Show pm rv I IX ALASKAS MOUNTS AN INHOSPITAtJUt CLIME PO THE TOUHIBT i toll II I Ie tnt IietI IaeI on Ciloctal Ihetuis ond Meow 5Ioluue in mneeiea Mloef tttlee 10 nuonto Uo Toxrtali I I < = j II Owens n well r I known resident of I 4 i Bon FranehMo returned re-turned on the Wal la Walla from ik Alaska where ha IIM been engaged In opening up tome valuable mine U tteutrhilhklur Inn the pint summer sum-mer ho has had iillo an osperlencn an an explorer ex-plorer In Iho Northern clime and judging from his conversation he hal had enough In ills line to last him n for somo tlmo to conic aa Din Fran deco lot 1oor men aliould be named to stay away from Alaikn ho laid Ill la not a conntr for them by any means The Imnlalilpi that even thaI who ore well provided for mint endure are Indescribable Inde-scribable for which I can ouch by my own pcraonal experiences I liavo just returned from n journey which took mo over 1000 miles north of Sltl > n soul Icon I-con toy without dancer of violating tho truth that A more Inhospitable country does not exist on earth Write > country la Impenetrable out alilo of tho Immediate vicinity of any town Tho tortilla nra n thicket Into which It will take hours to penetrate fifty feet owing to windfall nod undergrowTh under-growTh At one late It took ma four hours to net out of a windfall caused by 000 of those violent atorma which periodically peri-odically sweep tho Territory You see before you what looka like a nIce bank of mOIl you tread upon It and find yourself up to Ibo neck an under stratum of Ico having gIven way Wet and shIvering with cold jou proceed on your mIserable way to meet with another an-other experiences of lImo kind or an In curmountablo barrier In tho woods forcing jou to retrace jour steps In an unpleasant humor Then there are gliders which can only bo climbed at the risk of life or Utah Covered with mow deep assures count al l irregular Interval To plung I Into one of these by chance mean a horrible death for the unsuspecting traveler I was told of one Instance where a party of fifteen was swallowed up as completely an the earth did tOoth an and Ablram The snow drifted over the temporary formed chasm covering alt Indications of the catastrophe and the unmarhed tomb of the victims with n while pall A well equipped perty with guIdes cnn alone travel with wifely In these dangeroua wilds No poor man ran expect ex-pect to pitnpert In them without risking risk-ing his life There ore now 800 or more men on Cooks Inlet and Ttirnagaln region re-gion and If BOO of them got out eventually event-ually olive nnd well It will surprise me The country round about this locality thy be all It Is cracked up to lie If you over get Into It but that to I where the rub cornea InIo get there Some mooe are to be html In inn way of game but hunting la I labor of time hardest and most unprofitable kind owing to natural conditions con-ditions to which I have alread referred re-ferred Mr Owens spuaka very favorably nbout tho mining protpccta Ibo lerrl tory and shows placer gold of a fine quality Ho Is nbout to open up BOSIO quartz ledge near Bltkn and also aomo crave dcposlta favorably located 110 warns tho Impoverished miner and prospector however that neither the country nor tho climate itro suitable for them If they value their comfort If not their lives |