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many of the valleys without being fed. In fact extensive 

 portions of Yukon are considered to be very suitable for 

 stock-raising and agricultural purposes. The great abun- 

 dance of beautiful flowers in the gardens at Dawson are 

 always a source of wonder to those unfamiliar with the 

 district. 



Moose, caribou, sheep, and black, brown, and grizzly 

 bears are plentiful in many districts, as well as many 

 varieties of valuable fur-bearing animals. The streams 

 and lakes nearly everywhere abound in fish, chiefly, 

 grayling, whitefish, lake-trout, pike and salmon. 



ANNOTATED GUIDE. 



o m. Skagway — Altitude o. ft. Leaving Skagway 



o km. the train begins almost immediately a steady 

 climb over the mountains of the Coast range, 

 and in most places the granitic rocks of the 

 Coast range batholith are well exposed. The 

 railway zigzags up the precipitous mountain 

 sides, passing the hanging rocks at Clifton, and 

 rounding one point after another where huge 

 masses of rock have been blasted away. Look- 

 ing down hundreds of feet below the track, in 

 places, can be seen the foaming, rushing Skag- 

 way river, and the old trail over which so many 

 men struggled in their mad rush to the Klondike 

 before the building of the railway. Still 

 ascending, the train passes through the tunnel, 

 thence over the steel cantilever bridge 215 feet 

 (65 m.) above the bottom of the canyon. 

 Everywhere the smoothed, polished, naked rock 

 surfaces, the precipitous-sided U-shaped valleys 

 of the larger streams and the hanging valleys of 

 their tributaries are evidence of intense glacia- 

 tion. The scenery here is wild and rugged in 

 the extreme. 



♦.19.7 m. White Pass— Altitude 2,887 ft. (878 m.) 

 31.5 km. The White Pass summit of the Coast range is on 

 the boundary between United States and Cana- 

 dian territory and the train here passes from 



*The distances and elevations between Skagway and Whiten orse have r .been kindly 

 furnished by the International Boundary Survey department, Ottawa, and the figures are 

 the resuhs of observations made by Mr. Douglas Nelles, D.L.S., 1908-1910. 



