The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-03

Inc Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
steamer Queen arrived in this ci{y al q
O'Clock lsst evening from Tacoma, having
gone tnere direct from Alaska with a
!arse party OF returning exeursionisss
The Queen brought wor: that ;hs
mounted police OF the Northwest Territory
are meeting al people bound for the Yu-
Ron country AT the British line beyond
" MITE and Dyea passes. and compelling
ali who have not one years supplies OF
provisions 70 return % the Coast But
Few OF the fortune-seekers who have left
the Sound within the last few weeks for
Dyea or Skaguay bay had crossed the
passes into the interior when the Queen
lett Dyea, July -. Two hundred or more
miners were eacamped at Skaguay then,
awaiting an opportunity TO have their sup
plies packed over the pass. The first pack
train over White pass WAS expected back
AT skasuay the day che Queen sailed from
there.
kev. Alfred Hummer. of Oakland Cal
ore or the excarsionists. went ashore at
Skaguay, and reports that he was told by
TWO men there that i. would cost xsoo 10
have their supplies weighing 2,eoo pounds,
carried over the pass. MIR Hummer and
Capt. Carroll warn every op.. no, 10 at-
tempt to enter the Yukon country before
spring The captain says not even those
who are now at Skaguay or Dyea will he
able 10 reach the interior This winter prin-
cipaliy because supplies cannot DC gotten
over the passes. Indians are hard at work
packing. and all the horses available are
pressed into service. Men can pack. they
say, but s.venty-flye pounds one way, and
the round trip is seventy-two miles.
The Queen met the steamers Mexico.
City of Topeka and Islander bound for
Skaguay with full lists of gol,i-seekers.
and all well. The Mexico was at juneau
July %. Manager C. NJ. Goodail. of the
Pacific Coas, Steamship Company. met
the Queen In Tacoma yesterday and am
nounced among the officers that the
steamer would make an extra trip to
Skaguay leaving here after the return
from her last excursion trip north She
Will leave ON the last excursion August 6.
Manager GoodaIl said his company viii
Keep boats on the Alaskan run as long as
passage is demanded.
The Queen brought no passengers from
Alaska except the tourists she took north,
and three Indian children and their ward.
In speaking of the crowded condition Of
things at both Dyea and Skaguay, Capt.
Carroll stated last night that 1t was his
opinion that winter is n bad time TO try
to cross the pass, and that II viii be win
ter before many can get In. Others say
that going across the pass during the
frozen UP season is practicable as IL may
be easily made by sledging. Capt. Car
roll said the best way TO get In is by way
OF Fort Wrangel. the Suckeen river. Tele-
graph creek and Lake Tesiin. Capt John
Coibreth. who In new In Victoria. has had
usa of q small government appropria-
tion. with witch he has made q rough
trail through the route named. and the
Canadian parliament has recently appro-
priated $4,000. which will be applied to
the building of a good wagon road. Capt.
Carroll believes this route will be the best
thus far projected.
Frank LaRoche, Of this city, who was
one OF the Queens passengers down, says
that a wharf has been built at Skaguay
bay and that tho Queen discharged her
passengers and freight there. While st
Skaguay Mr.. LaRoche met Fen Moore.
the locator OF White pass. which. up
there, says Mr.. I.aRoche Is called Moore
or Skaguay pass He confirms tho state
ment published In the Post-knteiliEcncer
that White pass Is 100 feet lower than
Chilkoot pass. The company with which
Moore Is connected has large number OF
pack horses and the round trip is made
in four days. The company is heavily
backed by English capitalists. and q
party OF surveyors In now I'm the field To-
eating the route for the railroad. which
VIII be commenced in the spring and
which the Post-fnteiligencer has before
told about. The first leg Of the road VIII
he built TO Toochi lake and eventually, X
the intentions OF the company are carried
out II VIII be extended 10 Dawson CITY.
Mr.. In Roche says that Moore advises
people not 10 try crossing under present
conditions after August Is. although hs
believes sisIsing In winter 10 he practic-
able. At present the packing rate Is IS
cents per pound and pack horse can
carry aa pounds. A. II. Cavanaugh. who
took up r portable saw mill and eleven
men and ZEN horses, expects 10 no cutting
lumber at Lake Toechi by August Il.
Cavaraugh also intends building boats.
Mr.. La Roche says that miners and pros
pectors crossing by either White or Chill
koot pass meet al Lake Tagish. the trails
coming together at thai noint.