Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — Driving Turkeys to Dawson. [ARTICLE]

Driving Turkeys to Dawson.

When the steamship Elder tied up at Juneau from Portland she ha£ aboard 1,000 dozen of frozen eggs and Some dead and some live turkeys, which their owner expects to rush through to Dawson in time for Thanksgiving. The live turkeys, he says, he Intended to drive in over the Chilkoot pass and. Dawson trail. When old Dave Thompson, a prospector of three seasons’ experience in Yukon country, who came out of Dawson up the river, heard about this, he began to laugK Half an hour later Mr. Thompson waa still laughing, black in the face, pounding a table, and saying to himself: “Gee whiz, but this beats me.” He says that the cold in the interior ia so intense in November that it burns the skin off the face, and that the turkey* will be frozen on the walk.—San Francisco Call. r