Douglas Island news., 1907-03-20
A Railroad From Douglas to
 Prince Rupert

ruary 9th. by MT. Humphrey. 1t was referred to the committee on Public Lands and ordered to be printed.
 A Bill to authorize the Alaska South ern Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate railroad at and between the town of Skagway, in Alaska, and point on Portland Canal opposite or near Prince Rupert and Port Simpson, British Columbia, and intermediate points.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ofthe United States of America in Congress assem- bled.
 That the Alaska Southern Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Wash ington, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to con- struct, maintain, and operate railroad from Gastineau Channel, Alaska, six miles easterly from the east boundary line of the town of Juneaui thence along the shore of said channel to a point most convenient for crossing same, being three miles, more or less, westerly from the western boundary of Juneau; thence across Gastineau Chan nel to Douglas Island and easterly along the northerly shore of Douglas Island to a point at or near Nevada Creek: also from said most westerly point of the northerly side of Gastineau Channel along or near the shore to Eagle River; thence by the most praC- ticable route to Berners Bay, and thence to the town of Skagway, Alaska; also from the most practicable point on said route along or near the shore of the mainland southerly and easterly to point or points on Portland Canal opposite or near to Prince Rupert and Port Simpson, in British Columbia.
 SEC. 2. That said company shall have three years from the passage of this Act within which to file map Of definite location, until which time all rights originally secured by the filing of their plats of preliminary location at and near the towns of Juneau and Douglas shall continue, and eight years from the date of filing of such maps of definite location within which to com plete said railroad from Skagway to the Portland Canal.
 SEC. 8. That there is hereby granted to said company for terminal purposes and for building approaches, wharves, docks, warehouses, elevators, aud other structures as may be necessary for the conduct of the business of said railway, on and contiguous thereto when so definitely located, and at such points thereon as said company shall select, in addition to its rights under existing laws. public lands not exceeding one hundred aud sixty acres at each of said terminal points and having a water frontage at each of said points not exceeding one mile; and eighty acres of land is hereby granted to said company for intermediate division terminals at points on the line of it's railway to be selected by it as most convenient for said intermediate divis- ion terminals and approximately ten miles apart and having water frontage of not to exceed eighty rods.
 The land hereby granted shall be located and selected by said company and its rights shall attach thereto when it shall have filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior plat thereof, with a copy thereof in the local land office. Said company shall have the right to enter upon and possess said lands immediately, but title shall not vest until the railroad of said company shall have been completed to said points, respectively,
 SEC. 1. That said company shall have the right to locate it's right of way along the navigable waters of Alaska and as near thereto as may be necces- sary for the safe, economical, and eff cient construction and operation of it's line of railway, subject to all the re- strictions, conditions, reservations, and easements provided in, by, and under the Act of Congress approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, except as herein provided
 SEC. 5. That said company shall be exempt from license tax and tax on its railway and railway property during