A trip to Alaska and the Klondike in the summer of 1905 . r and exhaustion. When traveling on the two passes mentioned,horses have been known to push on under whip andlash, until nature failed, and then fall in their tracksnever to rise again. They were heard to groanpiteously in their hunger and weakness and showalmost human emotions. In Dead Horse Gulch,on the White Pass, there were at one time thirty-fivehundred carcasses. Since the White Pass and Yukon Road has beenbuilt over the White Pass, Chilkoot Pass has re-lapsed into history, as has Dyea. The buildings atDyea were sold at auction, t
A trip to Alaska and the Klondike in the summer of 1905 . r and exhaustion. When traveling on the two passes mentioned,horses have been known to push on under whip andlash, until nature failed, and then fall in their tracksnever to rise again. They were heard to groanpiteously in their hunger and weakness and showalmost human emotions. In Dead Horse Gulch,on the White Pass, there were at one time thirty-fivehundred carcasses. Since the White Pass and Yukon Road has beenbuilt over the White Pass, Chilkoot Pass has re-lapsed into history, as has Dyea. The buildings atDyea were sold at auction, the brewery bringingonly five dollars. All buildings were removed forthe lumber they contained, and nothing now remainsof that once-busy town but a vegetable man has shown considerable enterprise inplowing up the streets, and is trying the experimentof raising garden truck to supply the market ofSkagway. It was once a local axiom, All who enter Chil-koot Pass leave truth behind. But the fact thatthe pass has been abandoned, as a route of travel,. Hanging Rocks near Clifton, on the White Passand Yukon R. R. A Trip to Alaska and the Klondike. 41 does not insure the traveler finding no liars inAlaska. The United States cruisers, Chicago andMarblehead, and the torpedo-boat destroyer,The Perry, were anchored just off the coast atSkagway, and the Skagway daily newspaper an-nounced a game of baseball to begin at seven thatevening between the sailor boys of the Chicagoand the Townies. Skagway is in a basin of snow-capped moun-tains, and at the foot of Skagway Valley, or Can-yon. The meteorological conditions are such thatthe wind blows continually. The air, therefore, isalways fresh and invigorating. Ten miles north and ten miles south, the snowfalls very deep in the winter, but the steady windprevents much of it settling in the town. There are one thousand people in the place to-day; three years ago there were ten thousand, andduring the rush of 97 and 98, some say there weret
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