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lasting, and that was all that the Indians 

 required. 



Now Telegraph Creek boasts of a Hudson 

 Bay Company's store, and another general 

 merchandise store, together with a church and 

 a hotel, and quite a cluster of small houses. 



Mr. W. B. Close, of London, England, the 

 man who had the pluck and ability to finance 

 the White Horse Pass Railroad, and his sec- 

 retary. Captain Gordon Cummings, also an 

 Englishman, were aboard the boat. Mr. 

 Close's trip was to explore a new section of 

 country in which large deposits of copper have 

 been found, and perhaps his visit may lead to 

 the building of a new railroad in this virgin 

 section of the Yukon Territory. 



Four priests and three nuns helped to add 

 variety and interest to the more than one hun- 

 dred passengers that were crowded into the 

 steamer. 



One of the most Important of the passen- 

 gers — Mr. Treadgold — is an Englishman, and 

 the most noted gold-mine operator in the 

 Klondike field. He told us about a man who 

 conducted a novel method of transportation 

 in the Klondike rush days. This man in- 

 stalled a strong cable across a deep canyon, 

 through whose valley all the supplies to the 



