THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second class matter Septem
ber 17th, 1918. at the 1 osl Office, a
McCarthy. Alaska, under the Act o
M arch 15. 1 Slit.
C. O, Marwood Editor
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Saturday November, s, 1924
Tile NKWS is in receipt of ;i
communication from Wm. SuIzer
who states that lie has been in
Wash;listen aiding Col. James G.
Steese. President of the Alaska
U>uls Commission to yet a sub
st.mtial ippropriation for the n<*
xt fiscal year to finish the bridge
across the Nizina, the road from
McCarthy to the bridge and the
road from tiie other side of the
bridge, around Scolai Pass, toCh
isana. He says, ”1 made the stro
nyest presentation 1 could to the
o flics iIs in Wash! iyton and tiled
with each of 1hem the en‘.dosed
b rief.”
Following is the brief:
TRANSPORTATION 1 X
ALASKA
Alaska's vast area :s divided
into many Mining Precincts. Com
parativelv few of these Districts
are easy of access. Transportu
ion is the probf m. Goe.u roads
tiie solu i ion.
Marine spent more than t\v
er.ty ,\ eai s in mining in various
parts of the Northland I can test
by to tin almost insurmountable
oosiacies due to lack of transpor
tation.
During the past fift ~.tn ymirs
much of my efforts have been
in the White River Mining Pistr
ict, nnd the facts herein present
■ eel ;nv not exceptional, bnt repr
esentative of the average mining
Districts not served by rail or
water transportation.
Officials of tin* Geological
Survey (Alaskan Division) will
confirm my statements as t rue
of interior mining costs on arc
ountof transportation difficult'.es
Barring the camps that are
served by rail or water, 1 cent
end that at least one third of all
the minera s taken from the gro
nnd in Alaska has been eonsum
ed by the single item, excessive
freight costs due directly to lack
of good roads. Tn other words,
good roads enabling the eeonoin
I leal hanlingof freight to and I com
I the mines will make possiole a
I saving entiivalenl to nae thiol of
I tl'.e value of the total output. To
| the unin'tiuted this may seem inc
i redibie, but not to the mining
I men who have been through the
m :h.
Tiie White* River Mining Dis
tried a qmii'tz and placer c in:p
lias been worked con tin u<msiy
since discovery. The g- Id >ro . ,c
ed exc.t eus ! i ve liunu red thousand
dollars, and oj thi-* [>rodue. ion
more than one half : ia> i:et n ex
pended in tin* haiilii g of snpp
lies to and l'l'oiu the mine's. Two
hundrt d t lions and della rs of this
tremendous freight cost has
been a loss due to the tact that
there never has been a load b>
ibis district.
More serious still is tin* fact
that lack of transpoi > at ion fueil
dies link s impossddt the ele\
e!o|>ment of this o're at copper,
g >Id. and silver district.
The trem ndous mineral res
ources in the While River dist
net a re today practically inner
ess iilt .
Our trtn.sportation costs in
tliis district have exceeded sfjO,
vHH) a i. d e f this amount mo re than
34 b,Odd can be charged as a los*
due to lack of reacts, fids pent
outage of less is greater than the
average one third loss cited a bo
ve, but in this instance some of
the freight charges wore or: equ
ipinent, which charges do not re
cur annually. But the example
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