Delegate Sutherland
Takes Radio Audience
Over Trail to Nome
(Ooncludod From Last Issue.)
We now leave the Yukon river for
the 90-mile journey across the penin
sula that divides the river from Norton
sonnd. The first relay is through tim
ber and over low rolling hills to Old
Woman mountain, a distance of 50
miles, io 6 hours 35 minutes, which is
unusually fast for this trail and dis
tance. There is not a single habitation
on this 90-mile stretch except a mail
cabin, where the next relay team is
watting for the 40-mile drive to the
seacoast. This distance is made in 7
hours.
We are now atUnaiakleet, an Eskimo
town of 285 people, we are now on the
coast of an arm of Bering sea, and the
next relay, to Shaktolik, a distance of
35. miles, is along a wind-swept tundra
where the drifting snow cuts the face
like needles and heavy gusts of wind
almost stop progress. We are now in
the country of blir:7ard3 and will be
until the end of the journey.
The next relay team at Shaktolik is
an unusually large oDBj of about 20
dogs. We note that they differ from
any of the otl^er varieties we have seen.
These are Siberians. Not Siberian
hounds nor Siberian wolf dogs. They
are ISiberian sled dogs, smaller than
those we leave behind, but of wonder
ful vitality. They differ from all Arc
tic and outside bred dogs in that they
start on a long journey at a very mod
erate and even slow gait, gradually in
creasing speed to eight or nine miles
per hour on good trail and keeping up
this speed for long journeys, such as
they are now about to make. They
move at an easy- gait along the trail
from Shaktolik for a distance of 20
miles to Bonanza creek, and here an
element of danger enters, for they must
now make the run of 30 mil9s jioross
the ice of Norton sound, where changes
of* wind may atanv moment move the
ice and open up great areas of open
water. Here the Siberian sled dogs
are at their best. No doubt their an
imal instinct tells them that the far
shore must be reached as quickly as
possible On they move, steadily, hour
after hour, and reach the western
shore: them, after skirting the coast for
a distance of 35 -miles, they turn ab
ruptly to the right and begin the as
cent of a steep mountain. Slow work
this mountain climbing, but in one
hour thev are at the summit, and a
sloping barren plain stretches before
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them for a distance of 12 miles to the
village of Chioik, on Golovin bar. They
are now leaving the limit of timber,
and the balance of the journey is
through country without timber of ar.y
kind.
The relay from Chinik crosses Gol
ovin sound, a distance of 8 miles, and
then over small roiling hills for 7 miles
to Cheeukuk, on the coast of tiering
sea; then west along the shore for U2
miles to JJlutl, a small placer miniDg
camp, where another relay team of Si
berian sled dogs is waiting to make the
run to Port Safety, 30 miles up the
coast.
We are now 55 miles from Nome, and
traveling at night. 1'he eleveu dogs in
the team are of the same variety as
those that crossed Norton sound. We
are on the ice on the edge of Bering
sea with high peipendicular hills and
mountains coming down to the ocean.
The traveling here is very good for a
distance of 10 miles, and then we pass
from the sheltering hills and are ex
posed to the full fury of a north wind
that sweeps down over a flat country.
There is almost 30 miles of this Hat
country ahead of us, and a great por
tion of our trail is on a sand beach be
tween the ocean and a great lagoon.
We are now crossing the ice at the
mouth of Solomon river. The storm is
increasing and has reached the propor
tions of a blizzard. It is impossible to
see the trail in the blinding snow, and
we must trust to the instinct of the lead
dog to Bnd the wav.
We are now in the vicinity of Port
Safety, where there are several build
ings and where a dog team and driver
are waiting to take the last relay, a
distance of 23 miles, to Nome, but in
the driving snow ond howling wind we
fail to see the place. The wind is from j
the north, and we are traveliug almost;
due west. The force of the wind seems
lessened, and we are on shore ice. pass
ing the high bluff of Cape Nome, which
juts out across the low country and
forms a precipice to the water’s edge.
We are soon beyond Cape Nome, and
again the blizzard strikes us with re
doubled fury. The dogs show signs of
weariness, but are urged on by the
driver. Through the drift we catch a
glimpse of buildings to our right. We
are passing the abandoned military
barracks of Port Davis, 3 miles from
Nome. The dogs are aware of the
proximity of their destination and show
a little more vim. Soon they are en
tering the sheltering lee of buildings
that comprise the eastern section of the
town of Nome t hat stretches along the
beach. Now they are near the cemer
of the town—it is 5 o’clock in the
morning, but several people are up and
waiting. These announce to the suffer
ing ones that the serum has arrived.
Belief has come to the stricken peo
ple, but only partial relief. The 310,000
units of serum is only sufficient for the
treatment of twenty patients. In a few
days the larger consignment from .->e
atlle will be on its way from the gov
eminent railroad to Nome.
The story of the relay race by day
and night to Nome will stand as a
classic in the annals of Arctic rapid
transit.
Mary Anoe gave notice she was
going to be married. Her mistress,
perturbed, said: “Of course, I don’t
want to put any obstacle in the way of
vour getting married, but. I wish it
were possible for you to postpone it
until I can get another maid.”
“Well, mum,” Mary Anne replied,
“1 :ardlv think I know ’iin well enough
to arsk ’im to pul it otT”!—Christian
Register.
The Entertainer—If any lady or gen
tleman in the audience will call out the
name of some female character in
Shakespeare, f will endeavor to por
tray that character.”
A Voice—Floreoce Nightingale!
Entertainer—I said Shakespeare, sir.
Not. Dickens’—London .Humorist
Doctor—Have you taken every pre
caution to prevent the spread o? con
tagion in your family?
Rastus—Absolutely, doctah. We’ve
bought a sanitary cup, an we all drink
from it.—The Baptist.
“Is it true, doctor,” asked the gush-j
ing young lady, “that you are a lady-1
killer?”'
“Madam,” repiieo the deator, “I
make no distinction between the sexes.,r
Customer—Yau’ve made two mis
takes in this bill—one in your favor
and one in mine.
Grocer—In your favor? Where?—
Boston Transcript.
“Did you say that Skinner succeeded
bv getting around him better men than
himself?’’
“No—by getting around better men
than himself.”
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A Dredging or Hydraulicing
Proposition, Yankee Creek !
I am the principal owner of a block" of ground
on Yankee creek, about seven nines long. extend
ing from No. 1 Below Discovery down to the month
of the creek.
Pay has been located all along'for a distance "of
about three miles from the upper end. and pretty
well pros|>ected and cross-cut.
The average^oepth of the ground is from seven
to twenty feet. The top is all black muck, that can
be moved freely. No rock bigger'than one’s fist.
The width of the pay. for a distance of about
three miles, 'is from 100 to 200 feet. Crosscuting
work indicates that the ground will go from 15
cents to $1 per square foot; ofijbedrock. My belief
is that the pay will average 50 cents per foot.
1 have a ditch on the ground, three miles long,
together with water rights. The ground is pretty
well cleared. There is also a drain, three miles
long, with the water right. I also have a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from which water
can be brought to Yankee creek with a ditch less
than a mile long (4.000 feet), which will give four
sluiceheads of water, with a pressure or fall of 120
feet, being 1000 feet to the work from the ditch.I
After doing away with the muck, there will be
from four to six fecc of dirt to handle. The pay
runs mostly, in the.'oedrock of porphyry and slate.
The ground is virgin, only about $11,000 having
been taken out by windlass in prospecting.
Prospecting work during the present winter has
resulted in finding values that run up to $1 per
square foot of bedrock.
The Flume Dredge Company has a dredge above
this ground, which has been in operation for the
last three seasons.
The Government road crosses Yankee creek, f
also have a road down the creek that connects with
the Government road. -■
T am also the agent for owners of ground [other
than that held bv myself.
The ground can be worked either with draflte.
drag-line scraper,for by hydrauiicing.
I will either sell the ground or give a lease oa
it. ff the prospect is satisfactory to the bu3’er, a
cash payment will be expected. A; Food bargain
will be given to the right party.
For [further information, terms, etc.. caU on
ground, or write or telegraph me.
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Tokotwa, Alaslw.
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