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The report of the Alaska road com
mission for the year 1916 reached The
Times’ desk on the last mail from the
states, and the introductory statement,
which covers the activities of the
board in a general way, is as follows:
The board of road commissioners
for Alaska is engaged in the construc
tion of wagon roads, bridges and
trails, and of “military and post”
roads, bridges, and trails in the ter
ritory, under the direction of the sec
retary of war, and in conformity with
an act of congress approved January
27, 1905, and subsequent acts amenda
tory thereto. The board was formal
ly organized on May 15, 1905, and has
been in continuous existence since
that date.
' The road and trail mileage con
structed and maintained to date is in
round numbers as follows: Wagon
roads, 920 miles; winter sled road, 629
miles; trail, 2,210 miles. As stated in
a former report, the wagon roads may
be classified as good country high
ways, intended to meet an all-year
round traffic of considerable tonnage.
The winter sled road is an inexpensive
form of construction, intended to meet
the requirements of winter travel on
ly in certain portions of the winter.
The trail differs from the winter sled
road only in being narrower and with
less attention given to grade and sur
face inequalities.
There has been expended upon the
work up to the close of the fiscal year
1916 a total of $3,390,122.72, of which
$1,765,000 has been appropriated by
congress in varying amounts begin
ning with the fiscal year 1907, and
$1,625,122.72 derived from the Alaska
fund. The average total cost of the
wagon roads has been $3,144 per mile;
of winter sled road, $345 per mile; of
trail, $106 per mile. The above fig
ures embrace location, construction,
and maintenance, and all expenditures
by the board.
The congress, at its last session
made an appropriation of $500,000,
which is the largest that has been
made for any single year; principally
for the further improvement of the
Valdez-Fairbanks military and post
road. This, however, being for the
fiscal year 1917, is not embraced in
the operations covered by the present
report.
In respect to the territorial tax for
road and other purposes, or the “Alas
ka fund,” the legislature of the terri
tory of Alaska at its last session in a
joint memorial prayed congress for
authority to alter, amend, modify 01
repeal the laws relating to taxes on
business and trades in the territory,
and that the legislature be given au
thority over the “Alaska fund.” The
'delegate from Alaska, after reciting
the above-named memorial as a pre
amble to a bill, H. R. 4648, introduced
a provision that the legislature be
“empowered and authorized to alter,
amend, modify, or repeal the act of
congress” which brought the board of
road commissioners into existence, ap
proved January 27, 1906.
The memorial had relation merely
to the control and distribution of the
tax fund, but the effect of the provi
sion immediately following, in the
first section of the bill above referred
to, would be something quite different
and is sufficiently manifest to need no
comment from our board in the pages
of this report. The board quotes, how
ever, the following statement of the
president of the board made public re
cently in this connection:
No member of the road commission,
I may say here, and no person in the
war department, was in any way
whatsoever responsible for the pass
age of the original law creating the
road commission and no one in the
war department will, in my opinion,
make an effort now to have the law
continued if it is considered undesir
able or objectionable to the people of
Alaska, but so long as the responsibil
ity is upon the department every ef
fort will be made by the officers in
charge of the work to get substantial
results, and every thoughtful person
acquainted with the present conditions
in Alaska and interested in a proper
development of the territory knows
that some form of federal aid, which
j means federal direction, is necessary
to get such results.
The task of building roads through
out this vast wilderness of Alaska to
meet the rapidly growing demands
and aid in a systematic development
of its resources can not be adequately
described by any less comprehensive
term than colossal, and our board can
not hope to make more than a begin
ning during the official lifetime of its
present members.
As far back as 1908, in the annual
report of the board for that year, the
suggestion was made that the time
was approaching, it was thought,
when some local or territorial ma
chinery should be organized to take
charge of the local roads, such as, for
instance, an elective board of three
supervisors for each district or com
missioner’s precinct; and although in
the annual report of the following
year it was stated that the develop
ments of the year had not given fur
ther encouragement to the adoption of
that idea, it is believed that the sub
ject might now be taken up with ad
vantage by the legislature.
There exists already an elective
commissioner provided for by the leg
islature for each judicial division, em
powered to expend certain money de
rived from sales of timber in the for
est reserves; but it would be expect
ing far too much of these commission
ers to properly supervise local road
work throughout their divisions. Such
an organization as first mentioned, of
supervisors, elective for each precinct,
who would receive and account for
the moneys allotted to their precincts
and supervise the expenditures there
in would aid very greatly in working
out the problem as it now exists.
In last year’s report it was stated
I that while the board did not class any
of the roads constructed as “automo
bile roads,” nor did the board feel
justified in encouraging the use of au
tomobiles on them, there were, how
ever, over 100 motor trucks and pas
senger cars so used. There are now
more than 250 motor trucks ami pas
senger cars used on roads constructed,
and a regular automobile mail and
passenger service was maintained be
tween Valdez and Fairbanks during
the present summer. As the roads im
prove, the traffic increases and it is
expected that there will be a large in
crease in automobile traffic in the
coming year.
Muh damage has been done to the
roads by the use of heavy, narrow
tired trucks, the operation of which,
due to the absence of appropriate
laws, the board is powerless to regu
late. Roads recently graded, which
would prove satisfactory for light
traffic, are plowed up by heavy trucks
before surfacing is completed, and
expensive repairs become necessary.
The legislature was appealed to
through the governor for some suita
ble law to protect the roads of the ter
ritory, but so far no action has been
taken. Roads constructed and main
tained by the board should be pro
tected by a law similar to that passed
by congress for the protection of tel
egraph lines. (Sec. 60, act approved
Mar. 4, 1909, and published in G. O.
22, War department, 1916.)
A single instance will show the ne
cessity for some protective law. On
September 14, 1916, the superintend
ent at Nome reported, in regard to a
completed road, that:
This road for 500 feet was destroy
ed by being worked out by
Mining & Dredge Co. The district at
torney would not give us protection
and I had the piece of road rebuilt. In
side of two weeks after it was recon
structed they destroyed it again.
It is hoped some action may be tak
en to protect roads and bridges, etc.,
built by federal appropriations. A
good deal of undeserved criticism and
even abuse has been heaped upon the
board in the past and especially upon
its presiding officer, some of which
at least, was due to this condition.
One source of this criticism is well
known to the war department.
It may be remarked that Alaska
abounds in mineral wealth, fish and
PEACE LEM
HERS ATTACK
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The League to
Enforce Peace, of which former Presi
dent Taft is the head, has issued a
statement in reply to Colonel Roose
velt’s article in the February issue of
the Metropolitan magazine, in which
Colonel Roosevelt said that probably
most of the leaders in the League to
Enforce Peace movement “are fol
lowing in the footsteps of (and in
many instances are identical with)
various pacifist agitators who, during
the last quarter of a century, have so
deeply discredited the whole peace
movement.”
Colonel Roosevelt also said that
Germany will probably "encourage
and praise her dupes on this side of
the water in the movement for a
League to Enforce Peace.”
The statement issued from the
league’s headquarters, 70 Fifth ave
nue, was written by Herbert S. Hous
ton, chairman of the league’s commit
tee on information. In part the state
ment says:
"As Colonel Roosevelt’s secretary
of war, Mr. Taft, is the president of
the League to Enforce Peace, and as
the present secretary of war, Mr. Ba
ker, is a member, it does not seem
I instantly apparent that the league is
made up of ‘apostles of feeble folly
with piping voices,’ as Colonel Roose
velt says in his article in the Metro
politan magazine.
“The truth is that the League to
Enforce Peace is a militant and not a
pacifist organization.
“The League to Enforce Peace be
lieves with President Wilson that
there will be no neutrals in the next
war, and that it is up to the people of
this country to decide right now
whether they are to prepare for na
tional self-preservation in future, net
merely by increased armament and
military training, but also by such
diplomatic arrangements as may be
feasible. The position of the league is
explicitly stated in its platform, which
calls for both economic and military
measures for national defense.”
FUGITIVES CAN’T GET
TO EUROPE FROM
THE U. S. ANY MORE
LONDON, Jan. 24.—American fugi
tives from justice can't escape to Eu
rope any more. They have to prove
too many things about themselves
that it's inconvenient to prove before
they can get either in or out.
Probably the only Americans arriv
ing in Europe now-a-days without
first asking permission of Uncle Sam
are, occasionally, sailors who ship out
of American ports under careless skip
pers. As soon as they set foot on Eu
ropean shores they are arrested and
held until their ship leaves for a neu
tral port.
But the old pre-war brand of extra
dition, w'hich provided its almost daily
yam for American and European pa
pers, is dead.
Ham and cheese sandwiches at the
North Pole Bakery. 328
road-commission critics. There are
also other varieties of this last-named
product, most of whom appear to be
endowed with a degree of captious
ness unusual even in this pestiferous
breed.
This is not intended in any sense to
apply to the very large number of peo
ple in the territory who are earnestly
endeavoring to aid in upbuilding the
country, who give all possible support
and encouragement to the work, and
whose recommendations and criticisms
fairly made are welcomed by the
board, but rather to a class aptly de
scribed by the distinguished author of
a recent publication as “* * * more
or less irresponsible individuals whose
hands were filled w’th mud and who
were actuated by a fixed desire to
throw it at something * *
That “something” is usually a pub
lie officer.
!
Almost every one does. Bread cast 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 vour account will grow.
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