J M K
T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N . OREGON , T H U R SD A Y , OCTOBER 27
F a r A w ay A lask a.
just up from there th a t people are
(lying of fever at the rate of nine
E ditor I orch of R eason :
per day. There seems to he very
I listened to a sky-pilot spouting Uttl© gickess here now.
It is rain-
on the street last night and it re- jDg here most of the time,
minded me of my religion, so I
O fficer .
write to you to have my paper sent
Skagway, Oct. IS.
to Skagway.
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I have been in the Atlin country ¿ ome T hings W o rth R em em ber-
and I find it very satisfactory in-
¡n g e
deed. My brother and I have each
located a creek claim and a bench
Remember to judge people by
claim on Pine creek. We did about w hat they do, not by their senti-
two weeks’ sluicingon one oi them , m ents—especially yourself,
then had to quit work on account
Rem em ber th a t you m ay have
o f the freezing w eather. We will your best friends am ong those who
return to the mines again in March, disagree with you.
There is quite a large scope of
Remember th at happiness, when
country in the Atlin d istrict which it comes at all, usually comes to
prospects fairly well so far as the those who do not go in search of it.
prospectors were able to find out in
Remember th a t there is nothing
th e short time allotted to them this noble in being superior to some
fall.
Pine creek will no doubt other m an. The true nobility is in
prove to be the best creek located so being superior to your previous
far in this district, although Spruce self.
creek comes in for a share of the
Remember th a t in the struggle
praise, while W right’s creek is of life it is alw ays possible to I urn
claim ed by some to be the best, one kind of defeat into an o th er
Some of the sm aller creeks m av he kind of victory. T ry it and see.
good, hut they are sm all. There is
Rem em ber th a t having fine sen­
also quite a scope of country near tim ents is a poor substitute for be­
the tam p not yet prospected, on ac­ ing a m an. Thoughts are gifts; but
count of the parties having to c a r­ your life and your acts speak for
ry their provisions, bedding, tools, you.
etc., on their backs, so were not
Remember th a t the true way to
able to go very far from camp, on conquer prejudice is to live it down.
account of the weight of their packs Do not talk about it with others;
in case they took more than two do not talk about it to yourself.
weeks’ provisions. But it wdll he
Rem em ber th a t to give up the
different next year.
The A tlin struggle when it is in {»art over,
country is one of the best grass because you cannot get the chance
countries I have ever seen, and it you w ant, m ay show th a t you de­
will he easy to keep horses to do serve no chance at all. Take w hat
the packing instead of men.
chance you can get and fight it
Discovery on Pine creek is about through.
200 miles from this place, via Ben­
Remember th at prejudice hurts
net, and W hite Pass. T he W hite the one who cherishes it much more
Pass and Yukon railroad is built th a r the one against whom it is
out fr<»m here about twelve miles aimed.
and trains make three trips each
Rem em ber th a t it is brave to be
day from here. From there every­ in the m inority. T h a t is where the
thing taken in has to he {lacked on strong usually are.
W eak natures
horses and mules as far as Lake like to hide behind a m ajority.
B ennett, where it is loaded into
rowboats, steam boats, or scows, as
Club Rales.
one chooses, and taken to Dawson;
The W eekly Oregonian is the
or if you are going to A tlin you {»ay
three cents freight from B ennett to best newspaper published in the
the steam boat landing at the upper Pacific Northwest. The subscrip­
end ol’Takn Arm, where it is u n ­ tion {»rice is SI.50 per year. We
loaded and {»acked or hauled over will give it, together with the Torch
the portage, to Lake A tlin, a dis- of Reason, for the exceedingly low
tance of two miles, which costs you price of $1.75.
You w ill get two
two cent.«* per pound.
It is then papers for a little more th an th e
boated across the lake to A tlin {»rice of one.
C ity, a distance of seven miles, and
from there to the mines on Pine
Secularists would you not like to
•creek, about seven miles, you have have some letterheads printed with
to {»ay six cents freight.
\\ hat Secular sentim ent and W ettstein’s
they charge for ferrying across At- Freethouglit badge. to use in corre-
iin lake I did not learn, but from jgpondence with your fr ie n d s? We
here to Bennett it will cost you ten wj|{ furnish them to you with
cents, m aking about tw enty cents your nam e and address printed on
for every pound of freight taken in them for 75 cents per hundred,
J here now.
$1.50 for 250, or $2.50 for 500, post
Men ate coming out from Daw- pai(|. Let the people know where
son by the steamboat load every vo„ stand,
day, and Dawt-on is getting the
olaek e}C in good shape. I have
Woodworkers, don’t forget to send an
>een quite a number of sick from order for a set of the Forstner Auger
Dawson, and have 1 een told bj men Bits. Pi ice. $2.60 by m ail. See ad.
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