Show ALASKA RAILROAD PIERCING ICE WILDERNESS THOUGHT FANCIFUL PROJECT REALITY 1 Alaska May 25 Y Or Ch A 1 Mail MIl Orly Orly a few v years ago o n- n o chor wn nonexistent Tho The cn eni n. Alaska r railroad was sas is n a fn fn tuCu tuC i l- l fu fui u project jT At the tho clo close cloMo e of tho the last Sast sl hl session lon of ot Congress when the iho appropriation lion failed along with other r it items m things s again ag took or on a hue huo In whit la Is now a thriving town Th Ti slender ribbons of or steel that t have hav boldly ilard to pl pierce a C v vl rapt jl wil wilderness 3 nr r ie ice e and snow SHOW appeared doomed to toA toa A 1 II life Ufa of ot rust Now ow with the tho mone money r to irry c on the tho work worl all but Actually uth Anchorage eo through h its chamber o of commerce asks ask the tho United States nt at length to Ie na- na of the great brat work already oc- oc the tun first 1 t As than three years ear ago train s mn rita over o tho the Anchorage di di- di vision Illon Sinco then nearly p pis pass pass- cn rI and tons of freight have tho rails rans The division di- di been cn handled bandied over vision lon comprises 80 miles mites of or railroad beginning near tho the north end of tho the AJL Alaska ka Northern railway and extend extend- log Inc to tho tho of ot th thi Alaska Alaka rang ranS Track has been laid and operated over overlIa lIa miles of or main line lino as M far north a as of or and thirty eight miles branch line all line all uvo ho of ot track mileage In yards and sidings s. s Thirty noro oTa miles of roadbed ro are re ready for forthe or orthe the rails rails- Six Miles of or Uria Bridges e Six SIt miles of wooden bridges te h have havo e been built and 2400 jf JC rl of right h hot ot Wn way WI cl cl d and grubbed Over O cubic yards ards of oC solid ock nn and n nearly cubic yards of other Material lute have boon been moved mo Just Jus to Lo brin an and outfits to the W IJ kr k- k er r ri com camps s 30 30 mileS of or trails halls and n 5 J 19 miles of wa wagon on roads rOld have havo teen Icon built with 30 10 miles of ot telegraph raph in- in II'S ani telephone lines s. s Over aero ero er erected ted just for railroad employee and supplies Coal COA mines were opened at nt Ziska Eska creek and Chickaloon hy by hythe the Alaskan Engineering En commission n builders of the railroad and In two years ton of coal oal 1 have vo been boen mined and shipped At Anchorage wharves and docks were er built over o which passengers tons of or freight have J been cn handled In three hours hour Water ater tanks tank l pumping plants mains sewers and a n hundred other necessary adjuncts have havo sprung into being helm In those three years ears three been laid out along this division with ith acres of land cleared t te ten n miles of oC graded streets five miles of ot wooden and one ono and one-fourth one miles of cement sidewalks laid The town sits's sit It are arc Anchorage e and Wasilla P Payment nt for tor all the modern I i-i i C ni en I s g given iv I en en thee o embryo embry was not from Uncle Sams Sam's t tury ur UI ury but from the lie salon of or low lots by a assessment nt Fr Arc Ars Cut CutIn In Anchorage alone all all a it athe result O 0 Othe the th railroad there railroad thero are arc somo some 90 stores besides DO- DO owned 1 11 and lIi sides cs Jo government buildings churches It a school chool fire ire station and the like Frd ht that formerly cost more than than 2 25 cents cent a t poun pound to move by pack train front from tidewater it il Anchor Ge to Chic Chick Chick i costs at present enL less than one one- half haIC c cOot nt a pound b by railroad Since binco the tho railroad r w was s opened farmers in tit th- 1 valley tHey have produced tons tona of or potatoes 5 an and other sup sup- tapped In snort short s. r The Tue railroad has hns C acres of oC valuable land rIchIn rich richIn In natural l' l resources J available a for ag- ag is as s well weB n pe for tor jn mining These the chamber of oC commerce points out arc a a. 1 few tew of ot tho the things bruel brought ht about bollt by the coming of oC steel of ot the reason f given fen en Jh These 6 are aro sonic some wh why th the pioneers of or now lan lands s iava havo 1 government would not forgot torget for for- tho the got get th the moneY needed to complete th task tuL bc begun un k r t |