Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-07
OVER CHILNOOT BY RAIL.
Company Formed to Put in
an Electric Line.
WILL REDUCE COST OF TRIP
Is Portland-Juneau Enterprise-Win
BE Able to Garry the Outfits Of
10000 Miners Month.

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cilities for the transportation of freight
and passengers over Chilkoot pass will
be provided by a Portland-Juneau
company, in time for the rush to the
/ Yukon next season.
Articles incorporating the Dyea-
dixie Transportation Company were
filed here. The objects of the corpora
tion are announced as follows:
ITO conduct general transportation
business from the headwaters of Lynn
canal, Alaska, too all points in Alaska.
and ia British North America, and TO
carry freight and passengers.
''To acquire, build, locate and oper-
ate tramways, bridges, wagon roads.
sawmills, etc.; to navigate the Yukon
river and it's tributaries from st Mi
chaels to Dawson City, and to purchase,
! build and operate all manner of vessels
between Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Ju-
neau, Dyea. Skaguay and St. Michaels.
Capital stock, $3.50, ,000."
Although the announcement of OBJ
jects is made to cover wide field, the
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solely to providing means for the trans
fer of KlOndikers and their outfits over
the most difficult portion of their jour-
ney, which is from the steamer ut
Dyea, over the pass to Lake Linde-
mann. Construction is already begun,
a wharf being we'll under way at Dyea,
and the work of putting up 5,000-foot
cable tramway at the pass itself being
started. The company announces that
it will be ready for business by Feb
ruary /, by which time it will be in
shape to handle, if necessary, the out
fits of 10000 people a month, doing
the work at reasonable figure.
Members of the company make the
following statement:
"The trip from Dyea to Lake Linde.
mann has been made by man with an
ordinary outfit, amply provided with
packers. We do not propose to lessen
this time very much, but we do pro
pose to take over very much larger
tonnage than could otherwise he taken
in the same time. When finished, our
NociS NlllGll Will Dt uuIlG
similar to those used at some of the
big mines on rnuntain sides, will ex.
tend from Sheep Camp to the summit,
cutting off distance of four miles as
at present travelled. Our immediate
attention, however, will be directed to
the most difficult part of the ascent,
stretch of about 5000 feet, over which
we shall be ready to operate by Feb
ruary /. We shall use the water fall
OF the Dyea river to convey electric
power to our plant.
Though the short period that is al.
lowed our company for preparation
gives us time only to overcome the
worst difficulty of the trip, yet we have
ample means to do more as may be
justified by the progress of business.
When this route is open it will be DOS
sible for any number of people to 90
from here to Dawson with their outfits
at less than half the cost of the trip via
st. Michaels, without an outfit, at the
same time saving 20 days.
From Portland to Dawson via Chill
koot Pass the distance is only 700
miles; via st. Michaels it is 3,7OO
miles. 1t takes five weeks at least to
make the trip via st. Mchaels, and
not over 10 days is required by the pass
when the lakes and rivers are omen.
Another important saving of time is
IN the fact that one can get over the
Chilkoot and land supplies at Dawson
two months before the first steamer gets
up the Yukon from st. Michaes, which
is usually not before the middle of
July. The st. Michaels route is open
but four months of the year, while the
Chilkoot will practically be open all
she year around when our line is COM
pleted. We do not advise the trip be-
ing made before February, however.
One OF the delays heretofore encoun-
tered in the overland trip is the neces-
sity of building boats at the lake. Ten
days is usually required for this.
though it was much longer this year,
owing to the rush, and the price was
prohioltive to great number of travel.
ers. This company will be able either
10 furnish boats, or lumber for them, or
IL Will transport to the summit any
knocked-down' boats included in the
miners outfits. 1t has never been DOS.
sioIe heretofore to take a boat over the
pass except by piecemeal, which don't
pay.
"A most important part of the work
we are doing is the construction of A
wharf at Dyea. 1t will have 200 feet
frontage and the approach will be | ZOO
ieet IN length. Any steamer will be
aole TO dock at this wharf. thereby saw.
ing the heavy expense and great loss of
time to both passengers and steamship
people, OF lighterage, as at present
aad II not been for work already done
oy juneau people it would have been