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WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORT Oil RAILROAD PROJECT
(From the Alaska Railroad Record)
WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORTS.
Anchorage Division.
Following are the progress reports of the various de
partments of Anchorage Division for the week ending
January 20:
MAINTENANCE OF WAY.
Buildings.
The carpenters have practically completed the fixtures
in Cottage No. 29; the painting is 80 per cent complete.
The carpenter work on the first and second floors of
Anchorage School House No. 2 was finished during the
week. A small force was engaged on desks and fixtures.
The painting is 60 per cent complete.
Water Service and Plumbing.
Drinking fountains were installed in the new school
house. A small force was at work changing coils in the
stoves in the new cottages, and the usual amount of re
pairs due to frozen pipes was made. The plumbing at the
school house is 95 per cent complete; and the plumbing
work in the Social Hall was finished.
Mechanical Department.
The repairs to engine 280 were completed during the
week, and satisfactory progress was made on the heavy
repairs to engine 265. Four men from the machine shop
worked all week fitting up machinery in the power plant.
MATANUSKA DISTRICT.
Matanuska Branch.
The freighting on the river above Camp 24 is going
ahead satisfactorily, and within the next thirty days the
entire work above Kings River should be stocked with
sufficient construction material and supplies, with the ex
ception of hay, to complete the work.
The majority of the contractors have commenced dril
ling coyote holes, and a number of small shots have been
fired. Construction is proceeding satisfactorily throughout
the District, with little change in conditions from last
week.
Main Line.
The camp at Willow Creek has been completed, and
next week construction of a new camp about midway be
tween Little Willow Creek and Kashwitna River will be
begun.
The piledriver crew has completed the driving of all
trestles south of Camp 166 and has commenced on the first
trestle north of that point.
The right-of-way contractors between Willow Creek
and Sheep Creek have reached their stations and begun
work. A contract covering the uncompleted grading south
of the Little Susitna River, between Stations 6270 and
6337, has been let to Poropat & Company, and it is planned
to have this section graded by the time track is laid to
that point.
Contractors Olson & Company, Rice & Company and
Plackus & Company, the three remaining contractors south
of the Little Susitna River, will finish within the next week
or ten days.
Excellent progress is being made in freighting supplies
?.long the Main Line, despite the fact that the road is sub
ject to almost daily changes owing to the recent unsettled
weather.
TURNAGAIN ARM DISTRICT.
Clearing Right-of-Way.
The mild weather during the past week made good pro
gress possible on the work between Indian Creek and one
mile north of Glacier Creek.
Grading.
Several coyote holes were shot during the week with
satisfactory results. Mathison & Company, contractors at
McHugh Creek, made a shot which moved approximately
15,000 yards of rock, using 15,000 pounds of black powder.
The jack hammers operated by two locomotive air
pumps at Mile 99 are working very satisfactorily.
Miscellaneous.
The Falls Creek camp is now completed, and the store
house is being stocked with provisions hauled from Potter
Creek.
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE DEPARTMENT.
Telegraph and Telephone.
Work on the gap in the telephone line between Camp
174 and Montana Creek is""25 per cent complete. The wire
has reached Browne’s Lake from the south. The work of
providing an additional wire between Potter and Indian
Creeks for the Anchorage-Seward telegraph circuit is 50
per cent complete.
There are at present connected to the Anchorage ex
change 95 commercial and 94 Commission telephones.
Electric Light and Power.
Primary and secondary wires are in place on the alley
between Fifth and Sixth Streets, paralleling the business
district.
Twenty-eight Sudan type indirect lighting fixtures
have been installed in the Anchorage school house. A ser
ies of bell circuits have also been placed in the building.
All work in connection with the installation of pole
lines and fixtures, transformers, pole-top fixtures, etc., in
the business portion of Anchorage is now practically com
pleted. This district, including many residences, can be
given service as soon as fuel becomes available.
The corral and barns in the terminal yards, Anchorage,
are now being lighted from the main plant.
WEEKLY FORCE REPORT.
The number of employees of the Anchorage Division as
shown by the payrolls on Saturday, January 13, 1917, was
as follows:
Commissioner’s Office . 36
Shops and Yards . 170
Transportation Service . 16
Store and Dock Departments. 98
Accounting Department. 18
Disbursing Office. 5
Townsite Department.». 20
Steward’s Department . 12
Hospital Department . 22
Telegraph and Telephone Department. 75
Track, Bridge and Ballast—Main Line. 58
Tumagain Arm District . 202
Matanuska District .,208
Talkeetna District . 121
1061
Stationmen and Laborers—All Districts. 931
Grand total all employees Anchorage Division... .1992
LAND AND INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT.
A BRIEF REVIEW OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOP
MENT AFTER TWO YEARS OF RAILROAD
CONSTRUCTION WORK.
(By A. CHRISTENSEN, Manager)
At the threshold of this new year it will be interesting
to observe in connection with the construction and opera
tion of the Government railroad in Alaska the changes
that have occurred in that section of the Territory tribu
tary to the railroad, and to compare conditions exising at
the time of the passage of the Act in March, 1914, with the
conditions prevailing at this time.
Beginning at Seward, we find the population has in
creased from seven or eight hundred to over two thous
and. There have recently been constructed three substan
tial concrete blocks; a number of new residences have been
built; the sidewalks on Fourth Avenue, now Broadway,
have been paved, and the street has been surfaced. Third,
Fourth and Fifth Avenues have been cleared and grubbed.
The Government has required all the squatters to move
from the beach, and instead of a motley collection of cab
ins of every description scattered along the waterfront,
there has been installed an industrial spur with one or two
warehouses already in course of construction, with the
prospect of a number of others to be erected early in the
spring. A new dock with approaches has been constructed;
the machine shop has been rebuilt; and there is an air of
general prosperity prevalent in and about the town.
The Alaska Northern Railway, since its purchase by the
Government, has been repaired so that trains are enabled
to operate during the winter months as far as Mile 40, and
in the summer to the end of the line at Kern Creek.
At the mouth of Ship Creek, where the town of Anchor
age is located, and at which point there was nothing but a
wilderness in 1914, there is to be found a thriving town of
approximately 5000 people, with the following business
houses established:
3 Hotels
10 Lodging Houses
22 Restaurants
3 Drug Stores
4 Hardware ■ Stores
3 Paint Stores
7 Grocery Stores
13 Clothing Stores
4 Bakeries
6 Laundries (1 steam)
4 Tailors
5 Jewelers
3 Novelty Stores
13 Pool Halls
5 Cigar Stores
10 Barber Shops
3 Meat Markets
4 Sheet Metal Works
and Plumbers.
1 Daily Newspaper
3 Weekly Newspapers.
11 Miscellaneous.
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to the town and railroad, over six miles of water mains
having been laid; several miles of streets cleared and
graded and a number of miles of sidewalks constructed;
telephone and electric systems have been installed and
are now in operation, as well as railroad shops, hospital,
docks, warehouses and terminal yard facilities.
A $35,000 labor temple has been built, and a $12,000
Masonic hall is nearly completed. Over 70 miles of track
north and south from the town have been laid. Trains are
operated during the winter time tri-weekly, and daily dur
ing the summer months, when active construction work is
in full operation.
Between four and five hundred homesteaders have mi*,
grated into the Matanuska and Susitna Valleys, and many
farms are in course of development.
Several thousand tons of coal have been mined from
two different mines- in Moose Creek, one of which is now
operating and has already furnished to the Commission be
tween four and five thousand tons of coal. Another mine
has been opened on Eska Creek, and the operators of this
property recently contracted to furnish the Engineering
Commission with 3000 tons by May 1st, 1917. The people
of Anchorage have been supplied with coal from these two
mines during the winter. Another coal mine near Granite
Creek is in course of development, and is expected to be
placed on a shipping basis within the next 60 days. Prior
to the opening of these mines all the coal used was im
ported from the States. No doubt there will be extensive
work undertaken next spring under leases to be granted
successful applicants.
The freight and passenger traffic derived from the
trains operated by the Commission from Anchorage Station
is more than sufficient to pay the cost of operation.
A townsite has been platted at Matanuska, 36 miles
north of Anchorage, at which point there is a present pop
ulation of between 150 and 200 people. This town will
serve as a distributing point for the farmers in that sec
tion of the Matanuska Valley. Other towns will be estab
lished at Moose Creek, Wassilla, and probably at other
places along the line, during the summer of 1917. There
were no people at any of these places in 1914 or 1916.
As a consequence of the influx of people to the regions
tributary to the railroad, additional discoveries of gold
were made in the Willow Creek district, situated about 15
miles from the main line of the Government railroad, and
as a result there has been a considerable increase in the
| population of that section.
At Nenana, at the mouth of the Nenana River, a town
site has been located, and at present has a population of
approximately 1000 people. A number of business houses
have been established already, among them being:
6 Restaurants
2 Stores
4 Lodging Houses
1 Hotel
1 Sheet Metal Works
3 Pool Halls'
1 Drug Store
1 Theatre
1 Bakery
1 Newspaper
14 Miscellaneous
ily living at this place.
This brief review of the development which has taken
place throughout the region tributary to the railroad is
very encouraging when the early status of this section is
considered. The results already achieved clearly show the
decided impetus given immigration to this section of Alas
ka and to the development of its resources since the con
: struction of the Government railroad was inaugurated.
However, it is patent that many branch railway lines
j and wagon roads ^ill have to be provided, as feeders to the
' trunk line, before the products of the mines and farms of
this vast region can be brought to the markets at reason
able cost. When this is accomplished both pioneer and capi
talist will then be accorded that encouragement so essen
tial to the full development of a new country.
Residents of Talkeetna have petitioned the Alaska
Road Commission for the construction of a wagon road
from Talkeetna to the copper deposits of Iron Creek. The
proposed road would open to development an important
mining section at present practically inaccessible for want
of broper transportation facilities.
The total disbursements of the office at Anchorage for
the period January 22 to January 28 were $14,351,39. The
1 payment of salaries and wages amounted to $3647.88; for
local purchases $249.20; to contractors $10,221.00; other
expenditures $233.31.
DO YOU WASTE MONEY?
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Almost every one does. Bread east upon the
water comes hack again. But when you throw
money away it mighty seldom ever comes back.
What’s going to happen to you when you have
no more money to waste ? Why not open an ac
count here? $1.00 does it. Doing it once a week
for a year means $52 to the good for you—and
the interest we pay you in our Savings Depart
ment. Try it for a few months, you will be sur*
prised to find how fast your account will grow.
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