The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-11-18
300. 900 PEOPLEF0R ALASKA
That is the Number Estimated 10 Leave the
United States in the Spring.
PREPARATIONS ARE BEING MADE
To Garry Them on Large Sea and River
steamers, of Which it will Require
About Two Hundred.
TACOMA, WASH, Nov. 8, 1897.

TACOMA, WASH, Nov. ., 1877.
And now the transportation people
are saving 200, 900 people will go to the
new Alaska gold diggings next spring.
That would mean $4,000 per month
for February, March, April and May.
| Therefore about geo 0osteamers carrying
2jO people each would be required,
provided each made a round trip
monthly. Already there are fully
fiftv steamers in the service and dur
ing the past week fifteen new ones, in
Guiding several of the largest Atlantic
Ocean liners, have been engaged for
use during the klondike rush. Sew
eral of the new companies that Will go
into the water transportation business
have been organized in New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago. But other
cities are represented including some
Nebraska, Missouri and New York
state points. The demand for lumber
to build steamers for ocean and river
travel has already become feature
of local trade and the ship yards are
as busy as a bee hive when the bees
are about to swarm.
Considering the immense shipping
business already done onPuget Sound
the sight during the next few months
when scores of new steamships and
sailing vessels are being loaded, will
be a sight to behold. Already steam
ers and sailing craft come to Puget
Sound from all parts of the world and
carry away lumber shingles, brick,
lath, sash and doors, paper, wheat
i coal and salmon to the four corners OF
the world. The leading newspapers
. in the cities of the Sound print Z
weekly table each Monday morning
u showing where these vessels are, Wha1
= they are loading, and for what pol'
y they are bound. Yesterday morning
: the Seattle P0St-InteIigencer, in it
table, reported twenty ships ant
- steamers at Tacoma and five at Seat
tie loading and discharging cargoes
At Tacoma. where the vessels ar
7 thickest. the scene is already Onei
y intense interest. At times it is poss
= BILE to see vessels loading stimulta1
>" eouslv for China, Japan, Alaska, ,Sout
>! America, California and Oregon, Al
~ lantic States, England, France, CeI
- tral America, Australia, and the ii;
20 waiian Islands With the addltio
~ of the many magnificent steamship
W. that are to Join the Puget Sound tle
from the Atlantic seabOard. the pl
- ture presented to the klOndikers
ii' they come and go will be one of a We
~ liable water carnival.
oA ~
an While it is true that many klondl
~! companies are being organized
~. ..'' the promotion of Impractical
u i' schemes, devoid of capital or back
it is nevertheless, true that the legl
i''l mate companies already in the til
i''o throughout the country for the G
i'' purpose of transporting people to
'"' KlOndike region by water represt
Wy an actual interested capital OF S15,O
600. In five of the largest OF
'ii steamers the Cramp shipbuilders
'alii be interested and the headquart
up for these vessels will be at Taco
lieS while plying on the Pacific coasts.
use =
loI TRANSFORMATION is one of the II
problems connected with the rush
Klondike. Many of the best mind
anna the country are at work on its solu1
One day last week no less than tiv
ndes the general passenger agents of
wing roads in the United States called
the the klondike Bureau at Taco
Among the number were John Be
tian. of the Chicygo, Rock Islam
W. Pacific railway, S. X. Hooper, OF
,anv Denver & Rio Grande, f. A. '
dur leigh, of the Rio Grande u West
lose, 1--WE know all about railroading
'enu- @ taking care of the crowd" said
,nro- Sebastian, the spokesman OF on
Jason the parties, but we do not X
'ralse everything about your steams
- ~ hos oS We are just now getting out new
! her ers and maps for the klondike
tie of ness, and we must have the latest
appl- best information"
*x*
nd. do But the railroad and steamship
'hurs- are not the only hustlers in sus
ovem- ingcommunication with theklon
@ @'lNIhS The electricians are at work an(
q the telephone line from Haines Miss
Dawson is the latest. A. G. San
Great this city, is ready to build telel
- +his line from Dyea to Lake Bennett
9g7. the ChilkoOt Pass and for the
ls, serious work of reaching Dt
and City on the phone all of next
mer will be given up by the telel
companies. The long distanc