June 20, 1900 – “Water is rising in the river and large numbers of passengers and tons of freight are going down the river.
The town of White Horse is lively and there is activity in building. Streets and blocks in the townsite are being cleared and graded. The railroad people are making one of the biggest improvements in the way of a warehouse 40 by 1000 feet. Lots are selling fast, and some doubled in price while some have even tripled and quadrupled. All business houses of Bennett are opening houses here, among them Whitney & Pedlar, general merchandise dealers; Shaw Brothers and P. Burns & Co., butchers; and the Bennett News Company.
The town has five hotels, four restaurants, four saloons, two barber shops, one news stand, one steam laundry, two hand laundries, one hardware store, four general merchandise stores.
Norman McCauley’s too-room two-story log hotel is rapidly being completed; Turnus’ Grand, 35 rooms, is now being built, with two stories; C. Racine is putting up a three story 100-room hotel at Front and Main and on a corner lot, for which he paid $2000. The new Hotel Racine is to be lit bv electricity.
Mrs. Taylor, of the Palace Grand, yesterday bought the Hotel Savoy of the British America Corporation Price paid said to be $8000.”
(The Daily Morning Alaskan – Skagway, Alaska)
