Roosevelt Standard | 1918-07-24 | Page 2 | Building Roads in Alaska

BUILDING ROADS IN ALASKA road commissioners find trouble in maintenance on amount account of narrow tired trucks alaska has been building roads since 1005 it has built miles of wagon roads miles allies of winter sled roads and 2210 miles of trails one of these roads was built for motorcar traffic but more than trucks and passenger cars were in use over them at the close of the last fiscal year tear much aluch damage has been done to the roads by heavy narrow tired trucks truck and tile the board of road commissio commissioners ners finds troubles of maintenance with them always in addition they found it necessary to build a five mile road along a hillside last summer by covering the road bed with willow corduroy find and surfacing the lie corduroy with gravel because the material underlying the location consisted of six feet of gravel on the bed rock forty feet of clear lee ice on oil the gravel and two feet of moss and tundra on top