The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-12

There Il a gentleman staying az one OF
tie leading hotels. an accepted authority
on Alaska matters. who. n conversation
Yesterday Afternoon. gave plausible ex-
PLANTATION OF the Canadian contention Tor
q port on Lynn canal He declined 70
give his name for publication. but WAS
prevailed Upon TO permit the publication
of his opinion He made his statement
over again with a stenographer present,
and the following is the result:
There IS, as one Of your correspondents
telegraphs, nothing Improbable IN She re
port that the United States VIII concedo
10 Canada port en- Ly M canal III t4Ct,
the probability IS strengthened by the cor
respondents Information that Pyramid
haVbor has been chosen And / VIII telI
you why.
You have heard OF the London Expo
ration Company, OF course IL owns the
largest stamp mills in the world on Doug
las island. Alaska. night opposite Janeau,
tthe Treadweu Elne, which pays sst1.11
d year in dividends, and has in addition
10 that immense property several millions
invested in other parts OF ALASKA The
original members OF this company were
five Americans. Their first deal was the
Treadwen mines. In this they got the
RothschiIds interested. Then the London
Exploration Company was formed They
buy up quartz properties. form companies
on them, and the first issues of stock are
offered TO the clients OF the Rothschilds
exclusively. The company now has
agents in all parts OF the world, probably.
and has as much cash 10 draw for
operations as a national government.
Henry Bratnoher is the compauy's
most active agent in Alaska-a very close
mouthed and capable man. He went in TO
the interior IN the first rush II was re-
ported that he made many purchases
Whether he did or not only those in the
inside know. for even those who sold
would not know to whom they were &C
tuaiiy selling.
But Bratnober came out August year
ago: came to Seattle and tapped the
wires. then made q hurried visit 10 New
York. He returned TO his headquarters IN
the handsome residence building az the
Treadweil mines, and young Onderdonck
You remember Onderdonck? a big
hearty. charming fellow OF about thirty.
who has already had some experiences.
lie is the son OF old Onderdonck, the IA
nous contractor Of the Canadian Pacific.
and several times a millionaire One OF
the capades OF the boy was TO marry
Baroness Blanc. The old man went down
10 Chicago and bought her off. AT least
there was q divorce. and IL was all in the
newspapers anyway.
We'll, TO resume. Bratrobsr and young
Onderdonck started out with n whole
raft of men. engineers surveyors. tranit
men, ak men and so on They went in
70 Pyramid barbor. and over the Dalton
trail. II soon got noised about that the
party was surveying railroad route.
There were two other companies also sur
veying for a railroad. but neither Of
those got over the summit and had moth
ing 70 show for their enterprise except
newspaper clippings.
This made a little rush 10 Pyramid
harbor 10 stake town lots there. There
was also rush 20 Haines. on the other
side OF the peninsula. for II was not
known al which place the railroad terini-
nus would he T}ut those in the inside
knew hat the London Exploration Com
pany had selected the site for its wharves
and terminus al Pyramid harbor and had
mapped out its right-Of-way through
American territory and over the summit
into British soil.
The company applied TO the Dominion
government for a charter. but the an
douhtedly strong influence they can bring
10 hear proved insufficient to overthrow
She inoustrous deal the government had
Lake Teslin
THE company. though thus defeated.
still kept at work on the Dalton trail. II
formed the company and furnished the
means for Jack Daiton's pony express
over thar trail, and for the improvements
that were made at the Pyramid end Of II.
"Bratnober and Onferdonck were in
again last spring. over the Dalton trail.
with forty experienced prospectors. In
the purchase Of placer claims on the AL
Sec and It's tributaries they had as COM
retitoTs q company sent in by the Stand
ard oil Co. But this didn't amount 70
shucks. for the reason that the London
has In particular an eve out for quartz
"Bratnoher ard hts men found copper
In there. II was v3r5OuSlv stated that the
discoveries Were near the headwaters Of
as fact no outsider knows whore they
are. All that IS known for fact is that
Brainoher came out with bags Of huge
chunks Of copper ore nf III richest kind
Now copper orc in there is worth no
more than granite unless there "a rail-
road, Do you begin 10 see the polnte
And fie only ali-Caradian route. that OF
the Stf~keen. has proved q fasco
TO top the situation, last fan the
placer claims or Shorty creek and other
tributaries ~ the AIsec- some hundred
miles from the summit 81 the Dalton trail,
began 70 prove valuable and later there
came the rich discoveries on Porcuniue
and other creeks an this side ~ the sum
nit ana IN American territory,
These have added "a the interest ~
che situation There is local f'i3frr@s m
the surveyed railroad route ~ addition
80 tho copper discoveries. These English
capitalists 81 Ssfch immense wealth ~ant
q railroad IL There. Ana ;he English gov
efrme0t wants AN an~Canadlan route 20
SIS territory fr the Interior
'Nrv- u von gae the uafnt@ Y e the
az raw"rful Ra' hschi11T thas a~e back ~
thiH fewand FOR r-~t ~~ T.V~r canal
ard believe they wlN get e."