The Nome nugget., 1902-06-21
Railroad to Be Built From C Cook Inlet
TO THE YUKoN RIVER
The Distance Is About SIS Miles ard Will Traverse the Country to the Eastward of the Trans Alaska PrO-
 posed Rampant a Terminus.

A railroad project which has been recently launched in Seattle. has for lt> object the building of railroad from Resurect ion bay, Cook Inlet, by the shortest and most feasible route possible to Rampant On the Yukon The length of the proposed Line is 514.S miles,
 The promoters of the enterprise. which is undertaken as business and money-making venture, are John H.. McGraw, former governor of Washing lon: Uni.ed State Senator George Turner, George w. Dickinson, Charles r. Peck. J. w. Goodwin. John E. Bal laine, Capt. E. E. Caine, Charles L.. Denny and c. NJ. Anderson All except Senator Turner and Mr. Peck. whose homes are in Spokane and Omaha. re- specLively, are residents of Seattle. They have incorporated as the Alaska Central railway. The survey was made in 1S97-S by Anderson, who is desg- hated as the chief eng sineer of the road. The route as outlined in the official papers filed bs as follows:
 From point on the north end Ct Resurrection bay; thence in alnortherly direction to Lake Renal; thence around she lake in 2 northerly and westerly direction to Quartz creek; thence north- erly up Quartz creek and down Canyon and Six-mile creeks to Turnagain Arm; thence easterly to the head thereof: thence westerly and nOrtherly to the head of Knik arm; thence westerly to the Little Sushitna river: thence north erly along the foothills of the Sushitna valley to the mouth of the Chutlina river; thence nOrtherly through the val ley of the Chutina to the mouth of the eastern branch thereof: thence north easterly up said branch to the Car- bou Pass and across the pass to the Upper Cantwell river; thence north westerly down the Csntwell to the val ley of the East Fork thereof; thence northeasterly mp said East Fork to the Nenana Pass: thence nOrtherlv crossing the Nenana Pass and down the Nenana river to the valley of the Panama; the nee northerly across the Panama river and valley; thence northerly up the Matters river and it's branch and down Manook creek to the Yukon river at Rampant City,"
 Resurrection bay is on the Gulf of Alaska and about midway between Prince William sound and Cook inlet.
 The route runs in a general way north and south lying between the Alaskan and St. Elias ranges of mountains. It goes through heavily timbered section of Alaska, one also rich in mineral. Many leading mining districts, both placer and qnartzr will be tapped by it.
 Prof. C. C. Georgeson, in his goverE- Ment reports, sets forth that the Kenai peninsula and Sushitna valley are we'll adapted by reason of their mild climate and the rich character of she soil to agriculture. For several years he has been conducting the governments az ricultural experiment. stations in Alas ka, and his reports declare that rye, oats, barley, fruits, berries and vegeta- bles can be raised in those regions.
 The chief reliance for the support of a railroad in that country necessarily lies in its mineral resources. The road will prove of inCalculable benefit to tEe rN,ly tv.lf, T t,,in ,I,,,,. ba Turnagain Arm placers. one of the old- est digsings in all Alaska. When con- structed il will run along Turnagain Arm crossing many Cf its tributaries, which have for years been giving up placer gold. There are also promising quartz properties on the Kenai penin- snla, aud it is on this peninsula that the n!ost sxtensive coal fields ever discover cd in Alaska are found.
 From an engineering andpoint the road is declared to be entirely feasible and practicable. Twenty-six hundred feet is the greatest altitude encountered. This is the Caribou Pass, in the Alas ka range. The pass is approached from the either side by a grad ual ascen. of from fifty to seventy-five miles.
 The promoters of the enterprise which, if carried to 8 completion, means so much toward the exploration and development of a great section of the territory of Alaska, say they will begin actual consi ruction July l. The pre- liminary survey has been made, thus giving the corporation right of way.
 A party of surveyors detailed to To- cate the southern end of the r0nle, left Seattle for Resurrection May and ar- harslrv. yiug expedition has departed for the Yukon. This party will survey south. Meanwhile. two more crowds