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but to hosts of tourists as well. The road, which in reaching White 

 Pass summit will have a maximum gradient of a little more than 

 five per cent, is of narrow-gauge construction, solidly supported on 

 dressed ties brought from the forests of Oregon. No terminal ap- 



pears to have been as yet definitely determined upon, although the 

 charter act recites Fort Selkirk on the Yukon, about one hundred and 

 sixty miles above Dawson, as such. Operating as it now does sixteen 

 miles or more of road, it is already an extensive freight, carrier; but 

 until its completion to Bennett or to some point close to a navigable 

 part of the Yukon River, the Chilkoot Pass tramway, a remarkable 



