June 27, 1895 – “The North American Transportation and Trading company, doing business on the Yukon River and the northwest coast of Alaska, will sail two ocean steamers from San Francisco on May 25, 1895, and July 1, 1895.

The steamers will touch at Seattle May 30 and July 5, Victoria, B. C., June 2 and July 7, Onalaska June 15 and July 20, St. Michael’s Island June 20 and July 25, Kotzube Sound June 30 and Aug. 6.

Miners and others en route to the gold fields will be transferred at St. Michael’s Island to the company’s steamer ‘P.B. Weare,’ which will land passengers and freight at all points on the Yukon River below Fort Cudahy, viz: Russian Mission, Catholic Mission, Anvik, Nulato, Fort Adams, Minuke and Hunter Creek mines, Fort Yukon, Mouth of Porcupine river, Circle City and Birch Creek gold fields, Fort Cudahy, headquarters of the Forty Mile gold miners.

Tourists wishing to visit the great Yukon River will be returned to St. Michael’s Island in time to connect with the company’s second steamer, July 25.

Round trip tickets will be sold from San Francisco and Seattle. Tourists will have an opportunity of visiting the Arctic Seas, Bering Strait, Diomede Islands, Seal Islands, Siberian Coast, St. Lawrence, at St. Matthew Islands, in the Bering Sea, the volcanoes of the Aleutian Islands and the Alaska Peninsula.

This is the first opportunity offered tourists to visit the great Northwest, better known as ‘The Land of the Midnight Sun.’

For rates of passage and freight address: J.J. HEALY;

Manager, North American Transportation and Trading company, Room 220, Continental National Bank Building, Chicago, Ill.”

(The Helena Weekly Independent – Helena, Montana)