. On the "White Pass" pay-roll . Ox THE Old Whith Pass Trail Conditions in Skaguay in i8g8 Cabin in the Tutshi Valley. From there itclimbed again over another pass into theBennett Valle}^ During the rush the nar-row trail was blocked (Standing roomonly), for the greater part of its distanceof 40 miles so that neither man nor horsecould go faster or slower than the speed ofthe huge living serpent that slowly woundits way over the Pass. To try to go fasterwas to be stopped simply; to go slower fora man meant climbing the rocks up or downoff the trail, but a horse could not do thisand had to keep
. On the "White Pass" pay-roll . Ox THE Old Whith Pass Trail Conditions in Skaguay in i8g8 Cabin in the Tutshi Valley. From there itclimbed again over another pass into theBennett Valle}^ During the rush the nar-row trail was blocked (Standing roomonly), for the greater part of its distanceof 40 miles so that neither man nor horsecould go faster or slower than the speed ofthe huge living serpent that slowly woundits way over the Pass. To try to go fasterwas to be stopped simply; to go slower fora man meant climbing the rocks up or downoff the trail, but a horse could not do thisand had to keep in line or fall on the fall meant death, as a rule, unless he couldget up again pretty quickly, which, over-loaded and exhausted, he seldom could. The lot of the horses on the trail wasawful beyond description. Their owners,mostly ignorant, often brutal, sometim^esboth, began by overloading them at Ska-guay, and as the distance was only 40 milesguessed the horse could rustle through some-how without food to Bennett. But
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