RECREATION. 



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 celerity of movement. The club is " a beautiful piece of work," aluminum, nickel and 

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THE KALLITHENOS CO. 



73 EAGLE STREET 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Kindly refer to Recreation 



ALL-AMERICA ROAD TO THE 

 KLONDIKE. 



Captain W. R. Abercrombie, U. S. A., 

 whp in the spring of 1898 was appointed 

 the head of an expedition to explore and 

 report on all routes from the Pacific coast 

 to the interior of Alaska, has returned to 

 this city after an absence of nearly 2 years. 

 He has laid out a new and much shorter 

 route to the Yukon Valley gold fields than 

 has heretofore been made. It will obviate 

 the necessity of crossing Canadian terri- 

 tory. 



Captain Abercrombie employed a force 

 of 400 miners in laying out a new military 

 road from Port Valdez to Eagle City, on 

 the Yukon river, a distance of 200 miles. 

 The old route from Dyea, through the 

 "hilcoot pass, to Lake Bennett, thence up 

 the Yukon to Dawson, covers 575 miles. 

 A route which was contemplated but was 

 given up as impracticable was from St. 

 Michael up the Yukon to Dawson, a dis- 

 tance of 2,100 miles. 



"The route I have finally decided on," 

 said Captain Abercrombie, "and the one on 

 which I have done considerable work, is by 

 steamer to Port Valdez, thence by the new 

 trans-Alaskan military road to Eagle City, 

 or Fort Egbert, as it is called, on the 

 Yukon river. Fort Egbert is only about 

 70 miles from Dawson, and the entire dis- 

 tance by this route from Port Valdez to 

 Dawson is only 270 miles. The country 



through which the road is cut is of a fairly 

 even grade, the rise being only 2,600 feet 

 in 30 miles. 



"This route is entirely free from glaciers, 

 and is well timbered the entire distance. 

 There is good grazing for cattle and for 

 horses or mules. This route opens up the 

 heart of Alaska and permits the American 

 people to travel over their own domain 

 without coming in conflict with the offi- 

 cers of a foreign nation. It shortens the 

 route by about 200 miles. The snow on the 

 coast is heavy, but it is Hght in the in- 

 terior. There is good timber, and the 

 grade is much less than by any other route. 



"During the coming year numerous en- 

 terprises will be embarked in Alaska, and 

 especially in the Yukon country. The 

 country to be opened to settlement is fully 

 twice as large as the New England States, 

 and will support thousands of persons. The 

 water is good, the soil fertile, game abun- 

 dant, except on the Copper river, and all 

 hardy grains, such as are raised in Siberia, 

 may be raised along the line of this all- 

 American trail. In packing grains for the 

 use of the pack animals some were scat- 

 tered along the trail last year, and this year 

 we had a voluntary crop of matured oats. 

 We also had potatoes 3 inches in diameter 

 and 5 inches long. In my experimental 

 garden at Valdez I raised peas, carrots, 

 turnips, lettuce, radishes and other gard:n 

 stuff." 



