The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-06
Two Hundred Men Commence Ao-
tual Work On the Line.
COMPANY SECURES FRANCHISE
The Skagwsy City Couucif Also
stormy Observation-Disclosures Men
Huy All the Horses In Sight-They
Want 400 More Men-The steam.
ers Humboldt and Ab-ht Arrive.

VITA ire arrival Of the steamers ALIKE
and Humboldt from Alaska yesterday
comes tsss news that work has actually
commenced On the proposed railroad from
skagway across White pass TO the lakes
en- the other SIDE OF the coast range;
railroad thai may in course Of time ex-
tend down the chain Of lakes and rivers Of
the interior of the Great Northwest Terri
tory ana give easy outlet 10 the marvel
aus richness of the gold districts of the
kIordke. Forty Mile. Birch creek and
Munook as we'll as many others Yet 10 be
discovered.
According Ia the officers Of the steamers
arriving yesterday work actually @orl-
naenced on Tuesday. the last day OF May.
Previous To that time the railway officials
had been hiring a4I available men and
buying mp every horse they could lay
Their hands on On Tuesday they had 6eo
men aad opened up two camps. They pat
several hundred horses 10 work and Skae-
way knew for sure chat taere was going 10
be 4 railroad.
Pursef Tr.ggs. OF the steamer Hum
boIdt was tod BY Engineer VI. J. Heaney,
of the railroad company that they would
employ l,V90 additional men IL that number
could be secured. The men now employed
are paid IS par day ana the company
boards all who desire for 81.
Early last week TWO right Of ways and
a franchise were granted 20 +. Z. Haw-
kins and 0Ihe: members of the company
by the Skagway city council. The fran
caiSe gives The right 10 construct a raj
road through the town and provides that
IL be in operation within 80 days. One of
the rights of way extends from the water
front on the east side Of town TO the
point where the Skagway river is to be
CROSSED. The other is through the west
SIDE Of the townste.
OF course the franchise matters could
not be settled without whispers Of bribery
coming up. The meeting of the council
was q spirited one according &c the officers
OF the Humboldt. II. f.. Batten. who was
recently appointed collector of internal rev.
enue at Skagway and who is president
of the council body, was asked by one of
the conncimen II he had not received
money from the railroad promoters. He
denied that he had received benefit In any
way. There 5 some talk, ii is said, of
eIecting a new head for the city govern
ment.
Real estate is Still Increasing in value
In spite Of the fact that money at Skag-
road proposition has given the town
life. Property on the water front has NIT
tcrially increased n value. in some in
stances as much $50 per cent. Cheap
travel 10 the Sound has been given A
back eye for a time. for all the men who
a few weeks ago wanted 10 come back on
the low fare have gone 10 work.
The Humboldt. Capt Bolnifield, made
She trip from Skagway in three days and
sixteen hours. A small tug was still work
ing over the wreck OF the Inflated Clara
Nevada with A deep-sea diver, The Hum
boldt's officers did not hear whether any
thing had been recovered Of not. She
brought down forty-eisht passengers in
Guiding Collector II Alaskan Customs J.
W. lvey who is on his way 10 Portland
Mrs. lvey and children accompanied him
This is the Humholdts last trip TO Skag-
way. she VIII run down to San Francisco
and enter the 81. Michael lists
The Alike. capt Gage arrived about
o'clock yesterday afternoon. having made
the trip down IN "a feH hours longer than
the Humboldt The AK unioaded a
number Of steel rails at Skagway for the
new road. She also had some heavy min
ing machinery 10 unload At Douglas island
Far the TreadweH nine.
Mark Hager. pufser's boy on the Al-Kf
who fell into an open hatchway on the
vessels last trip North and who was left
iR tttt if1>ptta4 az Juneau. died before the
AK reached juneau on the return trip
The Al-Ki had thirty passengers as fol-
lows:
X. c. Lawson. J. Void. Aug Humneret
j Mckerna. Mrs. A J. Clark O Y.
EaSh!e. \. i.avetta Conkas Roy Meal
lister. r. Moss j. Cochran, r. IL Allen
and wife. g +. Schwartz. j Nicholson
e p BALDWIN. J. F, Conwell q. r. Jewett
}. W. Webster and wife NJ A. Phelps,
Mrs. NJ. {. Dune. l.. Brooks. w Heating
y. NandefmoSt. =. Carlson. r NJ. VIII
lens. q. &. Brinker. G, z Dune, J. Man