame or blind it was wanted in alaska it ala not until the horses were landed at that their troubles really began in purchasing the animals lo io attention had been paid as to whether they were broken or not and as a result about half of the ponies and had never had a saddle on thi ir backs before the breaking of tha th horse took from three to five days ind was only accomplished after hours of constant cursing on the part of tho th owners in several instances the animals refused to be broken and were killed by their angry owners or rf it E I 1 lly U 1 Z 1 1 3 az au n I 1 91 r I 1 thero tr many ways in which the me I 1 horses death on the trail they will be staggering over 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