Alaska and the Panama canal . year. I will tell you about the only two that have never goneinto the hands of a receiver, although these two have neverpaid the stockholders any dividends. The White Pass & Yukon Route, from Skagway, Alaska,to White Horse, in the Yukon Territory, Canada, is no milesin length. Twenty miles of the line is in the United 1897, when the Dawson placer deposits were discovered,thousands of men sailed from all over the world to Skagway,winter and summer alike, and hundreds lost their lives on theWhite Pass through snowslides and exposure. Then this rail-road wa
Alaska and the Panama canal . year. I will tell you about the only two that have never goneinto the hands of a receiver, although these two have neverpaid the stockholders any dividends. The White Pass & Yukon Route, from Skagway, Alaska,to White Horse, in the Yukon Territory, Canada, is no milesin length. Twenty miles of the line is in the United 1897, when the Dawson placer deposits were discovered,thousands of men sailed from all over the world to Skagway,winter and summer alike, and hundreds lost their lives on theWhite Pass through snowslides and exposure. Then this rail-road was quickly and well built by English capital, and the traildestroyed by blasting for rail construction. There followed arate of twenty cents a mile per passenger, with any old ratefor freight. The same rates are still in effect, and as the com-pany owns the boats on the Yukon River for some 1,200 miles,passengers and shippers are up against the same monopoly ofinternal trat^c, both in the Yukon Territory and Alaska INSPIR.\TI0X POINT, OX WHITE PA.^S 44 ALASKA
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