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end brings more fishermen to th .» newly open
ed streams as the road crawls l >rth*
Another contract will 1 »* 1 st this fall
which will extend the road ^o tie banks of
the Susitna River south of 'Jalkcetna. It
will include approxirately five miles of
road and construction of another major struc
ture—the Susitna River bridge, which will
be a three-span bridge more than 1,000 feet
in length. While the Tanana River bridge
at Nenana will be a truss-type structure,
this span will be a welded plate girder
bridge which will leave an open roadway and
provide a clear view for travelers*
Bridging the Susitna at this point and
proceeding along the western shore is a
slightly more expensive route for this par
ticular section, Bruce A. Campbell, pre-con
struction engineer points out. However, the
new route will open up a vast mineral and
farming area west of the river which is not
now accessible. Opening this valley, Camp
bell says,, is a striking example of where
economic faetors other than highway engineer ■*
ing costs were considered equally and con
trolled the location of approximately 80
new miles of highway.
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REPORTER*S MEETING: Monday, October 8,
1962, home of Velma Ballard,
8|00 P.M.
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What this country needs is a ways
and mean-it committee.
Chicago Tribune
When the bridge is completed, the gra
ding of the highway between the Susitna
River and the Chulitna River will "be under
taken* This coming year, grading will com
mence on the section from the Alaska Rail
road crossing (five miles south of Hurricane
Gulch) south to the Chulitna River. Then
grading and bridge construction between
Hurrican Gulch and Summit will begin.
The Hurrican Gulch bridge, a challen
ging problem for State bridge engineers,
will be the closing link between Anchorage
arid Summit and will signal the time at which
Anchoragites will be able to drive directly
to Mt. McKinley National Park. Later, the
existing road between Summit and the park
entrance, which was built by the Alaska Road
Commission in 1952, will undergo reconstruc
tion and widening in anticipation of the
heavier traffic loads.
£5eyona xne pai'K iiea x-ne i-uugxitfsi/ awu
tion to engineer and construct according to
the state’s Chief Road Design Engineer, John
Becker, This is the area crossing the
Alaska Range through the Nenana Canyon, a
gorge which takes tremendous excavation and
structural engineering to construct a wide
road with gradual grades. Two major cross
ings of the Nenana River will be required.
Also, severe slide problems which have
plagued the railroad for years in the NenarL_
Canyon must be solved prior to construction
of this segment. This section will be built
as soon as funds permit.
Beyond this point the state has either
let contracts or has completed projects link
ing the two cities. A road between Rex and
Lignite is presently being built by M-B Con
tracting Company, This road will tie in to
the bridge over the Nenana River at Rex,
which is under contract to Industrial and
Commercial Construction Inc.
Highway officials estimate the alter
native Anchorage-Fairbanks route will be com
pleted within four to eight yearsu