. Alaska and the Klondike. nthe Klondike camps, taking all things into account, butcrediting the reduction chiefly to good roads, has been re-duced to one-fourth what it was five years ago before theseroads were built. What this means to the development ofthe country can scarcely be overstated. Compare, for in-stance, the cost of living where freights for supplies fora distance of 20 to 40 miles ranges from a cent to a centand a half a pound, with the conditions described byConsul McGowan on Chicken Creek, 100 miles away, onthe American side. Freights from Seattle to Eagle, whichis as near to
. Alaska and the Klondike. nthe Klondike camps, taking all things into account, butcrediting the reduction chiefly to good roads, has been re-duced to one-fourth what it was five years ago before theseroads were built. What this means to the development ofthe country can scarcely be overstated. Compare, for in-stance, the cost of living where freights for supplies fora distance of 20 to 40 miles ranges from a cent to a centand a half a pound, with the conditions described byConsul McGowan on Chicken Creek, 100 miles away, onthe American side. Freights from Seattle to Eagle, whichis as near to Chicken Creek as is Dawson, are substantiallythe same as to Dawson, but there are no roads of anykind between Eagle on the American side and the impor-tant mining camps in the Forty-Mile district, of whichChicken Creek is a part. And while only a cent to a centand a half a pound must be added for freight charges fromDawson to camps forty miles away in the Klondike, thecontrast between Dawson prices and Chicken Creek prices. It Snows in Valdez 224 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE shows what the wagon roads have done for the miner onthe British side. For instance, in the spring of 1902 when flour was $7a hundred at Dawson, it was $32 a hundred on ChickenCreek. Hams and bacon, when 25 cents a pound in Daw-son, cost 50 cents on Chicken Creek; condensed cream $10a case in Dawson, $22 on Chicken Creek; potatoes 6 1-2cents a pound in Dawson, 25 cents on Chicken Creek;onions 12 1-2 cents a pound in Dawson, 30 to 32 cents onChicken Creek; beef in carcass, 75 cents a pound; eggs,$35 a case in summer. On all canned goods there was anadvance of 65 per cent, on Dawson prices at ChickenCreek and this difference is chargeable chiefly to the costof freighting the last 100 miles. The trade of this entireForty-Mile district should be handled from Eagle, on theAmerican side, but it is practically monopolised from Daw-son by the aid of a wagon road built from Dawson west-ward to the boundary line. Dawson w
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