“I determined the descent from the summit to Lake Lindeman by carrying the aneroid from the lake to the summit and back again, the interval of time from start to return being about eight hours.  Taking the mean of the readings at the lake, start and return, and the single reading at the summit, the height of the summit above the lake was found to be 1,237 feet.  While making the survey from the summit down to the lake I took the angles of depression of each station from the preceding one, and from these angles I deduced the difference of height, which I found to be 1,354 feet, or 117 feet more than that found by the aneroid.  This is quite a large difference; but when we consider the altitude of the place, the sudden changes of temperature, and the atmospheric conditions, it is not more than one might expect.

“While at Juneau I heard reports of a low pass from the head of Chilkoot Inlet to the head waters of Lewes River.  During the time I was at the head of Taiya Inlet I made inquiries regarding it, and found that there was such a pass, but could learn nothing definite about it from either whites or Indians.  As Capt.  Moore, who accompanied me, was very anxious to go through it, and as the reports of the Taiya Pass indicated that no wagon road or railroad could ever be built through it, while the new pass appeared, from what little knowledge I could get of it, to be much lower and possibly feasible for a wagon road, I determined to send the captain by that way, if I could get an Indian to accompany him.  This, I found, would be difficult to do.  None of the Chilkoots appeared to know anything of the pass, and I concluded that they wished to keep its existence and condition a secret.  The Tagish, or Stick Indians, as the interior Indians are locally called, are afraid to do anything in opposition to the wishes of the Chilkoots; so it was difficult to get any of them to join Capt.  Moore; but after much talk and encouragement from the whites around, one of them named “Jim” was induced to go.  He had been through this pass before, and proved reliable and useful.  The information obtained from Capt.  Moore’s exploration I have incorporated in my plan of the survey from Taiya Inlet, but it is not as complete as I would have liked.  I have named this pass “White Pass,” in honor of the late Hon. Thos.  White, Minister of the Interior, under whose authority the expedition was organized.  Commencing at Taiya Inlet, about two miles south of its north end, it follows up the valley, of the Shkagway River to its source, and thence down the valley of another river which Capt.  Moore reported to empty into the Takone or Windy Arm of Bove Lake (Schwatka).  Dr. Dawson says this stream empties into Taku Arm, and in that event Capt.  Moore is mistaken.  Capt.  Moore did not go all the way through to the lake, but assumed from reports he heard from the miners and others that the stream flowed into Windy Arm, and this also was the idea of the Indian “Jim” from what I could gather from his remarks in broken English and Chinook.  Capt.  Moore estimates the distance from tide water to the summit at about 18 miles, and from the summit to the lake at about 22 to 23 miles.  He reports the pass as thickly timbered all the way through.