The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-18
Yukon Transportation Companies
Form a Combination.
HEADQUARTERS At skAowAY.
white Pass & Yukon Railway Cor
poration Practically Absorbs the
Properties of the John Irving and
Canadian Development Companies
-One Of the strongest Alliances
in Northwest-Improv Service.

A strong combination OF transportation
companies doing business in Alaska ana
the Northwest Territory has been folmeu'
The White Pass & Yukon Railway COM
many has practically absorbed the Canadi-
an Development Company and the John
Irving Navigation Company. The man
agement Of the three big companies mas
been brought under one control, wnich
will be from general headquarters at sKas-
way.
Publication has been authorized or the
fact that the steamers. the assets, the
wharf interests at Atlin and the Taku
tramway. owned and operated heretofore
under the name and management or the
John Irving Navigation Company. limited,
have been purchased by company COM
posed OF r. r. Elliott, manager OF the
Canadian Development Company; Il. c.
Hawkins, general manager John Hislop,
assistant chief engineer, and J. p. Rogers.
superintendent of the White Pass Yu-
kon route.
Under orders issued by the new COM
pany, n. T. Elliott assumed the manage
ment on June IA OF the properties ac-
quired from tho John Irving Navigation
Company, In addition TO the general man
agement of the affairs of the Canadian
Development Company.
The requirement of the John Irving
properties by company in which three
OF the four men principally interested are
officials Of the White Pass road, and the
placing OF r. T. Elliott. Of the Canadian
company. In charge. means that the three
concerns are now closely allied and that
the same interests that direct the affairs
of the White Pass a. Yukon railroad form
the controlling interest in the big COM
bination. The new management, Ii is an
nounced, win at once improve the service
on the routes formerly covered by the
John Irving Company. and complete the
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city service equal In every way to
that maintained by the Canadian Develop
ment Company.
The new combination creates one OF the
strongest. most extensive and most
wealthy of Northwestern transportation
companies. Having a river division be-
tween White Horse and Dawson, the rail-
road company has extended its operative
department to Dawson. 1t is expected
that the Atlin route requirements will be
formed into a similar division. AS to
the exact service to be given and the
schedule of steamboat movements on the
A.,'n run. no official information Is yet
given ont.
The White pass company now has some
eight or ten steamers, practically Its own.
running in connection with the railroad on
the Atlin and Dawson routes, and there
are several other lake and river COM
panies connecting with the road. All traf-
tic distributed by the road will first pass
through the gateway OF Skagway, and
all tributary to the road will come TO that
point seeking outlet below
The new steamer which Capt. John
Irving has been building at Bennett, and
which is nearly ready to run, is not d.
rectly included in the transfer mentioned.
hut win he owned by the same system.
That steamer. which was to have been
known the Reaper. was bought by the
Canadian Development Company fort
night ago. and will be operated under the
flag OF that company. She will be given
the name OF Zelandlau.