Livestock for the Klondike Gold Rush
As miners flood the Yukon, entrepreneurs are shipping live cattle and sheep north to feed the boomtowns.
At Vancouver, B. C., a party have chartered the steamer Capilano, and intend to ship 75 to 100 oxen to the Klondike, where beef fetches fabulous prices. The steamer Al-Ki carried 600 head of sheep to Alaska when she sailed Sunday. The sheep will be taken to the Yukon, where they will be killed and sold to the miners.
“The sheep will be taken to the Yukon, where they will be killed and sold to the miners.”
The Klondike Gold Rush created an insatiable demand for supplies, turning Pacific Northwest ports into critical logistics hubs. This story captures the extreme lengths to which merchants went to capitalize on the remote, high-stakes market of the North.
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