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It has been urged by the Trade
Commissioner of Vancouver that
free air transportation should be
furnished Canadian prospectors to
parts of British Columbia. Yukon
Territory and Northwest Terri
tories. By this means many weeks
time could be saved during the
opening of the mining season. In
connection with the building of
the new British Columbia-Yukon
Alaska Highway, it is urged that
airplane service over the proposed
route would do much to help the
development of various mining,
sections. Increased flying via *
Hazelton, Dease Lake. Teslin and ‘
Atlin to Fairbanks, will also help
to popularize the projected high
way.
President Hoover has announced
that on the current public build
ing program the list of projects
covers a total of 758 buildings, in
volving a total expenditure of
$453,000,000. One of the projects
recently completed was at Juneau,
where the expenditure for the
capital building was $795,000. An
other project now in the specifi
cation stage is at Fairbanks, where
the cost is to be $450,000. Ketchi
kan is listed with $10,000 to secure
a site. Ketchikan and Anchorage
will each expect to receive an
appropriation of $400,000 when
Congress meets. While construc
tion work is going on all over
the country and preliminary ar
rangements are making for many
other projects it may be stated
that a recent inquiry at the
Treasury Department elicited the
fact that the force in the Super
vising Architect’s office finds it
difficult to keep up with its ex
pected program. As a consequence
the specifications for the Fair
banks building are not yet com
plete and it is stated will not be
ready to offer to bidders before
the early part of June. The new
delay means that it will be Aug
ust before the successful contractor
is ready to start work on the new
building.
In answer to an inquiry the
Department of the Interior states
that 35.000 tourists visited Alaska
last year, a large percentage of
them only making the Southeast
ern tour. An effort is being made j
to induce more to include Cordova, i
Seward, Anchorage, Mt. McKinley
and Fairbanks in their itinerary
this year.
Nils Andreas Olsen, resident of I
Ketchikan, has been advised that
his homestead entry has been ap
proved for patenting.
* * -* *
The Alaska Railroad has been
furnishing Nenana with heat,
light and water for some years
past, at a loss. The city was ad
vised some months ago that the
heat and light would be discon
tinued on May 15 and the water
on June 15. The city is arrang
ing to have a new plant installed
and to lease the government pole
line and meters.
* * * *
Secretary Wilbur, Ernest Walker
Sawyer and other officials of the
Interior Department are particu
larly interested in the development
of such coal veins in the Mata
nuska field as will supply govern
ment vessels, Southeastern Alaska
and California, with fuel that will
be suitable to their respective i
needs. One of the important
moves toward this end is the se
curing of the services of F. R.
Wadleigh, a noted coal expert from
Pennsylvania, to spend the en
suing few months in Alaska. He
L is now in Washington conferring
with officials of the Interior De
■ partment, and with his wife will
leave next Saturday for the west,
expecting to sail north from Seat
tle on the steamer Alaska, May
30. Mr. Wadleigh will make a
complete study of the coal fields
along the Alaska Railroad, to par
ticularly determine the facilities,
opportunities, and possibilities of
increasing the exports from Alaska.
* * * * *
Leo P. Bott, Jr., of Little Rock,
Ark., has been to Alaska several
times and is an enthusiast on the
northland, having induced many
tourists to enjoy the incomparable
delights of this scenic excursion.
Evidence of his activity are ap
parent in Washington, with the re
sult that several steamer reserva
tions have already been made.
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An interesting and elaborately
illustrated booklet has just been
published by the Government
Printing Office, describing an An
thropological Survey in Alaska, by
Dr. Alex Hrdlicka, of the Smith
sonian Institution. The doctor
' is again on his way to interior
Alaska for another season’s ex
i ploration.
* * * * *
Stephen R. Capps, who has been
representing the U. S. Geological
Survey in Alaska for the past de
cade, will go west in a few days
and sail north from Seattle on
May 30, in charge of five parties
of expert men who will do the
exploration under the recent spe
) cial designation and appropriation
j by Congress, in the effort to in
crease the tonnage of the Alaska
Railroad. Most of the labor in
j connection with this work will be
i secured in Alaska.
* * * •* *
D. R. Adams, who was a for
mer employee of the Alaska Rail
road for nine years and a resident
of Alaska for 12 years, writes from
Bolivia requesting a copy of the
Howell Senate report on the Al
aska Railroad. He says, “The
I progress of this railroad is of very
great interest to me. The longer
11 remain in South America the
| stronger becomes the attraction of
; that Northern country, wherein re~
jside the finest people it has ever
| been my good fortune to number
I among my friends.” Mr. Adams:
| is now connected with the Bo
i livian International Mining Cor
| poration, at Huanuni.
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