Three White Pass sleighs laden with eggs and being hauled down the river
en route to the foot of Lake Lebarge, broke through the ice last Friday near the mouth of the Tahkini river thirteen miles below Whitehorse. The team hauling the sleds, which were being trailed, did not get into the water.
While nearly three hundred cases of the eggs were in the water for a short time, only a few dozen cases were broken. The others were rescued as speedily as possible and were brought back to Whitehorse on Monday when Supt. Cash put a force of "egg wipers" to work with the result that the most of the consignment will be little the worse for the accident but the profit of transportation will be rudely shattered.
The local freight shed now presents a scene worth witnessing - something like 100,000 of eges lying on canvas on the floor, The "fillers" are being dried and the eggs will be repacked. As the shipment was destined for Fairbanks from Seattle, the eggs are in bond and cannot be disposed of locally. For this reason all damaged eggs, even those but slightly cracked, have been thrown into the river.
