MEAT-HUNTERS. 307 



During the winter of 1903-04 fifteen hundred 

 caribou were killed by meat-hunters during the 

 autumn migration across the upper waters of 

 the Klondyke River and their frozen carcases 

 brought on sledges for one hundred and eighty 

 miles to Dawson City. 



In the autumn of 1904, too, there were men 

 hunting moose near the forks of the Macmillan, 

 the meat of which they intended to carry down 

 to Dawson, on rafts, a distance of four hundred 

 miles. They told me they could get thirty cents 

 a pound for moose meat in Dawson, so that each 

 moose shot would probably be worth to them, on 

 an average from twenty pounds to twenty-five 

 pounds. 



In the late autumn of 1904 a large band of 

 caribou on migration southwards crossed the 

 Yukon, a long way below Dawson City, and 

 struck the newly-erected telegraph line leading 

 to the town of Fairbanks, which at that time 

 consisted of a number of log cabins, scattered 

 over a valley in which good gold prospects had 

 only recently been discovered. 



Instead of crossing the line of telegraph jjoles 



