The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-11
BIG TRAVEL SURE
 ID COME THIS NAY Bennett Steamboat Men Are
 Getting to. Work.
TO BE A BUSY SEASON
More Freight Expected Than All
 the Lake Steamers Can Handls--
 Three Companies Rolled Into the Kiondiks Corporation Company.

A big lnpourlng from the south of skilled Yukon lake and river steamboat men occurred yesterday. nearly fifty anlv- Ing on the steamer Amur. All are bound In to prepare steamers for navigation. and later to operate them.
 One of these parties comprises Captain Bailey and six men who will work on the Slbvl.
 Another, and the largest and most com plete and significant party to come north on such an expedition Is that of the klon. dlke Corporation. Limited, of which Me- Donald Potts, who also came, Is general manager.
 This company was recently organized In England. taking over what was the Klon- dlke Trading and Transportation Com. pany, the Klvndke Goldhelds Company, and the Bennett Lake & KlondIke Naviga- ton Company. The l;tter company was the best known to the public, and it Is in connection with the navigation branch of the new company that the present expe~ dtlon has chiefly to do.
 Accompanying the general manager are forty other people, mJstly Yukon river captains and engineers and other members of boat crews. In fact all the members of the boats crews of the Klondike corpora ton arc with MT. Potts. They will get off right away for the interior, where they will put in condition the steamers Ora. Nora and Flora for the coming season.
 The chief officers of the different vessels of the company and the places at which the vessels now are follow:
 Steamer Ora, now at Lower LaBarge; Capt. Williams, commander; Capt. Bragg. pilot.
 Steamer Flora, now at Lower LaBsrge; Capt. Martineau, m master; Capt. campbe |, -'SteamtF Nora, now at the mouth of the McClIntoek; Capt. Cox, master; Capt. Wolber, pilot; Peter Craig, chief engineer.
 Manager Potts announces that Peter Copeland will be the Skagwsy agent of the company this season, R. w. Calder head will be agent at Dawson. and Robert Hall at Bennett.
 It Is the intention of the manager to re- main In the north, that Is between Bennett and Dawson the greater part of the sum mer. Victoria, however. will be his head quarters. After few days visit to Ben nett he will go to Victoria. where he will remain three weeks previous to coming north for the summers work. Mr. Potts was last year auditor of the Bennett Lake & Klondlke company. and Is the only off, eer of that company who has.been retained by the new corporation. He is a young man. vet one in whose face Is shown busi' ness shrewdness. Mr, Potts says:
 "ln all likelihood we shall this summer have no other than our regular fleet, but the vessels will be In good condition and we shall endeavor to operate them to the best possible advantage. have the op- tlon to purchase four large steamers now on the Yukon, but do not know that | want them under the prospects. It appears that because of the light snow in the in- terlor there will be very low water In the Yukon this season, and that the large steamers will be able to do but little. However, we hope to keep busy with our smaller light draft craft.
 "i intend to put the Ora and the Flora into Dlwson this season ahead of all other vessels, Freight to load them both the first trip Is already secured.
 "It appears navigation will oren three or four weeks earlier this year than ever before. More freight Is coming by the skagwav route to Dawson this year than the boats will be able to handle.
 "We have thirty to forty claims in the Klondlke."