The Anthony Weekly Bulletin Harper County Friday April 22, 1898 From Harry Whitney. Sheep's Camp, Alaska, April 3, 1898. Dear Friend:--We have been here in camp since the 18th of last month, and have been able to move most of our goods as far up as the scales, which are within about two thousand feet of the summit. We have been compelled to pack them on our backs all the way, except about a mile and one-half, and that distance we were able to draw them on hand sleds, taking about one pounds to the load. In six more days we would have been able to put them over pass and then the trip to Lake Linderman would have been comparatively easy, but yesterday it commenced to snow and it has been at it every since and at the scales from seven to ten feet of it has fallen on the level. This would not have made much difference if it had been dry, but it is wet and heavy, and heavy slides can be heard up the canon every few minutes, and there is great danger of our outfit being swept away. This morning about eleven there was a heavy slide just above the store house and a large party of men covered up. We have been all day digging them out and have so far found 17 dead and an equal number injured; it is believed that there are from seventy-five to one hundred buried under this one slide. In going up ! I saw several smaller slides, it is not known how many have lost their lives in these and it is possible that there are none, but hundreds of tons of provisions have been buried under the snow and so deep that they will never be found. Dick and I have been healthly since we came. There have been several deaths here, in fact, they are of daily occurrence, but it is nothing unusual when one considers the exposure and work which the boys are compelled to stand. One hears very little news here from the gold fields, but occasionally we hear a little and it still looks all right; at any rate we intend to see the white elephant if we can get provisions enough to let us by the customs officers. I have not heard from you yet. Write me at Sheep's Camp, Alaska, and I will have it sent on over to Bennett if I move before I get it.