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THE NATIONAL FORESTS (if- AL
ASKA AND JTS ROADS AN©
TRAILS
(By Charles H. Flory.
District Forester?
The Chugach National Forest,
iwith an area of nearly 5 000.000
acres, located in the Prince William
Sound section of Aiaka and the
jTongass National Forest, comp ris
ing practically all of southeastern
I Alaska with an area of over H>.500,
000 acres, were set aside by Presi
dential Proclamation for the pur
pose of perpetuating the vast tim
ber resources thru proper ton try
practice. The estimated st tod of
the former is 6,200,000,000 feet R. M.
'and of the latter 78.500.000 0©o feet
B. M. The Forest Service adminis
tered these forests, all the resources
of which are available for use. thru
a resident per onnel consc-iimi of
the District Forester at Juneau, two
Forest Supervisors located at Cor
fdova and Ketchikan, and prrman
{ent field and office force oi more
than 30. Not including an;; ■ pria
tions made for roads and foils, the
Alaska district of the Forest Service
‘operates under an averau* total
annual allotment of $150,000 The
yearly average of net receipts from
:all sources is about’ $120,000.
The Forest Road Section of the
Federal Highway Act appropriates
money for road building in National
Forest regions and apportions it
according to the area and value of
National Forest land resources in
each state and Territory. These
funds are available only for pro
ject- within or immediately adja
cent to the National Forest Selec
tion of the projects are in'":do at
|joint conferences between Alaska
representatives of the Bureau of
Public Roads, the Forest Service
jand the Alaska Territorial Road
Board, subject to the approval of
|the Secretary of Agriculture, All
! construction is done by the Bureau
o:r runlie rtoaas.
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Since 1916, when the firs’ surest
‘road money was appropriated, Al
ia kr has received and expended, up
to June 30, 1929, approximately
$3,750,000 for the construction and
maintenance of projects totaling
206 miles. Of this amount, a bout
$340,009 of federal funds were spent
for maintenance at an average cost
|of $375 per mile. In addition to the
above the Territory contributed
£250 000 for construction and $50,
000 for maintenance. The projects,
both completed and uncompleted,
; follow:
| Afognak Lake (.adjoining: Fish
sHatchery) .2 miles: Crow Creek
1 (near Anchorage) 6.0 miles: Ryak
'Lake <adjoining Cordova) 72 miles;
Glacier Adjoining Juneau ■ 37 5
miles; Johnson Pass (near Moore
Pssh 8 2 miles; Kata 11a (adjoining
Katrfllan 13 9 miles: Kena-i. River
; (below Kenai T ake) 12’.6 miles: Mill
Creek (near Wrangell) .9 miles;
Moose Pass (between Moose Pass
lend Hopei 45 O'mdse; Palmer Creek
((near Hope: 12:5 mile a Petersburg
I (adjoining Petersburg t 5.7 miles•
;Point -Agassizr near Peterabe-gi' 4.5
! miles-: Salmon River- in Hvdef re
t loh) 9 7 mbes-; Seward - admining
•Seward'* 14 7 mile-: Sitka at 6'tka)
3'.6 miles; Texas Creek in Hvder re
gion ) ’54 miles: Tengdssirdioining
Ketchikan* hri miles: Wrangell
(adjoining Wrangell) 4.2 ifcftes:
Those familiar with the country
will note that .the project-: chosen
are mainly of two classes, hrsb, ad
jacent to and serving settlements
and second, leading into and open
ing up mineralized regions. During
the fiscal year 1928 in addition to
the above, a program of location
surveys was authorized with a view
to constructing low-type roads
leading into other mineralized re
gions.
For several years a census of im
provements along Forest Highways
in Alaska has been taken to aseer
; tain the character and value of the
development that is taking place.
}The steady growth in numbers and
(value of these improvements is re
• markable, as witness the following
short tabulation compiled in the i
fall of 1928:
IMPROVEMENTS BUILT SINO*
j ROADS WERE CONSTRUCTED
Residents, 89, value $472 259:
Summer homes. 55 value $38 600;
Dairies, 9 value $35 350; Fur fa -m
23 value $77 800: Industrial ph>nt#,
13 value $240,200: Mines. 7 value
$334,500: Ranches, 13. v-lue $46.3i«;
Canneries, 2, value $75,000: F»ecfrte ♦
power plants 1- Value $50 OOf:
Breakwater. 1 va.hie $500 000' Oth
ers, C<j, value $38/184-0 nnru
ber of improvements 376; valtif.
$2,145,480.
Trails are also a great factor in
: the' development of the National
Forest ’-euions of Alaska. Federal
funds alloted the Forest Service up
to June 30. 1929 were used by that
agency in constructing and main
taining 343 miles at an approximate
cost of $400,000. of which some $33,
000 was used for maintenance.
PLANTS RELIEVED
SEATTLE. Dec., 16. GPl—Th*
Seattle Municipal and the Puget
Sound Power & light Co., hydro
electric plants have been considera
bly relieved and some help hit*
come to the Tacoma plants, by the
rain and snow which started t#
fall and continued all along th*
Puget Sound area and in the Cas
cade mountains.
FREE—Mignon phene, four re
cords and case with $100.09 pur
chase, cloth in p department Brow*
$ JFIawki'r.s Corp.
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LEGAL NOTICE
UNITED STATES DEP A UAfENT
OF THE. INFERIOR. GENERAL
LAND OFFICE. ANCHORAGE,
ALASKA, October 22, 1929.
Notice ;s hereby yiven that How
ard L. Lonsr, entryman, toother
with witnesses. Mary J. Rnsmnsse*
and Melyin A. Horner, ah of Sew
ard. Alaska has made final proof on
his homestead entry, serial §8054,
for land embraced in Forest Hat
8-43, H. E. S. No. 185, V. S. Survey
No. 1775, from which Corner N®,
1 U. S. I M. No. 62 bears N. Ho 24'
47” E. 43.1*3 chains, situated on the
easterly side of Kenai Lake, con
taining 13.9.1 acres, latitude 69o 21*
25” N. Longitude 149o 22’ 15” W. and
it is now in #the files of the U. S.
land Office, at Anchorage, Alaska,
and if no protest is filed in the *
local land office, at Anchor go. Al
aska, within a period of publica
tion or thirty days thereafter said
final proof will be accepted and
final certificate is- ued.
J. LINDLEY GREEN. R aster.
Date of first publication November
6, 1029.
Date of last publication January
8. 1950.
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