"Another man was loaded with window panes. He had sheets of glass seven by nine inches in size. When he got to Dawson, he sold them for $2. Pane Glass was so scarce at that time that beer bottles brought a price as window lights for log cabins. They were piled up lengthwise or set endwise into the windows being chinked round with mud."

Some of Mr. White's stories related to the towns along the line. There were settlements of log huts and cities of tents. The town of White Pass contained thousands of tents, occupied by men and women waiting for rafts and boats to be completed to carry them down through the lakes and by way of the river to Dawson. In the spring of 1858, there were 20,000 persons camped at the head of Lake Bennett at the time of the breaking of the ice. The shores of the lake you can see the remains of Alike King's Sawmill, which cut lumber at the rate of $50 per 1,000 and upward for the making of boats to go over the lake." 