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EXPENDITURE OF MILLION A
YEAR ON ALASKA ROAD
PROGRAM APPROVED
Chief of Engineers, War Department,
Gives 0.VK. to Commissions' Plans.
The expenditure of $1,000,000 yearly
for a period of ten years is contem
plated by the Alaska Road Com-1
mission in a comprehensive read j
constniction progVarfl for which es-1
timates have been submitted to the
War Department. These estimates
have been approved by the Chief of
Engineers, according to advices re
ceived here by Col. James Gordon
Steese, President of the Commission.
An outline of the program together
with a summary of the work done
during the season just closing and
plans for next season’s work, has just
been issued by Col. Steese with a
graphical illustration showing the
present Alaska road system, and that
contemplated under the new esti
mates.
Mileage to hie Increasde.
When this program shall have been
completed, the Alaska Koad Com
mission will have built in Alaska
a total of 6,265 miles of wagon roads,
winter trails and sled roads. Out of
this total mileage there will be 1,600
miles of automobile or wagon roads,
1.100 sled roads, 3.300 miles of trails.
Through Routes Planned
The plans of the’Commission as
announced by Col. Steese provide
for four main automobile or wagon
loads, from 07 to 573 miles in length,
one of which will connect the coast
another the Alaska Railroad with,
the rich gold producing sections ol
the Kuskokwini district and extend
on to the lower Yukon.
Two of these routes will be al
most entirely of new construction, a
third will be formed by linking up
local projects already under way
while the fourth is evep now more
than half completed.
Valdez to Circle.
The longest continuous stretch oi
wagon or automobile road included
in the ten-year program connects up
Valdez with Circle. Its length is
573 miles. From Valdez to Fair
banks, a distance of 367 miles, an
automobile read is already construct
ed, but is not completed , some grad
ing under way. On the Circle ead,
considerable work has also been
done, but between Chantanika and1
Eagle Creek, it will all be new work,
although there is a winter sledi'oad
now in use.
Second Project Big.
The second big project conained
in the program, connecting the Al
aska Railroad to the Kuskokwim
count ry and thence to Long Creek
and Ruby, has an estimated length
of 469 miles. The first link in this
route is from the railroad to Cache
Creek, active construction worX Hav
ing been launched on it this season
and will be pushed next season. On
the Interior end of the route Ruby
and Long Creek are connected; that
portion between Ophir and Tacotaa
has also been practically completed.
Commission Summary ,
The complete resume of the Com
nisaoa’s work thin year, its plans
for the coming season and a sum
, mary of its ten-year building program j
follows:
“The Alaska Road Commission has
been completely reorganized the past;
year and is now composed of three
officers of the Corps of Engifeers
1 of the Regular Army. Col. Gotwals,
the Engineer Officer , arrived in Ala
ska early last April; Col. Steese, the
President, arrived early in July;
and Capt Ward, the Secretary and
Disbursing Officer arrived about the
end of August. Three Army appropri
ation bill did not pass Congress until
June 15th, so that plans for the*
season's work were seriously delayed.
“fV. late spring, however, helped the
situation somewhat and it is expect
ed that work in some localities may
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be continued until November. The
total resources of the Conimi.
from all sources including cooperat
ive funds from the Territory, amount
ed on July 1st, 1920, to $590,000.00,
exclusive of accumulated plant and
supplies. Of this amount $5215,000
has been alloted for the working
season of 1920; leaving the balance
for the purchase of supplies this win
ter, to care for emergency work this
vinter and next spring, and to start
jpe rations next spring, pending r •
ceips of next year's appropriation
A'hich should be available by March
$
i. 1921, unless Congress fails to pa'ss
.he^appropriation-bills in order to
%orM* the President to call an extra
session.
Allotment for 1920
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•‘The above allotment was distri
buted as follows:
iimeau local roads $ 6.000.00
Sitka* local roads and
bridges $ 1,500.00
.laines-Pletsant Camp $ 34,000.00
.4ome district $ 70,000.03
>eward - Moose Pass-Anchor
age Knik $ lb,000.00
*Villo\v Cieek district $ 15,000.00
.aikectna-Cuche Creek $ 75,000.00
iliumna Hay $ 5,000.00
VagFz- Chitna- Fairbanks
road $200,000.00
iucotna- Opiiir- Long- Kuby
$ 35,500,00
Circle- Miller house $ 7,500 00
Eagle- Forty Mile- Seventy
Mile " $ 5,500.00
MaCarthy- Xizina $ 25,000.00
itoosevelt- Eureka Creek
(Rantishna) $ 10,000.00
Fairbanks- Yukon- Ivoyuhuk
trails . $ 15,000.00 j
TOTAL *52o,000.00
The above is also exclusive oi
i limits expended by the depaitment of
| Agriculture in the Tongass and
i Jiuigach Forest Jieseives and funds
aupicpriated by the Territorial Leg
islature and not expended under the
supei vision of the Alaska Koad (Jo«b
mission. Many projects foimerly in
itiated and maintained the Alaska
Koad Commission have been turned
over to those two ugenpies. '
I Cooperative Projects.
“The following roads are being con
structed and maintained in the For
est Jvivst ives by the Depaitment of
Agriculture in cooperation with the
Territory:
Kattla-oil fields; Cordova-Eyak
Lake; Portage-Price of Whales ;if
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land; Petersburg- Scow Bay; Ketcm^
kan- Wards Cove; Auk Bay extension
River- Hyder: Seward- Kenai; Qu
artz Creek- Russian River. ,
“Filial reports of the season's work
will not be in until about December
1st, but from all indications definite
and substantial progress is Being
made in carrying out the*compre
hensive and progressive plans oi 0
Commission (a) to repair the 'darpaqpt
and deterioration resulting from the
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h an war years, (b) to maintain and
to Juneau- Eagle river road; Salmon
improve the -existing system, and (•'
o embark on new construction on ap
proved pro tits which may* oo o*
pletrd in a it*: nable peri'u.
Estimates for Next Year.
“Estimates for next year amount
to $955,000.00. If this amount Is se
cured, it will complete the reopening
of the Vuldez-Fairbanks and Haines
IMea.sant.Camp roads and will enable1
substantial progress to be made on
the following through routes; Talk
eetnu -Cache Creek- Rainy Pass- Ta-,
cotna- Ophir- Long -Ruby; Lignite-;
Kantishna-% Roosevelt; Davidson’s,
iending- Kugarok- Candle; Fairbanks
- Chatanika- Miller House - Circle;
I Eagle- Forty Mile International lloun-^
tlnry (connects with Canadian road to1
Dawson).' In addition, it will provide]
for the maintenance and improvement
of the existing system and for initiat-1
tug or continuing work on a number of
important developments - spurs and
feeders to the present system, some
fifty projects altogether.
Tentative Distribution
“The tentative distribution as sub
mitted with the estimate is as fol
lows:
Southeastern Alaska $ 55,000,00
Southwestern Alaska $158,000.00
Valdez- Chitna -Kairbanxs
road $250,000.0#
Copper River Valley $ 45,444.00
Yukon district $.“27,000.00
Nome district $100,000.00
Surveys and reconnais
sauces $ 20,000.0f
TOTAL $055,000.0(
Ten Year Program
“In addition, a program of a mil
lion a year for ten years has ,bee!
drawn up and submitted. This ^ro
gram will provide not only for th<
improvement to wagon road standarc
of all the above- mentioned project* 4
but it will also take care of new pro
jects arising with the developmen
of the next ten years. The accompany
map indicates the program propose^,
by the Commission, extrusive of Is'
olated projects in Southeastern Alas
ka and in the Alaska Peninsult
it is based upon the War Depart ■
ment appropriations and is exclusiv<
jf the Alaska fund or funds appro
priated for the Department of Agri
culture or by the Territorial legis
lature. It will result in giving Alaski.
n addition to short spurs and develop
ment connections between the pro
ducing communities and water or
rail transportations, the following
through routes by road or trail.
Savings Effected
“The roads and trails already con
structed and now being maintained
by the Commission have not only
opened up to development nearly aP
sections of the Territory but have ef
fected large savings in freight
charges. Data collected by the Com
mission in 1913 indicates that the dir
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ect saving in cost of transportation
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of fi*eight during that year due * to
the construction of roads by the Com
mission was $2,144,667. .The total
amount expended for construction and
maintenance, 1905- 1913, was $2,578.
882.71. It is doubtful, however, if any
thing like that amount of freight
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would have been transported without
the roads and the indirect loss which
would be occasioned by the restric
tion on output and development if
the roads did not e^ist cannot easily
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^e estimated. The corresponding fig
ures for 1920 are not yet available
butit is expected that the , showing
wiH be even more striking.
Must Handle Directly
“Road work in Alaska cannot bd
handled irrru Washington or Seattle*
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It guwot be gras handled Jtogr
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PERT PARAGRAPHS
OF SENSE ANp NONSENSE
CAUGHT ON THE FLY BY
•* THH HUMAN TOOTHPICK
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« , Every table in Sylvia’s was crowd
ed last night after the shows. Plural
on shows. Ice cream When it is pro
perly made is an excellent dish and
from the size of the crowd last night
its a safe bet that the people of Sew
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n|d know where to go to get it.
^ The Seward Drug sRre will stage a
£ive away sale in a lew days that will
be worth while investigating. For five
cents, the twentieth part of a dollar
-you will be able to buy certain things
that will be named in their full page
ad which appears for the .first time
today. It’s a chance that seldom cornea
so you all had better give it the once
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over. A'^few days later you will have
unother chance to stock up with some
| first class gents furnishing goods. A
| page ad in next Wednesdays is
sue will accquaint you with the fact
that one of our citizens who sells gents
furnishings fivm collar buttons to^
mackinaws will dispose of his entire
dock at greatly reduced prices. Watch
for this ad cause it’s going to be a
hlkpidinger.
Just why tile Democratic members
of the Doughnut Brigade should be off
their*feed is a question that is worry
ing the baker. His doughnut sales have
decreased mightily during the past
few days. Where they used to eat from
three to six nice hot sinkers they now
mutilate but one. The baker has a
mcaking idea that politics has some
thing to do with the loss of appetite
and thinking so h% has requested all
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the members to refrain from political
argument while engaged in eating.
These are the days when the Gate
way is reaping a small harvest of le
gitimate ’political funds from the
friends of the various candidates who
are running for office. The'f ront page
*nd the editorial page are both being
utilized to advertise the many qualit
ies of the various politicians who are
aojiing to be elected. It is the one time.
.vhen we can charge our regular races
.^thout healing somebody kick be-:
cause they think that, they should get
more' space for the money they pay.
As iar as we are concerned we will be
furry when its over.
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The Miracle Man, shown at the;
Liberty Theatre last week was one of
the finest moving pitures evern shown,
m Seward. The condition of the film
was.perfect, the photography excell-,
ent and the subject portrayed a moral
object lesson really worth while. The
univeiiial opinion of those who saw
the film was that it was the best pic
tu%! that has been shown at the Liber
ty for many moons and it is to be hop
ed that more such productions will be
booked during the coining winter mon
ths.
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eau. it t;an only be handled' properly ]
through an acquaintanceship with act
ual conditions on the ground. This
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i the new Board has recognized from
die beginning and both the president
and the engineer officer have so {p?
spent over 80 per cent of their tJpie
in the field. Between them they will
have visited at least ojnee every dis
trict and every important project in
the Territory before they have been
in^hffice six Months. Plans fof next
year call for repeated inspection of
the most important projects add at
least one inspection of' every place
of work and h visit to each town ami
district in enter to beoon^e familiar
with local conditions, busiaess, etc.
The disbursing officer, also**, will
visit each dubwryng district and
standardise methods and acoouats.
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