The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-25
RAILROAD OPEN
 ID HE SUMMIT Rotary Gets Through and Will Go Out Today.
TRAIN IN TOMORROW
Blockade In the Lint Expected 10 Bs Completely Lifted in Anoth- srDay-Trail In Baa Condition

The White Pass & Yukon railroad Is open from Skagway to a point two miles beyond the Summit. The rotary got through the last drift this side of the Summit at IT o'clock last night, and ar rived In Stagway shortly after midnight. The trail Is still m poor condition. Lake Bennett Is reported to De dangerous to cross.
 Superintendent Rogers expects to have the rotary In condition to go out at noon today for the run 10 Bennett. Two to five feet of snow covers the ttaeks from point two miles beyond the 6sAplt to Bennett, and lt IS expected 1t wiB take the rotary twelve to twenty hou.s to open the re- malnder of the line. As.sOon as the rotary reaches Bennett, the ,lin that has been bloekaded there two we s will be brought through to Skagway- a kwlll likely get hare tomorrow. ll isStXptcted the first passenger tralnto get oHt of SkagwaY for Bennett will leave somt be tomorrow.
 The railroad eomsSby oes thirty cars of freight here to take the road, and Superintendent ROgerSsaysN that If the weather remains so the kOad can be operat- ed three days 1t will k gotten thtough. Half the freight belongs to individuals and the other half Is railroad supplies.
 
 The road Is short of coal at number of points along the line. and food at a point or more.
 One of the greatest difficulties eneount. cred In operating the rotary the last two days has been the shortage of co |. The supply that the machine and the attending engine carried gave out, and it was neees- sarv for men to carry coal on their backs yesterday and part of the day before as much as three-quarters of a mile. An average of 2oo men have been at work on the relief train the laSgweek.
 The road from Skag yRv to Glacier Is so free from snow tkat i-sln Went over tha, part of the line ves.et s without even a Hanger.
 Owing to the fact that the railroad Is open to the Summit Is not likely that many, fl any to spesk- E will travel the trail from Skagway C that point. The mushers who got h yssterdav report the trail In no condition bsvOnd White Pass City for horses to travel, aud say It Is difficult for fOOmen or dogs to come or go beyond that point. cA
 Emmett lake Is reported to still be eov- cred with a heavy snow, slushv at the bottom, and travel Of all kinds over the lake Is said to be practically suspended be- ( uS of the danger of going through the Ice, weak from Its heavy burden of the eongealed element.
 All the Red Line teams along the lake are said to have been laid up psndlng. an other freeze.
 Jake Kline, representing the Dawson | City News as correspondent on the road ]. Cessford and Henry MeCaulev arrived yesterday afternoon from Bennett with a dog team. Some had been blockaded in Bennett eleven days. They left there for Skagway Tuesday morning. Mr. Kline says that between White Pass and Ben nett 1t Is not safe for horses. They met the mail from Skagwav on the other side or Poreuplne. Mr. Mecauley brought out a gold brick worth s7o,OOo. He will leave on the Danube today for the south.
 Kline and companions came through without snowshoes but had hard work breaking trail.