KEY MAP
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All Roads Lead to Stewart, B. C. and Hyder, Alaska
The Historic Cariboo Highway
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On ’’The Golden Twilight Trail”
The Shortest Highway Route To Alaska
Via Stewart, B. C. To Hyder, /laska
The above map of the North Amer
ican Continent shows how every main
automobile road in the United States
would connect with the projected
Golden Twilight Trail through Brit
ish Columbia, and Yukon Territory
to Alaska. The insert map displays
! a proposed branch from the main
highway leading from the northerly
ends of the present British Columbia
highway system either at Kispiox or
Kitwancool, B. C., by way of Mez
iadin Lake and Bear River valley to
Stewart, B. C., and Hyder, Alaska—
the first Alaska town that could be
reached over the Golden Twilight
Trail and some 600 miles nearer
Seattle than any other accessible
district In Alaska.
The total distance from either of
these towns to the northern extremity
of the continental highway sys
tem is some 140 miles. As thirty
tour miles of road on this route is
already In use, only about HO miles
of new construction would; be re
quired to make a highway to Alaska
a reality. Of this 110 miles, less than
ten miles require rock work, the re
mainder of the route being over flat,
valley lands, or alluvial slopes. No
expensive bridges would be Involved
in construction. The longest span
in any bridge would not exceed 100
leet. Estimates indicate that 100 miles
of the 110 miles could be built for
less than $10,000 a mile, a compar
atively low figure for road construct
ion in the North.
For the most part, this route lies
through an area of scenic beauties
and important agricultural possibil
ities, abounding with game and fish.
This route represents the simplest
and least costly method of opening a
highway to Alaska and could be com
pleted many months before the main
highway could be extended to any
other accessible sect lop of the Alas
ka territory.
Scene On the Golden Twilight Trail