The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-16
INTERIOR ROUTE 10 NONE.
skAGwAY CHAMBER or CoMMnRCn
:; TO URGE Irs ADVANTAGES.
Claimed That new District Can NE
Reached weeks Eariier By Yukoa
Than by Ocean Rostc-No Troable
, Absst Bondine Goods Throash.

The claims Of the. interior route as
means of reaching Nome will be pressed
from now on by the people OF Skagway
and points along the Yukon. 1t Is claimed
that Nome may be reached from fifteen
TO thirty days earlier by way Of the in.
terror than by the ocean route. and active
measures will be taken to impress this
theory on travellers. Assurance Is also
given that American goods will be al
lowed to pass down the Yukon In bond at
"a seasons without interference by the
Canadian officials.
At recent meeting OF the Skagway
Chamber OF Commerce a report setting
forth the advantages OF the route was
adopted and ordered printed and will be
given wide circulation. In part the report
..Ths chamber has made careful inquiry
from those IN Skagway who have made the
trip down the Yukon and been in the VI
entity of St. Michael and Nome in the
early spring. II has also obtained much
replies 70 Its auestions Ths 'e rssui4 of
these inquiries establishes the fact that
tMnoss goin. this way VIII reach the Meme
than by the ocean route. which IL the only
route except that via Skagway,
eth The OUTGOING .s ice y paeked up BY the
enters into Boring sea. rendering navigation
from the south impossible. The prevail
ing winds are from the north. ana these
leaves clear waterway all the way to
Nome. This fact was reported To the Ca
madam madam sIovernmept IN 1875 By Inspeetor
ated BY other travellers"
Az regards the fear that American goods
q bond may be stopped Canadian Customs
6kagway,. IL quoted in the Daily Alaskan
OF December 8 az saying:
, "Arrangements, are made and now In
force whereby Americans can take any
amount Of goods Of any description through
British territory In bond. and the officers
OF the Canadian government along the
commodation Or the travellers going
through this way to Nome or anywhere
else beyond the territory Of Yukon"
american Customs ~ e Collector e T. An.
says that the accommodations extended ~
the Canadians on the inside last year We're
not the best. but that he understands they
nadians will hereafter carry out their part
Of the bonding privileges as agreed. 49,.
Mr.. Busby Is positive in his statement
elers bound for Nome, and he says further:
The individual bound from skagway to
, Nome is extended the privilege to go by
freight s o Without Being 70 mos sas' BY w ths ca
madam customs officers. Once he Is there
he may place his goods under personal
ence from the officials. The personal bond
must be secured by a deposit with the gov
ernment equal to the duty that would be
conectahle on the goods were they to be
eohsunfed IN the Canadian territory No.
lice Of the deposit of this gum III mnedi-
ateiy sent forward by mail to Dawson, at
which pace a refund win later be made.
will have 10 give the bond at Log Cabin.
'sThe scheme Of individual bond as de-
scribed in the foregoing will not be de-
or two or small amount Of food for the
Journey Neither will the individual bond
be required by those shipping by bonded
ments by that method are covered By 4
sort OF blanket bond Issued by the steam
err companies"