The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-03
NOME RUSH ON BY NAY 0F SKAGNAY
Seventy-fiye ArgOnaunts Ar.
 rive This Week.
TRAFFIC MEN SPEAI
Canadian Inspector and General Agent of tho White Pass & Yukon Give Estimates.

Skagwav Is enjoying the patronage just now of hundreds of people bound for thu interior weekly. The outward travel | light. One of the big features in eonnee- tlon with the Inbound travel, Is that thr greater number of the people making uT the passing show have as their ultimate destination the famous American gold camT of Nome.
 It Is estimated by we'll informed Skae wavans In touch with transportation ais fairs of the port. that fully twenty-five per cent of the passengers coming to thi: port are bound for Nome, all, of course, by the Yukon river route. The fact that such a percentage of the arrivals are bound fOI Nome Is rendered more striking when lt Is considered In connection with tie further fact that even this week alone there have been n ore than 300 people landed at this port from British Columbia and Puget Sound ports, This means that at the rate of twenty-five ger cent, seventy.fve people have come to Skagway on their way to Nome In Six days.
 Owing to a temporary blockade on the railroad the last two days resulting from the snow blow breaking down, the greater number of the passengers who landed here during the week are still here, but probIb- lv the majority of them will get away to- day or tomorrow. The hotels are nearly full and the merchants ar. getting share of the patronage of the travellers.
 Those bound for Nome are not heraldlng their destination with loud trumpet, but in securing the arrangement for the trans portatlon of their freight and baggage they have disclosed sufficient evidence on the whole and as a whole, to satisfy officials In traffic circles that the twenty-five per cent estimate Is approximately correct,
 Acting General Agent s. Wilson of She White Pass & Yukon, says that fully a fourth of the people coming from the sQgib igsl now are Pas:sIag 0ns 0ns.O tO IRlsaYs0Q plan to get to Nome during the coming open season. and that some of them are de- termlned to go forward beyond Dawson )vtr the Ice.
 E. S. Busby, Canadian customs inspect or at Skagway, under whose scrutiny all freight and baggage must pass, gives an even more sauguine report than Mr. Viii son, and says that twenty-five per cent Of the people now coming 10 the port from the south arc going to push on for Nome without stopping at Dawson, and are de- termined to get to the goal just as soon as possible, even though they have to mush every foot of the way.
 Not only do believe so great mum Der arc going ln over the Ice now" says Mr. Busbv, "but also believe that the prospects for travel this way to Nome are good for some time to come. and l do know for fact that American gods ore being taken through The British Slrlp rom thlS point for American territory beyond by parties heading for Nome.
 "The goods going through the British strip must be covered by a deposit with the Canadian officials equal, to what the duty on the importation of the goods into British territory would amount to. Upon arrival of the traveller at the border beyond the British Yukon territory a refund of the whole amount will be made upon the eyi- dence of all the goods having arrived there.
 "Seyeral travellers have been here the last few days arranging for the shipping of freight through to Forty Mile or be- vond.
 70 those passing through Skigwav