The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29

! conceived, to 1T over the round spruce
rail The ties are of the same mate
| rial-Spruce-and were cut when the
right Of way was cleared. This, the
/ first railway" in the Yukon country.
/ is better for the moment than any
1 body'S mine. Each of these ears,
drawn by two ordinary horses, walking
/ tandem, driven by a man who handles
) freight at each end Of the line, earns
/ $40 trip, making from two to three
/ trips a day. The foreman said operat-
ing expenses were $500 a day. At least
/ half that was dust in my eye. Cali it
! $500 and this five-mileS of spruce road
is clearing 200 a day carrying freight
and people into a country that is sup
| posed to be dead
You come on the last car and look
after the luggage" said Captain B.
! III so on TO White Horse, round my
/ fellows up, secure a boat, and if the
/ Victorian does not sail until midnight
we'll take a scoOt over into the new
copper fields"
About l p. m. my car left the sts%
/ ton, and about 1903 left the track. The
sharp rim of the wheel cut into the
rail, climbed it and dropped to the ties.
/ A delicate looking lady from Frisco
/ with an S-year-old boy, who had been
i'll all night, and made up the passen-
/ ger list.
-.
| good natured fireman, engineer and
! conductor make wooden frogs for the
wheels. Then we hitched to the rear
/ end of the car and tried TO drag II hack
on the rail. 1t would not go on, and
/ we were obliged TO send back to the
canyon for help.
/ Finally we were on, again-gone
| again. When the little boy was walk
/ ing in the dust of the trail he cried and
/ complained. When his mother put him
on the car he regretted it for there was
great danger Of disIoeating his spinal
! colnln. paid 81 TO ride, and when 7
was not helping to get the car on the
track l was walking, and when I was
not walking was regretting my dol
lar.
A Little Kondike Romance.
''There." said Mrs. NJ. to her little
/ boy, there, dear, are the dreadful
| White Horse Rapids, -wher paepa's shin
was wrecked, and here over this rocky
/ trail We walked with bare, bleeding
feet
Seeming copy 1. introduced myself
! and learned that Mr.. NJ. had been
wrecked in the rapids some two wears
/ ago. His boat, with his leather coat
| and notebook in the bottom OF it. DRIFT
| ca all the way to Dawson A San
I FRANCISCO newspaper correspondent
found the coat, guessed the rest. and
Mr.. NJ was mOurned as dead AT
1 Frisco for many moons Finally he
! reached Dawson and contradicted the
story Of his death, and now. after tZ,,o
/ long years, his wife and boy were 90
ing to join him at Dawson. where ha
/ has a profitable law business.
Across on the opposite shore. high IN
I on the bluff, We can see another tram
way-an opposition line. 1t is a better
road than this, has sawed rails fba
/ drivers tell US, but it is not being oper-
ated. This company has bought # 10
cut off competition, there being no Iavv
IN Canada against the "consolidatio,
OF competing parallel lines. u has
cost the Spruce line sixty cool thon-
sand When the White Horse & Yul,o,
road IS completed to White Horse botb
these trans viii be worth in the nsieb-
boThood Of SO, 900 cents.
When l reached White Horse If u-as
p. m My friends had given me nm fo-.
lost and gone to the copper fields win
out me- 1 was not sorry, for an ola
Colorado miner told me. confiden+ialI1~
that the "skeeters were thicker o1,f
there than fddlers in the hereafter .
CY WARMAN