Show the best route to the klondike harry hunt one ol 01 the men the news of the north lor the san francisco chronicle writes arora under date of am 3 telling pi alia conditions at that place from all abe information he could gather lie believes that the keen route will be the one favored next spring he bays have secured passage on the sea lion to leave at 1 p m this day everything ie one brand rush and only those with grit can live up to it advise nil you meet to come to juneau and transfer to dyca as these small bouts laud your roods above highwater high water mark which is a great consideration one more thing all should ruin proof where it can keched handily as it is needed be nearly always last night the boat stopped at fort or a few hours and I 1 went ashore now this ia the mopping place for abe keen riar route and this I 1 believe will next byoir be the scene of abe greatest rush into abe yukon I 1 met several rooi dents of and found out that first the distance to be traveled by water ia miles frota the mouth ol 01 the keen river to tho bead of telegraph creek second the cosmot transportation ie 10 per head for pas and 40 per ton freight this is by the alasko a small boat of thirty five tons burden and the rip takes three days the bat does not run regularly and at the present writing the owner holworth Ool worth is in victoria trying to secure a party sufficiently large to warrant hied to make the trip two men led on friday in canoes manned by indians this takes five days and the cost per passenger is the bame but freight is oa 00 per ton frota telegraph creek the journey is by trail to teslin lake a distance of miles determined ter mined by survey this summer this is abe route upon which abe canadian government spent 2000 this summer and there are now eighty pack animals there thia is conceded by fort people to be abe easiest and cheapest way of in the cost of packing last eek was 17 cents per pound there is a rub however and it is this between reasa lake and telegraphic creek is a trail eighty miles long which runs into the cassiar district where both quartz and placer mines have been operated for years and that pack train at telegraph creek cannot do so much more than to handle abe regular graffi and if there were to be much of aa influx there this fall I 1 believe it would be impossible to get through I 1 talked with J lynch the man who owns abe only saloon and hotel in he has been in alaska bince 1874 and seems to be thoroughly posted he tells me that he has tried to contract with codworth Col worth to take up 1400 pounds of freight whisky I 1 believe and although willing to pay higher rates is unable to secure a guarantee that bis freight will be taken in he advises all to go to dye but I 1 believe the keawn be is solicitous ie that lie wants to be sure 0 getting bis own stuff in anyway if I 1 could have done fo I 1 would have had my freight put off last night for by this route one avoids the rapids and it is also quicker than by coot pass this teslin lake ie joined to the river by the Teslin too or rive and the stewart in turn joins the yukon at fart this is the coming route without a doubt we arrived at juneau this afternoon I 1 have been in several of the and find they all carry arge and complete stocks 0 everything requisite in this country some of the stores have floor 8 as large if not larger than in towns of tn times the population in the states all the trades people beem happy and ia bilant the bricea are on the whole lower than the same booda can be purchased for in san francisco the weather is for the most part very wet and today for the first time in years I 1 needed rubber coat la the month of august to return to the town it is think alint in old time miners parlance would be cal ledVa wide open town saloons aad music halls abound I 1 ahall leave juneau for dyea aa eoon ae possible we hear that it is almost impossible to apt rpt over that there is such a rush that packers are not to be had that outfits provision can be purchased for 40 from discouraged people i |