In richest Alaska and the gold fields of the Klondike; how they were found ..together with a history of this wonderful land from its discovery to the present day ..and practical information for gold seekers . arty does not obliterate the fact that their routeis considerably longer than Schwatkas. After leaving Lake Teslin, no serious obstacle is en-countered, although the water toward its mouth is there the canoes run down the Lewes River, join-ing the regular line of overland travel. Schwatka returned from the Hootalinqua up throughLake Bennett, and reached Juneau safely in the lat
In richest Alaska and the gold fields of the Klondike; how they were found ..together with a history of this wonderful land from its discovery to the present day ..and practical information for gold seekers . arty does not obliterate the fact that their routeis considerably longer than Schwatkas. After leaving Lake Teslin, no serious obstacle is en-countered, although the water toward its mouth is there the canoes run down the Lewes River, join-ing the regular line of overland travel. Schwatka returned from the Hootalinqua up throughLake Bennett, and reached Juneau safely in the latterpart of 1891, but stayed there only two days, leavingfor the south by steamer before he had formulated anyreport of the new trail to Lake Teslin. He never re-turned to Alaska, dying at Portland, Ore., in Novem-ber, 1892. There is no doubt that several minerswho went into the Taku River country last year followedover this path to reach Lake Teslin, guided in all proba-bility by members of the same Indian tribe as had pilotedSchwatka through. A route to Dawson City, which was used some duringthe last summer, leads up over the Chilcat Pass, at thehead of Chilcat Inlet, and thence follows what has been. DALTONS TRAIL. 73 dubbed Daltons trail entirely overland to the YukonRiver, just below old Fort Selkirk. It is particularlyadapted for driving cattle into the interior. Quite a number of miners started for the Klondikethis summer over the Hudson Bay trunk line. This lineof traffic has been in use for a greater part of the wayfor over one hundred years. Leaving St. Paul at nine oclock in the morning, bythe Canadian Pacific Railway, the international bound-ary at Portal will be crossed at four oclock the nextmorning. The following morning Calgary is reached,where the branch line of the Canadian Pacific north-ward is reached. After traveling to Edmonton, a point200 miles from Calgary and 1,772 miles from Chicago,the rail portion of the journey ends. The railroad farefrom Chicago is
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