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WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORT ON RMLROAD PROJECT
(From tin* Alaska .Railroad Record)
WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORTS.
Anchorage Division.
Following a ip the progress reports of the various de
I partments of Anchorage Division for the week ending
' March 31, 1917:
MAINTENANCE OF WAV
Water Service and Plumbing.
The renewal of the water lines to Dock No. 1 was com
pleted and the work in connection with the lines to Dock
No. 2 is 60 per cent complete.
Plumbing was installed in two outfit cars, and the alter*
j ation of the piping in the refrigerating plant was begun.
Bridge and Building.
The driving of piling on the extension to Dock No. 2
i was finished, and at the end of the week 90 per cent of the
! decking had been completed.
The unloading platform at the Anchorage freight shed
j was completed and work was started on the extension of
' the platform at the east end of the passenger depot.
The carpenter work in connection with the alteration of
i the cold storage plant is 95 per cent complete.
Two outfit cars for the use of the Telegraph and Tele
i phone Department are now being built. A gang unloaded
’ bridge material for the Granite Creek and Kings Itiver
structures during the week.
Grading Matanuska Branch.
A steam shovel was out in at Mile 12 and work started
on the removal of sliding gravel banks. This material will
be used in the (ill south of the Moose Creek bridge and in
widening the banks between Miles 10 and 14.
Eska Creek Coal Spur.
All work on this spur is progressing satisfactorily. Toj
date 137 stations have been graded.
Mechanical Department.
The repairs to Browning crane No. I and to steam !
shovel No. 1 are completed. A force continued work on the
conversion of piledriver No. 6 into a derrick car. Light re-;
pairs were made to engines Nos. 1, 225, 265 and 280. Mis
cellaneous repairs to B. and I!, boats Nos. 1. 2 and 3 were '
made.
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MATANUSKA DISTRICT.
Matanuska Branch.
In the absence of some unforeseen difficulty, the grad
ing work should be so far advanced by July 1 that the
laying of steel can be commenced at Kings River. All
contractors are at work and making excellent progress.
The flooding of the Matanuska River west of Camp 32
prevents travel over the ice, and a general break-up of the
river seems imminent. The approaching completion of the
wagon road from Kings River to Camp 32 will obviate any
inconvenience occasioned by the abandonment of the road
over the ice. Beyond Camp 32 material and supplies have
already been distributed, and the few additional supplies
needed from time to time can be delivered by pack train.
Stationmen’s laborers are being placed to work at vari
ous points along the line and several of the contractors are
working two shifts. It is planned to have most of the con
tractors work two shifts in the near future.
Main Line.
North of Camp 156, the winter road continues to be in
good condition, but between Matanuska Junction and Camp
156 the warm weather has made sledding impossible. This
latter section is now covered by wagons.
The piledriver crew at the Little Susitna bridge has
completed the placing of false bents across the river and
is now at work on the south abutment.
A part of the bridge crew are framing timbers for the
wagon road bridge across the Little Susitna. It is planned
to have this structure completed within ten days.
Four station contractors have been placed on the line
between Willow Creek and Kashwitna. Temporarily the
members of these gangs have been engaged as Commission
laborers and are placing bridges across various small
streams, including Willow Creek and Little Willow Creek,
which will be traversed by the wagon road. A few of the
men are at work on camp construction.
Between the Little Susitna River and Willow Creek,
seven contracting outfits have been placed on the work and
the men are now engaged in erecting their camps. Some of
these contractors will be utilized on wagon road work for
the Commission.
During the coming week the construction of Camp 201,
at Caswell Creek, will be begun, and Kashwitna cache
camp, Mile 197, will then be discontinued.
TURNAGAIN ARM DISTRICT.
Clearing Right-Of-Way.
The clearing between Indian Creek and Bird Point, a
distance of six and three-quarters miles, is completed, ex
cept for removing dangerous trees on the steep slopes be
tween Indian Creek and Bird Creek. Sutherland and Brooks
and P. R. Strong will finish their clearing contracts within l
a few days. The clearing between Bird Point and one 1
mile north of Glacier Creek is progressing satisfactorily.
Grading.
The yardage removed during March aggregated aboutj
100.000 cubic yards.
Hrjak & Co., working in a cut between McHugh
and Sheep Creeks, moved 6000 cubic yards with a coyote
shot charged with 11,000 pounds of black powder.
Anderson & Co., in the same vicinity, put off a
coyote shot for borrow, moving 3000 cubic yards with 3200
pounds of powder. Kleven & Co. also put off a coyote shot
for borrow, between Potter Creek and Sheep Creek, moving
12.000 cubic yards of rock with 8000 pounds of powder.
' The Commission force in the large cut 1% miles south
of Potter Creek, station 2633, worked on pockets during
the week. As soon as powder is received the pockets will
be shot.
Miscellaneous.
The trail is practically useless for sledding, as the
i snow is nearly all gone.
The Eklutna and the barge Knik are being used to dis
tribute supplies from Sheep Creek to upper Arm points.
At Potter Creek the shore ice extends out for at least
one mile, and navigation will be delayed at that place in
consequence.
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE DEPARTMENT.
Telegraph and Telephone.
All linemen, linemen’s helpers and laborers not engaged
in maintenance work were laid off temporarily on March
31, owing to adverse conditions brought on by the spring
thaw.
Electric Light and Power.
A small force wired the Commission boats Matanuska
and Omineca during the week. Additional lights were
placed on the docks, marine ways and at the city freight
shed.
ATTENTION NATIONAL GUARDSMEN.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Anchorage, Alaska, April 10, 1917.
Circular No. 190:
TO ALL CONCERNED:
All employees of the Commission who have been mus
tered for duty in the National Guards, and are so serving,
and those mustered in the future, will please furnish this
office with the following information forthwith: Position,
salary, legal residence, last day of pay in Commission ser
vice, and regiment or other military or naval organization,
also names and addresses of persons dependent for support,
and their relationship.
This is important.
F. MEARS, Commissioner.
CHIEF SURGEON ANCHORAGE HOSPITAL.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Anchorage, Alaska, April 10, 1917.
Circular No. 191:
TO ALL CONCERNED:
Effective April 10, Dr. J. 15. Beeson has been appointed
Chief Surgeon of Anchorage Hospital, vice Dr. E. S.
Reedy, resigned.
F. MEARS, Commissioner.
Richard YV. Hart, formerly connected with the Panama
Railroad Company, and the Great Northern Railway, ar
rived on the steamship Alaska to take an important posi
tion in the office of the Examiner of Accounts at Anchor
age.
OVERTIME ON SECTION WORK.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Anchorage, Alaska, April 4, 1917.
Roadmaster Circular (No. 20):
ALL FOREMEN:
No foreman of this department will permit any of
his men to work in excess of eight hours per day without
express permission of Mr. K. K. Kuney, Engineer Main
tenance of Way, or the undersigned, except in cases of ex
traordinary emergency where it is necessary to save life
or property, and when the permission referred to above
cannot be secured. In such cases a report must be made
as soon as possible thereafter, both by telephone (if pos
sible) and in writing, giving an explanation of the reasons
for the overtime.
C. G. JONES, Roadmaster.
WEEKLY FORCE REPORT.
Anchorage Division. ^
The number of employees of the Anchorage Division as
shown by the payrolls on Saturday, March 24, 1917, was
as follows:
Commissioner’s Office. 38
Shops and Yards . 160
Transportation Service . 20
Store and Dock Departments . 202
Accounting Department . 19
Disbursing Office . 7
Townsite Department . 14
Steward’s Department . 13
Hospital Department. 25
Telegraph and Telephone Department . 55
Track, Bridge and Ballast—Main Line. 134
Turnagain Arm District . 163
Matanuska District . 288
Talkeetna District . 129
1267
Stationmen and Laborers—All Districts .1115
Grand total all employees Anchorage Division.2382
ORGANIZATION CHANGES.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Anchorage, Alaska, April 1, 1917.
Office of Engineer Maintenance of Way.
Maintenance of Way Circular (No. 44):
TO ALL CONCERNED:
Effective this date, the following changes in organiza
tion are announced for the information and guidance of all
concerned:
Mr. L. C. McCoy, Superintendent of Bridges and Build
ings, having resigned, that office is hereby abolished.
Mr. C. G. Jones, Roadmaster, will have general super
vision over all bridge construction and building construc
tion on the line in this district, reporting to the under
signed.
Mr. Edgar Heaton, Water Service Foreman, will exer
cise general supervision over all pumping plants and over
water lines and sewer line construction and maintenance
in this district, reporting to the undersigned.
Mr. G. H. Remore, General Carpenter Foreman, will
have charge of all carpenter shop work and maintenance
of all Commission buildings at the Anchorage Terminal, re
porting to the undersigned.
This department will be known as the Maintenance of
Way Department, and material accounts, etc!, will be
handled under that head.
K. K. KUNEY, Engineer Maintenance of Way.
Approved: F. MEARS, Commissioner.
CONTRACT SETTLEMENTS.
The total amount paid to contractors by the Anchorage
Disbursing Office during the period March 22 to March
31, 1917, was $8377.06, as follows:
Emil Nelson & Co.$1656.50
Hugh McCoughey . 231.00
Eska Creek Coal Co. 6489.56
ANCHORAGE DISBURSING OFFICE.
The total disbursements of the office at Anchorage for
the period March 22 to March 31, 1917, were $26,301.10.
The payment of salaries and wages amounted to $13,
086.84; for local purchases, $3767.55; to contractors,
$8377.06; other expenditures, $893.70; dock claims, $175.95.
An engineering party is revising the line between Indian
Creek and one mile south of Bird Creek, Turnagain Arm
District, eliminating the curve on the bridge at Bird Creek
and throwing the line into the hill at Station A-1940.
Another party in the same District is at work on the
line south of Bird Point, toward Glacier Creek, running
an alternative low grade line at about elevation 30.
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