WOULD TIE NORTH
TO THE FARTHEST END
Now that Uncle Sam has started the
hall rolling for the big railway sy stem
In Alaska, on which It has been de
cided to spend $35,0(10,000. further pro
jects are being mooted of connecting
the Northland with (he extreme South
land by means of a Pan-American rail
way which will trayerse Central Amer
ica and all of the North American and I
South American regions from Fair
banks. Alaska. to Tlnenos Ayres
Delnhel. formerly of Dawson, agitated
for a long time in eonneetion with
French capitalists, assisted hy Cnpf
Healy, John Rosene and others, for a
railway to connect the Pan-American
system with the P.cring straits and to
cross the straits nnd connect in Siberia
with tile great trans-Siberian svstem
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The scheme made T>awsnn one of tin
chief points touched in the North
Pnpt. Heals was in Dawson and
veyed a portion of the route up the
White river several winters mo It
wns pointed out what advantage it
would he to have a vast system eon
fleeting the midland of Panada and the
Pnited States with the northern roast,
so that military operations might ho
carried on. if desired, against n com
nmn foe from across the Pacific, and
the idea of ramification in all directions
after the line passed south from Daw
son was in larged ad infidtum
Now flirt* fhn American railwav svs
tern in Alaska has been undertaken by
the government some are mm ig for
ward hopin f'*r all the Northland to
he spanned .and lines to radiate from
that center to ever portion of this hem
isphere and to connect eventually with
the systems spanning Asia and Europe
and to connect with Africa Popular
Mechanics gives a late version of the
dream as follows:
The stimulation of commerse be
tween North America and South Amer
ica. due to the European war. has re
vived interest in the project'of an all
rail route connecting the Pnited States
with the countries of the Southern
hemisphere. When this plan is carried
• nit. as it is almost certain to he some
day. for strategic as well as commer
cial reasons, it must he extended to
include a railway connection with Alas
ka. where the Pnited States govern
ment has surveying parties in the field
selecting routes for a railwav s\stem
to develop#* the resources «*f tlmt roiin
t ry.
Such a railwav. reaching eo-ntinu
opsly from the great plateau >>f Pen
tral Alaska to the pampas of South
Ann ah a and beyond won'd constitute
the biggest ••nterpri.se <>f its kind e\ ••!
undertaken, if it wei<* not that more
than half of the line has already been
built and is in operation
Since the surveys for the Pan-Ancr
lean railway were made there has been
a steady development in railwav build
ing in South America, particularly in
Peru. Bolivia. Phili and Argentina, so
tlint much of the work planned at that
lime has already been done That por
tIon of Western Panada lying east of
the Coast range, formerly considered
a forbidden country, with an Arctic
climate, has boon invaded by two trunk
line railways, and its resources arc
being rapidly developed.
Half a dozen different routes would
ho available fur forming the link
through the Putted Stales. over a
route passing down tin I'.M-ith coast
to El Paso, Texas, and thence through
Mexico Pity to Ajutla the total dis
tance by rail from Fairbanks. Alaska
to Buenos Ayres. Argentina, would lie
about 12.700 miles About 7,000 miles
of this fl!st;,ru*e is i*o\'creel b\ existi u
railways, leaving about 6,000 miles to
i be built. On the basis of a liberal
estimate the entire undertaking could
probably bo completed fur less than
$300,000,000.
Kverv variety of climate, from Arctic
fo tropical, as well as topographical
I conditions of Hie most divers kin 1.
would be encountered in building and
operating such a line
Owing to the difficult construction
md the long gaps to be filled, by fal
the biggest expenditures will be latauir
I ed fn building lb rough Central America
md the northern part of South \mer
lea. 'This is a portion «*f the line snr
veved and estimated for tin* Pan
I American railway.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
PURCHASE NEW VESSELS
FOR THE ALASKA TRADE
1 lie Alaska Steamship Company has
delinitely decided to purchase addi
iioiial vessels uf large luimap lor He
Alaska service uf its line, says a
Seattle paper. This is the news brought,
in Scuttle by President At. \\ . iiaxlei,
of Lire Alaska Steamship Company, who
recently armed ITom Southern L’aiil
omia where be lias been in uiiiit iemi
with President S. \Y. Kccles oi llit;
Alaska Syndicate. It is tlie purpose of
the coin pan.) to secure at least two
[ships of nof less than lu.uuu tons each.:
According to plans heretofore an
I nouiiced by J. li. Punch ol llie Alaska;
| Steamship Company, it was propjosodi
to secure two new vessels and lo upei
lain them to Alaska in llie summer time
land through llie Panama canal to At
jlantic posits in llie winter, 'l lie plan
was to get vessels of large tonnsig*
which could handle ore cheaply and
also he desirable for voyages with,
freight cargoes.
FLOUR IS CHEAP.
Bread only 5c. North Polo Bakery
find Anvil Bakery.
A COOK WANTED
Wanted, a good woman oook for road
house. Wri^o Mrs. Lucy Pendergrast.
Marks Roadhouse, Council, Alaska.
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AUSTRIANS MAY
MOVE GOVT.,
ROME, Mnnli 25.—It is otfteiall.v
stated tlmt i\atiz Joseph's government
is again preparing to move Hie seat of
government and the Austrian archives j
to Prague, lest the unusual successes
of ttie Slavs in the t.‘nrpathiaus slioulil
endanger the Austrian capital.
TRAWLERS SUNK
IN DARDANELLES
SOFIA, March 25.— It is reported
that the Turkish guns sank several j
Anglo-French mine trawlers in thej
Dardanelles effectually foiling the at
tempts of the allied Heels to ch ar tin
narrows of hidden mines.
PREPARE FOR
WEST OFFENSIVE
PARIS, March 2'. In concert with
the great Russian offensive in the car
pathiuns and along the extreme right
and left of the German flanks, the allies
in Prance and Belgium are enthusiast -
lordly preparing for a general offensive
against the Germans in the western
war zone.
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