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mal was a joke—a mere bundle of fur and bones. 
But onto his sled was loaded a bag of flour, a 
forty pound package of mail, a bundle of fur, 
the kettles, and the lad’s own blankets. The flour 
alone was a hundred weight—the recognized 
weight for a good sleighdog in fit condition. 
Without a sign of protest Tommy stepped astride 
of the long dog trace, settled the tumpline of the 
sled about his forehead and hiked off along the 
unbroken trail. Seven days later he was the first 
of the four to enter Cochrane. 
On their flying return to Moose they found a 
dog team at the post from Albany, a hundred 
miles up the coast. The driver was down with 
the mumps—a common complaint in the district— 
and unable to return to his post alone. Tommy 
Bluefeather was but one day home when he was 
despatched to accompany the sick man back to 
Albany. He did it and immediately returned— 
alone, on foot, without a single dog, hauling his 
own sled behind him. This would seem to the 
uninitiated quite enough, but the lad had still 
some reserve left and the company had yet some 
use for it. He was ordered off at once again on 
the Albany trail, but only halfway this time, as 
far as No Mans Land, to meet another packet, 
and he traveled alone as before. On his return 
again to Moose he was told his tripping for the 
season was over. 
“We gave him two days’ rest,” said Monsieur 
Cain, the district manager. “He deserved it, 
then he went back to his regular work about 
the post-” 
How many white men in the prime of their 
strength can exhibit the staying powers of the 
Indian ? 
In every winter’s harvesting of the wealth of 
the Northland the company’s trippers are called 
upon to perform such tasks as these. It is the 
daily routine of their life, the legacy fallen to 
them from copper-skinned forefathers who first 
bartered “skin for skin” with the white traders 
from the south. 
KILLS 42 BEARS IN THREE YEARS. 
Morton, Wash., Nov. 15.—N. Truman of 
Nesika came to town to ship two cub bears to 
West Virginia with his father-in-law, Mr. Hard¬ 
man, who has been visiting him. 
The day before Mr. Truman killed his forty- 
second bear in three years, and in doing so had 
one royal fight. Four of his six dogs which were 
turned loose after the bear were badly cut up, 
and one belonging to L. F. Adkins, whose crab- 
apple orchard was furnishing a feast for Mr. 
Bruin, will likely have to be shot. 
The bear weighed 350 pounds and was shot 
fifteen times before he was killed. Mr. Truman 
has also killed twenty-three wild cats, one cougar 
and has captured three bears alive during the last 
three years. - 
New York is the leading eastern state in the 
production of veneers. They were formerly made 
principally of such valuable woods as mahogany, 
walnut, rosewood, cherry, satinwood. Now our 
principal veneers are made of red gum, yellow 
pine, maple, yellow poplar and cottonwood. 
Veneers are thin slices of wood over a cheap 
backing or “core.” They are made in three differ¬ 
ent ways; by sawing, by slicing and by a rotary 
cut process. The best are made by the sawing 
process. The old prejudice against veneered 
furniture is passing, because it is often stronger 
and more durable than solid furniture. 
REPORT ON YUKON RIVER. 
Flow Ranges from 10,000 to 254,000 Cubic 
Feet of Water a Second. 
The Yukon River in Alaska is one of the 
great rivers of the North American continent- 
A brief report on the discharge of Yukon River 
at Eagle, Alaska, by E. A. Porter and R. W. 
Davenport, has just been issued by the United 
States Geological Survey. Probably few people 
have an adequate conception of the size of this 
river and characteristics of its flow. A. H. 
Brooks, of the Geological Survey, gives the 
Yukon fifth place among the large rivers in 
North America and estimates its drainage area 
at about 330,000 square miles. Its length, in¬ 
cluding the Lewes and Teslin rivers, is given 
in the report as 3,200 miles. This may be com¬ 
pared with '6,000 miles for the Mississippi and 
Missouri, 2,868 miles for the Mackenzie, 2,000 
for the Colorado combined with Green River, 
and 1.300 for the Ohio combined with the 
Allegheny. 
The discharge of the Yukon varies from a 
maximum of 254,000 to a minimum of 10,100 
cubic feet a second, or an estimated average flow 
of 73,200 cubic feet. This is a relatively small 
discharge, the average flow of the Mississippi 
being 695,000, that of the Ohio 300,000, and that 
of the Colorado 23,300 second-feet. The Nile, 
with a drainage area of 1,262,000 square miles, 
has an average flow of 116,000 cubic feet a sec¬ 
ond. The flow of the Yukon is therefore rela¬ 
tively small as related to its drainage area, and 
this apparent anomaly is accounted for by the 
fact that the interior of Alaska has the small 
rainfall “characteristic of that portion of the 
United States which lies between the Sierra 
Nevada and the Rocky Mountains, north of the 
latitude of Salt Lake City.” 
Navigation on the Yukon has so important a 
