The Canadian Government has decided to construct a telegraph line
to connect the Yukon Territory with British Columbia. A party of
engineers and surveyors has already left to commence the work
without delay. The plan of the Minister of Public Works is to
construct the line of telegraph between Lake Bennett & Dawson City
at once.  At the same instant, surveyors will examine the 
country northward from Quesnelle, British Columbia, which is the
terminus of the present government system (the old Cariboo Line),
in order to connect with the circuit in to Dawson City.  The
Minister has decided that the franchise for the telegraph route
to Dawson is too valuable and too important from the standpoint
of national security to be allowed into any other hands save
the Canadian Government.