Lumber was selling for two hundred dollars per thousand feet in Dawson, and early in the spring Burt McHugh, contracted with the Yukon Trading Company, to cut a million feet of its timber in the upper Yukon. The logs were to be lashed into huge rafts, and floated down the river to Jim Clark's sawmill, which had been leased by the company. A bonus of ten thousand dollars was to be paid if the work was completed before August, but Burt didn't account for an enemy...