The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-31
THROUGH 70 WHITE HORSE.
White Horse & Yukon Railway
Completed to That Point.
sENnErr Will De DESERTED.
Business Houses and Popuiation Al
ready PressinE Forward TO Lo-
este In the New TermfBus-
Freight MOVING Rapidly Down
the River-work On the Last Sec
tion OF the Lsne-Big steel Bridge.

Special Correspondence Post-IntelIisencer.
sKAGwAY. July 22.--Juiy 81 is the day
Get for the completion OF the Lake BEN
nett section OF the White Pass Yukon
railway. On that date the twenty-seven
miles OF road bordering Lake Bennett.
now under construction. IL 10 be finished.
and the two forty-miie sections from
skagway to Bennett and from cariboo 10
White Horse connected. making through
line to the latter point.
The town OF Bennett. so long the rest
Ing spot Of the weary pack-laden argo-
naut, the scene OF thousands OF campers
on the way to the land Of gold. the head
Of navigation on the Yukon route. the
terminus OF the road and the metropolis
Of the upper Yukon. will soon cease TO
be of any Importance Instead OF being
4 place Of eager. rushing. busy people, II
II to be depopulated and become merely
a way station on the railway, Its busi-
ness houses are already moving away. as
they did from Dyea. White Pass City.
Lndeman and Log Cabin. Its immense
warehouses, containing at one time few
months ago over 5000 tons OF goods. are
empty: indeed. most OF them have been
torn down and moved on TO the new ter
minus. White Horse. but the freight itself
has disappeared from both places.
Realizing the early completion OF the
railroad, owners Of steamboats, have been
taking them through Miles canyon and the
white Horse rapids 10 the lower river.
Every week lately has witnessed the de-
pArture OF one or mere The q. 3, Bailey,
the zealandian and the Nora have all gone
to the lower run. and the clifford sifton
u 70 follow IN q day or two. Then the
Australian win shoot the rapids, leaving
only the Cleaner OF the fleet Of larger
boats on Lake Bennett. This boat II TO
continue on the Atlin run. but will doubt
Isss connect with the railway at Cariboo
instead OF at Bennett.
At present the Australian n connecting
by daily round trip service the two de-
tached ends OF the railroad. After August
there will be no occasion for keeping
her on Lake Bennett. and an she II Of
the sise that the G. d. Co. the river
run, she will BE- added to that feet.
Last stretch Of BuilafnG.
Contractor W. ]. Heney has over a thou
sand men at work finishing up the Sec
ton OF road along the shore OF Lake BEN
nett. Track layers are out from Bennett
about twelve miles. and the remaining flf-
teen miles are TO be completed by July
n. The gravel train and bailastinE gang
follows up tho trackiayers as they pro-
coed. 70 that the moment the RATS are
ready for heavy traftc.
The big steel bridge at Cariboo crossing
viii be done in few days. while the
white Horse. having been in use for the
last ak weeks. II In hne condition Trains
run frequently on that section at the rate
q thirty miles an hour. Superintendent
RoSers says that the trains will make the
run from akagway to white Horse IN
about seven hours
Although something over 10000 tons OF
freight have been delivered at white
Horse no far this season by the railway
company the various railways have been
taking II away so industriously that for
the hrst time In the history Of this route
the line. The congestion at Bennett ana
nj White Horse was not removed without
some eRort on tho part OF the railway
oncials. Traffic Manager 8. NJ Irwin has
employed every possible means to push
the freight along. employing nearly all the
steamers on the river that would take ~
Owing 10 the fact that the Canadian De-
velopment compan,fs boats are mostly
large ones. and OF too heavy draft for the
low water prevailing during the early part
Of the season, Mr.. Irwin had to employ
the small boats belonging 10 other com
panies. hut as soon as the river came IN
and the big boats began 10 run. the freight
was soon moved. Not counting the out
aide boats the railway and It's connection.
the Canadian DEVELOPMENT Company, can
now handle daily about sop tons OF freight
and " II were not for the day or two OF
delay occasionad by the customs rexula-
ttons. II would 20 through TO Dawson as
fast as passengers, which II seven to eight
days from Seattle.
Equipment OF the Road.
The White Pass a Yukon route now has
70 box cars. % cattle cara. % nats.
eoaches. Z observation cars baggage ears
and IL engines. All the freight ears ana
some of the engines were built IN tina
sshops IN skasway Rolling stock for the
lower section nf the road has been trana.
ferred across Lake Bennett on scows M
10 tho present time.
White Horse Il NJ present the cynosurc
o. an eyes. II y booming so far a. huid-
ms Va concerned Large three-story build.
tngs are being erected on all sldss ard
tents by the hundred have sprung up like
mushrncms In the night Dance ana gam
bling houses are there 10 tempt the mug.
gets and dust from the unwary klon-
dker but the Kiondikcr does not sp.na
the money that he did year or two AGO
and the dance houses anguish Whether
ne = hrinxins out q poke or not. tho
around Tho Waite Horse DEPOT. eager 10
set a glimpse ~ the cars as they nane m
II there h anything Of crowd. the rail.
way company always has a train ready
20 meet the boat and whisk the passen-
GERS on up the line. 80 they stnp AZ the
rev terminus emily a short time The hotel
and dance house keepers do rot llks This
very We'll, and complain bitterly % the
railway contrany's practice ~ huryylnr The
people through. bot the railway asficiais
a. not seem to mind the criticism
Residents cf White Herse arc wonder
ting whethsr the read will be huilt htr.
N discussing ,ha, as they d. Inc mine, ~
the vicinity % the town What will cor,,e
~ the bis copper deposits known 10 he ~
that section, and how well The supposed
questions. VIA Ire Town - sn,tsss ss 49,, ms.w
son. or Will d Dc merely a fuB,tlnne