Yukon is certainly making rapid strides in transportation. Another
evidence of this has just been brought to our attention.
On the morning of March 18th, Bert Petersen, who is in charge of a crew engaged in deepening the channel at Five Finger Rapids, wired D. A. Muirhead at the White Pass & Yukon Route offices here, that he was in urgent need of repairs for some of the machinery being used. Mr. Muirhead wired the company's purchasing department at Seattle, received a reply, and again got in touch with Mr. Petersen by wire at 12.30 p.m. the same afternoon. The repair parts left Vancouver on the Princess Mary that evening. Arriving in Skagway on the morning of the 22nd, they were transferred by auto from the wharf to the White Pass Railway station, and on the 23rd came by train from Skagway to Whitehorse. On the morning of the 24th the parts were loaded on the Alexander Eaglerock biplane, the Northern Light, and taken 135 miles by air route to Carmacks, where Pilot J. M. Patterson made a landing on a small lake about two miles from town. From there they were transferred by dog team to Carmacks, where Sandy Grant was waiting with a horse hooked to a sled hastily improvised by "Slim" Koebke, the handy man of the camp, to take them a further distance of 12 miles to Five Finger Rapids where they arrived that evening.
This rapid and unique delivery is in striking contrast to information received on the last mail by Territorial Agent Higgins from Glasgow, saying that the writer had been advised that merchandise could not be delivered in Yukon until after the opening of navigation in June.
