"A British company has had in contemplation for some time the construction of a railroad from the head of navigation on Taku Inlet, near Juneau, to Teslin, or Aklene Lake, and thence down some small rivers to the Yukon and the mines. Even by this route there would be need of portages. The natural way to take in freight, unless the hurry be great, is by St. Michael and up the Yukon. To establish even a wagon road over Dalton's Trail on the prairie, a railroad over the divide from Dyea to Lake Linderman, or a railroad as planned by the English company, concessions would have to be secured from the British Government." FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO THE MINES. OCEAN ROUTE. Miles. To St. Michael's 2,850 To Circle City 4,350 To Forty Mile 4,600 To Klondyke 4,650 OVERLAND ROUTE. Miles. To Juneau (by steamer) 1,680 Juneau to Chilkat 80 Juneau to Dyea 100 Juneau to head of navigation 106 Juneau to summit of Chilcoot Pass 114 Juneau to head of Lake Linderman 123 Juneau to foot of Lake Linderman 127 Juneau to head of Lake Bennet 128 Juneau to foot of Takish Lake 173 Juneau to head of Lake Marsh 178 Juneau to head of canyon 223 Juneau to head of White Horse Rapids 225 Juneau to Tahkeena River 240 Juneau to head of Lake Lebarge 256 Juneau to foot of Lake Lebarge 284 Juneau to Hotalinqua River 318 Juneau to Big Salmon River 349 Juneau to Little Salmon River 385 Juneau to Five Fingers Rapids 444 Juneau to Rink Rapids 450 Juneau to White River 599 Juneau to Stewart River 609 Juneau to Sixty-Mile Post 629 Juneau to Lawson City 678 Juneau to Forty-Mile Post 728 Juneau to Circle City 898 Forty-Mile to diggings at Miller Creek 70 Circle City to diggings at Birch Creek 50 Klondyke to diggings 5 PERILS OF THE TRIP. ENCOUNTERS WITH THE ICE AND SNOW IN THE PASSES TO THE UPPER YUKON. A letter, written to the San Francisco Examiner by Edgar A. Mizner, gives a graphic picture of life in the Klondyke region and the hardships and perils that the miner may expect to meet and undergo. He is at present the agent of the Alaska Commercial Company there. He set out from Seattle for the Yukon in March last. He had had mining experience before, having been frozen in one Winter on the Pend d'Oreille. Mizner Mountain, over against the Kootenai country, is named for him, his prospecting pick being the first to find pay ore there.