Show An Infant nt Which is h Requires Attention The prosecution of work vork on the Alaska gove government owned railroad rail- rail road lOad ad has brought other departments of the he federal government ac ac- into the field in getting things thing's shipshape e for the great com corn comm m merce that will dev develop l With the great northern territory as S soon ol as railroad communication with the interior makes k S possible the o opening ht g up of its vast res resources S. S F The coast and ge geodetic d tics survey is pointing out the necessity for additional work in th the coastal Waters vaters of Alaska Al' Al asks to make snake the p potential te steamship routes safe for travel travels The tOur tourist st who is aston astonished shed Lahd hd I delighted at the m magnificent scenery along along the tho Alaskan c coast cast st usually does not realize that the features which very ca Wh When n ct j continued below the surface of the water forth form the tae cle rocks dangerous and other obstructions so dreaded b by r the nevi navigator atop All AIr c commerce 1 in between n Alaska and the Pac Pacific f c coast anti and b between thc th ports o of Alaska is water t borne and vessels many ae are obb obliged ed to pass through the intricate system m of narrow v channels in southeastern south south- eastern astern Alaska These passages which are usual usually deep depressions between en are apparently safe but the appearance of s se security se- se 1 is s deceiving i b on account of the existence of very sharp Ij rocks rising rr in iii many c cases ses from gre great t depths and of sh 1 small f extent that thai the ordil ordinary a r ni methods th s of such h the a g Y sti a as i 5 fail to reveal them This has made necessary the a adoption opt on of of the Ute w wire re dr drag ab a a device e supported by bUoys lOYS and aud carrying ri rigid kl d Cable Cable- bl g a dg h a at t a s g given tl depth below the surface and 1 dragged over over the l surface j e of ot th 4 S a sea ea by two by-two t two tugs one at either end When the drag rag encounters a inna- inna cl IS point the tide buoys di dip p and the rock is charted The very uncertainty of the existence of these pinnacled les an and the fact ACt that in which they rise from great depths make it itne necessary ss ry to drag tar large lg e areas no obstructions are found The coast bureau lies has found however that su such h work be survey can done rapidly by the use use of a a long drag a drag feet long b having b been used with the result that twenty square miles were dragged in a single d day y Until this work is completed a voya voyage O to Alaska is not quite in the same character as in a dredged channel In channel hannel of on one ou out t twelve buoys buos now m marking dangerous rocks five have b been n placed on shoals found in the wire wire dra drag drab Work york |