The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-25

$3.50 ID a Kef1erne on IN T.ous.0a 10 build
sxz.erN srs. into Dawson from sorse
80 IN British Columbia north Of Van
sssSvsr II ls very large undertaking
..ss wozsld cost a vast amount OF money.
-. more eesrle ~ be good Feassn 10 be
-. .nas ine work will soon begin In
-. a. far a. ran he harmed. = @. wood
go a wefl known cisfl engineer OF Lon
80 i lss british Columbia Investigating
=. sgsIcs.gales and the necessities % the
sehsfss-
-sa. information comes from Montague
Y-arh,on o. LONDON. who arrived yesfer-
szy morning at the Northern hotel Mr.
f.syfstnT wsf1 represents ar English syn
Nrsts In claims on Iiunker ard sulphur
rsssks s. novg on his way 20 Da~soa A.
- has been sn the kiondike country ne
xss considered In London somewhat %
Al authority upon matters connected with
the country and WAS consulted by the
r,arsotera % the telegraph company
81 believe this company means b1lsi-
ssax." said b. yesterday afternoon. 1T
has already iBoaT porated with q capital
q tss $50 Or 81 Dos9s, and some or the
cock has t1eel placed on she market How
II has been taken ~ the public do not
tnox There * some difficulty IN float
inx Kioastike schemes in London. The
region t. pa remote aud there - ~ little
saoxIsdge az II that people are naturally
nary, more 80 than hers.
but glanced over the prospectus of
tbe concern and discussed the matter with
some ~ those interested Their plan -
ts-bnsid from Lake Quesnells. mort beast
o. Vancouver. straight north through the
Auin country. and then right on down the
Yukon river into Dawson Al Lake
Quesnslie / understand there is the last
telegraph connection toward the north,
|, Ii che terminus Of the sine running out
II Vancouver. Consequently IL would ls.
TIE point from which tu begin consfruc~
ton Of line To the At.In country and 70
Dawson.
Mr., eaton, man prominent In financial
matters At London. director In the new
company. told me some weeks ago thnt
they would put on "a very large force -
msa and would haze the lice iu operation
b. neat spring lie thought IL could be
bailt BY April hot that seems an iinpossi-
hIty- lie probably does not understand
sse difficulties 10 he overcome. for be has
never seen the kiondlke country,
"Mr Woodford the engineer and super
lAseniens ~ the company. left london for
Vancouver before I did. ana he came on
oser the Canadian Pacific. / supposs. h.
l. In Vancouver or sotne y here IN British
Columbia HOW Ia addition 30 the lire
through the Atlin country IL Dawson.
there viii bo branch 20 SkBgway from
some convenient point. probably Lake
Bennett. ~ that communication viii be
bad with that part ~ Alaska
''rhe only unfayorahte comment on the
Proposition that heard MAS the fear that
sArre would nvt bD enough business Ia pay
1870 compauies You SER there Is another
scheme on In London II build telegraph
iine Ga Dawson. but learned very little
about g. II seems that Some concern has
plan so lay cable 10 Skagway and 10
Inn.
Dawson. with a branch t. the Atiln coun-
try. As | met no one who vas familiar
with the promoters Of Il. l know nothing
about the nnAnciRt strength of the con-
Germ Bat some ~ the newspapers com
monied on the two companies. saying
there al not seem tn be enough business
Tor I've They ssemcd 20 consider ii set
tied that there would be enough business
e. maintain one line Nothing was said
about the yates that would be charged.
That IL an unsettled matter They wili
doubtless depend largely on the amount
OF busaasa to he done
Mr. leighton met several Kiondikers
IN London who were sndravorlug 10 dis
pose ~ ela ms or 10 form syndicasss Alex
AcDoDaid and his brother. L Mcdonald
uese there as We're George Eatrtek and
Maitland keesgA
Z doaHt 3hink that Mcdonald succeeded
n selling ans ~ his claims" he Conjin-
aei, lie Wa "a have been married s,,y--
*fal DAYS after I ire ~ Msss Maggie
Chisholm, daughter of the ohief of tho
river potes II London.
Nj kersey is managing director ~ ths,
Canadian Development Cnmpany lie told
re thas BE was having two fire steamers
bnat - operate on Lake Bennett In cen
nTe3ie0 ~s;h the steamers on the Yukon
river"
Mr. Lolshioa 's& WITH HIM hydrauig-
pant y 1ich .e purgh based a. Chicago, and
which wifl he uSess o0 the claims an
hunkrr cfaei> belonging II the syndicate
~Aish Pc repr.-eants