Surveyors are at work on the route of a projected railroad into the Klondyke by way of the Taku river, according to R. F. Lewis, owner of the water works at Juneau. Mr. Lewis arrived in the city two days ago and is staying with friends in Oakland.
"A week ago last Wednesday," said he, "a surveying party left Juneau to lay out the line of a railroad from Taku inlet to Lake Teslin. They were piloted by a Juneau man named Packard, who has been over the route three or four times. He reports the
project to be feasible. From Taku inlet, ten miles southeast of Juneau, the trall follows the river northeasterly to its headwaters, and then on to Lake Teslin. Altogether the railroad will be about 130 miles in length. Outside of some rock work here and there along the river, the construction will not be expensive or difficult. Delaware capitalists are behind the scheme, and in four or five weeks from now they will receive the report of the surveyors.
"The one danger ahead of the Taku railroad enterprise is the dilateriness of Congress in doing anything for Alaska, except giving protection to the seals. Most of the route is on United States soil and it may take a long time to secure the right of way.
There is also a movement on foot to construct a road over the Stickeen trail, and as the Canadian Government is prompt in aiding projects of this kind, the Stickeen railroad may get to Lake Teslin long before the other one. From Lake Teslin navigation
is good into the upper basin of the Yukon."
