... Skagway sprang into life and became famous overnight during the gold rush of [18]97 and '98. It is the transfer point into the interior of Alaska and the Canadian Yukon Territory and is the ocean terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Route rail line.... As the steamer stops approximately twelve hours at Skagway, ample time is afforded to make the side trip to Lake Bennett via the White Pass and Yukon Route. In Skagway, Blanchard's garden should be visited. Here we find flowers of many varieties growing to such enormous size as to almost defy the imagination. [Site of the old Blanchard Garden 6th St, btwn Alaskan and Main.] Alaska Steamship Company