The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-28
RUSH Of TRAFFIC
OVER White pass.


Afltn.
Freight rates % Dawson from Bennett
are frcm IA cents 10 "a cents per pound.
Including tram charges at Waite Horse.
To Attn the rates are 20 - cents
Absospsfoa 81 the Chffkoot Tran.
The purchase By the railway company
OF the Cbslkoot tram and the shutting
down % the concern created . sensation
IN Bennett. though IL Was anticipated and
discussed In advance. The tram has been
Doing thriving business M cents per
pound. bat thar route is now practically
abandoned. Orr & Turkey. the packers
who have been taking the trans freight
from the Summit TO Bennett. xili move
their iS9 horses down the river 10 Dawson
or sorne other point. One Lake Linierman
steamer has been laid I'D and the other
wiii have 10 80 cut OF business at once.
With no tram 70 move freight ever the
summit and no steamer 10 navigate Lake
ixndsrman. The Dyes route II thing of
the past. Much speculation Is INDUCED In
as to The price paid for the tram. Though
the parties concerned preserve rigid ST.
ienee on the subject. Il is generally be-
Eeved that the price exceeded $locon
This sum Is less than the tram cost. but
tended TO Bennett from the summit, the
railroad would have been able TO underhsd
the tram simultaneously with the an
nouncement Of the purchase OF It's only
rival IN the transportation business the
railway company has just announced a
rate OF 3 cents per pound on car load lots
and Of %. cents per pound on less than
car load lots. This Is a reduction from
NIB Tab 80. 49,
Tor some time. Even perishahls goods
are Included In this sweeping reduction
which. considering the vast Improvement
IN the condissou of the goods by reason OF
their speedy transportation and easy
handing, Is great advantage 10 ship
pers and consumers In the interior At
present an average OF fourteen car loads
OF freight per day IL being taken over the
read from skagway TO Bennett Each
car represents ten tens a, least. 20 that
ia9 tons a day are going over the noun
taans. Officials OF the road state that this
showing viii be increased by August / TO
twenty-five car loads daily.
Heavy Passenger TraMe.
In passenger trafiic the road is equally
busy. The first train out OF Bennett; he
sides bringing Souo0oo In gold dust. had ga
passengers. Probahl. on that day was the
hrst instance OF a crowd OF men waitinD for
railroad to be built to them In order thai
they might ride. One train the other day
had over 80 Kiondkers on board and 100 10
ise on train are almost eaiiy occurrences.
The White Pass and Yukon Exaress
Company IS now being organized. and will
In few days announce rates on merchan-
disc. valuAbles aud gold dust This CON-
pany viii be managed by L. H. Gray. gen.
eraa traffie manager of the road
the fear or the various steamboat com
panies operating on the upper lakes that
the railway company would turn ever liz
freight exclusively 10 the Canadian Devei-
opInent Company appears TO be entirely an
founded While the chilkoot tram ard
the steamer lines. outside OF the Canadian
Development Company have virtually been
oncking the railway ard the Canadian De
peiopmeni Company. Mr. Gray. the gen
ersi traffic manager, has cieveriy brought
about cancellation. and in the future shin
pers may list their freight through By any
company they choose and the railroad will
turn the goods over as directed Such traf-
nc arrangements are already In force with
the Canadian Development Company. the
Bennett Lake 81 klondIke Navigation Com.
pany and the Dominion Steamship Com
pany.
Railroad building to seiktrk.
II has been said ali along and popilarlv
believed that The railroad would stop at the
present isrmlnii. but there ls eyerv ,nat-
cation that It Is TO be pushed on to Sell
kirk with ali the vigor that General Man
ager Hawkins and Contractor Heney can
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ant Manager Hisloa are now ahsen, on Fl
trip 70 carIbco and other points below I,
IN said tha, Mr.. Heney has already com
meneed grading near Car boo. ard (, i
quite certain that sevsra. corps Of rsigwav
engineers have al different tinaes run lines
along the shores % Lake Bennet; Busi-
ness men OF Bennett who have established
themselves here largely upon the suppo-
sitscn that this was 10 De the end OF the
road are unwilling 10 believe. even vet.
mat the railroad 3 going on few days
more Will settle the doubts OF every enc.
Contractor Heney's large force u men and
horses are Dusty engaged IN constructing
terminals here and in hallas;irg along the
line. In tire nine days since the tracklay-
Ing Was finished about twelve O. the twen-
ty-twe miles from the Summit Ia Bennett
RsSS REsa fEastaStCd~ A week Viii
witness the remaining portion pu, into fane
shape ard the construction department; WI,
dcJb;less sarn the track over 10 the rall-
way company about July 3 Mr. Heney will
probably throw his iahorers and grading
equipment on che extension az orcs
ExcuraienIst~ Like the Ride
While 'hs railway has SIS own vay now
Oh freight, Il Is mere Thar strange thar &
begins SIS monopoly by cutting fresrhs
rates almqst IN two. Stln the kicker anas
something 20 oalscs "a in TIE sia passenger
rate from SSaEsay "a Bennett Il sssyus
ike ssg sum 20 pay fer f8rty-Enlle ride.
saIt A. the walking So good ard IRE kiekers
all g1sse. Il proves STAT she riae "a worth
sae money An excursion rate % 81 foy
the roaaa trip from Sxaxway to the sum
rais Is in effect sni n taken advsn:aS. 81
hy hundreds - tourists OUTSIDE et IT'S
sre@t u;gsisy. the waite pas# Il Yakca
RAlway j. ore ef ma1es.c and woaaerfu!
scenery.
business men cf SkaEway ara q hen
nssf are ragsf}y ais rktnx themselves "a sAa