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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY PROGRESSING
At Vancouver and Victoria, B. C., considerable pub-;
licity has been given during the past few weeks to the j
British Columbia-Yukon-Alaska Highway confeience. j
The Daily Colonist reports:
“The British Columbia-Yukon-Alaska Highway loute pie
sents no great difficulties from an engineering standpoint m
so far as the Yukon section of the way is concerned, and the
people of the Yukon are heartily in favor of the project,
Hon. George Black, Speaker of the House of Commons, at
Ottawa, and Federal member for the Yukon, stated on arrival
here for an informal gathering by three of the six members
of the proposed international committee which will study
tne subject.
Mr. Black stressed the fact that the committee’s duties
would be solely of a fact-finding nature, without in any de
gree binding Canada or the United States to entertain the
proposed route for the Northwest transverse highway to Al
aska. The first formal meeting of the committee, he inti
mated, would be held about October 10 at Victoria.
The Vancouver Daily Province:
Plans for pressing ahead Premier Tolmie’s Alaska high
way project were discussed in a preliminary wray here at a
conference between Ernest Walker Sawyer, assistant Secretary
of Interior for the United States; Mr. Speaker Black of the
House of Commons, and George Napier, assistant chief engi
neer of the Provincial Government—all members of the inter
national committee appointed to consider the project.
At the conference these members of the committee will
go over the large amount of engineering data collected by
B C. engineers in their surveys of a route for the ppioposed
highway. In the absence of the other committee members no
final action can be taken nowr, but the meeting is regaided
as important, since it will give the United States government,
through Mr. Sawyer, an opportunity to inform itself on the
latest engineering information available. At a latei meeting
of the entire committee some time this summer, or in the
early fall, it is expected the commission will consider the proj
ect as a whole and make a recommendation on its feasibility
and its financing to the governments of Canada, of the United
States and of British Columbia.
The other members of the committee are J. M. Wardle,
engineer of the Federal Parks administration, for Canada,
and Major Malcolm Elliott, of the Alaska Road Commission,
and H. H. Rice, of Detroit, for the United States.
The Victoria Daily Times:
The travel through British Columbia of United States mo
tor cars, if this province builds*,the 500 miles of road to link
up with 2,000 miles of highway in Alaska, will repay the Ca
nadian investment in the road through the revenue it would
bring from tourist and commercial sources, Ernest Walker
Sawyer, executive Secretary of the Interior of the United
States, claimed in the course of enthusiastic endorsation of
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the project.
Mr. Sawyer mentioned he has just traveled to Alaska with
20 United States Congressmen, and they were all keenly in
favor of the proposed road.
The Voncouver Star reported the conference in sim
ilar optimistic fashion, pointing out that it would be a
fine thing for the province as traffic to Alaska, which
is likened to an island, would flow through British Co
lumbia.
Premier Tolmie seems to fully realize the immense
possibilities of this road and what it means to the prov
ince; his support and recommendation will aid materially
in the final analysis and, with the hearty support of
Hon. George Black, Speaker of the House of Commons
at Ottawa, will undoubtedly pave the way for early pas
sage of legislation, appropriation and initial construction.
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GAIIE9IE HERO FUND
RECOGNIZES VALOR LITE
SEAMAN ON SURVEYOR
The Geodetic Survew director
received a copy of the following
letter, dated May 1, 1931, addressed
by Taylor Allderdice, manager
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission,
to Mrs. Leonora L. Lewis, rural
route 2, Bob 155, Wilmington, N.
C., relative to the action taken
by the commission upon the case
of her brother, William H. Bowen:
“Through the courtesy of Mr.
E. Lester Jones, now deceased, the
attention of the Carnegie Hero
Fund Commission has been called
to an act performed by your bro
ther, William H. Bowen, by which,
on October 3, 1927, he attempted
to save Roy V. Byerly and Geo. S.
Slavin from death by drowning
in Resurrection Bay, at Seward,
Alaska, but in the performance
of which act he himself met death.
His case, after a thorough in
vestigation, was considered at a
meeting of the commission held
this afternoon, and I have much
pleasure in informing you that in
recognition of your brother’s he
roism on that occasion the com
mission awarded you a bronze
medalfl
“I shall be obliged if you will
kindly advise me without delay,
by a letter bearing your own sig
nature, whether or not you wish
to accept the commission’s award.
If your reply is affirmative, the
medal will be ordered and will be
forwarded to you as soon as it
has been received from the manu
facturers.”
William H.| Bowen was an oiler
on the ship Surveyor, which was
anchored at the time off Seward.
R. R. Lukens, who was command
ing officer at the time, reported
that Mr. Bowen had gone over
board in an effort to save the two
men.
WRONG TAG
Ray Southard of Ketchikan will
be careful about leaving “Prince
Rupert” tags on his trunks here
after, unless he sits on them. I
While in Petersburg, his large !
wardrobe trunk was stolen, car- s
ried a short distance in the brush
and smashed open with an axe,
When he found it, wigs, copies of
plays and everything were scat
tered about. Nothing was taken
for “it” did not happen to be in
the trunk despite the Prince Ru
pert tag, says the Ketchikan
Chronicle.
With favorable w7ater conditions
j in the Iditarod district, every
I able-bodied man is working along
iFlat Creek and operators are try
ing to make up for time lost
earlier in the season when there
was not enough water for mining,
reports the Anchorage Times.
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