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Show u u TRACTORS HAUL COAL IN FAR NORTH ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Nov 2r, ' Army type tractors, which break their own trails over the snow, have replaced replac-ed horoo drawn sleds on roads which le.d the United States government railroad between Seward and nehoi-ago, nehoi-ago, Alaska. One big company has purchased I three tractors to haul coal from tho Mooso Creek mines four miles to the i railroad. Ia.st year this firm handled tho coal ln horse drawn sleds, after the roads had been flooded and allowed allow-ed to glaze with Ico . Tractors also arc to operato on a regular schedule Into the Willow Creek section, a recently discovi red gold country 30 miles from the rail- ! r"ud. Morf than 100 tons of machinery machin-ery are to bo Liken Into Willow by the tractors this winter. |