Mr Charles R Hosmer, General Manager of the Pacific Postal Telegraph
	Company, says regarding telegraph communication with the Klondike, that
	he understood the Dominion Government of Canada had the matter under
	consideration.  No insurmountable difficulties are in the way, either
	in the construction or the maintenance of a telegraph line via
	Ashcroft and Quesnelle, which was the route adopted in 1866 for
	connecting Asia and North America via the Behring [sic] Sea.  The route
	passes through the present Klondike country.  A line connecting Quesnelle,
	the northernmost point in British Columbia reached by telegraph, and
	Dawson City, if decided upon within a few months, could be in operation
	before this time next year.  Stations can be established every four
	miles and they would be used in connection with the Royal Canadian
	Mounted Police and other departments of the government.


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