Show OFFICIALS OFFERED AlASKAN RAilROAD I J. J Pierpont Morgan Wants to Sell or Lease Copper River Northwestern WASHINGTON Oct IS n An An offer to sell or lease the time Copper River Northwestern Northwestern North North- western railroad to the government for tor use In connection with the railway ay the tho government la Js preparing to build In hr Alaska was alS made today by J. J PIerpont Morion Morgon to Secre Secretary ry Lane Lano of or the interior department The secretary replied that pending a re report report report re- re port from the b board ard of ot engineers now surveying proposed routes In the territory terri tern to toy tory y he he was T as unable to to consider an any for ton acquisition of ot existing lines As the head of or the Nev e York oik banking house of Morgan Co Mr Morgan n represents represents rep rep- resents the time control or of the Copper River KOI Northwestern railroad which I la is owned b by what I IM is known as the Alaska syndicate Iud syndi cate a Il pool in which the Morgan Moran and Guggenheim Interests are arc the ino principal factors actors The road is 1368 miles long and ex extends ex- ex tends from Cordova Its southern terminus on the tho Prince William sound in n a northeasterly northeasterly northeasterly north north- easterly direction to the location location location loca loca- tion of the Bonanza copper mine It constitutes constitutes con con- the outlet to th tIme tha s sea a coast of nf the copper mined b by the tho n Interest in interest In- In terest in Alaska It passed within thirty miles mlles of the rich Bering Bering- coal fields on the cast east and it Is said a branch line easily 8 1 might reach the fields on the west |