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R. L. H. larshall
The Chisana Trail
Sourdough Hill — Wo','I lever forget —
Known as the chechako’s s iddest regret,
Nothing but muck and gl to er bog,
A trail hardly fit for a in demut* dog.
The chechako had come by bo it and by rai 1
Till he hit the junction of the Chisana trail.
Many got stranded, big comp mies disbanded
All lured by the glittering gill,
To try out their luck in the frozen muck
As in the days of old
There were many old-timer who stampeded too,
Hut you beu your life they II got through.
Nothing would sto ^ then bn, ihe old North Pole,—
And they’d stake that if it contained gold.
Some got as far as Shorty Gwinn’s
Some to Chittistone Pass;
Some to Boggses Roadhouse
And a few got through at last.
Many good scouts Aere there—both chechako & sourdough
And grub was a dollar and a quarter a pound
and candles a dollar a throw -- one -*
Eggs three dollars a dozen and Irozen as hard as rocks,
To get eggs for our flapjacks we had to dig down in our sox.
But Breedman and Morris and the Bryson boys,
Dan, Simons and Harvey and Hurd
Had floated in grub enough
To feed the stampede birds
There was a roaring good crowd got together then
..fid tried to make a show
Bill James had opened up a creek
That set the world a glow
There were Hoffman and Finnegan and Steve McLeod
Dan Campbell and Brownie and old Tom Dodd,
Bill Devine, Joe Morris and also Blanche*
1g seemed that everyone took a chance.
Bill Houston and wife, the McAllisters,
Eich had staked a claim,
Grant Ueid, Ned Hill and Terry too, had all joined in the game
Carl Whitham, Bill James, Shorty Briggen too,
H id all got pay that pulled them through.
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McCarthy
The Buckle of the Copper Belt, one of the coming
cities of Alaska, situated on the Copper River and
Northwestern Railroad, 191 miles inland from Cord
ova, between Kennecott and McCarthy Creeks.
The junction for Chisana, Nizina, Dan. ( hititu and
Young Creeks head of Chitina and Chittistone.
A RTIU BROTHERHOOD
CAMP 32
Meets every Monday evening
at A. B. Hall. Visiting members
cordially invited to attend these
meetings.
EFFECTIVE APRIL 1st,
initiation lee $10.
Monthly Dues 50 cents.
J. W. Nickell A. C.
<J F. -Vi. Cole, Secy.
F. H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY
Notary Public Real Estate
Transactions of all Kinds
legally arranged.
Cordova, Alaska
McCarthy,
Alaska
But a lot of us who mushed that trail
and listened at night to the malemute’s wail
Enjoyed that trip to our hearts content
Even though our time was illy spent
I’d love to meet the old crowd once moi e
out in front of my trail tent door
With a pot of beans and a big sheep stew
Or a mulligan of ptarmigan or caribou -
And after the feast was cleared away
Listen to the tales ol Bill McKay • ‘It’s great’*
“Silvertip*4 - U P.
tCennecott, Alaska.