"'The man who goes in this winter over the Chilkat and Chilkoot Passes, or the man who goes in this summer by this steamboat route, should take in two years' grub. I understand that steamboat companies will not carry grub or merchandise for any man, and that they are making a flat passenger rate of $150 for any port from Seattle to Dawson. This means that they will get several thousand people in there this season, and if they do not get enough grub in, grub will be high. Not less than 1,000 newcomers came over this spring and how many will come by boat we can only conjecture.'" COST OF LIVING IN DAWSON. THE ONLY CHEAP THING IS ICE AND FRESH AIR. Laborers, it is asserted, are paid as high as $15 a day, but the advice is given that no man can afford to go to the new camp without from $500 to $1,000 with which to support himself and insure the possibility of returning in case of adversity. Living, of course, comes high. The region produces little or no fruit or vegetables. The meat of the caribou and the moose is sometimes scarce, and there are seasons when no salmon can be obtained. Here is a list of prices that prevailed in Dawson City when the miners started away: Flour, per 100 lbs $12.00 Moose ham, per lb 1.00 Caribou meat, per lb 65 Beans, per lb 10 Rice, per lb 25 Sugar, per lb 25 Bacon, per lb 40 Butter, per roll 1.50 Eggs, per doz 1.50 Better eggs, per doz 2.00 Salmon, each $1.00 to 1.50 Potatoes, per lb 25 Turnips, per lb 15 Tea, per lb 1.00 Coffee, per lb 50 Dried fruits, per lb 35 Canned fruits 50 Lemons, each 20 Oranges, each 50 Tobacco, per lb 1.50 Liquors, per drink 50 Shovels 2.50 Picks 5.00 Coal oil, per gal 1.00 Overalls 1.50 Underwear, per suit $5.00 to 7.50 Shoes 5.00 Rubber boots $10 to 15.00 Based on supply and demand the above quoted prices may vary several hundred per cent. on some articles at any time. THE CLIMATE AND THE MOSQUITOES. SHORT SUMMER--HEAT AND COLD CONTRASTS. There is a short, hot Summer of less than four months, with practically no Spring or Autumn. The ice begins to break up in the rivers about May 25, and navigation commences on the Yukon about the first week in June. It begins to get very cool by the latter part of September, and is almost Winter weather by the 1st of October. The winter is very cold and dry, with not more than three feet of snow. There is only about three inches of rainfall during the winter and not more than a foot or ten inches the whole year around.