The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-04
ROUTE TO KLONDIKE.
Can be Travelled by Easy Stages With
Posts Every 80 Miles.

Seattle, Nov 4-The days of great
hardships experienced in getting to
Dawson in the winter are evidently over
as this winter there will be posts every
30 miles, from the summit of White
and ChlIkoOt passes ii the Yukon me-
trOpolis, which will be supplied with ev-
cry convenience for the protection and
comfort OF travellers, and will be used
to hasten the passage of official dis
patches and mail These posts are to
be situated at the following posts:
At summit of White and ChilIxoot pas
ses, Bennett, Caribou crossing, Tagish,
McClintock river, foot Of Lake Marsh,
Miles Canyon and White Horse Rapids,
head of Lake Lebarge, foot of Lake Lee
barge, mouth of HOotalinqua river, Lit
tie Salmon river, Tautalis Cutoff, Five
Fingers, at the head of the Dalton trail,
Halfway Point, SelSirk, Stations 1,
and 8. Stewart river; OgiIvie, at Sixty
Mile river, Indian river and then DaW-
son.
The other posts are at the new camp
on Pine Creek, at Atlin Lake, at Chilcat
Pass, SO miles from tideWater, the Dali
tons post at Dalton's trading station, 80
miles in the interior, and one at Glenora,
on the Stickeen river.
The posts in the Tagish district, 80
miles apart for Five Fingers to the
White and Chill1oot passes, have al
ready been completed, erected under the
supervision of Col. S. B.. Steele, COM
manding officer of the Northwest
mounted police in the Yukon territory.
He has started the work in the Dawson
district from Five Fingers there, and
the posts will be built before the winter
has settled down in earnest.
Captain Harper has charge of that
work. Major Woods will Superintend
the service in the Tagish district, while
Col. Steele will look after the posts in
the Dawson district. Ample ratiOns
have been supplied these posts for the
maintenance of five members of the
Northwest mounted police at each one
for term of one and a half years. The
Dominion government has sent out six
hundred tons of carefully selected pro-
visions.
When dispatches are sent the dog
teams at each post will travel the 80
miles at top speed to the next station,
when a fresh team will take its place
1t is expected that fully 120 miles can
be covered in "a hours.
Travel this winter can be undertaken
with safety and comfort, which will in
duce moneyed men to venture in during
the winter in order to be there at the
Sluicing and clean-ups of the spring The
contract for carrying the Canadian and
United States mails has been awarded
a sub-cOntract to the Lake Bennett and
Klondike Navigation company, which
runs the steamers Ora, Flora and Nora.
The mail contractors will build posts
at the points selected for the govern
ment stations for headquarters for their
dog teams, and also to accommodate
the travelling public with hotel facili-
ties.
The normal strength of the police is
28O, of which 20 members are stationed
at Dawson. In addition, so soldiers of
the Canadian militia will be sent there
from Fort Selkirk to cooperate with
the police department. Additional bar
racks 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 1t for the Judgement of Gull
prits sentenced to imprisonment. The rs
cells are already filled.