SLIDES BLOCK
TRAFFIC ON
GOVT. ROAD
SEWARD, Feb. 5 (Special to the
Daily Times).—Tough sledding is
an actuality rather than a figure
of speech on the route of the govern
ment railroad between Seward and
Anchorage. There is a gap of thirty
two miles over which trains can not
operate because of either snow-block
aded track or glaciered rails; and
sudden and extreme changes in the
weather make traveling with horses
and dogs slow and arduous. Often
the trail is obliterated by snowstorms
and the breaking of it is a task of fre
quent repetition. Sometimes blizzards
are so severe that horses can not be
driven at all, and even the malamute
dogs curl up in front of their sled3
rather than try to go against the
storms. Other times the trail, made
soft by thawing temperatures, will
not support horses, and its slush snow
“balls up” the feet of the dogs so that
they can not travel. On such occa
sions animals, drivers and passengers
have to stay at roadhouses until there
is a change to more favorable weather
conditions.
Taken all in all, the weather this
winter in the country along the route
of the railroad between Seward arid
Anchorage is the worst in the mem
ory of the oldest inhabitant. Heavy
falls of snow, terrific winds, frigid
temperatures and unusually warm
spells of brief duration have inter
mixed at intervals of only three or
four days apart since the middle of
last December.
Four feet of snow in twenty-four
hours is a phenomenon of not infre
quent occurrence. In some places
there are drifts of snow as high as
the tops of telegraph poles, and at
the foot pf several mountains there
are slides of it that cover the track
for distances as long as 1,200 feet
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forty feet. At one point, Mile 7614,
where in previous winters there never
was a snowslide, seven slides this
winter were cleared away before the
effort to keep the place open was
abandoned.
Besides the stretches of snow
blockaded track, there are several
miles of glaciered rails. These re
. jji|‘»ed from alternating warm and cold
i eather, during which snow was
hawed and the water ran on the
rack, submerging the rails and then
freezing solidly. The thickness of
• his ice at places may be judged from
|s|j|ie fact that the water was so deep
Put out the fires in locomotive en
iHSfties when they attempted to go
Kough it.
lespite every effort to maintain
entire line in operation, it is
oMps^ied on account of these snowdrifts,
wslides and glaciered rails be
|||&en Mile 45 and Mile 77, which
jHHkes a distance of thirty-two miles
Sjp|vween Seward and Anchorage that
WM to be traversed by trail. Only by
hardest and most persistent work
the railroad kept clear between
ard and Mile 45 and between Mile
and Anchorage, which is at Mile
Rotary plows, ditchers and large
ws of laborers battle night and day
inst the elements.
Resumption of through railroad
'traffic between Seward and Author
age is not expected before the
weather becomes sufficiently warm in
the spring to loosen the drifts, slides
and glaciers that now cover extensive
stretches of track.
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D. H. Sexton has purchased Robert
Gottschalk’s Interest in the Alaskan
hotel, and all persons having bills
against the hotel should present them
at once to Mr. Sexton, who has as
sumed these accounts. 3-tf
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