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RAILROAD
A Washington dispatch to the Seat
tle Times says:
J. L. McPherson, manager of the
Alaska bureau of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce and Commercial
club, who has been working with the
Alaskan Engineering Commission and
the interior department on Alaska
affairs for several weeks, appeared
before the house committee on ap
propriations today to urge the pas
sage of the deficiency appropriations
to cover work of construction on the
government railroad to the end of the
fiscal year, June 30.
The engineering commission wants
$878,868 to cover the estimated de
ficiency to June 30 on the basis of
the present Inadequate force; $495,483
for supplies and materials as cov
ered by requisitions in the hands of
the purchasing agent but which due
to lack of funds he has been unable
to execute; $200,000 for snowsheds
and bridges; $390,000 for wages for
3,000 additional laborers, a total of
$1,964,351.
In his statement to the committee,
Mr. McPherson said approximately
1,500 men now are employed by the
railroad, constituting practically the
winter force. The men are receiving
supplies they require from the com
missary and drawing approximately
60 per cent of the additional sums
due them. The present force includes
practically all the supervisory and
clerical assistants necessary to the
direction of the work on the basis
of a full year’s activities.
The open-construction period on
Alaska extends from the middle ol
May until the middle of October and
the season of maximum efffcinecy
from June 1 until the middle of Sep
tember. V. Station men are eager to
tak advantage of the long days of
June and July, and therefore M(2ker
son urged the railroad to be allo^n to
prepare Immediately to let station
contracts. Fairbanks supplies are
tied up in the purchasing agent’s
hands because of a lack of funds, and
McPherson urged that the purchases
be made si> they could be forwarded
during the open season of navigation.
Between Seward and Anchorage the
road was reported to be blockaded by
winter snowslldes, which the proposed
new sheds would prevent in the fu
ture. The rebuilding of the old bridge
across the Placer river on the old
Alaska Northern Railroad and the
construction of switchback spdB to
be used while the high trestles j^Bhe
descent from Placer river ^Hle,
miles 49 and 50, are being fllle^Bps
advocated by Mr. McPherson.
Inasmuch as the greater re^Kues
will be derived from througt^Hrffic
and when the road is compled^H the
supervisory construction force be
dispensed with and expenses ^Hucd,
Mr. McPherson urged the earflpsom
pletion of the railroad as an edHomio
measure. fs
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SURVEYOR COMING TO
ALASKA THIS MONTH
The steamship Surveyor is en route
to Alaska for geodetic survey work.
The Surveyor was built on the Great
Lakes and completed in the summer
of 1917 when she was sent to the At
lantic via the St. Lawrence river. On
her arrival on the East coast, the ves
sel was turned over to the navy and
equipped with guns and depth charges
for use as a naval auxiliary cruiser.
Prom February, 1918, until the amls
tlce was signed, it was employed in
convoy duty to and from Mediterran
ean ports.
While on one of these voyages, the
convoy was attacked by two German
submarines, one of which was the
famous U-39 which sank the Lusitania.
The U-39 fired a torpedo at the fleet
which grazed the bow of the Surveyor
and was visible from the deck of the
vessel. The wake of the submarine
was picked up by the Surveyor, which
was able to get into a position for
favorable discharge of the depth
charge. The Surveyor was unable to
finish the submarine, but did succeed
in disabling her to the extent that the
diver was compelled to enter Carta
gena, Spain, and interned there.
The Surveyor is a steel vessel of
1,000 tons displacement, with 1,321 in
dicated horsepower and is able to
maintain a speed of 12 knots. Her
complement is eleven officer and fifty
six men. The vessel will call in San
Francicco for fuel and after taking
aboard survey equipment in Seattle
will proceed to the Alaska Peninsula
to make hydrographic and topographic
surveys along the steamship track be
tween Kodiak, the Aleutian islands
and Bering sea.
The Surveyor is commanded by
Captain Francis H. Hardy, a resident
of Seattle and a veteran of the United
States coast and geodetic survey serv
ice in Alaskan waters.
Bob Sheldon, the new road commis
sioner of the Fourth division recently
left Fairbanks in an auto for the Tolo
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vana country. This is the first time an
auto has made the trip since four
years ago when a man by the name of
Cox came out. Sheldon is taking in
O. P. Gausad and H. J. Patterson as
passengers and will make the trip if
the machine has not forgotten how to
swim, jump and fly. It is stated that
Bob will drive no machine which has
not demonstrated that It .can jump a
60 foot gulch and swim a glacier
stream with two wheels tied.
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