The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-28
CANADA'S INTEREST
IN THE YUKON
It Has Grown Intense and
Charters of All Kinds
Are Being Taken.
Surveys to Be Made, Railroads
to Be Built and Mounted
Police Put On.
There Will Be Regular Mails, Judg
and Representatives in tn,
Council and Parliament.

Thomas M. O. Brien, the pioneer OF the
Yukon. who owns trading stations at
Forty-mile, Circle City and KloDdyke, re-
turned here yesterday. after two months
visit 10 his old home in Canada, and is
staying at the Commercial Hotel. He says
there is great interest at Toronto, Ottawa
and other places in the gold discoveries Of
Alaska, and says there will be a regular
rush from there to the Yukon.
All kinds of charters are being applied
for. They even want to build railroads,
and no less than three companies have
been orsanized for that purpose.
1.-THE Canadian Govern ment is sending
in three different survey parties to ex-
plore the trails over the summit, from the
the most feasible route. The Dominion
Government is going to put the mounted
police on 10 carry mails as well as to keep
order and prevent smuggling. There will
he stations, where fresh horses and vari-
Gus supplies will be kept.
II think the Dalton trail will be the one
finally selected. This trail extends for
about 800 miles from the head If Lynn
Canal TO Fort Selkirk, at the head of the
Yukon River. There is grass Tor livestock
all the way. The trail crosses at height
over the Coast Range of about $500 feet,
and then 1t extends through an almost
entirely level country.
There are to be five engineers in each
survey party. The chief of the expedition
is TO be Mr.. Foset, the Dominion Land
Surveyor and Gold Commissioner. he is
to be the resident Justice of the Peace
land agent and commissioner at Klondyke,
N w, T. Klondyke is on the Yukon
River, about 100 miles from the American
line.
"In Canada now they are organizing all
kinds OF companies for mining, building
traisand railroads, and getting charters
for all kind OF things. so great is the in
teIest in that new country Charters for
three different railroads from points on
the coast have been applied for. One of
these proposed railroads is from the head
of Lynn Canal, on the White Pass; an
other is from Tarkou Pass. The latter
charter is applied for by an American
com pany, headed by United STATES Sena-
tor Salisbury of Delaware. He has an ex-
porer named Packert, from Oregon, in
his EN- ploy, and he has been laying out the
road. l met Senator Sails bury in Ottawa
while / was there.
1.-The third company wants charter for
Il railway and a trail via Chilcat. This is
the Dalton route.
while l was in Ottawa, also, the Gov
eminent posted motto es asking bids for
dredging the Stewart River for gold for a
distance of 100 miles. The Government
stipulated that certain kind of a plant
should be put in, and that it should be
paid % cents an ounce for the gold taken.
at is expected that the people Of Kton.
dyke and around there will get two repre-
sentatives in the Council of the North
west Territory, which meets at Regina
and also that the district, which is now
organized into the Yukon mining dis
trict. will be allowed u member in the
Dominion Parliament A committee has
been appointed to examine into the
claims of the district. Ii consists of Mr.
Lester, who is the chairman; Clifford
Sifton. Minister OF the Interior, and, be-
lieve. Oliver and Davis. OF the Northwe st
Territory. 1t Is expected also that q
Judge will be appointed, called the sti-
pendiary Judge. He will have jurisdiction
over murder and other important cases.
Mr. o. brien left for the nor:h yester-
day. He will sail from Seattle Tor Alaska
on June 10. Mr.. O'Brien spent some time
in Toronto and was thirty days in Ottawa.