The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-10


road people to lay their plans for exiraor-
binary operations which wiki be continued
during the winter. The management Of
the road believes that In the vicinity OF
the White Horse rapids valuable mines,
which will soon be heavy producers Of ore.
Will be opened up next year. In fact.
the company has operated on the theory
that In addition to the through travel from
Skagway TO Dawson and other gold camps
on the Yukon. the territory through which
the road passes would undoubtedly develop
a large business in the mining and trans
portation OF ores.
The plans OF the company for building
its line from Bennett have been largely
governed by the discovery Of big quartz
lodges In the mountain ranges Of the upper
waters OF the Yukon. Mining men claim
that this is a virgin empire which Will
some day produce immense quantities Of
quartz Including gold, silver and copper.
1t Is asserted by welI-posted prospectors
that those interested have never made
public the true riches OF the ore discov-
cries that have been made along the upper
Yukon during the past eighteen months
Winter Work at Bennett.
e. b. Hussey, local manager and pur-
chasing agent OF the company, yesterday
made public q portion OF the company's
plans for Its winter operations. He said
that since September Is he had purchased,
largely through the Seattle firm OF W. D.
Hofits 4 Co.. $3.50 tons OF forty-hve-pound
stael rails. OF this 2.4o0 tons haSe been
delivered At skagway and Lake Bennett
already. Part OF II will be taken over the
frozen surface OF Lake Bennett on slcds
during the winter. 20 be laid on the section
OF the road lying between the foot OF Lake
Bennett and the White Horse rapids. On
this division Of the route the grading has
been practically completed. and consid-
cradle quantity OF rails viii be laid during
the winter.
There IL q piece OF road between the
present terminus at the head Of Lake Ben
nett and the foot OF the lake. where the
operations OF the company will be CEN
tered during the winter. This stretch il
twenty-seven miles long. a great part OF
IL being through solid rock. This work
was left untouched while the grade was
built and the road bed prepared for track
laying last summer between the foot OF
the lake and Closeieish. four miles below
the White Horse rapids.
Already big gang OF workmen has CON-
menced construction work along the east
shore OF Lake Bennett. where the road
bed will for part Of the distance be built
in the solid rock. This work, according TO
Mr.. Hussey. can be prosecuted successfully
during the winter. The only difficulty.
he says, will be In obtaining enough men
The wages paid by the company are 50
per day.
.srhe originally projected route OF the
road" Mr.. Hussey said yesterday. DIS
GUESSING the proposed extension of the line
10 the White Horse rapids. was four
miles TO the west of the line as IL Is now
laid out. Fort Seiktrk, on the Yukon. is
our objective point. and the line first pro-
tected 10 that point was different from the
route we are new following 70 the White
Horse. The change was made TO enable
las to reach the new mining district at
White Horse
"of the rails we have lately purchased
approximately 900 tons will be delivered
In Seattle I'm March and then shipped i'm
fnediataly to Skagway. where they will be
forwarded for use on the new portion OF
the line We are calculating on having tho
line completed and ready for business as
far as Ctoseleigh, four miles below the
rapids, by May is or June / OF next year.
This Is practically the beginning of navi-
CATION on the Yukon.
Below Closeleigh 10 Dawson and other
Yukon points steamers find open water
and navigation IL easy"
building More Cars.
The company ;s also building Is new
cars for use on Its limo 10 the Whita
Horse. The materials. including the trucks
and wheels for these cars. are all supplied
by Seattle firms, resulting In the expend
;ura here OF A considerable sum of money
Sixty Of these cars Will be boxcars twenty
wiz 20 fats, and twenty viii be stock
cars
The company Ia also negotiating with
the steamship companies plying between
Seattle and Skasway, by which. according
to Mr. Husscy, IL IS expected that very
low through rate on ore from the interior
Of the Northwest territory and Alaska TO
the srneters on Puget sound Will ne made
Said Mr.. Russey: The rate on ores will
Se very lov--so low that enCourageclenr
VIII be given to the eEelopfneni az the
mining properties in the interior. The poi
Icy of the road Will be 10 do everything
possible IL foster THE deve lcprnent OF fhs
lodges Of the interior including the Attn
and White Horse rapids districts which
mining r@n say are aneng the most Prom
Using 90 the continent
We are planning TO nIiii cara especially
adapted tc shs cheap handling and trans
jostation Of these ores. These cars will
BE- utilized in shipping merchandise TO the
Interior. They VIII Ae filed Nth orsS sn3
brought n the Coax. and viii re provided
with dumping apparatus ~ means ~
which the gre can - dumped through
shoots directly into the holds az The ships
AZ Skagway."
The company rot long ago brought ont
the asoneer shipment Of AIiin Gre. Il was
a consignment of Eve tors of goss, LEARN
Tecs sent 20 one Of the Sound srmelters as