The herald., 1898-01-16
A FLEET OF STEAMERS
oUTFITTING FOR THE TRADE
WITH ALASKA
Millions of Money Aching to Be
Invested in Railroads to Run
to the Arctic

DAN fRANClOCO, Jan. lo.-W Oru
has been received here that the Canadian
Pacific Railway company has purchased
in England from the Union Steamship
line the Tartar and Athenian, the two
favorite liners in the South African Mail
service. With the vessels will be estab-
lished three-day passenger and freight
service between Vancouver and Fort
Wrangel. They will start for Van
couver next month, and will make the
trip to this coast by way of the Cape of
Good Hope.
AROUND THE HORN
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-The old New
York pilot boat Actaea, of 80 tons, has
just been purchased by c. c. Mccarthy,
recently first officer Of the steamer Star
buck of San Francisco, who is fitting her
out for voyage to the Klondike around
Cape Horn. She will be commanded by
her new owner and will have crew of
six men. Ten passengers are also to be
taken along, among whom are three
women. Captain Mccarthy expects to
sail about January 20.
MISSOURI MINERS
SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. 15.-The ad-
vance guard of 100 fortune seekers from
Joplin, Mo-, has reached here. The party
will establish settlement on the Stick
cen river, near Fort Wrangel, which will
be called Goldike.
The steamer Al-Ki sailed today for
Dyea and Skaguay, with 70 first-class
and 1872 second-class passengers.
RAILROAD SCHEMES
TACOMA, Wash, Jan. ia railroad
building race involving the expenditure
Of $15,000.00O has been commenced by
two wealthy corporations, each of which
desires to own the first railroad into the
Yukon country. Each road will be about
400 miles long, running from Pyramid
Harbor, near the head of Lynn Canal, to
points on Lewis River, below Five Fin
! ger Rapids.
| The companies back of the railroad
projects are the London Exploration
| Company and the Yukon Company, or
gan'zed last summer by Andrew F. Bur-
| leigh, the principal stockholders Of which
ore Philadelphia and New York men
J Both corporations engineers and sur.
veyors are at work between Pyramid
| Harbor and the Lewis River. The pro-
jectors of both roads figure on an aver.
J age cost of $4,000 a mile, requiring ar
| outlay of over $S,000,000 for each road
The equipment for each will cost about
| 81, 100000 more. Both companies have
| secured rights of-way from the Canad.
| ian government and are now working
| to secure from Congress the necessary
rghts-of-way through thirty miles OF
| American territory.
PREPARING FOR THE RUSH
| SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 15.-The Pa
| cific Coast Steamship Company antici-
| pates a rush Of travel from San Fran
cisco and Seattle to Alaska when the
| northern country opens up that will be
| beyond the ability of existing transpor-
| tation companies to handle. They will
have their three big steamers, the walla
Walla, Umatilla and City of Puebla, run
| ming between here and Puget Sound,
and from Puget Sound north fleet of
| fourteen vessels. The company has
| officially notified Western roads that II
will not guarantee passengers against
| delays.
COMING TO LOS ANGELES
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan: 15-The
steamer Alice Blanchard is to be with
drawn from the Portland trade on the
completion of her next trip. She will
then 60 to Los Angeles and will carry
minsrs from that point to Copper River
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