Andrew Marmstrom
	
Andrew Marmstrom was a freighter on the river trail to Dawson in 1901. He left Whitehorse on February 2nd with four sleighs loaded with forty cases of eggs, each sleigh pulled by a single horse. The trail was in bad condition with many snow drifts.  The worst places on the trail were between the cut-off and Twelve Mile River and on Lake Laberge. At Lake Laberge a big team of greys was unable to reach the roadhouse, a half mile away, and abandoned the load. The driver and horses found shelter at the roadhouse and a team from the Canadian Development Company (C.D. Co.) went out and brought the load into the roadhouse. Mr. Marmstrom saw three dead horses on the trail and reported that every roadhouse had horses that had been unhitched from their abandoned loads. In many cases the loads were rescued by the C.D. Co. teams. Marmstrom sold his excess fodder for six cents a pound to save hauling it and then had to buy it at the roadhouses. Marmstrom was not eager to make another trip, being already $800 behind on this one. He sold the eggs to the roadhouses for $27 per case and only brought in three cases. He thought that all freighters over the ice will lose money because of the bad condition of the trail, expensive living, and inclement weather.((//Yukon Morning Journal// (Dawson), 7 March 1901.))