The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-21
No DUTY MILL Be CHARGED.
ON THE HORSES AND EQUIPMENT
or CANADIAN kLONDIkERS.
the Deputy Collectors I'm Alaska
May Not Prove, as Intended, .
Concession to the Canadians.

Special Dispatch to the Posf-Inteiligeneer.
JUNEAU. Nov. deputy United
states Collector Floyd. Of Dyea -skaslsay.
has received the following scraeF from
Washington:
1T having besn represented TO the
department that you ASSES GUY "a.
uer paragraph ~. OF the act OF July -.
trough, into your port by persons en Toa1e
Il, the kiond4ke mining Region IN 5rllisil
America. for u<ss IN conveying themselves
and nheir outfits provisions. esc- nave
fo fnsiract you that such animals, with
taelr eguipnlsnts. may be allowed 70 cross
that portion Of the United States territory
netween your port ana tne sou .,i me
LYMAN GAGE
This was evidently intended as conces-
sion on the part OF this government To tie
Canadians. but il is a question whether II
viii prove so; for. according TO Deputy
Collector FIoyd's stated construction of
The order, under customs supervision
means that all foreign goods ia transit
from either Dyea or Skagnay to the III
terror will require 10 have Il special IN
gpector 80 along with each consignment
al merchandise as far as Lake L.ndeman.
The owner OF the merchandise so con-
y0ycd must stand the expense OF the spe-
eiai inspector Ito the lakes and return)
NngEE tSSdl wages are - iDt 'ik4lt HcAA9
work. or S. for working day of sixteen
hours. which the ordinary miner would
put in on the passes. Under any conditions
similar TO those that have prevailed during
the past season, ii would he cheaper Tor
the Canadian kiondiker 10 pay the full
amount OF duty according to the present
stif Dingley tariff. than to hire an In
spector for a period of from four days 20
a number Of weeks. while he is YEARLY
IL. 1t
Collector Milne recently stated to Post
Intaiiigencer correspondent at Victoria
that a method would undoubtedly be pro-
vided whereby American or other foreign
goods tn transit from Lake Bennett
through to the American side Of the in
terror mining region. or vice versa, may
pass without the expense OF carrying
Canadian customs inspector; and he sug-
gcsted that the merchandise In transit be
merely sealed and bonded and pass inspec-
.iDn at Lake Tagish and Dawson or Forty
allie. sealed invoice being carried from the
one station 10 the other.
II has often taken as long TO get an out
"a over the passes as to so the entire re-
mainder of The trip, so that many of the
experienced ones feel that their journey is
about half completed when they have got
far an Lake Bennett with their outfits.
III Inspector Floyd carries out his con-
siruct.on of Secretary Cages order, as ne
Is in duty bound to do, there Is nothing to
prevent the Canadians retallating by inn
posing equally severe regulations govern
ing the transfer of American goods
through the Northwest territory-and Ii
will then be cheaper for American goods
so destined to pay the Canadian duty and
have done with IL. But i'm either case the
treaty between the United States and
Grea. Britain, which WAS intended to per-
he 20 cit y,
the others territory without the duty ex-
pense. will have no effect.
asked Deputy Collector Floyd why he
could not station an inspector at Lake
Bennett and operate on the plan suggested
by the Canadian collector. Milne. Mr..
Floyd said that he had no authority to
do so.