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Show f entire road is expected to be ready I for traffic The run from Cordova to Cbirlna takes about eight hours, bo that passenger pass-enger arriving at Cordova by steamer steam-er are able to r-HCh Chltlna before the steamer ha finished unloading Ms cargo. The rail route effects a saving of about thro days oer tlie water route to Valdfz anil Fairbanks. The heaviest grade on the line w!U not exceed feet to the mile. A tram line has been built from the Bonanza mines to the terminus of the Copper river. The concentrator is nhout R0 per cent completed, and will bo ready for production by next spring. At present about l.vi.nno tons of copper ore are blocked out. at last one-half ..f which, it Is Mated, runs a bleb as CI per cent copper. Alaska however, will not be much of a factor In copper produetlon next year, nor until the copper situation in Improved COPPER RIVER ROAD RUSHING TO BONANZA About 145 miles of Ihe Copp,,r riVl.r road In Alaska bavo now ben completed, com-pleted, the line extending from Cordova Cor-dova to the Kutkutaoa river. U about fifty miles from the Bonanza mine The line from Cordova to Chltlnu Is In rprtion. and by next Fprlng ihe |