Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . five hundred poundseach on a sled. During the latter part of the journey their supply of provisionsbecame exhausted and they lived on decayed vegetables and lynx meat, shootinglynx from time to time as needed. From the time Mr. Falkenberg left Chicagountil his return, a period of four years and six weeks, he kept a daily record ofhis journey. He left Dawson for Rampart City on the Yukon in company witha manufacturing jeweler from Dawson and they engaged in the jewelry businessin Rampart.
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Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . five hundred poundseach on a sled. During the latter part of the journey their supply of provisionsbecame exhausted and they lived on decayed vegetables and lynx meat, shootinglynx from time to time as needed. From the time Mr. Falkenberg left Chicagountil his return, a period of four years and six weeks, he kept a daily record ofhis journey. He left Dawson for Rampart City on the Yukon in company witha manufacturing jeweler from Dawson and they engaged in the jewelry businessin Rampart. In 1900 they followed the rush to Nome and were engaged in thejewelry business at St. Michael. In November, 1901, Mr. Falkenberg returnedto Chicago for a visit, but in the spring of 1902 he again went to St. Michael, where he reopened his store. In the fall of that year he returned to RampartCity, where he conducted a jewelry business until 1905, when he again made hisway to Chicago. He was not satisfied with life in that section of the coun- o oc;z H w o H O>^ m td .^c • 5; ^ I- a§ 8 o 2^ S o Q. OLD WALLA WALLA COUNTY 647 try, however, after having been for so long a period in the west with its bound-less opportunities and spirit of undaunted enterprise, so after two weeksspent in the Illinois metropolis he again turned his face toward the west. Hearrived in Walla Walla on the loth of October and after deciding to remainhere opened a jewelry house at the corner of Fourth and Main streets, on whatis known as the Dacres Hotel comer. Ten months later he removed to No. 42East Main street, his present location. Here he has built up an extensive busi-ness and he has one of the most attractive and modern jewelry houses of thestate. He carries a large and well selected line of goods of domestic and foreignmanufacture, and, in fact, everything to be found in the jewelry trade can behad in this establishment. Practically his entire life has been devoted to this lineof business, wit