IN THE ALASKA- YUKON GAMELANDS 



pound, or ^70 for the lot, while ^^ pounds of 

 bacon cost 70 cents a pound (they usually add 

 about 25 cents a pound for freighting). These 

 prices did not seem exorbitant when we were in- 

 formed that ore costs $1,100 a carload for ship- 

 ping charges alone from Kennecott to Cordova, 

 196 miles. 



We got started for the Kletsan about 10 

 o'clock, following down the White for eighteen 

 miles. Signs of moose and bear were seen all 

 along the trail, and on this account Harry, Cap 

 and I headed the procession, expecting to jump 

 game at any time. By far the most of the bear 

 tracks seen during the day were grizzly — some 

 of them large, about 7 or j^ in. across front paw. 

 When at 5 o'clock we unpacked at the first per- 

 manent camp of our trip — the Kletsan, eleva- 

 tion 3,000 ft. — we counted thirty- two sheep 

 (ovis dalli — there are no other species in this 

 country) on the famous old sheep mountain 

 across the White River from our camp, about 

 five miles away (elevation about 7,000 ft.). 

 This eminence we later named Mount Figgins, 

 in honor of the director of our museum, J. D. 

 Figgins. (I have applied to Washington to have 

 it officially named and the one at Skolai Lake 

 called James Peak, in honor of Harry C. James, 

 my co-worker and companion on this trip.) 



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