(From the Alaska Railroad Record)
WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORTS.
Anchorage Division.
Folowing are the progress reports of the various de
partments of Anchorage Division for the week ending May
12, 1917:
MAINTENANCE OF WAY.
Water Service and Plumbing.
The repairs to the pipe line leading to the dock and the
marine ways were completed. Guy ropes were placed on the
smoke stack of the central heating plant. Alterations
■were made to the plumbing of the Y. M. C. A. building.
Bridge and Building.
The bridge gang at the Eklutna River completed their
work and moved to Kings River to start the erection of
the bridge at that place.
B. and B. gang No. 5 completed the Granite Creek
bridge and moved to Camp 156 to prepare this camp for
the steam shovel outfit.
The excavation for the foundation of Cottage No. 22
was finished. The gang in the terminal yards completed
the framing of a 56-foot pony truss. Work was begun on
two outfit cars for the Telegraph and Telephone Depart
ment. One flat car was converted into a gondola for coal
service.
Grading and Ballasting.
Steam shovel No. 1 completed the fill south of the
Granite Creek bridge and moved to Mile 11 to continue
widening the bank between Miles 10 and 12. The shovel
moved 13,600 yards during the period. Track was laid
on the main line from Station 5670 to Station 5807 plus
¥>■ The steel gang was engaged for four days of the
week on surfacing and back work.
Mechanical Department.
Running repairs were made to engines 225 and 280.
Considerable work was done in connection with the as
sembling of new locomotives, flat cars and Oliver dump
cars. Work was started on the erection of the spreader.
TURNAGAIN ARM DISTRICT.
Clearing Right-of-VVay.
Collins & Co. are making good progress between Bird
Point and Glacier. Backstrom & Co. will finish their con
tract within a few days.
Grading.
A small Commission force began work on the cut north
of Bird Point, preparatory to the installation of a steam
shovel there. The rock in that section is very hard
and contractors are making only fair progress in conse
quence. Angelo Chrissagis & Co. finished their contract
during the week.
Franske & Co. put off a coyote shot north of Rainbow
Creek, moving 5000 cubic yards of rock with 4500 pounds
of black powder. Charles Larson & Co., just south of
Sheep Creek, moved 7000 yards with 8200 pounds of pow
der; and Burglund & Co., north of Sheep Creek, moved
6000 yards with 5000 pounds. All shots were very success
Ail.
The pockets for the big shot south of Totter Creek are
practically all loaded, and it is planned to explode them
May 13. About 60,000 pounds of powder will be used on
this shot, which is expected to move 40,000 cubic yards of
rock.
A new camp has been established at Indian, Mile 88,
to load ties for tracklaying north of Anchorage. About
5000 ties were loaded at this camp during the week.
MATANUSKA DISTRICT.
Matanuska Branch.
The Commission camp at Mile 33 is in full operation,
and a large force is engaged on the rock work in this sec
tion, which was formerly being excavated by Pappas &
Co. and Pappadis & Co., contractors.
Light loads are being hauled over the new wagon road
between Kings River and Camp 33, although the road is
still soft between Kings River and Camp 32. Beyond Camp
33 supplies are taken in by pack train.
Main Line.
The wagon road beyond the Little Susitna River has
been graded as far as Camp 195, and loads of 3000 pounds
are being hauled. Much corduroying will have to be done
before extensive freighting can be accomplished, however.
The station gangs engaged on this road have resumed work
oi? their contracts.
Poropat & Co. have finished grading south of the Little
Susitna, and have secured a new contract two miles north
of the river.
Camps for the maintenance of wagon road have been
established between Camp 174 and Camp 180, and at Little
Willow Creek, and are being filled up with men as fast
as obtainable from the employment bureau.
The residency between Kashwitna and Sheep Creek,
with headquarters at Camp 201, Caswell Creek, has been
established, with Resident Engineer D. L. Hough in charge.
A wagon road will be constructed from Camp 201 to a
point near the mouth of Caswell Creek, where a landing
and a small warehouse will be built alongside one of the
navigable channels of the Susitna River. With this facil
ity the work between the Kashwitna and Sheep Creek can
be supplied with provisions and material, by means of the
Susitna River boats.
A piledriver crew was organized during the week for
the purpose of driving the Caswell Creek crossing and the
structures south of that point, to connect with the crew
working northward from the Little Susitna.
Tie contracts have been awarded to T. Tadey & Co. and
Linstrom & Co. The cutting area of the former is be
tween the Little Susitna and Browne’s Lake, and that of
the latter is at Willow Creek. When the Susitna River is
open a tie contract will be let covering the section between
Kashwitna and Sheep Creek.
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE DEPARTMENT.
Telegraph and Telephone.
Two small construction crews are at work out of Mata
nuska, one on the main line and the other on the branch,
erecting permanent line. The crew on the main line at
present consists of six men only, but as soon as camp cars
are available the force will be increased. The permanent
construction work on the branch line has reached Palmer.
The main line work consists of changes around the wye at
Matanuska with the object of saving several hundred feet
of expensive cable in crossing under the tracks.
On the Seward Division, stakes for the permanent line
have been placed from Mile 52 to Mile 62. Material is be
ing distributed from the cache at Mile 62Vz for the work
in this section.
Electric Light and Power.
A small extension of the Anchorage lighting system
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The number of employees of the Anchorage Division
as shown by the payrolls on Saturday, April 28, 1917, was
as follows:
Commissioner’s Office . 12
Shops and Yards . 153
Transportation Service 59
Store and Dock Departments 308
Steward’s Department . 15
Accounting Department 19
Disbursing Office . 8
Town site Department 26
Hospital Department 26
! Telegraph and Telephone Department . 63
Track, Bridge and Ballast—Main Line 428
Turnagain Arm Distinct . 222
i Matanuska District. 538
Talkeetna District 162
2069
Stationnien and Laborers—All Districts. 1349
Grand total all employees Anchorage Division.3418
ORDER
Department of the Interior
Washington, April 12, 1917.
In connection with the administration of coal-land
leases granted by the Secretary of the Interior for the
, United States in the Territory of Alaska, under the Act of
Congress approved October 20, 1914 (38 Stat., 741), and
regulations issued May 18, 1916, I hereby designate and
authorize Mr. Andrew Christensen, manager Land and In
! dustrial Department, Alaska Railroad, as ‘ the authorized
representative of the lessor,” charged with the duty of
supervising operations and performing other functions im
posed by the law, l-egulations, or leases upon the local rep
resentative of the Department of the Interior in Alaska
in connection with such coal leases. The Bureau of Mines
| will co-operate with him in seeing that mining operations
are conducted with due regard for the preservation of the
property, the prevention of undue waste, and the safety
and welfare of the miners.
The notation of leases, assignment of leases, of can
cellation or modifications, surveys, and other matters af
fecting the status of the lands will be made by the local
and General Land Offices under the supervision of the
Commissioner of the General Land Office. Receipts in the
form of rentals and royalties shall be paid to the local
land office and be disposed of under the supervision of the
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
In all cases the right of appeal to the Secretary of the
Interior from the action of those representing the lessor is
hereby granted and recognized, said right to be exer
cised as nearly as pi-acticable in accordance with the prac
tice governing other appeals.
FRANKLIN K. LANE.
HEAD OE DUi
DEINDS WAR
• TOJP END
PETROGRAD, May 12. — Last
night President Rodrianko of the
Russian Duma held a long session
with the workmen and soldiers’ dele
gates and expostulated with them to
continue the war to the end.
“The innumerable sacrifices we
have laid upon the altar of this war
demand that peace should corres
pond with the immensity of our ef
forts,” said the president. “Let us
continue this struggle that we may
attain the triumph of our ideals of
justice and also that liberty may be
assured to us. The Germans are op
posed to these splendid ideals. Their
program, which is totally differ
ent, the hegemony cf the world and
the enslavement of nations.
“The struggle for the principles
are so mutually contradictory that
they cannot terminate in a draw,
but only by a decisive victory by
one or the other of the adversaries.
Only the complete defeat of German
militarism will assure the happiness
of the world.
“The gulf sepaarting the German
devastators and destroyers of civil
ization from the allies is too deep
for war to be concluded without the
realization of the ideals I have men
tioned.
“Do not forget that the working
classes of Germany, however, social
istic they may be, are ardently hoping
for a victory for Germany cannot re
duce her vast industry and her defeat
by the allies would be like a blow
from a club for the workers of Ger
many who naturally support the Im
perialistic aspirations of the govern
ment.
“Russia cannot betray the allies
by whose side she has been fighting
for three years and she must re
main faithful to them.”
HELIOSGDPEIS
SEATTLE, May 12.—Prof. Her
schel Parker of Columbia university,
who sailed last night on the Admiral
Evans for the north, believes that the
helioscope will solve the submarine
problem.
Prof. Parker said: “I believe that
submarines can be chased away from
their intended victims by the use of
the helioscope. Equipped with helio
scopes, which are simply underwater
searchlights, destroyers could detect
the presence of submarines and know
exactly where they would come to the
surface to take observations.”
Prof. Parker, on his present trip to
Alaska, will dredge for platinum.
NEW YORK. — (Special) — “Tne
German emperor is considered to be a
madman, even in Germany. He is
hopelessly addicted to the use of
drugs, because of chronic ailments in
the throat and ear, which cause con
stant pain. The emperor spends most
of his time in the royal palace at
Potsdam. He believes that Germany
lost the war in the battle of Jutland
and his most intimate advisers believe
that the country must make peace by
July."
So says Mr. Edgar M. Moore, who
has just arrived in New Y'ork from
Germany. Helmuth, the kaiser’s per
sonal chauffeur, is his authority. “The
kaiser is very irritable when his ear
causes him pain and he and his ear
and throat physician, who is one of
his aides, are constantly quarreling
over the enormous quantities of co
caine and morphine which the im
perial patient insists upon every day.
The kaiser carries a hypodermic sy
ringe.
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Dress shoes and heavy walking shoes of tan.
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