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Show A DIFFICULT TASK. DUILDINQ RAILROADS IN TUB PAR NORTH. ths Vfhlls ! end Tk. LUs Is At- mt Comi'LLd Aro.ittan t'splUlLU Art 1'ntlilag !ttlniniDt L,nlrirUe In Ataika. (Special Utter.) jaW CTS1 IK White I'ais & gaSr "Tlli liikon railway Ian tr Jtllb lln 'rom 8,,Ku'"r- tRhlli. A,,,K. to l'ort 8,, fJoviS k'rl' iloInlnon ' fv-tgft Canada Thla lint yy will he constructed Al In thwe divisions, Ji' Ja Dr M nunlr romP" J-?iVSi nlea, Incorporated G&jdffXt under separate and " Independent char ters. Tho Parlftc nnd Arctle railway nnd Navigation company will build the line from Sksguay to tho summit of Whlto Pass, at the International boundary, boun-dary, a distance of 19.041 mtlce. This company Is, of course, Incorporated In the United Statu llslweeu tha International In-ternational boundary and tha sixtieth parallel, which Is the dividing lino between Urltleh Columbia and the dominion do-minion ot Canada, the road will be built by tbe llrltlth Columbia Yukon Hallway company. Incorporated by specsl act of the colonial legislature at Victoria, from and beyond the sixtieth six-tieth psrnllel Ihe rosd will be built by the Urltleh Yukon Mining, Trading and Transportation company, Incorporated Incor-porated In special act ot tbs Canadian parliament at Otlawa All lbs con- AT Tim Bl'MMIT OK WIIITU TABS structlon work of these three local systems will bo carried by the Paclflo Contract company S. II Urares ot Chicago Is president of this company and also of each ot the three local companies named i: C Hawkins, formerly ot Denver, Is tbo chlst engineer en-gineer and superintendent of ths White Pa and Yukon company, John Hlilop I the assistant chief euglneer, and I. 11. Whiting la tho division engineer en-gineer and superintendent ot tho Bka-gusy Bka-gusy division. Work waa commented on the survey sur-vey ot the road early In April, and track laying waa begun In Hkaguay In lb wtly part of June. Al tha dst the Information for thl article was forwarded, Aug 19, twelve mtlca of road had been completed and put Into In-to operation. This carried tbe line to a point five mile beyond a noted rock-cutting rock-cutting at Porcuplno Hill, which will he referred to agnln presently. The road atarta at tbe wharf In Ska-guay, Ska-guay, where there Is thirty feet of water at tho lowest spring tide. As at present constructed. It extends through the buslne center of lb town, along "llroadway." In order to properly protect franchise rights, the construction of tbe first mile of the road wss rushed thruugh In one day lly au extension of tha termlusl facilities fa-cilities another branch of the road will bo run from tho wharf through the border ot Hie town, along the foot of tbe steep bluff to the eastward. The lino crones to tho west aide ot the-Skaguay the-Skaguay river at a olnt one and one-half one-half miles above tbe business center of the town. It rrcrousc tho rlvs'r, and, to gsln elevation, makes a loop up tbo narrow valley of tbe east fork of Hkaguay river, aa tho first loop from Sksguay. At tbe exit from this loop tbo line encounters heavy rock work at a point seven miles from Skaguay known as Porcupine Hill, previously referred to. Tho elevation of this point Is something over 700 feet above sen level, and most of this elevation Is reached by Ihe road In n little more than three miles At thl second loop the line leave Ihe river and asconds toward tbe summit of the pass At a point about fifteen and one-half miles from Sksgusy tberu will be an Iron truss bridge of IW feet spsn The elevation of the pas at the summit Is 1,880 feet, and the elevation of tbe track 2.8C6 feet, there being a cut of fifteen feet for a rousldsrablo distance dis-tance Tbe distance from Skaguay to tha summit ou an air lino I fourteen mils. The work haa been very Interesting from an engineering point ot view, by Virtue of tbe fact that almost the entire en-tire way from three mile beyond Skaguay Ska-guay to the summit Is entirely rock, ind there are some heavy cuts Thsre will be but one tunnel, about MO feet long, on tbe entire route 'o the summit sum-mit Tbo heavleat gradient will be It per cent, and this gradient I obtained ob-tained without a switchback. Tbe maximum curvature will be sixteen de-trees, de-trees, which, for a rsirrow gauge track, is not at all excessive. There will save been used when the summit li reached about 2C0 tons ot dynamite, ludion and common black blasting sowder, so that one may Imagine that lome heavy blasting work Is being lone. Tbe gauge of track Is three feet and he weight ot the steel that Is being aid Is fltty-slx pounds per yard, T rail, aid upon sawed tie six Inches by light Inches by six and a bait feet, ingle bars being used for Joint splices Everything Is being done In the most ubstantlal manner and the Toad la omplsted as the work advances. On this side ot the summit there baa bsefl H a ahortage of gravel fer ballast, It be- H Ins necessary to obtain the supply H from the river beds llut bsyond tha H summit there are some very line gra- IH vel deposits, which will suable tho IH company to provide an excellent road aaB bed. Work on tbe Interior from tha HMH summit to tbe lakes baa Just eommeno- rxKH ed, and upon this division the worta SPflfl will encounter mainly gravel and sand JBaafl wlfli light rock work In place agHgj A at present completed the road Is (Saaasaaxi In operation beyond one of the most BeaaM dlflleult points which the pickers had aiaKl to pas during the days of heavy trans- SavSt portatlon ot would-be Klondlkers. It JaiBSaf Is expected that by tbe 10th ot Sep- HhH timber the emit road will be com KSH pleted and In operation tram Skaguay 939 to tli summit ot White pan Tha mUM road Is now, and has been for soras raWwi time, carrying freight, and as soon aa HmK the pisssnger cosche arrlre, passen- LgaS gir traffic will begin Arrnngementa ! have already been mid with packers SHrW so that freight carried lo the end ot KVE the line, as now constructed and In op- faaUH eratlon, will be taken and carried on- raxeBteal ward through the pane to the lakes, 1 where It meets steamboat navigation. IH Tho first consignment of freight re- H celpt blanks were shipped from Seattle H a few daya ago, and tho freight bull H ness Is now being strictly attended to. 1 A Urge barge left Seattle on Aug. IS H having, beside, a quantity of rail and H lumber, tin fiat cars, three locomotives. jH one bsggsie and passenger, and on pssssnger coicb. Tbe latter are tbe first pssienger coarhes that will ar- 1 rive In Alaska They should reach H there about Aug. 27 and will be Imme- H dlately placed In service These three H locomotive, with Ihe two already H thero, will make five locomotive In H service, and preparations are now be- H Ing made for letting n contract for the H construction nt several Isrge conxoll- H dated locomotives tor heavy service. H Thsre are nt present under construe- H Hon In Seattle thirty box core and H twenty flat ears. One of earb class H will be set up complete upon Its truck H and shipped, but tbe remainder will H be framed and shipped In "knocked- H down" condition, Ihe trucks botng lis H up ready to be placed under the car H aa soon as they art) unloaded at Ska- H guay Thero I a round house already M completed at Skaguay, and extensile M machine shop are In course of con- H structlon, to be equipped with machln- H ery, such aa lathe, drill presses, plan- H era, wheel presses, etc , with a power H plant lo operate the same. I fM |