. Touring Alaska and the Yellowstone . lity of thisroad-bed, for it has existed since the beginning ofthe earth, and is composed of solid granite, whosenatural foundation is two thousand feet in this immovable support the railroad finds itsperch. These wooden trestles spanning the gorgesare to be replaced with structures of iron andsteel. At the White Pass Canon, we are far above thesnow line, travelling through a white world of sur-passing beauty. At the tunnel, we are switched back, and trainand engine are reversed; also at Round altitude now is 2,200 feet. As we stop to
. Touring Alaska and the Yellowstone . lity of thisroad-bed, for it has existed since the beginning ofthe earth, and is composed of solid granite, whosenatural foundation is two thousand feet in this immovable support the railroad finds itsperch. These wooden trestles spanning the gorgesare to be replaced with structures of iron andsteel. At the White Pass Canon, we are far above thesnow line, travelling through a white world of sur-passing beauty. At the tunnel, we are switched back, and trainand engine are reversed; also at Round altitude now is 2,200 feet. As we stop to ad-just the engine and train, I walk away from thetrack, about a hundred feet, and from a deepcrevasse gather huge snowballs, with which I peltthe passengers, to the amusement of all of of a genuine snowball fight on the twenty-ninth day of June, with the sun shining brightlydown upon us! During the winter months severe gales ragethrough these gorges, and the temperature fallsto thirty-five degrees below zero. Much credit is. Over White Pass to Lake Bennett 217 due to the excellent management and system ofthis railroad company for the fact that during thewhole winter season, there were only three weeksof impassible roads by reason of heavy the exception of these, the trains made theirruns in all kinds of weather, forcing a passagethrough almost insurmountable obstacles. One ofthe snow cuts, 1 am told, through which enginesand trains passed, was thirty feet in depth. A telegraph line is established between Skagwayand Dawson City. The rate is, I believe, two dol-lars and a half for ten words. At one time duringthe construction of the road, seventeen hundred menwere employed. Laborers were paid fifty cents aday more than the men who worked on the end ofthe line. The tracks are single to the summit, andto Lake Bennett, and two passenger trains are rundaily. As my eyes follow the old Pack Trail, in fancy Isee the brave men trudging along it as in pioneerda
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