3-085-928 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

On the Way to Klondike, 1898. '1. Near the Summit, Skagway Trail. 2. Packing Across White Pass. 3. Pitchfork Falls, from Skagway Pass. 4. Skagway River, from First Bridge. 5. Crossing the Skagway River: Temporary Work. 6. The Six-Months-Old Town of Skagway, now containing a Population of Three Thousand. From Photographs by Colonel Domville. The Canadian Dominion Government scheme for creating a railway route across its North-West Territories to the Klondike gold-field region is obstructed by a measure passed in the United States Congress forbidding the reduction of the Customs' dues at Wrangel, on the Stickeen river, in favour of the Canadian traffic, unless the Atlantic sea-coast fisheries on the Canadian shores be opened to fishermen belonging to the United States. It is thought likely that another route will therefore be chosen from Fort Simpson to Teslin Lake, at greater cost. There is a rumour of a territorial boundary dispute, and even of United States troops hauling down the British flag on the Chilkoot White Pass. Mr. Olney, the late American Secretary of State, has made a very friendly speech about England, which he declares to be the most natural friend of his own country.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.