| Tagish Lake
We have on board ten cords of wood, weighing 25,000 pounds; also about 5,000 feet of extra lumber; ten horses weighing 11,000 pounds...hay for ten horses; our heavy sawmill machinery, sleds and all provisions. Besides this we have six boats lashed to our sides, one of them a scow, so you see we are badly handicapped for speed.
—letter from E. G. Abbott to his family, from boat Iowa at Tagish Lake, 10 June 1898; reprinted in Alton (Iowa) Democrat; from John Clark Hunt, ed. "The Adventures of the Iowa Goldseekers," Alaska Journal 3 (Winter 1973), 2-11.
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