. Through the Mackenzie Basin : a narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 . quarter of amillion dollars, twenty-five thousand dollars being paid organizers interested thirty-three other men in theenterprise, the agreement being that these should go toDawson at the expense of the stockholders, and locate min-ing claims there, a half-interest in all of which was to betransferred to the company. These men proceeded toCalgary, and outfitted for Dawson, which they wished toreach by ascending the Peace River. At Calgary they werefortimate in procuring as leader
. Through the Mackenzie Basin : a narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 . quarter of amillion dollars, twenty-five thousand dollars being paid organizers interested thirty-three other men in theenterprise, the agreement being that these should go toDawson at the expense of the stockholders, and locate min-ing claims there, a half-interest in all of which was to betransferred to the company. These men proceeded toCalgary, and outfitted for Dawson, which they wished toreach by ascending the Peace River. At Calgary they werefortimate in procuring as leader a gentleman of large experi-ence in the jSorth, W. J. McLean, Esq., a retired Chief-factor of the Hudsons Bay Company, who pointed out thedifficulties of such a route, and recommended, instead, apossible one via Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie Riverto Fort Simpson, and thence up the Liard River to theheight of land at or near Francis Lake, and so down thePelly River and on to Dawson. In February the party, led by him, left Edmonton with160 ponies, sleds and sleighs, loaded with supplies, and pro-. Lake Athabasca at Chipewyan. The three islands in the offing
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