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Show ALASKA ROADS USED BY MANY MOTOR CARS Alaska has been building roads since 1905. It has built 290 miles of v. on road, 629 miles of winter sled roads and 2210 miles of trails. None of these roads was built for motor car traffic, but more than 250 trucks and passenger cars were in use over them at the close of the last fiscal year. Much damage has been done to the roads by heavy, narrow -tired trucks and tho board of road commissioners finds troubles of maintenanco with them always. In addition they found it necessary to build a five-mile road alone a hillside hill-side last summer by covering the roadbed road-bed with -willow cordurov and surfacing surfac-ing tho corduroy with grael because the material underlying the location consisted of six feet of gravel on the bed rock, forty feet of clear Ice on the gra.d and two feet of moss and tun dra on top. |