HIGHWAY TO TAP RICH
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Judge Wickersham’s sugges
tion that an air route be estab
lished along the proposed exten
sion of the Pacific Highway from
Hritisli Columbia to Alaska is
sound. It would be practicable
to develop landing fields as the
automobile road is extended
through the wilderness. Wheth
er the air route should be es
tablished first is a debatable
question. At present, seaplanes,
u.-ung the inside passages, paral
lel the proposed route over land
The course of the new high
way will be through forests now
trackless, across mountains and
deep canyons and generally thru
the wildest and most picturesque
legion on the continent. On
some of its unbridged streams,
trappers and miners have estab
lished feeble outposts. Moose,
grizzly bear and mountain sheep
are present in great numbers.
Its rushing rivers have enormous
potential water power. Its min
eral resources are sc great that
their extent can be merely con
jectured.
The combination of air route
and automobile highway using
the same bases of supplies, road
houses and hotels, would be sin
gularly attractive to tourists. It
requires no special prescience to
predict that it would be throng
ed with sightseers and with trav
elers with a more serious pur
pose from the day of its opening.
Judge Wickersham, who knows
Alaska and the Yukon Territory,
says that settlements with their
industries and their farms soon
would be established along that
magnificent highway. Such a
development always has follow
ed roadbuilding in the wilder
ness. The road would open an
empire enormously rich to the
i:;e< of man.—Seattle Times.
YUKON PORTAGE ROUTE
OPENED
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Improvements to the Yukon
Kuskokwim portage are virtual
ly completed, only loading and
unloading facilities remaining to
be installed at the terminals it
was made known by Maj. Doug
las Gillette, Engineer officer of
the Alaska Road Commission. Ho
and Mrs. Gillette returned early
this week from a three-months
trip in interior Alaska on which
he inspected various road and
other projects being carried on
by the Commission.
The work there consisted of a
canal about one-half mile long,
six to eight feet wide and three
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to six feet deep and two tram
ways equipped with winches ov
er which cars are operated.
Loading facilities will be added
nexc spring, the season being
too far advanced to complete
them this fall.
Three, men using dynamite,
cut the canal through muskeg
in three weeks. The work was
done by the Commission forces,
the Territory co-operating in
financing the project.
Illumination Needed
Two little urchins stood with
their noses pressed against a
barber shop window, watching
the white coated attendants per
form their mysterious rites.
"Gee Mickey, look at that
one,” said one, pointing to a
barber wielding a singeing taper:
“He’s lookin’ for ’em with a
light.”
: *e people never giv^ up their
butties but under some rtclu
; i.—Burke.
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