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Show WILL BLHLD Copper River and Northwestern North-western Is to fc2 Ex-tended Ex-tended to Fairbanks j '. Scnttl. Wash., Dec. 2S Work on the extension of the Copper River & Northwestern railroad toward Fairbanks, Fair-banks, In tho Tanana gold district, will be begun about March 1. wbeu the line to Kennecott Is to be completed, according ac-cording to information received here to'dny. The northern exteusion will begin at Chitlna and will be pushed toward Fairbanks as rapidly as possible. pos-sible. The distance from Chitlna to Fairbanks Is about 300 miles. jit is estimated that tho extension v)ll Involve the expenditure of $30,-000,000 $30,-000,000 an dwill be tho largest project yet undertaken In Alaska. Chltina is miles from Cordova, the ocean terminus of the railroad Kvc-r since tho Morgan-Guggenheim lMerests began the construction of the Copper river road It lias been koown that they were considering plans for extending the lino Into th? Tanana district, but it wo.s not until today that It was learned that work on the extension would probably be started early next year. on |