. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s without recognizingit he exclaimed: Ive found a toonthat naebody kens aboot. Then he sal- than 500 white men in the territory. Thegold fever, however, soon swelled thattype of population, and it is estimatedthat there are now about 60,000 whitesin Alaska. The following article taken from York Tribune gives a good pictureof the existing conditions in Alaska: Any one who. has visited the part ofAlaska that has been in dispute has soon 534 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING December,
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s without recognizingit he exclaimed: Ive found a toonthat naebody kens aboot. Then he sal- than 500 white men in the territory. Thegold fever, however, soon swelled thattype of population, and it is estimatedthat there are now about 60,000 whitesin Alaska. The following article taken from York Tribune gives a good pictureof the existing conditions in Alaska: Any one who. has visited the part ofAlaska that has been in dispute has soon 534 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING December, 1903. discovered that it was characteristicallyAmerican. Here he found only anotherform of the same Americanism whichpenetrated the wilderness of the prairieof the United States a half century agoand built cities where the buffaloroamed. there would be a fight. A squad ofmounted Canadian police moved theirheadquarters to White Pass, within thedisputed territory, and raised the Britishfiag. As soon as the news reached Skag-way a crowd of men gathered as rapidlyas they do in Kentucky when the law is. SNOWBOUND IN ALASK.\, In Skagway, at the head of the LynnCanal, and now the metropolis of thisdistrict, there are even tokens of thecivilization of far away New York. Thereis another Broadway, and although notwalled up with skyscraping office build-ings nor perforated with a subway, yetin Skagway, as in Manhattan. Broadwayis Broadway. When the thick gold streaks of the At-lin district were discovered, just overthe border line, the wideawake citizensof Skagway were the first to pouncedown on them. They hustled acrossWhite Pass and staked out the bestclaims. After a time came the Canadianofficials, with the demand that the Ameri-can miners should become Canadian citi-zens. There was hardly a man who didnot refuse. The flag is better than gold, was asaying which was heard on every most of the miners went back toSkagway and sought to make their for-tunes in various lines of trade
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