The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-20
The Big Transportation Com
panies Prefer This City.
PROMINENT IN MAP AND FOLDER
Incaiculable Amount of Advertising
Gratuttously Given to the Queen
City by Heralding Il to the World
- the Natural and Only Starting
and Outntting Point for the
Yukon Gold Fields and Alaska.

Fully 70 per cent. Of the largest Alaska
transportation and development companies
OF the country give Seattle preference IN
saelr advertising matter as the starting
ana Quitting point for the Yukon gold
fields.
The benefit this city Is receiving from
this class of advertising is enormous.
Countless thousands of maps have been
printed and circulated throughout the
East. giving Seattle in large type, with
dotted lines running 10 Alaskan ports.
| showing that practically all of the s:eam-
snip lines have their terminus in Seattle.
Many of the larger concerns name this
city as the best Quitting point Some
or the companies that do trading and
supply business advertise TO furnish out
nts direct TO the miners. but where an
alternative is given TO patrons Seattle is
named as the city mos; advantageously
situated for Quitting trade.
All OF the better known transporta lion
companies. including the n. A. T. & I.
company. the Alaska Transportation &
development Company, the Boston &
Alaska Transportation Company. the Yu-
kon Company and numbers of others all
name Seattle as the southern terminus of
their lines. both 10 St. Michael and TO
Dyea and Skaguay.
Seattle is thus receiving the benefit Of
vast amount of advertising among the
very people who are most interested in the
hionuike-ihose who are preparing TO go
north in search of fortune. In addition,
the principal railroads are advertising this
city. some exclusively, all prominently as
the beginning of the route to the nugget
lined placers of the north.
A collection of folders, maps. circulars
ana other printed matter published and
distributed III the East has been made for
the purpose of ascertaining TO just what
extent Seattle Is being advertised by the
various steamship lines. development and
Iairoad companies. An examination of
THESE publications reveals the fact that
seattle Is being heralded 10 the world al
most exclusively by the great majority of
these concerns. Little or no mention is
made OF San Francisco and Portland. 1t
would De impossible to give excerpts from
an OF these almost countless publications.
a mining up of few of the most widely
distributed folders. etc., Is given below:
h. a 4. Transportation 20.
The Boston & Alaska TRANSFORMATION
Company, which will operate a line az
ocean steamers between Seattle and ST.
Alichael has issued a very large amount
OF printed matter of an advertising nature.
put containing much valuable information
concerning the gold fields of the north
land. Seattle is given prominence on its
iaps' ana IS named exclusively as the
starting point for the Yukon mines Rates
OF passage from Seattle TO various points
Oh the coast Of Alaska are given
In its pamphlet, giving information con-
cerhlng It's steamer lines, the company
Ewes a list of articles required for an out
NJ. with the statement that the coxnpanv
VIII refer Its patrons to the merchants ~
seattle. from 'whom they can secure an
outN'. IN this connection no other city in
named. >' :"
The Yukon Company.
Inc iukon Company. of Seattle and
iihiiaoeiphia, and of which A F. Burleigh
10 president, advertises this city exclusive
~ IN vast amount Of printed matter
scattered throughout the East. A small
ioioer giving list OF needed articles for
years stay in the north includes the
prices on the same at Seattle. Its mas
give Seattle as the starting point for the
Two nnes or steamships one running To
81. Michael, at the mouth of the Yukon
and the other to Dyea and Skaguay
The Pathfinder.
very convenient folder and man en-
Titled Millroy's Pathfinder to Alaska and
kiondike Gold Fields" gives the routes
from Seattle to Dyea, to Copper river and
TO st. Michael. The water routes via Sea-
attie are gwen as the shorter ones.
The Alaska News.
The Alaska News, a publication con.
tanning much information and data con-
corning Alaska and the kiondike issued
by the Alaska Transportation and De-
Ve!opment Company. OF Chicago. has a
map on the nrst page, giving Seattle as
the chief city and terminus of steamer
lines TO ST. Michael No other city on the
Coast is given the prominence enjoyed bv
Seattle throughout the paper Other
printed matter issued by the company and
under its direction gives the cost of an
outht in Seattle with the assurance thar
the prices VIII be found lower in Seattla
than elsewhere. and that the merchants of
the city Will be able to fill all orders
promptly and well.
ladue's Company.
A widely circulated advertising publica-
ton Is that sent out'by the company that
proposes 10 operate snow steam sleds over
the frozen rivers of Alaska into the Yu-
kon country. Joseph Ladue, the founder
or Dawson, IS president of the company
whtcn adVertises 10 start steamer from
Seattle early in January with the pioneer
train. Mention is made OF the route by
water from Seattle at several places In
khe pamphlets issued by the company.
The Great Northern.
The handsome new Alaska folder pub
hshed by the Great Northern railway con-
tains the following concerning Seattle as
an Alaska Quitting point. under the cap
ton. How 10 Reach the Yukon Gold
Fields
Seattle is the gateway 10 Alaska II
is 80 miles nearer Alaskan ports than San
Francisco Ii is nearer the East by rail,
via the Great Northern, than any other
city on the Pacific coast. II Is prepared,
from long experience, 10 furnish and prop
erly pack outfits for prospes tors
The table OF distances in the folder
makes Seattle the starting point and the
distances by the various routes 10 points
on the Yukon are given from Seattle.
The 4. \. n r. Company.
In It's circulars and other printed mat
ter the Columbia Navigation and Trad
Ing Company. owning the steamship Co
lumbia now en- route from New York 10
Seattle, advert!seS Seattle exclusively as
the STARTING point for Alaska. and this
city IS the only one named on the Pacific
coast as a suitable Quitting point.
The y. 4. T. and T. Company's maps
and folders give attie great prominence