The herald., 1898-03-05
To Be Built by the French
Bankers
THE ROUTE DECIDED ON
AN APPLICATION MADE FOR
RIGHT OF WAY
AN AGENT OF RoTHscHILDs
Locates Men to Hold a Townsite and
Leaves for London to Make
Arrangements
Associated Press Special Wire

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JUNEAU. Alaska. March l., via Port
Townsend. WASH, March 4.-That the
Rothschilds will attempt to build a rail-
road to the Yukon Is now believed to be a
certainty. The steamer Walcott, which
arrived here last night, landed party of
over forty men and equipments for rail-
road building at Pyramid harbor, near the
Pyramid harbor salmon cannery.
s. Onderdonk. the engineer in charge of
the party, and F. Kain Immediately or
dered the men to locate and build houses
upon the lands near the cannery Lumber
was taken along for the purpose. This
move is made to hold the townsite. The
place had been surveyed in January and
a plan of the district was submitted at that
time to the surveyor general Of Alaska.
There was filed notice that a grant from
the United States was wanted for rail-
road terminal, trading post and factory
and for a right of way for a railway over
the Dalton trail.
These transaction we're all accomplished
in the name of H. Bratnober, who is kno wn
to be the mining expert and mineral pur-
chasing agent of the Rothschilds who a few
weeks ago left for London to consult with
the Rothschilds and to arrange with the
Canadian government for the privilege Of
crossing their territory.
Mr.. Onderdonk reports that the grades
are several per cent less on the Dalton trail
than on the Canadian Pacific and that the
climatic difficulties are no more difficult
to overcome. 1t is said here by those who
accompanied Bratnober on his expedition
to the interior that he thinks that In sew
eral places where excavations for road
beds are necessary enough low grade ore
Will be lQosened to finance many miles of
construction.
Twenty or thirty employees of the Tread
we'll company, who have learned of the
objects of the expedition, have chartered
tug and scow and will leave as soon as
they can get tehir stun loaded for Pyramid
a profitable form of investment in Alaska
at present.
A SCHEME ABANDONED
PORTLAND, Ore, March 4-The pro.
posed expedition of the Snow and Ice
Transportation company OF Chicago to
Alaska has been abandoned. General
Manager Rosenfeld says he has made sat-
isfactory settlements with all but one party
Of the gold hunters who had bought tickets
for transportation to Dawson by the Snow
and Ice train. The company has a con-
tract with the war department for the
transportation of 150 tons of relief supplies
to the Klondike, and when the government
relief expedition was abandoned, Manager
Rosenfeld deemed 1t wise to drop the
whole Snow and Ice scheme. He says
everything will be settled and all bills paid.
1t is probable that the company will file
a claim against the government for the
expense already incurred.
A STEAMER STRANDED
VICTORIA. B. c., March 4.-The steamer
City of Seattle, which arrived from Alas
n TO Ahnk
Whitelaw of San Francisco Is ashore on
Sheep Creek bar in Canninlau channel, near
Taku inlet. The bar is a sandy one, and
1t Is expected that the Whitelaw will be
fioated without injury. Another steamer
Is reported ashore ON Shelter point, this
side Of Nanaimo. She did not want assist
ance. Her name could not be learned.
Capt. Roberts says the 'longshoremen al
Skaguay are still on strike for rs cents an
hour.
A MINER ROBBED
SAN FRANCISCO, March &c. p.
Smith. who arrived in this city today from
relieved of SITS at the Mining fair tonight
by a pickpocket. The police have slight
clew.
NORTH POLE GOLD
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, March "A
party of fifteen men from Bay City, Mich,
are building an eighty ton schooner here in
which they expect to sail north about May
l. The party will prospect on the Noatak,
Kookpuk and other rivers which empty
into the Arctic ocean between Cape Prince
of Wales and Point Hope. A whaler known
as "Swede" Jensen will accompany the
party.
Jensen says all the rivers emptying into
the Arctic ocean north of Cape Prince of