Vanguard Of
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Highway Workers
On (/round
Vanguard of 3.000 U S. Army
Engineers went to work recently
pushing thru Canadian wilder
ness on the first leg of a 1.503
mile overland route to Alaska.
Route finally approved slants
northwest from Edmonton, Alta.,
(north of Montana) to White
horse, Y. T„ thence across the
Canadian border to join Alaska’s
R chardson Highway.
Actual construction of the $50,
000,000 project began at Dawson
Creek, B. C., frontier outpost,
northwest of Edmonton at the
furthermost extension of rail and
read communications.
Favored by *hr U. S. Army be
cause it parallels their militarv
air line, the “praire route” will
pass several recently developed
airports in Canada which were
constructed to service American
army pianos.
Aboard the* first two special
train-- were 04 officers and men
of the Quartermaster Corps, fol
lowed shortly by 300 U. S. Army
Engineers. Carrying u nts. trucks
e.nd food, the trains stopped in
Edmonton only long enough to
take on water for the cook cars.
The personnel was transported in
passenger coaches and freight
cars carried multiple-wheeled
trucks, bulldozers and other road
construction equipment. Job of
the first unit was to prepare hous
ing units and build a “rail head"
camp. The engineers will “bust
through” on the present winter
road, which extends several mil
es north of Fort St. John.
By week’s end, more than 100
civilian-owned trucks were being
employed to freight equipment
son, working day and night in a
from Dawson Creek to Fort Nel
race against an early break-up of
the Peace River, over which the
freight laden trucks have been
crossing.
Meanwhile reports that hun
dreds of civilian laborers were
being sought in Edmonton and
Calgary to assist the army in con
struction of the highway were
branded false by officials of the
D minion employment office.
NOTICE OF FORFEITVKE
To GEORGE H. THOMAS,
HENRY ME EG AN, JAMES H.
KENNEDY. PETER McINTOSH,
WILLIAM H. PACKWOOD, W.
J SOMERVILLE. J. G. GALVIN.
W. A. BOWLES. K N U T E
DRANGE. and ALASKA HOME
STAKE GOLD MINING COM
PANY, A Corporation, and to
•.your and each of your heirs, re
presentatives and assigns:
You and each of you are here
by notified that the undersigned
CHARLES V. OLSON is a Co
owner of each of the following
* gold mining claims located in the
vicinity of Bluff, Alaska, to-wit:
Rsquimo Chief, Eskimo Chief
No. 1, Eskimo Chief No. 2. Es
quimeaux No. J, Idaho, Idaho No.
1, Idaho No. 2, Idaho No. 3, Sea
Gull, Sea Gull No. 1, Sea Gull
No. 2. Sea Gull No. 3.
That for and during each of the
annual mining assessment years
ending respectively July 1st,
years 1935, 1936, 1941, the said
Charles V. Olson expended in
work, labor, improvements and
money at least $100.00 on and for
the benefit of each of said min
ing claims. That said expendi
tures were made for the purpose
of complying with the mining ass
essment laws relative to said
claims and for the years herein
stated.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if within
ninety days of the completion of
the publication of this notice
(said publication being for a
period of ninety days) you fail
or refuse to contribute to the
undersigned Charles V. Olson
your proportionate share of said
expenditures, as a co-owner, your
interest in said claims and each
of said claims will become the
property of Charles V. Olson co
owner, who has made said ex
penditures.
DATED at Nome, Alaska, this
14th day of March, 1942.
CHARLES V. OLSON,
Co-owner.
Bluff, Alaska.
Publish March 16, 2d, 3(1, April
6, 13, 20, 27, May 4 11 18 25;
June 1, 8, 1842.
vigorous Protests Continue To
Route of International Highway
In Spite of Fact that the Army Ignores All Protests
and Proceeds with Construction Plans, Commission
Members Refuse to be Silenced
Amid charges that choice of the “prairie route” over:
the “coastal route” was a “hurried and ill-founded
blunder,” Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes!
said this week that present plans calls for “comple
tion within one year” of the Alaska highway,” “This |
route” Ickes said, “will be protected from the sea by
alpine country unpassable for airplanes for at least
fifty percent of the time due to coastal fogs and storms.”
Saying it was his conviction that the highway “is
one of the most important of all things waiting to be
done,” Ickes, member of a cabinet committee handling
plans for the road, declared “this highway must be
constructed in a hurry.” “After we have fought our
way from ‘Pearl Harbor to Peace’,” Ickes said, “the j
highway will be of enormous benefit to Alaska, Can
ada and the United States.”
Solve Problems of Alaska Development
He predicted that the international highway would
solve “the problems of Alaskan development and set
tlement,” opening up vast resources of mineral wealth
in Alaska hitherto undeveloped because of poor trans
portation. Meanwhile, two members of the Alaska In
ternational Highway Commission protested to Presi
dent Roosevelt against the route selected by the United
States-Canadian Joint Defense Board for the road,
contending it is a “blunder.” The commission, com
posed of both Canadian and American members, was
not consulted in the final determination, although it i
has been studying Alaskan highway plans for 4 years.
Protesting members of the commission are James W.
Carey, Seattle consulting engineer, and Donald Mac
Donald, Fairbanks, associate engineer. The two en
gineers advocated a rqore westerly route, near the
coastline, listing among advantages for such a route j
the following: Construction supplies could be landed
from the sea at six different points; the route parallels i
existing roads, river and lake transportation for more j
than half its length; 300 of the 1500 miles for such a
route already is constructed; attack on the road from!
carrier-borne aircraft would be “extremely difficult
due to fog; rain; snow.”
“Route Designed Only to Help Canada"
A spokesman for the Alaska Committee of the Seat
tle Chamber of Commerce branded the “prairie route'
as designed “only to develop Canada," and adding
that it is “not an Alaska highway at all.”
“The commissions considered every aspect, includ
ing the military, and then recommended that the west
ern‘route be selected," the spokesman said. 'Efforts
were made some time ago to interest the Army, but t
at that time it was declared the road would have no
military value. The Army did not become interested
until recently, after Pearl Harbor, and after conduct
ing a hurried survey it recommended the eastern route.
“The commission’s survey shows that the western
route would be the quickest to build and the most ec
onomical,” the spokesman added. “It also would serve:
Alaska, as connecting links could be constructed to J
the major cities in Southeastern Alaska, where one-1
third ol Alaska’s population is centered. The eastern
route would serve only to develop Canada. I he spokes
man added that Chambers of Commerce from Los An
geles to Fairbanks favor the western route.
MOUNTAIN TROOPERS IN THE NORTHWEST
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Unii. d S'ates Army Mountain Troopers in training on the slopes of Mount Rainier,
of Washington, use snowshoes as they form sled teams to haul equipment
over the snowy tra'Is (top). From an ice cavern, a white clad trooper aims his
rifle durna sn.'no" drill bottom V
The bow of the 6,766-ton Gulf oil tanker Gulftrade juts above the waves less than
four miles off shore near Barnegat, N. J., after a single submarine torpedo split,
the ship in half. Another t inker (right), passes the scene.
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