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Show I IN THE FAR NORTH. 1 $res Find Sustenance Under' Many a Feet of Snow. A recent book on Uio Klondike coun-,p coun-,p trr says: "In November, 1898, honiea wjff wero left to dlo on Uio trails and In fT Dawson. Thcro was neither work nor ' food for tliom. Horses wero offered to mo for their keep, but I refused. Those same horses wandered up In tho hills, where tho snow was five loet deep. They brushed tho snow way with feet and' nose, finding luscious lus-cious whortleberries, blackberries and raspberries In great quantities. The lowest authentic record at tho barracks bar-racks was 67 degrees bolow zero. Yet In tho spring tho horses wcro reclaimed re-claimed by their owners and looked Infinitely bettor than when turned out to dlo at tho beginning of tho winter. This was a lesson as woll as a rovela-tlou. rovela-tlou. During tho summer of 1899 horses were Imported Into tho Klon-llko Klon-llko In numbers and 1,200 of them passed tho next winter In transport-tug transport-tug men and supplies from Dawson to the mines. Tho dogs wcro almost entirely en-tirely superseded and their valuo formerly $1G0 became moroly nominal; nomi-nal; for a good horso, after all, could pull a ton over tho smooth Icy trails & labor that would require throe wlelghs and twenty dogs. |