Winter Trip
From Seattle
P.v 1IKXKY l’Al’IX.
Coming in from tlu1 outside myself
and Walter Sundborg left Seattle Jan.
25 at i* o'clock in the evening on the
steamer Bertha. We got into a thick
fog at 11 o’clock and the Bertha stopjnxl
running for the night.
We started at 8 o’clock next morning,
Jan. 2ti. Fine in the forenoon. At 4 in
the afternoon we ran into a bank of fog.
They could not run any more and let
the steamer drift at will until next day
at noon. We had music on a phono
graph. There were five plWinographs
aboard. We had music every night and
sometimes during the day. Pretty jolly
lot of people aboard of the Bertha: good
officer and plenty of something good to
eat.
Jan. 27 the steamer made a start in
the afternoon and we ran all night.
Jan. 28, got in Queen Charlotte Sound
in the forenoon. Good deal of wind.
The steamer did some rocking and about
all the passengers were sick. We had
more shaking when we passed Millbank
Sound in the afternoon.* At 11 o’clock
at night we ran into a thick fog and
they put the anchor down for the night.
Jan. 251.—The wind was blowing and
we bad more shaking as we passed I>ixon
entrance. We got to Ketchikan at 4 in
the afternoon. We stopped about an
hour. All the passengers took in the
town. We saw seagulls all over town
and they were very tame. I got within
four feet of a good many of them and
they would not move. They were all
over the docks and houses. We started
on our journey and ran until 4 o'clock
next morning, w hen we got to Wrangell
Narrows.
Jan. JO.—The tide was low, so we did
not move until 4 o'clock in the after
noon, and got to Juneau at 7 o’clock at
night. We all took in the town, and
some had more than their share when
they came aboard the boat. Two men
got aboard who wanted to steal their
passage. They never got found out un
til the second day. When the officer of
the Bertha wanted to put them to work
one of them objected; so they put him
off at Yakutat.
Feb. 2.—We left Juneau at *’ o'clock
in the morning; ran all night and got in
ojien sea in the afternoon. The waves
were of pretty good size. They made
most all the passengers sick. No music
that night.
hrh. —I mt in Aukutut nl 111 a. mi.
Native* fame on in (trout nuni
lier*, wiling all kiml* of triii'lin of their
own make. After unlnailin(( a few urti
rlei for that |>lare, we ntarieil attain in
the afternoon. Miami St. kliu* wa.“
viaihte. Tlw Mil w»* it|> |>retty hitfh,
Imt every thing *m eovereil with anow.
fell. 4.—-Fair ami eultl in the inorniii|t.
We (tot into thii k fnv in the ufternoon,
ami the -teamer never moveil until next
inornintt.
|’eh. -V—Fair ami eohl in the nmrninit
tint to Yalilea at II o'eloek in the fore
noon We foilmI a line little town, full
of |*-o|>|e, ami every a ten liter I hat w.i»
eontinti in no Uinuing more, lot* of
thriu on their way to Fairhntth*; ami
there were ala>ut thirty teatna leavinu
Yakke* every morning lomlml with
freight tor the e..|>j«r mine* on the
Copper river ami different mining ramps
around the country. We staid at Valdez
ten days and enjoyed it very milch.
We started on the Valdez trail via
Fairbanks to Rampart, Feb. 15, with .1.
W. Duncan’s six-dog team. The trail
was good—no snowstorm at that time
and no wind. We made 20 miles a day
for SO miles: then we made the rest of
the way from 28 miles to 40 miles a day.
i' touml plenty ot snow on the sum nut
near Valdez, and also plenty on the
head waters of the Delta river. When
we eanie to the Delta river we found
very little overflow; hut they told us
that sometimes when the Delta gets to
overflowing no one ean travel on it for
two or three days at a time. The trail
was very good on the Delta and all the
way to Fairbanks. We stopped at road
houses all along the way. It cost us for
the first twenty miles To vents a meal;
the next 80 miles $1 a meal; the next
SO miles $1.50 a meal; the next 00 miles
$2 a meal, and the next 100 miles to
Fairbanks $ 1.50 a meal, and from Fair
banks to Rampart $1 a meal. The most
of the roadhouses give pretty good
meals. They all charge $1 a night to
sleep on brush beds that are very badly
made. The most of them have plenty
of blankets and robes, bid a few have
none at all. When you get into a road
house never kick at what they have got
to eat or anything about the place. It
may be that it is the best they can do
for the amount that they charge you.
It cost them some money to get there,
and they did not go there to keep road
houses for their health. They were
healthy before. And I don't think that
anybody starts on that trail for their
health; it one is not healthy before he
starts he had better stay away. After
one has traveled all day long it seems
that one of those roadhouses are very
welcome, with its warm place to go into
and have a warm meal ready for you.
But the best friend you can have on the
road is to have plenty of money. You
can always get along with money.
The trail was not so good from Fair
banks to Rampart.
We were twenty days on the road
from Valdez to Rampart.
MATTERS ON KOYUKUK
A ('uldfoot letter of Jan. It! printed in
the Fairbanks News said that the body
of J. K. J. F.rh, who jierished on the
(,‘handelar in the first part of the winter,
hail not been fount!. A rewartl of foO
was offeretl to stimulate a search by the
Italians
Interesting items are taken from the
letter as follow:
About 2t> people are wintering on the
Koyukuk ami six on the ( hamlelar.
A new strike was niAile last fall on
small tributaries of the Alatna, alsiut
eighty-five miles from Mettles, by lb»l
Morrison ami others. A iiiimU-r of
claims have Iteeti recorded on Miltlilv,
Fir-t ( hanee ami Main creeks.
(tit Minnie creek ti\e holes to lsslr**‘k,
from discovery In No. t ladow, lutve
struck pay The average tleplh is a Is ait
.'St lot. Other holes were started on
the creek early in the winter, without
success, havinj struck either rimns-k or
water
"n the Nolan .V Murray elaim, Nolan
creek, the laymen have out a very large
'lump The claim will yield as much
this winter »s it .ti l lust, ulsuit
Muith creek is hu»y, with seven boil
ers at work On claims N<«t. I, ami A
g*ss| |atv has lieen louml all along the
° 8. K. HEKTKU. HAKRY BURIiUSS.
HEETER & BURRUSS,
FREIGHTERS and PACKERS
Freighting and Packing to and from all ('reeks.
Good Equipments and Service Unexcelled
lint*. Seven different parties are oper
ating, with a combined force of 50 men.
Nellie Cashnian is operating on Fay
Pup, having purchased several interests
from Volnev Kielimond and J. 11. John
son.
J. P. Frisby recently picked up a 12
ounce nugget on Mascot creek, tie and
.1. !>. Kinney are operating on tlie Mas
cot benches.
Bathurst Resigned.
John Bathurst has resigned as I'nited
States commissioner at Xanana.
lie was appointed to the position at
the request, by petition, of the people of
the place, and lie relinquishes it, appa
rently. because the office demands more
of personal sacrifice than he is willing
to make.
“The problem of making a living and
at the same time holding the position is
one beyond his ability to solve,” says
the Yukon Press, of which Mr. Bathurst
is editor.
PROSPECTS AT TANANA
Yukon Press.
Smile holes are being sunk in tlie vi
cinity of this town. Knsehe Moreau ami
Henry Wirth are sinking two. The
grim ml promises to lie deep, and there
is a large deposit of wash containing fine
colors.
Nothing can he said as to prospects
until bedrock is reached, which it is
hoped will he done in the near future.
That an old buried channel traverses
low-lying ground hack of town and that
it carries gold is a proven fact. Whether
or not it contains pay time must show.
It would he greatly to the interest of
the town t • encourage prospecting in
this vicinity, w hich has as many chances
for the pros]lector as any other part of
the country.
ROBERTS BROKE AN ARM
William Kolierts was the victim of an
accident in w Inch one of the I sines of
his forearm was broken last Thursday
afternoon.
Mr Kolierts is representing James II.
lireen in the What t'heer liar company
during the latter's ah-i m e in Montana
While at work on the company's m w
mess house a log rolled and Mr. Rolsrfs
fell. Ilia arm was caught in a crack
and the Weight of Ids Issiy broke a tsinc
l> \\ Soil and Walter wumllsirg calm
to town with the injured man, and I*r
liiidgm is attending him.
Mrs, t lets* hmuii. Mrs Young. Mrs
Heeler and Miss hath Wii.hi are suit
ing acres!* the divide this week
RECEPTION
...SALOON...
S. E. HEETER, BOB SCHABER,
Proprietor Manager
Wines, Liquors and
GOOD Cigars....
....Billiard and Pool Rooms
Barber Chair in the House.
St l.ouis
ABC
and Seattle
Ranier Beers
OLD VALLEY WHISKY
The Only Stock.
MIXED DRINKS
< hir Specialty
A. B. NOTICE.
Regular meetings of the Arctic Brother
hood Lodge are held at their hall on the
second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at
h o’clock p. in.
WM. SIPARY, G. A. KETTERER.
Arctic Recorder. Arctic Chief
John (Minton is providing himself
with a storehouse hy tunneling into the
frozen hill hack of his resilience. The
situation affords natural drainage, and
at least two doors will U* provided, so
that the teini’crature of the room will
remain unaffected hy conditions outside.
When completed the ri*>m will form a
perfect refrigerator, and will need no
artificial ending during the warm sum
mer time.
The masipie hall given hy the Jolly
Companion* Friday evening was well
attended, considering tin- htisy season,
and wasciijoj»d to the utmost. Mrs.
Flcischman and Mr. Ernest Floyd won
the priics f.»r the la st sustained char
acters.
Crockett and vvl»r, in from IJttU*
Miuo'k last Saturday. said they will
have I2MM) buckets of dirt ready for the
wushup. rhe> did Hot get to w«»rk till
after the holidays.
h, V Ki tter* r left SiiisUv on a kM*
ness trip to Fairlmnk*, and will id
return till after live opening of imv tga*
tiua.