Show nearer road to ti NEW naw YORK aug aua 3 A special to the herald from washington s ys ya there is a short and easa route rosteto rou teto to the rich gold fields of the klondike fic ac cording to a common cation to the interior department from J M 0 lewis a ci civil vil engineer who taye says he be can open up apat at ones onca a route from the mouth of copper river by which the klondike way may be reached by a journey of not much more than miles from the coast the route he proposes will start inland from the monh of the copper river near the 23 mile glacier bome miles eist east to the entrance of prince william sound bound aie he beys baya the aba coop cooper or river is navigable for small steamers steam era for many miles beyond the mouth month of Us principal castera tributary called on the last maps the Cail lyna river chieft is itself navi navigable gabla for a considerable distance from the head ot of navigation ou oa the Chil lyna mr lewis soya says either a highway or a railroad could be constructed without great difficult y or heavy grades through what the natives call the low pass probably the pass pasa from this pass atle roid road ro id would follow the villey of the white river to the point where it empties in into to the yukon on oa ahe edge edee of the klondes gold fields |