238 GRAVEL AND PLACER MINING IN ALASKA. [bull. 263. 
Table 24. — Packing rates per 100 pounds from Circle to various points. 
Summer. 
Dead wood Creek 
Eagle Creek 
Fairbanks Ci eek 
Fairbanks 
Fort Gibbon to Cleary Creek. 
Distance. 
Winter. 
Miles. 
60 
$3.00 
80 
6.00 
135 
15.00 
150 
35. 00 
60.00 
$25. 00 
30.00 
75.00 
100.00 
Packing rates at Fairbanks. — These summer rates are continually 
being reduced as the trails are improved, but the following may be 
regarded as those that will obtain in 1905: 
Table 25. — Packing rates per 100 pounds from Fairbanks to various points. 
Summer. 
Pedro Creek 
Chatham Creek 
Cleary Creek 
Upper Fairbanks Creek 
Lower Fairbanks Creek 
Distance. 
Winter. 
Miles. 
15 
$2.00 
20 
2.50 
22 
2.50 
23 
3.00 
25 
3.00 
$10. 00 
10.00 
15.00 
20.00 
25.00 
In the summer of 1904 six-horse teams were engaged in hauling loads 
not exceeding 1^ tons from Fairbanks to the creeks. The conditions 
under which this hauling was done may be seen from PI. XL. 
The nearest American supply point to the creeks of the Fortymile 
region is Eagle, but this town, on account of its remoteness and the 
absence of good roads, is at present of only subordinate importance 
to the miners. Dawson, although in Canadian territory, is a more 
convenient place to procure supplies. These are bought generally in 
the fall and freighted to the creeks on sleds with dogs or horses during 
the winter, either by way of Sixtymile Creek or Fortymile Creek. In 
the summer freight is carried by pack train from Eagle or by boats 
from the Yukon up Fortymile Creek. The winter rates from Eagle 
in 1903 averaged about $5 per 100 pounds; the summer rates about $25. 
Freighting to the new placer district of the Porcupine is done by 
wagon haul across Chilkat River to Portage Point, thence to Kluk- 
wan in canoes, which are poled upstream, sometimes under great diffi- 
culties. From Klukwan the supplies are hauled up the Klehini, 15 
miles, to the town of Porcupine. The rate from Haines Mission to : 
Porcupine is $3.50 per 100 pounds, and to Pleasant Camp, 6 miles 
beyond Porcupine, it is $5 per 100 pounds. 
