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Life Jn The Far North
Mr. E. W. Wyant recently re
turned from a trip to San Fran
cisco and started from Pair bunk
on a long mush to his trading
post on Bailie Island, off Cape
I Bathhurst, on the Arctic coast.
(72 N. Lat. and 128 West from
Greenwich)
The following interesting item
I taken from the Anchorage Week
ly Alaskan, give one an idea of
life in that region:
The principal catch is white fox
of which 20,000 weie caught last
year, the Hudson Bay Company
catching 12,000. There are ten
white people in the district, and
last year the Northwest Mounted
i Police established a post of cor
! poral and private on Bailie Island
Between posts on Hudson Bay
and Bailie Island there is only a
! bout a 200 mile gap and addition
i all post swill propably be establish
ed in the spring.
Winds of unusual vigor blow
• frequently; one gale last winter
j con ti n ued fo r t wenty clay s with
! the mercury at 55 below. Noons
i ventured out needlessly; those
who did wore two suits of deer
skins, one with fur out and the
other with fur in, and feet bund
led up in mieklucks.
Prices of commodities were:
Flour, $16.00 per hundred; bacon
I $1.25 a pound and other goods in
j proportion.Coal from Vancouver
; sold two years ago at $260 per
; ton, but last year whaling vessels
; from San Francisco sold the sa
me product at $80.00 per ton.
Licenses for trappers are re
gulated as follows: Alien, first five
years, $150.00 per year; $75.00 per
year as trapper, $150.00 as trader
British born, $75.00 per year as
trapper, $150.00 as trader; Cana
dian born, $2.00 per year as trap
per, $5.00 per year as trader.
Two years residence is required
before lower rates apply.
Mr. Wyant stated that weath
er and ice conditions should be i
deal for the proposed flight to
the north pole next summer.