THE DYEA TRAIL. VOI 7l v. DYEA, ALASKA APRIL 21808. NO. 15 THE SECRET OF THE STICKS A New Trail From Dyea To Lake Lindeman Is Shown to a White Man By Some Indians. THE ROUTE PAR EXCELLENCE FOR A RAILROAD The Grade is So Gradual That There is Practically No Summit. Little, If Any Longer Than the Present Chilkoot Trail the India's. He is one of Dyea* best Truth 1» «tranter than ficti >n The real railroad route to the Ynkon is trail is tame in; comparison. Great known merchants and a man who has Had the pen of a Haggard been called found. mountains and immense glaciers are to constant de dings with b >tfi the Stioks be seen and peak succeed* peak. In The ofr repeated prediction of the j juto play and conjured up some amszing and Chilkats. At his urgent request his many places ledges of quartz were -ecu dream of fancy, or some stariling tale of Trail that the first, railroad built to the name is suppresse I for the present his and float rock that indicated mineral WU.M an imaginative Alaskan land, the vision great gold fields would start from Dyea, grounds for the request being that his frequently met with. The trail ended at was the vision of a seer It will come to interests in the new trail would be jeop­ a lake which to his astonishment he might have won its author glory and re­ ardised thereby, as he was «ware that known as a painter of the unreal, yet the pass The stars iu their courses are others were at work in efforts to corral a found to be Kindemnu. He could hardly right of way over it and had already- realize that sucli was the fact, ao sudden picture conceived in the mind’s eye of the fighting for ns. Hence forth, as in the made important moves iu this diieotion. ly had they come upon it. As to the dreamer and wrought into a semblance past, the destiny of Dyea is inseparably He knew, however, that news of the dis­ covery had somehow leaked out, and felt length of the trail, lie was not prepared to of reality by the skill of a master liter­ linked with that of the gold fields- Da.id free to impart a general description of speak positively, but he wan of the ary baud mnst bave fallen short of a horse trails may corne sud go, but - yea the new route. opinion it was little, if any longer than The place of entrance to th- trail ho the present one via Chilkoot, pass. Even ;.rnth which has this week been revealed will go or. forever. would not imp irt, but he laughed over should ir prove longer th** then latter, in Dyea. To a white man prominent in Dyea the the location of the townsite at the mouth of the canyon about a mile above Healy this would be no materia) disadvantage, Slicks told a tale of » new trail to Lake Years ago a small band of Stick In­ & Wilson's on the west side. To begin ns the grade is such an easy one for a dians iD pursuit of game, made their Linderman. They t hi how, many years with, he -aid that ss a unite for a railroad railroad or wagon road that a few miles the trail was superb. It would be as way into new hunting ground. Game ago. they had wundered ioto it while on easy almost fr ou start to thiish as it would added to it will oouDt for naught. The was abundant: and season after s- asoi, the the chus; of game Tlmy said that it be to bni Id a line from Dyea to Canyon party returned the same way aa they City. The urade is so gradual that n* went, and the white man's first impres Sticks hunted in these rich game pre­ w as a much easier t rail than the old one idea of a summit anywhere presents itself sion of the trail were fully verified. serves and appeared in Dyea ladened via the Chilkoot pass mid that there were The only indication of altitude is when one finds himself above tbs timber line. As we go te press it is learned that the with the trophies of the chase. Th* won­ no hills to climb. A 'oaded team could drive over it to D. K. T. Company or its president, Oscar derful hunting g ro u n d t»r th*- warlike The white man was incredulous, but Lake Lindeman in eight heurs when the •Meyer, is in some manner interested in trail is broken and improved in plac-s. the new trail, and it is said the latter is Sticke has been a caret ally guarded se­ the Indians }«i stated in their story and The trail is through a wide valley with now in Portland enlisting capita) for the cret for lo, these mat,y years, notwith­ offered to guide him over it. Still he great towering mountains on each side. It is not possible for snow slides to cover hnilding of a railroad to Lake Lindeman standing the great out lust ty as to how doubted. \\ by wuw it he asked, that the the trail. No signs of such were seen. over it. they reached Dyea from the otliei aide *.f The Indians were anxious to show him a alleged new trt.il had lain so long undis great black glaoier which they said had the mountains without coming over the covered? The Indians answered it might been made by the i avens, who at oue tisse, aceording to Indian tradition, had Uysa Literary Society. Chilkoot pass. seem strange, but it was true. Uucou been Indians, but had been b witched On last Monday evening a number of ' But the great secret of the Sticks is vinced, bni faeinated by the adventur­ and transformée Departing from the tadiet. of Dyea met at the home of Miss out. The fav.rite hunting ground of a trail, he went with them, and that night ous nature of the tsle. he made a bargain they pitched their tent on u mammoth Hartman, for the purpose of organizing handful of barbarians passes into Iu with (tie Indians.to explore the supposed glacier as black as coal. The view from a literary society. Officers were eleoted ths top of the glacier was grand. The dian tradition, while another discover y of trail. Oue morning recently, witli three as follows: President, Mrs. Z. B. Patrick trail oonld be distinctly seen stretching of Salt Lake; Vice-President, Mrs. P. J. trememiuous influence in the develop­ of the Sticks as guides, he started, in away into the distance with hardly a per­ Gearon of Wallaoe, Idaho; Secretary, ment of the gold fields of the Ynkon four days he was back in Dyea. As a re ceptible raiee. The bowling of wolves alarmed them that evening and as the Miss M. Cobine of Oakland, Cal. ; Treas­ takes its place in history as the most im­ suit of his trip messengers have been cries kept coming from different direc­ urer, Miss Elizabeth Hartman of Indian­ portant event since the half-breed Car­ sent south with news that will bring a tions the Indians became alarmed, and in apolis. the dark of the night thay made their mack dug through Klondike muck end corps of engineers to Dyee iu a short way from the glacier to a place where, if The topic of study for the next meet­ ing on next Monday night, at thn same found the golden gravel of Bonanza. time. They will go over the new trail attacked, a better resistance could be offered. But they were notjmolested and place, is Alaska. All who are interested Yale hunting grounds of the Sticks! and make an extensive report upou it. next day want their way. in the study of literature are cordially Then will come the railroad with Dyea In obadienoe to the instruction! of the Vale White pass! invited to join the eociety. Vale Dalton trail! as its starting point. white man, the party moved slowly, so that careful observations of the route Vale Stickeen route! ▲ Trail representative had the privi­ lege of a conversation with the gentle­ might be made. The scenery was inde­ Fashionable millinery at Ferrells, M» Vale St. Michaels! man who went over the new trail with scribably grand. That of the present River street 44' ' THE DYEA TRAIL. APRIL 23, 1898. CAPT. JACK CRAW FORD Q Ÿ Ô U N G Purchased His Supplies In Dyea and Saved Four' DEALER IN Hundred Dollars Thereby. Among the notable people that are , dent of his company who had been com-1 Hardware anil M i ? Materia passing through Dyea on their way to the municnted with by Skaguayaus, telling j 6 gold fields, is Captain Jack Crawford. the j him to by all menus avoid the Chilkoot poet scout, who is known by reputalio i i trail. to every man, woman and child in the While in Seattle he was besieged by United States, Captain Crawford is go merchants who desired to sell him his t a s k Paints.Oils aid (Hass. ing to the Yukon in the interest of the j supplies. He purchased nothing there, Klondike, Yukon and Copper River Min­ 1 however, except some crystnlized eggs ing Company of which he is the first vice ! and some evaporated fruits and vegetables president.