The herald., 1897-08-21
RAILROAD
TODAWSON
Is to Be Built Within the
Year
SURVEYORS ARE NOW AT WORK
AND GRADING WILL BEGIN IN
THE SPRING
The Alaska Rush Abates a Little
Pending News Expected on
Thursday Next
Associated Press Special Wire.

ing from Juneau Alaska, under date OF
August II, says that railroad communi-
cation between Juneau and Dawson
will be one of the things of the near
future Next spring 5000 men will be at
work night and day, and the road Will
probably be completed before next fall.
The proposed road is to start from the
mead of naviga ton on the Taku river
to Lake Teslin. Light draught steam
boats will be operated from both ends
Of the new road and it will take four
days to make the journey from Juneau
TO Dawson. There is a surveying party
already in the field, consisting of w. A.
Pratt of Wilmington, Del, T. c. Jennay,
P. I. Packard, promoter Of the road, anG
A. E. Johnson, his assistant.
Another road is being surveyed to
start from Skaguay bay, crossing White
pass. This road will be built by an Eng
lish company.
PROMPT WORK
VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. 20.-In let
ter from Montreal Arthur Bellingham of
the British Yukon company, who goes to
London, says his company will start
work on a railway from Skaguay bay to
the headwaters of the Yukon, and have
it completed in 1899.
WOODCUTTER'S WANTED
NEW YORK, August 2O.-The World
says: Portus B. Weare, Western cap
italist, who is largely interested in many
enterprises with John Cudahy of Chi
cago is in the city. He was one of the
originators of the $25,00O,0O0 company
formed by Mr.. Cudahy and others to
develop the Klondyke territory. Talk
| ing to reporter he said: II have been
| in Alaska. There is plenty of gold
there. II can't be mined in fifty years.
Owing to the limited facilities for trans
portation it is impossible for more than
5000 of the large army that has started
for the new gold fields to reach there
this year. That is a very liberal esti-
mate The divide will be closed in a
very few weeks and those who do not
succeed in crossing it before that time
will have to turn back to the settlements
or run the risk of death from cold or
starvation. Our company owns a fleet
of ten ships and we have begun to con-
struct five steamboats, at Port Get
There. We also propose to erect build
ings in the mining region. To do this
we must have wood and labor. Here
tofore the timber has been cut almost
exclusively by Indians, but nearly all
of them have gone to the mines, leav-
| ing the wood camps almost deserted.
I'VE shall send out two expeditions
from Seattle September 10th and 18th,
respectively. We have already hired
200 men who propose to prospect for
gold. We want no others. Prospectors
must have endurance and that is the
kind of men We want. We can find re-
muneratve employment for many more.
1t is our intention to sail for Port Get
There, on ST. Michaers Island, where
all who want it will be fed and lodged
and paid 81 a cord for cutting wood. An
average man can cut a cord and half
day We must have wood for our
boats and for the buildings we propose
to erect. The doors. windows and other
parts, as far as possible, will be made
at Port Get There.
"At the proper time our ship will leave
Port Get There and go to the mouth of
the Yukon river via the Aleutian Is
lands. The gold fields will be reached
by June 18th, as early date, if not
earlier than by any other route for
those who did not start weeks ago
Then, too the journey will be attended
with less danger"
YUKON RIVER SCHEMES
SAN FRANCISCO, August 2O.-The
gasoline schooner Bessie X. will leave
for ST. MichaePs today. The men who
will go on this boat have incorporated
under the title of the Ell Sueno de Orc
Mining and Transportation Company.
Commodore Leonard of the Encnal
Yacht Club is at the head of the ex
pedition. The yacht Ell Sueno has been
changed into a steam launch. She will
steam up the Yukon river towing sup
plies on barge. Both launch and barge
are OH the deck of the Bessie X.
When the steam schooner Navarro
leaves she will be perfectly equipped
and will tow up the stern wheeler
Thomas Dwyer and will also carry
three ice boats which may be used in
an emergency.
The schooner Ia Ninfa is being fitted
will not carry passengers, but will carry
private expedition. H. S. Bennett of
Los Angeles, who is interested in the
voyage, states that he has positive in
formation that there is plenty of gold
on the Stewart river and that pros
pectors do not have to undergo the
hardships which confront them on a
tourney to the Klondyke region.
CANADIANS AS WELL
OTTAWA, Ont, Angus 20.-The
Deputy Minister of the Interior has
called the attention of the Associated
Press correspondent to the fact that a
great many American newspapers are
discussing the question of royalty upon
the gold in the Yukon Valley. as If the
tax were going to be levied only upon
! Americans working there. He stated