| Show DECAY OF DESERTED DESERT D DYEA i lie Che Once Famous Alaskan Town Now has lias a 1 Single le Inhabitant It I has been just jUt ten years since George Carmack c a squaw man Inan and his two Indian Incan companions Shoo kum hum Jim and Tagish Charlie Charle discovered dis its its- covered gold on the rim of ot what isnow Isnow is isnow now known as Bonanza Creek Creel in the Yukon t territory v There was but one wa way to reach rech tho the gold fields felds and this was waN overland overland over over- land from the head hea i of ot the Lynn canal One on each of the two tongues of oC this canal and only a a few miles apart the towns lowns of ot Dyea Dyca Den D'en and Skagway sprang up Ul and competed for the trade of the time treasure seekers The name Skagway means Home of oC the North Wind It I opened the White Horse HOlse route shorter but more dangerous to the goal Dyca Dyea an nn moreS IndIan In In- In- In S dian dhan word meaning to pack or load was tho tho headquarters headquarters for tor the Chilkoot Chil- Chil hoot koot ra Pass 1 verc sold from all al points o 0 DY Dyea and ane as early earh as a May 1 1 18 1897 ore n-ore lh people were in the to Indi town iown preparing to pack o er o er ocr the mountains Soon a a steel stee I cable amway was b built l over O th the Chilkoot main ollice of which L was in De fJ Dyea ft Then Then Theli the tents gave way to sub sub- Numerous 3 hotels stores and banks opened tom for business and th an once Indian village e plc became a n of vla peo peo- a 1 t tr to grow but ut says from dif dlf- r a di- di ferent cause P cuse T Pass Pas was a I. I failure during p nf ot IRO 1897 Scarcely 10 per 0 rummer the men who used It ever Bennett U Dennett Hundreds gave and amid re re- re hO turned to lo their hom the states many n and I amu eJ engaged aged In business enter enter- Finally the railroad built hult and Is now b f kaS ay to lo While Whito H r petted fromi a. a of or 1 miles mies The t rate t ls s st 20 20 one way way- wa-tb wa the the terminus of oC one hI tilD on fm-on lom the Lynn canal to the h ne O 1 0 i I a another other Just below helow the thc then Vt White n o of ofIs r v n lid a Is S made in iii fewer hours t weeks In the thc days day o of 1 1807 1897 S 7 a aThis ani 00 1 This fixed the thc fate fati- at of D struggle against tho the city with Dc r- r l' l S horse hors was brief ThOUsand I Od I lars lan r had been Invested in hin i n Jr 1 In ings s anti and merchandise e a f h d bu L quickly the thc Impending doom I out at t a sl small al loss low otI others rs I. I d r. r 1 LlO nope nopo hUt might happen to turn tur the t fortune only to be O 1 financial dl this stel 1 S The end soon toon on came and Dyea Dea wt UK Itt-c former streets dimly marked WIt b b. b Indentations In iii the sand heaps It tt hJ warehouses still bearing names o of tt merchants hotels banks and dwell dwell- dwellings Ings slowly yielding to the tho ravages o ot of the time elements and the vandalism of or th the Its Is wharves once laden lade with wih produce of Immense value alue fallen falle to decay Is today absolutely de de- Ic- Ic J Ha Its name remains on arm the map and is Js mentioned In the Alaska a directory la a as a a di discontinued with wh telephone communication with Shag Skag- way The telephone tion Uen belongs to a man who has a homestead homstead claim in tho the suburbs of tl the deserted city and who raises a S few rew vegetables for Cor the tho Skagway mar mar- he ket leet t. t |
