Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1898 — FRESH BEEF FOR THE KLONDIKE. [ARTICLE]

FRESH BEEF FOR THE KLONDIKE.

Two Thousand Steers Will Go Over the Dalton Trull in Jane. Two thousand beef steers nre being gathered in Montana for shipment to Dawson in June over the Dalton trail. They will comprise two expeditions in which fully $300,000 will be invested. A Tacoma dispatch says: 0. Wi,Thebo,, backed by Butte (Mont.) men, has shipped 1,300 steers to pastures here, where they will be fattened until May 20. Jack Dalton is arranging to drive 700 more steers over the same trail. Each hundred steers will be in charge of six cowboys, eacli cowboy being provided with pack and saddle horse, the two expeditions employing 120 cowboys and 240 horses. Thebo has chartered the big barge Skookum to carry 900 steers and 3,000 tons of freight to Pyramid Harbor, landing there iu June. The balance of his band will be shipped from Vancouver on a barge now building. The steers will be driven by easy stages to Fort Selkirk, whence they vFill be rafted to Dawson, arriving in July. His cattle will cost $130,000 landed at Pyramid Harbor, the feed, equipment and wages bringing the cost of the expedition to $200,000. The Daltons expect to receive 25 cents per pound live weight on the Klondike, which should make their receipts over SBOO,OOO, leaving $500,000 profit. Men have been sent to wntch the Dalton trail, the.indications being that it will oixAi early.