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About The Nebraskan. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1892-1899 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1895)
A LETTER FROM ALASKA (Coutlnuuil from lnt pnno.) About tho first of Juno tho ioo bognu brooking up on tho lako, nud ou tho morning of tho 7th wo broko camp anil sot sail. A tor advancing two milos on innnonso ico join burred urthor progross. A delay oE sovonty-two hours Fol lowed, thon tho wind changed, shifting tho ico so that by brook ing through more than a milo oE iloo wo succoodod in reaching open wo tor boyond. At tho Eoot o this lako anothor delay oE sov-onty-eight hours was cousod by a vast ico gorge. At tho hood oE Loko Torkish and noar tho centre o Loko Lo Barge, ico Holds do layod ns thirty-six and thirty hours respectively. From this point to Forty Mile the way was unobstructed, and wo mado all possible speed, arriving at Forty Mile at 12 o'clock, June 2oth,just eighty-throo days Erom tho linio oE our departure from Juneoii. On the way down tho river and across the lakos wo had somo pretty close calls; soveral times I could almost hear tho ilops oE death's wings. Wo woro in the greatest dangor while in n sovoro storm on ono oE tho lakes, when shooting our boat through tho canyon, whilo plunging down "White Horso Rapids and whilo going through Five Fingors. Through all those we passed saEo ly and without our boat shipping hardly a drop oE water. However, all are not so fortunate os wo in coming through these places; olmost every spring ono or more luckless fortune hunters ore drowned. Last spring two mot their fote; three met deoth this season. In company with four .other men I started out prospecting, the third day after reaching Forty Milo creek. "We have found noth ing very rich yet. Most of our time has been spout working on tho bars along Forty Mile creek. Somo days wo take out about $7 in dust each; other days nothing scarcely. I do not expect to ac complish much this summer. Ex perience is about all ono can hope for the first season. Next sum mer I intend to prospect in the districts where tho richest diir- jjinjis now are. "Wages are only moderately good in this country. At Forty Mile, common labor is paid $( per day, or $100 per month; in tho mines, 10 per day, or $S00 or $l,J00 for the running season, which lasts four or five months. But there is only work for a lim ited number of men. Prices o provisions, etc., are very reason able At Forty Milo Hour is S per hundred pounds; bacon, 10; ham, 35; beans, 10; dried fruits, 20 to 50; rice and sugar, 20 each; cornmeal, oatmeal and solt, 15 each. Tho traders charge 25 extra per hundred for freight ing to tho mines. In these camps onions and potatoes sell for (50 per bushel. Rather door, ore thoy not? Old timers hero pronounce this a very exceptional 3'oar. Last winter was longer and colder, and tho snow doopor than over oxpori oncod bofore, whilo during tho spring and suinnior high waters and Hoods havo brokonall previous records. Since- my arrival horo, it has, with but two oxcoptions, rained ovory day, consequently tho wotors oro so high most of tho timo that but littlo mining can be done on tho bars. During tho lost throo days and nights it has been raining almost continuously, and Forty Milo crook has rison over six foot and is wild and rag ing. During a period of throo conseontivo wooks tho toniporaturo was down to 72'" below, and at ono time tumbled down to 77 Rathor frosty. Thoro is plonty of game in this country, mooso, caribou, a kind o roindeer, wolves, and sovorol vo r.iotios oE boors, Eoxos, etc. Four spocios of solmon oro found in those waters; one, the king sal mon, is tho finest tho world can produce. It is so plontiEul that it is used Eor dog food. Tho tumoral wealth of this country has boon greatly overesti mated. Thoro aro not a dozen paying placer initios in the coun try. Already, many oE tho 350 men, who caino in last spring, aro leaving or getting ready to do so. Thoy aro badly disappointed. I oxpect to roniaiu noxt summer and perhaps longer. 1 must conclude. Givo my regards lo any oE my friends you meet. P. J. Jewkll, Ft. Cudahy, N. W. T., Canada. Care Messrs. Heoly it "Wilson, Juneau, Alaska. Sigma Chi Entertains. The Sigmo Chi fratornity 011 tortained delightfully at their rooms in tho Halter block last Thursday evening. Tho party wasgivou in honorof Messrs. Sax ton and Huff, who woro in town at the time. Tho rooms aro beau tifully arranged for dancing, and os excellent music wos provided thero was nothing to mar tho per fect enjoyment of tho evening. The guests were Misses Comp, Burks, "Whiting, Richards, Grif fith, Rickotts, Marshall, Lou, Maino, Lottridgo, Addio "Whiting, Moore, Cropsey, and Fit.maurice. Tho members of tho fraternity present were Messers. Low, Rissor, Cullen, Bishotf, Packard, Andrews, King, Doubrovo, Young, Pulis, Saxton, Packard, Molloliou, Duff, Hobard, Frank, and Burget. 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