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Show 'EXPECT IMMINENT ! BOOM IN ALASKA CONSTRUCTION OF PROJECTED RAILROAD TO DEVELOP VAST REGION TO THE NORTH. - Believed That With the Completion of the New Railroad to Be Built by the Government, Development pians Will Be Revived. Washington. Construction of the railroad in Alaska will be carried on by the Alaskan engineering commis sion which surveyed possible routes rather than und.;r the engineer corps of the army, secretary Lane so announced an-nounced after Tuesday's cabinet meeting. meet-ing. , Secretary Lane said that announcement announce-ment of the route selected by the president of the railroad will be ma.de within the next few days. The announcement an-nouncement will include whether the government will buy either the Alaska Alas-ka Northern or the Copper River and Northwestern lines, now privately owned. New impetus in the development of Alaska with the completion of the government gov-ernment railroad was predicted by George R. Walker, former United States attorney for Alaska, in an address ad-dress before the Ohio society of Chicago. Chi-cago. "With the completion of thu United States' new railroad,-' said the speaker, "the development of Alaska, which has slumbered since 190G, will be revived." t |