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Higlnv av Progress
Jack Sutherland Returns From Flying Trip to Dawson
Creek with Optimistic Report Highway Building Job
Jack Sutherland, ft rmerly of Nome, dew to Edmon
ton last week to make a survey of the new road plans
and talk with Col. W. M. Hoge. Corps of Engineers.
U. S. Army, at Dawson Creek, concerning a contract
he has a: the Whitehorse end of the road.
"The Alaska International Highway is actually un
der way." said Sutherland upon his -eturn to Seattle,
and actual construct! n work is being pushed from the
end of steei m the Alberta Northern Railroad heading
through Fort Nels.n, Watson Lake. Whitehorse. Boun
Gary and th Richardson Highway in :■ Fairbanks. Sup
plies, machinery and materials with engineers, survey
ors and U. S. $ Idiers have been on a 24-hour schedule
since March 8. Trucks, tractors ar.d dog teams have
been hauling freight ahead to the front line beyond Fort
Nelson across frozen muskeg, three rivers and many
creeks to get ahead of the spring thaw which will be
earlier this year than usual.
"From the end of steel at Dawson Creek where ware
houses and a tent camp is now located to Fort Nelson
is 370 miles and supplies must be hauled beyond this
point to last several months as freighting in that sec
tion is begged down during spring thaws and nearly
impossible to carry on.
Better Condtions Beyond Fort Nelson
“From Fort Nelson to Watson Lake, where a landing
field has beer, built, the contour maps show better road
budding conditions and less muskeg Much material
and equipment is now being taken to Prince Rupert
where, because of the shortage of b .us. it will be put
onto barges and taken to Skagway.
“The haul road for contractors will be a 24-foot-wide
gr-vel-top highway. Colonel Hoge already has survey
parties locating the route for this pioner road as far
at present as 600 miles beyond Dawson Creek.
Driving for Early Completion _
The Public Roads Administration, through the west
err civ.si n out of San Francisco, has the job of push
ing the contractors to complete this new "Burma Road '
s- traffic can pass over it to Fairbanks within a year’s
t me M r.y engineers and parties from San Francisco.
Denver. Portland and other western points are on the
ground and more arriving daily to add another "Job
Completed' on time in this much-needed defense pro
gram."
Sutherland says that from ah accounts, there will
fce s m* forty contractors doing the job before White
horse reached. It is through! that the Whitehorse.
Boundary, Fairbanks end of the main road construc
t: n will be handled through the Juneau office of the
Pub.ic ?..ads Administration. Contractors from Alaska
and the Northwest will divide this mileage in sections
acj re: , t the equipment on hand to complete the
: ad r. time, and this section should be in shape for
p^u-in, traffic for war needs by December. 1942.
th>.u:n :t will take another year to put the highway in
sh nr . - .. finished product.
Many Oldtimers in Dawson Creek
in Daws - Creek and faces are
s . c ampede in the railroad days of
A*. -1_ met AI Brown, oldtime Alaska
K . a C: mmisslon engineer at the Edmonton office of
the 1 E A . Bob McLeod of early day pack horse fame
f; A rage: Jack Wheeler. C -per River packer:
S.: St; r.g of Portland Canal pi r.eer days, and Tom
L I . l.ve in the same cabin: Billy Baikee of Ketchikan
:> • : the cooks at Camp Dawson, while Frank King
o: N m an electrical contract r was looking over
the job.
"Lac. r .- no problem for a contractor who knows
h t handle the situation 1 plenty of exper
ienced c r.struction men glad of this opportunity. Sev
er.. hundred men are already at Whitehorse and much
equ; ; t now in Alaska is enr me via Skagway for
the \V : her>e end of the work, -aid Sutherland.
S Brett. Lt. General. U. S. Army, deputy
C ntmr.rder. Allied Forces. Southwest Pacific:
Give me one hundred aim fighters to two hundred
Japs and I’ll lick them every tune."
'A carpet should be beaten slowly.” says a spring
elearn r.g hint. The average husband, suspecting that
he wig be required to perform thus operation, beats it
as fast u> he .an.—The Humorist ;London)
See Alaska
Highway As
R. R. Route
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Capital Sources Predict U.
S. Rail Link to Alaska
Along Inland Roadbed.
Washington. D. C. — In
formed quarters here pre
dicted freely this week
that efforts are now under
way to link the United
States with Alaska by rail
r ad. using as a roadbed
the International Highwav
r. uv being constructed ov
er the "Inland Route.”
It is reliably reported
that the railroad project
is being urged on Presi
dent Roosevelt by persons
in whom he has the great
est confidence.
Those "in the know' are
inclined to the belief that
a railroad, rather than a
highway, is already an as
sured fact.
They point out that men
who have traversed the
proposed route now under
construction state that the
roadway is being held to a
"grade” suitable for rail
road use.
Reports differ as to tne
.actual course of the rail
road. but agree that the
Aiaska terminus would be
at Fairbanks, making a
junction with the Alaska
Railroad.
One reported course is
that the railr >ad would fol
low the route of the propos
ed International Highway
between Fort St. George
.md Watson Lake and then
continue along what is
known as the “B” route up
the valley of the Francis
River, over Bering Divide
into the Pelly River wa
tershed. and by some un
determined route be brot
to the north bank of the
Tanana. some distance east
• ;f Tanacross, and then to
Fairbanks.
The other report is that
t h e suggested railroad
would be built entirely on1
the "B" route, departing
from Prince George, and
continuing north to Wat
son Lake and thence by
the route above described
into Alaska to Fairbanks.
It is said that such a rail
road could be built for
S63.000.000 and be com
pleted in 16 months.
It will be remembered
that ;n one of the Presi
dent's press conferences,
held some time ago. he
mentioned the possibility
of building a railroad from
the States to Alaska, say
ing that the subject was
under study. This was
even bef re announcement
had been made that the
highway project had been
adopted and that the high
way would be built.
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