VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 152.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1926
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Engineer Keil Says Noose
Pass Project Be Completed: j
In Early Part of October
FORTY-FIVE MILES OF FINEST HIGHWAY IN TER
RITORY WILL FORM CONNECTING LINK IN
OPENING UP REGION RICH IN NATURAL RE
SOURCES—MOOSE PASS TO HOPE
FIVE HO CREWS ME Ml IN TOE FIELD
Two Camps Erected, One More to Be Built—Total of 70
Men Be Employed All Season—Seward-Kenai Road
Be Maintained Throughout Entire Summer
It is the hope of the local department of the Bureau
4 of Public Roads, of which C. H. Keil, is in charge of all
activities, that the entire Moose Pass project to Hope will
be completed by fall, a total distance of 45 miles and ac
cording to the present outlook it is quite probable that
Engineer Keil will complete the task. At the present
writing, on the Hope-Sunrise project, 43 men are now
on station jobs. These men comprise five gangs but threej
* more crews are leaving Seward a week from Monday, *
which will bring the total number employed to about 70.
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NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT
EARP TELLS REPUBLICAN
CLUB ABOUT BARROW
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SEATTLE, July 9. (JP)—When the ;
Eskimos at Point Barrow first saw
: an airplane upon the arrival of the
: Detroit expedition they dubbed it a
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j devil, Frederick L. Earp, newspaper
i man with the expedition told the
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! Young Men’s Republican club but
when the expedition next visited Bar
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j row Eskimo children were found play
i ing with model planes constructed of
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I hide and bone from walrus and seals. .
iwo camps are already under way
and another will follow upon the ar
rival of the remainder of the crews,
a week from Monday, at which time
the whole road job will be then open
ed up and under way full blast. At
the latest, Mr. Keil expects to see the
work fully completed the forepart of
October. Two miles of the survey
has been cleared of timber and by
the end of this week he said practi
cally one-half of it would be cleared
of timber and ready to go ahead with
the grading. A bridge crew will go
* into the field the latter part 01 this
month to begin erection of about six
10 to 20 foot structures. The Sunrise
Hope road project is eight and four
fifths miles in length and the cost
will be in the neighborhood of $110,
000. The country over which the road
( will traverse is comparatively flat, Mr.
Keil states, and the whole construc
tion is of a light nature with very
little rock work.
On Section No. 3, beginning at
Mile 20, which was constructed last
year, twelve men with five trucks are I
now engaged in surfacing. An ap-!
proximate mile of this has been com-;
pleted.
At Frenchv creek, there is establish
ed a camp of 20 men, who will com
plete this week, the construction of
the 70 foot truss. It is stated this
bridge is an exceptional splendid
piece of work.
Another crew* is stationed at Mile
29, the Forks. All bridges should be
erected and finished by the latter
part of this month, which should al
so mark the completion of the sec
tion No. 3 project. It is now possible
to drive a car the entire distance
from Moose Pass to Sunrise, a dis
tance of 36 miles. The last eight
miles, however, is a little rough but
the trip can be made.
4 On Quartz creek, four men are en
gaged on road work by the depart
ment and according to present plans
a crew will put into shape the seven
- M. S. Whittier, U. S. assistant col
y
■ lector of customs who arrived in Sew
! ard a few days ago from his Juneau
■ office, leaves for Nome on the S. S.
' Victoria.
The halibut vessel Norland arrived
in port for oil and gas en route to
Sitka. It is reported the vessel had
30,000 pounds of halibut under its’
hatches.
| mile stretch between Cooper’s Land
i ing and Russian river.
Mr. Keil arrived in Seward Wed
nesday evening from Moose Pass and
is remaining over at the local office, ,
attending to the many details in con- ;
nection with getting the work ac- ;
tually under way. He returns to the j
project Monday. ^
The Seward-Kenai highway will i
have a small crew on it ^11 through s
the season keeping it in the best pos- <
sible shape for the hundreds of tour- t
ists who will take the opportunity to
visit the beautiful lake. * ,1
WASHINGTON G*EE~$ SWEDEN'S FUTURE f?J<LE«^S
Amid cheers of thousands and guarded b; police C~ v t. PP: a nhi>
deir to the Swedish throe- and Princes? Lotr-e it- i y• ••* p
May 27. After an official welcome there the- royal pa" e Wash; at
:on. D. C. Photo shows the princess, the prince., and S y — T
officially welcome'. U WadU&gtffi - w«A.
ngton May 27.
PINKS AND SILVERS SHOW UP
IN THE BAY; HATCHERY TO
PROPAGATE PINKS
he run of fish in Grouse creek
this year has increased over 5(» per
cent in count to what it has been
for the past three years, according
to H. E. Ellsworth, local member o:
the Territorial Fish commission. but
up to date the run of red? into the
Bear lake spawning grounds is a lit
tle less than normal but is still con
tinuing. Mr. Ellsworth feel- satis
fied there will be a less number of
fish owing to the short run of red?
for the year.
Pinks and silvers showed in Res
urrection hay last TTednes lay. he
announces, and he predicts tl re will
be a very lafge run of pinks, this
year. These fish rnn in two year
cycles.
A request was made by the Seward
Chamber of Commerce a few cays
ago for aid from the Territorial Fish
commission with respect to a change
in course of Bear glacier creek which
has become diverted from it? course
and spread over an area emptying
i into Bear creek. Mr. Ellsworth in
' formed the committee that no fund
are available for stream clearing
However, it is his intention to rn
and relieve the situation. At tb«
present time, as far as diverting the
run of salmon up the stream, hf
said it is doing no harm whatever
in fact it has prevented local fisher
men from snagging and gaffing sal
mon in Bear creek thereby permit
ting of a larger escapement to the
spawning grounds. He also stated
that previous to the muddy water
period that over 25 pec cent of the
salmon which passed thru the wire
showed marks of gaffs anc sung
hooks. These fish, when so injured
are absolutely worthless as far as
propagation purposes are concerned
When they are cut the fish do not
spawn; they become sick and a fung
ess growth beings and eventually
they die.
Practically all of the small salmon
have been taken out of the local fist
SUCCESS OF RAILROAD
LIES FEEDER HIGHWAYS
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General Wile? P, Richardson saic the
success of -he Alaska Railroad lies
it the devek>7»m«r of feeder 1 rfc
ways. "It seemed s-raoe- *o be tr -e
ly a traveler to the country 1r wfc Y
I worked for twelve years but 3 he**
a sentimental affection which crew
me back.” he said
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