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SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1916.
The statement given to the Gateway by Chairman
Edes of the Engineering Commission, which statement
was published yesterday, gives a very interesting insight
into what is intended at the other end of the great govern
ment railroad. The very fact that the Tanana river is to
have a drawbridge costing halt a million dollars is amaz
ingly interesting to those who poled old skills around that
river about thirteen years ago when it was some wild ter
ritory indeed. Mr. Edes also states that rails will reach
Xenana coal fields late in the fall of ID14 and he says it is
estimated that there is a market in the interior for 25,000
tons of coal annually. The population at the present time
of Xenana City is approximately 500.
All ye oldtimers who read that report in this paper
vesterdav look back, dust let vour minds hit the back
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trail fora moment. Let them rest on the days when hun
dreds of men floated down in the year liMK> to the mouth of
the Tanana river and declared that the Tanana Valley was
a barren wilderness where nothing could be found but
starvation. And then wake up to the present and ask
yourself if Alaska is not fast developing into a young
giant.
It has been figured out by some one or another that
the Allies would have to lose fifteen million men before
reaching Germany from the French front at the present
rate of advance and the present rate of losses. This is, of
course, not correct- but it enables one to imagine what
dire possibilities present themselves in this war. Judging
bv the number of miles actually gained and bv the losses
sustained the estimate above seems mathematically cor
rect but it must alwavs be remembered that the moving
of an enemy one mile might compel that enemy to fall back
any number of miles to secure a new lint* that was natur
ally suited to defense. But the losses of the British in the
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month of September recall the fact that the war is far
more terrible than had been expected in the beginning.
We can all remember the sensation caused in Britain when
the news of the first battle in which the British were en
gaged arrived and the losses were found to be
a paltry two thousand. Since the Somme battle be
gan the British have lost over three hundred thousand
That would mean, perhaps nearly one hundred thousand
killed. That is far more than twice the whole white popu
lation of Alaska. And the losses of the Germans must be
added, and the losses of the French and all the rest for
the same months. The chances are that the total number
of men slaughtered outright during the present quarter
would be greater than the total population of any one of
several states of this I’nion.
If it is a fact that “the richest grass in graveyards
grows” Europe need not fear a hay famine. It is a beauti
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