The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-07-08
NOW FAST ASSUMING
FORM Of A TOWN
White Horse Has Thirty
four Business Houses.
MANY YET in TENTS
Several Big Wooden Buildings I'm
der Way-Two Newspapers Going
in-Electric Light Plant Prom
ised- Customs Port Soon.

White Horse, July 1.-The town of
White Horse is growing rapidly. 1t is lit
orally springing up. Thittv-four business
places are now open and more are coming
d lily. MANY of those now here are in
tents. There are probably thrtv-ive
other tents used for living quarters. Five
big hotels have been recently or are now
being built, some of them large three
story structures having 100 rooms. Res
taurants are numerous and there are also
number of small bunk houses.
The town so far is chiefly of the restau>
rant and hotel order Not many heavy
stores have opened.
The railroad is building warehouse OF
corrugated iron 1000 feet long. Others
are building corrugated iron structures, land
buildings of that class in Bennett are being
torn down and removed.
Two newspapers are to be started before
the middle of the month. One will be
known as the Tribune with Mr.. Burte,
lately of Vancouver as the editor. The
other will be known as the Star and will
be owned and operated by P. Schar-
schmidt of the Bennett Sun.
J. I. Bethune announces he and others
have taken steps to get franchise for an
electric light plant.
The town ALREADY has a board of trade
and an athletic club. A post office will be
opened tomorrow.
great deal of building is going on, es-
pecallv in the construction of hotels, and
carpenters are in demand. Lumber has
been very scarce until the last few days,
but now it is beginning to arrive freely
from mills at Caribou. Millhaven, Bennett
and Taku. Griffith a Skagwav dealer,
has been here looking over the field with
the intention of opening ward, and j. A.
SayWard, a Victoria lumber dealer, has
opensd an Office and saws he has half a
million feet of lumber on the way from
Victoria. Carpenters are getting from
SIS. 50 to $500 day.
The townsite covers $50 acres on beau
tiful lakeland, ten feet above high water
mark and on the west side Of the river,
The site is partly covered with a light
growth of spruce and small cottonwoods.
Out of this woody growth has been cut
several fine straight and wide streets.
The streets paIallelng the river are term
ed avenues, the first being First Avenue,
and so on. Through the center is Main
street, 100 feet wide. The greater part of
the business houses are on the west side of
First Avenue. The depot and railroad
tracks and the waterfront warehouses are
on the other side,
Lots are sold by the townsi e people at
from $3.50 to 81, 900, One of the best lots
was resold by an individual for 81, 900.
The government has reserved number of
blocks. and will probably sell them after
wear or two. On one of the blocks on
First avenue Dominion telegraph Office
and dwelling place for the teegrapher is
being erected.
The Pacih, Express Company has OPEN
ed an office in the town, with Agent Rog-
ers of the railroad in charge.
At present there is no customs port al
White Horse, but d. Menzies is here to
check goods being bonded through to Daw.
son. White Horse will be made port of
entry before the end of the month. In the
meantime all goods being shipped from
the American side for White Horse are
being cleared at Bennett.