Excerpt from The Whitehorse Copper Belt, Yukon TerritoryWhitehorse, in addition to being the terminus of the railway from the coast, is also the head of navigation on the Yukon. In the summer season, lasting about five months, steamers sail regularly for Dawson, a distance of 450 miles, connecting there with larger steamers, which descend to the sea, a further distance of miles. In the winter season communication is kept up by means of stages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.