150 TNTKODrCTION oK DOMESTIC KKINDEKK INTO ALASKA. 



will 1)0 here ajjfaiii next suimiior. and ho will then pay you porsonally 

 for the expense of earryiny from Andreafski to Nulato. This should 

 be one round trip once a month. You could have one or two Laps 

 stationed at either end of the route, and they eould me(;t half way and 

 exchange the mail; thereby each side would only have a])out 200 miles 

 to travel, and it would be a monthly service. F hope to «ee you in 

 November sometime, and shall try to come over then. The mail should 

 commence OctobiM" 1. 1898. 

 Yours, yvvv ti'ulv. 



li. T. Lync. 

 Wm. a. K.tellmann, 



Itxihill !l\ Ahlshl. 



Eaton, Alaska, Oetciher 3, 1898. 



Dear Sik: Inclosed please find all \()uch(n's and other paper that 

 you left, all signed. 



I also inclose a copy of a letter from F. C. Richardson, dated July 

 26, which I wrote about last time, but think I forgot to send you the 

 copv. Furthermore. I inclose )\ copies of letters from F. C. Richard- 

 son, dated St. Michael. September 'I-i. All this will explain itself, and 

 what I have to say a])Out it is that I have written Mr. Richardson 

 to-day preparing him to stand the expenditures in making arrange- 

 ment in accordance with his letter of July 26. It has not been decided 

 yet whether Lapps will be sent or not. as I will wait until the pai'ties 

 who bring this mail to St. ^lichael return, and see if any new instruc- 

 tions arrive from you or other arrangement has ))een made. The 

 Lapps will. hoAvever. not be sent until I am satisfied that Mr. Richard- 

 son has sufficient provision up the river, so we don't have to feed the 

 people up there at heavy expense l)esides paying their salaries. Mr. 

 Dahl says he can not undertake to bring the party up to Weare or 

 Rampail without funds or other subsistence, and wrote Richardson 

 accordingh'. Inclosed also find an acceptance of terms from the Cath- 

 olic ^lission at Nulato. and lOO head of deer will be sent there in the 

 fall. I have also, aftei- further consideration, decided to bring Rev. 

 Frevost's herd from (loloviii Bay and send it as far as Nulato, together 

 with the Catholic's h(>rd. and notify Mr. H<Midricks to such effect. 



Rumors say that the hacon has arrived at St. Micliiiel, and some of 

 it will be brought here with the whalehoat this time. If the Lapps are 

 not sent to Weare, T will us(> them in some work or another that will 

 he an income and of value to the station: or if none other way is seen, 

 1 will send away all those whom we do not need. We will need some 

 little things from St. Michael, which I will exchange for goods which 

 ■ve have pliMity of. The herd is doing well; we have only one case of 

 hoof-rot. and the deer has been brought to the station for treatment. 



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