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VoL 1. All the new* of the line from Seward to Fairbanks._No- 9:i
RAILROAD WORK WILL BE COMPLETED
TO FAIRBANKS IN TWO YEARS
SAYS COMMISSIONER THOS. RIGOS
FAIRBANKS, August 2.—That the
next two years, or the fall of 1919,
will see the Alaska government rail
road completed, is the opinion of
Thomas Riggs, Jr., member of the
Alaskan Engineering commission as
expressed in an interview at Fairbanks
recently. That time will certainly see
trains in operation between Fairbanks
and the coast, even if the road is not
entirely completed, according to Mr.
Riggs* statement. The statement is
bused upon the fact that, after work
is completed this fall, a gap of but
little more than ninety miles in length
will separate the end of the line now
being built south from Nenana and
that under construction north of An
chorage. This will mean that the only
part of the line remaining to be con
structed during the summer of 1918,
in addition to that ninety miles, will
be the stretch lying between Fair
banks and Nenana. It is hardly prob
able. however, that all of this track
will be under operation by next fall;
it will merely have been laid.
All of Mr. Riggs’ statements, how
ever. are made with provisos. Both
money and men in abundance will be
needed if the road is to be complet
ed within two years’ time. And the
war may also have the effect of ham
pering operations to some extent.
Bridge Construction
Mr. Biggs also spoke at consider
able length regarding bridge con
struction at the crossing of the Tan
ana river at Xenana. Preliminary
drafts of three classes of bridge are
now being drawn at the Xenana head
quarters of the Alaskan Engineering
commission. The vertical lift bridge
is that most favored at Xena, but
drafts for a draw bridge ami a bas
cule bridge are also being drawn. All
of these drafts will be submitted to
Chairman Edes, of the commission,
who will in turn submit them to the
war department for approval. 'Hie
war department will make the final
selection of the kind of bridge that
will be installed, and final plans for
the permanent structure will then be
drawn. Mr. Biggs estimates that the
vertical lift bridge will cost in the
neighborhood of $t>50,000 and the oth
ers about the same amount, although
any or all of them may go a little
higher or a little lower in contract
price when it comes to letting con
tracts for their construction, which is
the course of action that is to be
pursued by the commission. If the
vertical lift bridge is eventually se
lected it will be a structure that will
be sixty-five feet above high water
mark at Xenana.
On This Knd
Speaking of work on this end of the
railroad line, Mr. Riggs stated that
an attempt is to be made to lay five
miles of narrow guage railroad track
out of Happy Junction this fall, con
necting with the Tanana Valley rail
road. Whether or not that much can
be accomplished is as yet uncertain,
he says, owing to the fact that the
material for the work is not yet at
hand. The rails that will be laid are
of the forty-pound variety. They will
be laid on standard guage embank
ment and will be replaced at the
earliest possible moment with stand
ard guage track, the rails composing
which will be regular weight. This
stretch of road is being constructed
with the idea of facilitating the
movement of timbers and ties which
are to be used in repair work on the
Tanana Valley railroad and also to as
sist the people of Fairbanks to get a
wood supply from Coldstream brought
into town. After the five miles of
track is completed, its operation, as
well as that of the Tanana Valley
railroad, will be facilitated by the ar
rival here of eight new cars and a
small locomotive, which are now en
route to Fairbanks from the Outside.
Thousand Working
The number of men now employed
on railroad construction work in In
terior Alaska now numbers nearly a
thousand. This number includes all
of the employees of the commission
and of the contractors. The men are
working all along the line from Broad
Pass north to Fairbanks and include
the grading gangs of the contractors,
the steel laying gangs, the crews of
men ballasting track south of Nenana,
all of the men employed around head
quarters at Nenana, and contractors*
crews and Engineering commission
employees north of Nenana. The ac
tual number of men employed is 025.
Trouble on Line
The flooding of the Nenana river
south of Nenana has caused consid
erable trouble to the railroad build
ers in that it is threatening to wash
out the right of way. The principal
point at which danger threatens is
Lost Slough, through which most of
the water of the Nenana river is
now going. This slough was once but
fifty feet wide at the point where the
railroad trestle crosses it, but the
high water, assisted by a jam in the
Nenana river, caused the water to
turn through Lost Slough and making
it at least 100 feet wide. It was nec
essary to blow up one of the bridges
along the line before the jam could
be released.
Commissioner Riggs expects to re
main in and about Fairbanks for sev
eral days. He will go out to Happy
Junction to inspect the work that is
being done in that vicinity, and will
take a trip out over the line of the
Tanana Valey railroad to Chatanika
before returning to his headquarters
at Nenana.—Citizen.
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RAILROAD NOTES
Two bunk cars for work out the
line have been completed anti painted
ready for work.
The inside finish on the new depot
i is nearly complete and the structure
will be ready for use next month.
The new freight depot is being fit
ted for use by the commissary and
stores department, which will move
in after all is in readiness.
The Moose Band, at Valdez, Ls now
giving weekly concerts in the court
house yard.
Sam McCormack, a well-known
Dawson freighter, lost a favorite
mule recently when the animal rubbed
itself against a guy wire of the Yukon
Gold Company’s power line, during a
heavy rain storm.
The municipal potato patch at An
chorage is being sacrificed to make
way for the fair and Fire Chief Haff
ner is seeing to it that all the tubers
are routed out of the ground so that
the carnival may be held in the muni
cipal block. The tubers were not ma
tured.
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The school board of Anchorage has
prepared a budget for the coming
school year, placing the expenses of
running the schools for that period
at $22,000. A special school tax will
provide $10,000 of this amount and
the remainder is expected to be ob
tained from the Territorial board
fund.
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COM M ENCE ASS EM BLING
OF NO. 278 FROM PANAMA
All of the locomotives on the Sew
ard division will be in service by the
end of this week, except the little old
No. 1, which has gone into the dis
card and No. 278 from Panama, which
is about to be assembled.
The locomotives on this end are
No.’s 10 and 11, 20 and 21, 285 and
278.
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GAYTES NEW HEAD OF
T. & T. DEPARTMENT
Herbert Gaytes, electrical engineer,
has been appointed to succeed F. R.
McFarland as head of the telephone
and telegraph department, of the
government railroad.
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OLD RAILROADER ON
INSIDE GOING OCT
Jack Dwyer, for the past several
years the agent of the Tanana Val
ley railroad at Gilmore, has resigned
his position and will leave for the Out
side. Mrs. Dwyer, formerly Miss Lau
ra Burnett, will follow Mr. Dwyer as
soon as he is located. Mr. Dwyer's
position at Gilmore has been taken by
A. T. At worth, a recent arrival in
Fairbanks from the Outside.
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FINE PLACE OFFERED
TO AMERICAN ARMY
STOCKHOLM, Au&. 20. — Mrs.
Percy Proctor has asked the Ameri
can Minister, Ira Nelson Morris, to
transmit to the State Department her
offer to place her villa near Mentone,
France, at the disposition of the Amer
ican army authorities in France. The
villa has accommodations for forty
men. It is Mrs. Proctor’s idea that
it should be used as a convalescent’s
I home.
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