The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-29
WILL GO BY DALTON TRAIL.
THIS ROUTE ADOPTED FOR TIlE
STEAM SLED EXPEDITION.
dent That They Can Open Up 70
Regular Line of Transportation
With Their Peculiar Vehicles.

NEW YORK, Jan. S.--Edwasd ]. Rosen-
field has left New York for Portland, Or.
10 take charge OF a midwinter expedition
for the klcndike. He expects to get into
Dawson before March 10 with a supply OF
provisions large enough 10 relieve any eX-
listing distress.
His plan is to go from Portland TO Alas.
ka. landing at Haines Mission. Pyramid
harbor. about eighty-iive miles inland
from Juneau. He viii then go over tha
Chilkat pass and Dalton TRAN TO Fort Sell
kirk and up the Yukon river to Dawson.
He Is the general manager OF the Snow
& lee Transportation Company, which pro-
poses 10 establish permanent line from
Dawson to the ocean for express. freight
and passenger traffic. Mr.. Resented has
contract with Acting Secretary OF War
MeikleJohn for the transportation of the
government relief expedition TO the klon-
dixie. He will take with him fifty soldiers.
under the command of Capt. B. l.. Brain
ard. Who was an officer in the Greedy ex-
petition. The government will send $50
tons or provisions. agreeing TO pay MIR.
Rosenield $500 ton from Lynn canal.
We Will use snow traction engines"
said Mr.. Rosenfeld I'VE have six OF these
engines. each with go horse power Five
VIII be called upon TO pull seven cars each
While the other one viii be light for the
purpose OF breaking the road In addition
10 the government troops and supplies, we
Will carry 10 passengers. with about 100
tons of miscellaneous freight belonging TO
sheIn and @ev tons OF our own for our trad
ing store: We will take half doxer. In
with the country. and several couriers witn
dogs 70 send back reports of the expedi-
ton. We win take no women.
All the men who have been accepted rs
Passengers are able bodied. and the con-
tracts that they have signed are not unlike
the ships articles for sailors. Each man
mus. obey instructions and do whatever
work may be required. We figure on
,hirty days trip. though We may be able to
make IL In naif that time"
HOrseman Will Brave Northern Cold.
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 2s.-"Counselior
Bit Brien. who Is known on every race
track In America for the last twenty years.
mas sold out his stable and is going TO
klondike with w. III. Devalle. who return
ed from the Yukon country this winter
with a snug sum and has been playing the
races here Brien trained for Lucky Bald
win when Rey el Santa Anita won the
American Derby.
The Lake Teslin Railroad.
OTTAWA, Ont, Jan. 2S.--H. NJ. kersey.
or New York, who organized q company
which includes L. s. Letter. OF Chicago:
George Gould. j. W. Mackay ard other
American capitalists. made a strong ef-
Tort 10 get the contract for the building
of the all-Canadian route to the Yukon.
kersey was in the city for several days
endeavoring to secure the contract. and
has gone away greatly disappointed.
Mckenzie Norman. OF Toronto, who re-
eeived the contract, will receive 5000
acres or land per mile in the district OF
the sixtieth parallel of latitude and west
OF the Mackenzie and Laird rivers. In
additior TO this land grant the contractors
VIII receive 5000 acres a mile from the
British Columbia government. The con-
tractors undertake 10 have the road from
Glenora TO Teslin lake. distance OF about
80 miles. completed by September I next
When the road Is built the time between
Vancouver and Dawson viii be reduced
to seven days.
There will be sea trip of 800 miles. taxi
ing nearly two days; q river trip UP the
stickeen of one and a half days; then $50
miles by rail to Teslin lake. and the re-
maInder of the time will be occupied In
crossing the lake into the Yukon country
and down TO Dawson.
Walsh Discusses the Food Problem :,
The Canadian government has Just re-
ceived report from Maj Walsh written
on Christmas eve at Big Salmon river In
which he discusses the food problem as ir
will have to be faced after the territory IL
filed up with the new population that Will
go in next spring. He calculates that the
river boats will not be able to haul more
than one-half the supply necessary to sus-
tain the estimated population next sum-
mer. He does not believe that 5000 peo-
pie can get in. One part of his report con-
tains an important warning. OF which the
public should take notice. He says:
II am informed that fifteen or twenty
agents and brokers have come out from
Dawson CARRYING with them. some say
Gates for entries OF mInss all tho
streams in the neighborhood of the klon-
dixie. upon which streams, believe. there
never was an ounce of gold found. and
all other streams in the districts and noun
tain tops, with the hope that they can be
by the Cana dams"