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J I I i NORTH YORK INTELLIGENCER AND ADVERTISER mo tins liberty to know to and to according to conscience all other liberty GST No paper sent outside of North York unless paid in ad varico Vol XIVI No Copies Each Newmarket Ont Friday October J per annum if paid in advance rS Jit Hardware Stoves Furnaces Paints Oils and Glass is leaving our store in the hands of delighted customers literally on the run The reason is easy to find The finest quality of goods at very reasonable prices r Ask for Butlers Diamond Pipe Varnish all Powder Shot and Ammunition Kinds and General Jobbing Promptly and Properly Done LEGAL DENTAL Thos Banlater Notary Main Newmarket to Loan on good Farm security Barrister Solicitor Solicitor for Township of King Money to Court Building Ontario Barrister Solicitor etc St Corner of- KlnK and to Toronto flu I Dentist Post Block opposite the Vital I red tor Painless Satisfaction Guaranteed J Resident Dentist Aurora Successor to late Dr Robinson Office and Residence Dr late 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difficulties and dangers of a journey to gold fields Arthur and Bert Harris who left Orillia less than two years ago for the salmon fisheries in British Columbia sailed from Vancouver in August and at last writing expected to reach the fields about October Mr Colin Beaton eldest son of J Beaton of Winnipeg and ne phew of spent his boyhood days in Orillia and before leaving for New York years ago was book keeper for J J Mr Beaton wont via Seattle and bin description of the way in which he was treated by the steamship company controlling trade from that port should deter any Canadian from starting from the American side ON THE TRAIN Under date of Sept Mr AJ Harris writes from Long Lake on the Yukon trail as follows This is first time wo have had a chance to write and let mo say that of all the tough times I have had in world this is worst in my experience Only men of grit can stay with us We have passed hundreds on the trail who can never get through but thank goodness we arc over the summit one that is a fright to climb We got all our freight over OK after much difficulty Our flour is now worth per but wo would not sell it for twice the money We slipped from the company this morning and are alone now are camping tonight miles up the lost of the worst trail that man ever travelled We have the boat and would not take any money for it We can get through no in 18 days but will remain here days as we can use our boat to good advantage taking freight across the little mountain lake and in that way can make a little money We made today with the boat When we leave here we have to portage our boat miles before we reach the waters that we stay in till we reach our destination Bert and I are per fectly healthy The Government are carrying a mail through here once a month now so you may expect to hear from us regularly Mr Bert Harris says he would think twice before starting if he knew what was in store for him but now that he is over the mountain pass is not sorry as reports from the are good He and his brother would remain where they are for a time but are afraid of get ting frozen in Their outfit which cost them is now worth at least WILD AND WOOLLY EXPERIENCES Colin Beaton writes from St Michaels on Sept one day before the party was to leave for its trip up the Yukon River He says We have been camped here since Aug All of us have been ex ceedingly busy building our river steamer which will be launched this noon We expect to get away tomor row evening or next morning It is so late in the season however that we do not expect to get very far up the river probably not more than or miles Since we arrived three steamers have came down the river two from Dawson City and the Sam- ilton which arrived yesterday from Fort Yukon This latter boat is the largest on the river and was unable to get over the bar at Fort Yukon She brought many of- her passengers back with her The prospects were shortage in provisions miles from their desti nation j no immediate means of fur ther transportation theremometer registering 10 below and a wild Godforsaken country which offered no comfortable winter homo without con siderable heavy labor Some of them couldnt get their nerve up to it and quit They will probably go back on steamer North Fork The rest of the Hamiltons passengers secured row boats and started to row up the river There is a possibility of their getting as far as Dawson City but it is re mote i an BOUND FOR THE KLONDIKE This from a taken as was about calling from Ban with passengers bound for the Klondike la a typical one Such crowds are always seen when steamers leave piers of San and Seattle for Alaska steamer Is crowded to Its utmost capacity The passenger lists show that during first six weeks of the Klondike fever persons sailed from American ports It estimated that about have gone via Vancouver and British Columbia Transportation Go has a post here and an immense store of provisions Their prices are very high Bacon per pound cents beans cents rice cents rolled oats cents flour per pounds beer a barrel canned fruits cents per can and every thing else in proportion is robbed The only thing that does not cost money is the land and air and that is abominable The whole land is a bog If you stand in any one place 10 minutes you ore up to your ankles in water Dig down four feet through the moss and black muck and you find solid ice The climate is very severe on those suffering from any bronchial not The members of our expedition are going to make great efforts to get as far as this river which enters the Yukon a little above the before it freezes but I must say I have no hope of it AND MISREPRESENTED The rush to the gold fields this fall has been attended on all sides with mismanagement misrepresenta tions and all sorts of hardships and inconveniences I bought my ticket- in New York paying for it with the understanding that we were to sail from Seattle Aug 13 When we came to receipts in Seattle we received about a yard of paper containing printed conditions which troubles There is no drinking water we had to sign They were to the on the island This has to be obtain- effect that we would not hold the corn ed on the mainland eight miles away liable for any delays that we A more desolate and uninviting place would work as common laborers or you could hardily imagine We are mechanics according to our ability camped out in odd tents which in the building of a steamer at St make quite a little village l Michaels and also to cut wood to Passengers on the re- fire on the way up tho river Accord- port two good finds on the to the conditions on the ticket the River but that every claim on it and company was to furnish us with its branches has been staked off The for only days after entering the have not had an opportunity to Yukon after that we were to pay i J I 1 prospect their claims as all work of this nature has to be done in the win ner day or could stay on the boat and live on our own supplies I didnt It will not be known until spring sign this ticket until I learned from a whether they are paying diggings or lawyer that if I did sign it the com- The North American Trading GLACIERS PLOWED THIS PATHWAY TO THE KLONDIKE This of route to City via tho ana a vivid lata of the wild country of hunt- era la now to reach eketob bead of navigation Bennett to Dawson pany could legally hold me to its provisions I imagine tho business enterprise carried on with less judgment and management our expedition THE POOD BAD In the first place owing to care lessness and gross mismanagement we were five days late in leaving Seattle The food furnished us on the steamer Humboldt was almost sickening The passengers were crowded in like sar dines vessel was a good one and seaworthy but her officers were careless of the comforts of passengers and not at all obliging On the con trary they were so discourteous that the passengers after landing at St Michaels passed a resolution condemn ing the officers and the service of the boat in the severest terms On our trip up the river half of our passengers will have to the upper deck house with canvas It is cold enough now sleeping in tents but when we strike real cold weather up the river I fancy those of us who are unlucky enough to get bunks on the upper deck will put in many a cold night You might imagine from what I am that we are a discon solate dissatisfied lot of people but such is not the case The majority of us are hopeful of eventually getting through all right We cannot but realize that it will be impossible for us to reach Dawson City until spring and have made up our minds that wo will be frozen up somewhere on tho river Most of us will go ashore and build cabins that is put up four walls about four feet high bank them with earth or snow to the top and put our tents over We all have stoves and as there will probably be an abundance of wood where we camp we wont freeze If the country looks at all well we will prospect some and if we go far enough up will certainly look for game I am to say that I have not had a bath since I left Seattle and once or twice I have missed washing at all during the day To take a bath one would run the risk of arrest on the charge of attempted suicide We work hard and eat and sleep I am in excellent health and would per fectly happy if they would only feed us well Notwithstanding our hard ships we are a happy cosmopolitan physicians lawyers merchants experienced miners clerks a preacher artists capitalists architects in fact representatives of all trades and pro fessions There are also several wo men with us Iamafraid they will suffer this winter and will certainly be a care Ho the men but withal we are glad to have them along The ma jority of them are refined ladylike and brave little women who are not afraid to face the hardships of Alaska with their husbands SITUATION AT About Dawson City I have talked with several returning minds and they all tell the same story They say there is any amount of gold in the Klondike country that help is scarce at per day for ordinary labor and for mechanics or car penters but that provisions are going to he scarce in Dawson City and vicinity this winter Most of those returning as I have it personalty from their own lips are doing so on account of this threatened scarcity As one of them put it Well to be honest with you I am only going home on account of grub There are going to be a lot of hungry people in there this winter and you fellows will bo lucky if you dont get that far because they will take your grub away from you but pay you ruling prices they wont steal it While all this may be true about Dawson you must not forget the hundreds of poor beggars who are many miles from there prospecting in a half starved and frozen condition in per cent of tho cases not find ing wages and some of them not even anything at all There is bound to ho a great deal of hardship and privation before the first boat gets in in spring Practically none of them coming in over the passes have grub with them and as many of going in by the river from St Michaels have barely enough to hist them until spring yon can imagine what situation will bo like Unless other rice diggings develop this winter the will bo overcrowded summer and many a man will bo dead broke in country whore it coats to LOO Continued