The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-15
Twenty-Five Of These Stations
Now Definitely Located.
Canadian Government VIII Use
Them to Hasten Passage Of Of
nc.ai Dispatches and Maii-Mnil
Contractors Given Concession to
rurui.h Travellers With Food and
Lodging ut These Various Posts.

The DAYS o. grea. hardships expert
encea in getting % Dawson n the winter
are evidently over. as this winter there
Will BE- posts every thirty miles, from the
summit OF White and Chiikoot passes 10
the Yukon metropolis, which Will pc sup
Piled with every convenience Tor the pro-
tec.ion and comfort Of travellers and Will
be used 10 hasten the passage 81 onicaa!
dispatches and mail. The Post-Intellisen-
Ger has already announced that these
posts were in contemplation, but Their
exact location has heretofore never been
printed They are TO be situated AZ tae
following points:
Bennett, Caribou crossing, Tagisn. Nc
CNntock river, foot OF Lake Marsh, Niles
canyon and White Horse rapids. head o.
Lake Lsbarge. foot OF Lake Leoarge.
mouth Of Hootalinqua RIVER. Little Salmon
river, TauIans cutoff, Five Fingers. al
the head Of the Dalton tran, Halfway
Point, seikirk, Stations ]. Z ana J. stew
art river: Ogilvie. at Sixry-Mile river. In
dian river ana then Dawson. The other
posts are al the new camp on Pm creek,
al Attn lake. al Ch.icat pass. thFN-three
Dal,on's trading station thirty miles III
the interior. and one al Gienora, on the
St.ckesn river.
The posts in the Tagish district. thirty
miles apart from FIVE Fingers 70 the
White and Chilkoo. passes. have already
been completed. erected under the super
vision OF Col. s. 4. Stee.e. commanding
Officer OF the Northwest mounted police
IN the Yukon territory. He has started
the work in the Dawson district from
Five Fingers there, ana the posts VIII be
built before The winter has settle down
that work. Mai Woods Will superinIend
the service in the Tag.sl district, while
Col Steele will look after the posts IN the
been supplied these posts for the mainten-
ance OF five members OF the Northwest
mounted police al each one for term OF
one and a half years. The Dominion gov
ernment has sent out COO tons or carefully
selected provisions.
When dispatches are sent. the dog tea ms
at each post Will travel the thirty miles
at ,op speed to the next station. when
fresh team will take its place. Il Is ex
pec,ed that fully i21 miles can be covered
in twenty-four hours.
Travel this wsnisr can he undertaken
with safety and comfort. which VII IN
duce moneyed men TO venture IN during
the winter In order 10 be there a; the
sluicing and ciean-ups OF the spring. The
contract for carrying the Canadian and
United States mails has been awarded to
r. +. Richardson who IN turn has let
sub-con;racs 10 the Lake Bennett & klon-
dixie Navigation Company. which runs
mall contractors will build posts at the
points selected for the government sta
tons. for headquarters for Their dog teams
and also to accommodate the travelling
public with hotel facilities.
The commissioned officers Of the mount
ca police in he order q Their rank are
intendents respectively of the Dawson and
Tagsh districts Inspector Primrose. In
speetor Starues. Inspector Harper. Inspec-
tor Strickland. Inspector Jarvis. Inspector
Belcher and Inspector Cartright.
The normal strength OF the police IL 2s0.
OF which seventy members are stationed
at Dawson. In addition, nifty soldiers of
the Canadian militia viii be sent there
from Fort Selk!rk TO cooperate with the
police department. Additional barracks
will be erected FOR these soldiers. also
office buildings and an addition TO the Jail
building will be begun, which is already
inadequate for the demands made upon II
for the lod2meut Of cUlprits sentenced 10
Imprisonment The twenty-five cells are
already filed.