The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-28
4 Cry That Grssts the Alaska
ProspectoF ct 6kagwsy.
WORK DONE ON the aA,LaoAo


~ ~ months ago 70 Inc NE8sy myrsaos
who toilet up sarDoGh the te5 terrars Ut
White pass the idea Of sendsng telephon-
Ne uaeNag@ from SkasuAy Ia Lake BEN
n2tt would nave seemed either ssesnssous
o. supernatural. Yet today TIE is.e . IN
active operation. and messages are cent
and received ~ easily and ~ regularly AZ
bssvsen Seattle and Everett or zny other
neteabor.ng town.
An aboard for White snss
How strange such = call YOU'D have
sounded a year sxo 70 sae bearers u the
heavy packs who started out from the
tuarmhy xescoaEt Ia ssarca o. Ei3onAdos
xM today two passenger trains daily are
running each wzy between Skagway and
White paAs. notwithstzfsllug tbs fast that
ths construction train has tbs right Of NAY
and everything esse along sss lire OF the
new road Ii wubcrdinased 10 .ae idea OF
getting the line through
Il viii bst you new hat that Or the
eth ~ July. la. y0u and ! viii ride IN
= parlor car from skagwny 10 Bennett.
satd chief Engineer + G. Hawkins sfx
months ago &c Contractor ~. J. Hsney.
Of tho White pazn rusd
'.Uvns," raid AR fiensy. and the bet
was on. Nov Mr.. Hensy frankly cersesscs
that he II going 10 lose his bet. but ~
the same time he soes not fail 10 adj with
= pleasant @m.ie thas II - a bet he can
well afford 10 lose. and one tina. ne viii b
very GLAD ~ laAe.
Mr.. Heney eauae down 10 Seattle from
6kAxwxy last Thursday on a buaness trip.
mainly for tho purpose OF locking after an
additional supply Of men far work on the
road FOR which he in contractor. He ex.
poets to return this week. During h!s So
1pIrn tn Seattle he n staying at the Rain
fsr-Gund. Last night he saia:
we broke ground In the contradiction
~ the road on June ], lAss. The first
stretch Of the road vas from the north I'm
u OF skagway e Liarsvile NJ the second
Of fhrss a.aiss. with nm easy grade Of
tper cent. Since that time We have been
carrying en- the entire work from skagway
to tie sunsiisit e.muft1neou1ly. having men
seatter@d alnua the eEtire distance.
We have had ]. 10 men employed 1t n
time. and one OF the chief obstacles to our
proUress has been that ws could not get
more men. This II in spite OF the fact
that We have been paying % cents an
hour for our lowest grade OF work. and
tho men have had the opportunity OF
working twelve hours at y time II they
wished Wa are now paying Is cents. I
have had twenty years experience in rail-
road construction and this Is the highest
rate OF wages l have ever known paid.
Add to "a. the fact that the men have
the nth OF each mos1th. and II seems
strange that No have not been able to
command the labor needed In conatruc-
ton. Yet that - the pain fact. Most Of
10 ts from Seattle. though we have eu~
ployed some from San Francisco. Port
land. Vancouver. Victoria, st. Paul and
other Eastern points.
seattle Enterpsfse.
speaking Of the fact that most of our
men have come from Seattle" continued
Mr. Hency, zone might az well recognize
; the fact that our road II almost purely a
Seattle enterprise. Thus far We have ex-
pended about 81 .56 ne0 The great bark Of
this has been spent In Seattle. In this
city wc have bought the supplies for our
camps. Here We have bought the supplies
and material for our railroad from the
ties up 10 the rolling stock. We have
looked 10 this city as DIR headquarters
and We feel very sure that the city. when
u comes TO know as one Of it's COM
merciai tributaries. will duly appreciate
thr relationship.
For the present our road Ia IA narrow
gauge, though we have constructed the
fondtsd 80 a. To admit widening IL TO
standard gauge at any time. The road
bed IL nox graded TO the summit and fifras.
miles beyond. while the track has been
laid Within three miles OF the summit
Trains are running frnm Skaswas Ia Whit.
pass. OF as the boys have eesn pleased
TO call II. Heney station. MeanAhiia our
telegraph and telephone lines have also
bc~n under construction, and are even
snnuix ahead OF the railroad track We
have good long distance telephone connec-
ton I'm constant uHe between SkaEway and
Bennett.
I'VE are running twe trains daily each
way between 4kagwag and HeAsy sta.
Gon. One cf these Is II passenger train
ard the other a mixed train freight and
passenger. Fur "a while ne had on two
purely pasEtserr trains. bsst We have been
suhofssinating everything - the work az
construction. and finding that THE pas
sengsr trains were IA the way OF oar
working train We took OF one Of Them
Difficulties Of Construction.
Difficulties sna ohssaclsss o. course
We save had lots nf them First OF all
there VAS tss rough nature ~ tha country
through which our route passes sushrae~
snw marshes. ssvers and mountains In
fste ssdes OF tire hills We had 20 make some
very deep cuts thrsaag.s the Sold scck Then
There was sse sAct that cur hsAs ct o,sqya.
lions was Isolated aud rsnaog. from any
tsseSfagais communication a fact which
few people outside Of a contractor shs, has
b~en "a ssica nela wsil appreciate kG;
Sae greatest difficulty ~ have had q en-.
Counter IL In the faet that with all sass In
oucsnsen{S we have offered We hare nas
sssii able 70 sscufx ine nutubeF os vorsuasa
Ne wtsssed 70 enssaex, ". have es,.,,s.fl.
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