Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — Queer Lake Salawi[?]. [ARTICLE]

Queer Lake Salawi[?].

The rich placers of Klondike are not the only curiosity of the country traversed by the Yukon. Not far from Dawson there Is In a really extraordinary lake, which was named Salawik by Its discoverer, the Rev. P. Toad, a missionary among the savages, says the Lewiston (Me.) Republic. This lake, which is ninety miles long and about fifteen mill's wide, is perhaps the only one in all that extreme northern region which does not freeze over during the winter. No communication ihas been discovered between It nod the sea; nevertheless, at high water upon the consts of the northern ocean, the level of the lake rises and it falls again at low tide. This sympathy with the sea does not extend to the point of making Salawik a salt lake; on the contrary, its waters are good to drink. But another of Its peculiarities is that the temperature risen in winter and falls In summer. When all the water courses of the neighboring country are completely frozen over Lake Salawik becomes so warm that it is really pleasant to bathe iu it. On the other hand, in the summer time the water Is extremely cold. This peculiarity makes it in the winter time a Mecca of fishermen. The abundance of fish in the lake Is so great that a person can almost catch them with the hand and can kill lurge quantities with a dub. Here for the miners Is a source of fowl supply which certainly will contribute to diminish the coat of living In that Inhospitable region. In an hour a man can get enough fish to supply himself for a month, and of the very best quality, Including salmon, ranging from twenty to fifty pounds in weight. It will not be astonishing If some fine day we mily see upon the shores of Lake Slavvlk one of those fashionable hotels which are the glory of American watering places.