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CUMIN IS
AN ENTHUSIASTIC
ALASKA 'BOOSTER'
HOPES TO LIVE TO SEE DAY
INTERNATIONAL HIGH
WAY COMPLETED
Dr. D. R. Smith, of Los Altos,
Cal., is an enthusiastic booster of
the Pacific-Yukon Highway and
the development of Alaska. Last
summer he drove over the Cari
bou Highway section of the road
j to Alaska, together with his wife
land daughter, in his “house-car"
and was overtaken at Silver
Creek, British Columbia, by the
International Seattle - Vancouver
Hazelton Caravan, conducted last
{June by Premier Simon F. Tol
j mie of British Coiumbio.
j If walking from Fairbanks to
j Valdez before the completion of
the Richardson Highway makes
one a true Alaskan, Dr. Smith
earned that qualification in 1912
when he enjoyed 22 days of foot
travel, accompanied by mosquitoes,
and with ample opportunity for
additional exercise on General :
Richardson’s “tennis courts."
That the memory of this hike is i
pleasing to Dr. Smith and his en-!
thusiasm for the Pacific-Yukon j
Highway is active, may be seen
from his letter to Major Malcolm |
Elliott, president of the Alaska
Road Commision, of March 30.
Dr. Smith practiced dentistry in
India, tramped the Himalayas and
600 miles in Tibet, but he feels
that “Alaska is the greatest place
for outing of any country on the
globe.”
Dr. Smith writes:
j Dear Major Elliott:
I am ashamed that I have ncg- ,
lected answering your kind letter
of a month ago—with the several
enclosures.
The pictures of the highway
route and t\.i Richardson Highway
travelogue — the latter which I
walked over in 1912 making the
trip from Fairbanks to Valdez—
brings back to me the most picas- 1
ant 22 days of travel I have ever
had. I made the trip alonej
! against the advice of many of the
old sourdoughs? I had previously
made the trip from Whitehorse by
skiff to Tanana and beat the
passenger boat. A tramp out to
the Fairbanks Creek and a camp1
for two weeks was very pleasant
v/ith all the mosquitoes. Trudg
ing along with a 50-pound outfit,
11 was hailed by road makers who
jasked: “Where did you come from,j
! Missouri?” I must have looked
| an old tramp! When coming
i south on the Richardson High- j
[ way I passed a few camps doing i
j road work and they certainly made j
I nice tennis courts near the camps, I
but I stumbled over roots on the j
path. They had only $90,000 to j
spend that year (1912). I spent j
j $2.00 for the four ferries and $4.25 j
I for my food and nothing for my j
j tent under a spreading pine tree. ]
! So much for “early” history in the j
! Northland. j
My one prayer is that I may j
live to see the great International j
Highway completed. If so, I will
be on hand to see the "golden
nail” driven in the pavement at
Fairbanks. I may not get up in
that house-car where you saw us
near Hope. It was our second trip
to Prince George but my wife says
it is too much work to cook and
keep a house in order on a long
trip. I am very anxious to make
the trip again this summer and
get to Hazelton and beyond and
get a glimpse of Premier Tolmie!
leading the Canadians blazing the
roadway north. I can only get
my wife to go this time by letting
her drive her car. Our girl is
more anxious to get out in camp
with the school girls for a month
—so we can easily leave her be
hind.
After meeting you near Hope,
—and learning later that you were
the “wheel horse” of the roads
in Alaska—I was anxious to get
a talk with you so I was very
sorry I missed the chance. We
were in hopes of getting as far
as Hazelton, but the police at
Prince George advised us to not
attempt the narrower road with
our larger car, so we thought it;
best to take their advice.
I have a high opinion of Ca
nadian roads. They were certainly
much improved on our second trip.
And considering the sparse popu
lation and the long road it was
very creditable work. Their gravel
road bed is better stuff than the
ice-age gave to this more south
ern hemisphere. Likely you have
good road gravel in Alaska? I
take a lot of interest in concrete
and do a lot of dappling in it—
to such an extent that I am known
as Concrete Smith. In India, where
I spent over half a century as a
dentist, I learned a good deal
from British in that sort of build
ing. That country gave me a
taste for tramping in the moun-;
tains, over a 1,000 miles in the
Himalayas with glaciers like you
have in Alaska. Tramped some:
600 miles in Tibet to do some den-!
tal work for the British military,
and I chose December for mak
ing the trip.
So that taste for' tramping
brought on my desire to see Al
aska and as the years come and
go I still feel that Alaska is the
greatest place for an outing of
any country on the globe.
Down here we have a few things
to take interest in, such as the
Boulder Dam, the Sunnyvale Diri
gible Base, the two bridges across
the “golden gate” and the Bay
to Oakland, but with all the
money they spend on these im
provements they will not give to
America the thriljl which will
come by the opening up of the
North with the scenery along the
Pacific-Yukon Highway. The gen
erations yet to come will ever]
jthank Dr. To’mie and the rest
of you for the great achievement.
I see that you have ordered a
survey for the road from McCarty
to Dawson, so it looks like the
U. S. will make the road to that
point. I hope President Hoover
will advocate the States bearing
a good part of the 10 or 15 mil
lions to put the road through. I
was sorry to hear of Samuel Hill’s
death, as he might have invested
in the Highway. Canada alone
may not want to build all the
road thru their territory in a
couple of years. The States should
help them out.
If you come down to visit “Fris
co” and this section with its new
highways, we will appreciate your
stopping in — Almond Ave., Los
Altos.
I wish to thank you again for
the several pamphlets and the
travelogue of the Richardson
Hgihway. The latter is very in
teresting in bringing back to me
my tramp along that road. It
was 378 miles according to the
j signboard, but now it is shortened
j to 371, so you have been straight
i ening the roadway.
We are glad—especially my girl
j —to see our house-car in the
caravan crowd. Our girl had
printed on the back with chalk.
“From San Francisco to Hazel
ton, B. C.” We failed to get all
I the way, but if I can get some
! one to see to my little orchard
jand our home we will make an
other effort to get as far as there
is a road. Your letter says “it.
is not possible to drive as far as.
Alaska,” but when you do get.
the road lengthened some I will,
get all the way by walking the
gap distance.
I am gladly sending to my old;
friends in Illinois and elsewhere
some of the pamphlets, as they*
have inquired as to the Highway.
Thanking you for any informa
tion and with our kind regards,
I am, D. R. SMITH.
May 27
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