The Nome daily nugget., 1910-10-29
coMnissloNe HfslLs
 OF PROPOSED WORK
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Snows of the late winter.

fErih NdltdS 10 opnlr altN the trail is staked with tripods of three spruce poles. and usually 10 to l2 feet long. and this is the very best staked trail the road commission has yet staked.
 From ophir the party will go to the iditarnd and here pick up some 10 to lj men and outfit with grub far the really big part of the work From lditarod to McGraths on thu. Yukon. it is yet problematic just what will be done in trail construction. and il will depend on just what has heretofore been done and on an examination of the route and the requirements
 From McGraths the old. but little used trail has heretofore gone direct ly east. up the river some 40 miles to "Nicholi's" crossing Tamarack swamps and across an unmarked wilderness. but the party will now make a direct cutoff of 70 miles. across the great unknown. to Farewell Mountain. and
 thus make the distance some 90 miles
 shorter than by the river route IT one will look at the Alaska map hc will see that the entire route from l!al,ag to Knik, 4l5 miles. Is not off ar air line 40 miles. being through Dishakaket. Ophir. Cane. McGraths and via Rainy nass and down the Skwent-
 na and ypinna rivers
 However. the Iditarod is some D t'iles off the line from it's nearest point. and vii be on a branch trail when Seward Peninsula mail begins to come this route
 From Rohn river up the Delzell. there is nine miles of quite rough coun- try to brush out, and quite steep but
 as all the load will come down hill Cthis | Nay) this Is not objectionable and good trail will be constructed Then
 there is II miles devoid of timber to be Staked over the summit four miles on ! this side and seven on the other. and with this exception the entire trail will be in timber.
 From the summit on down Pass creek. Happy river and the Skwentna to the mouth of the Talushultina the trail will lay on one or the other bank If the streams but from the Talushul- ' itnn to Susitna station 37 mile cut
 pn will be made to thus avoid the very crooked and overflow Yentna river.
 ! From Susitna station to New Knik. P miles the trail will be battered and
 ~traightened and stakcd. but this is | lcross Tamarack swamps and birch hills and the route has been travelled
 for years.
 | From the summit the rarty's in deep ! snow country and the nearer they get to Cook inlet the softer is the snow as 1t is tempered by the warm tides of the inlet and the gulf stream. From here in to Seward also Is the greatest moose country in the world From New Knik on in to Seward their real troubles will begin as Knik and Turnaagain Arms of Cook inlet are to cross and here Is the greatest tide in
 the world. being 72 feet. in the ex- | tremes. The bay of Fundy has 69 feet
 AS fore will be so much travel over th" route this E'nlel to and from the Gditarod. and IS the news seems to have gone out that there is a trail via this route. the road commission has taken il upon itself to establish a route and be the forerunners and one of the principal missions ot the party is to give such information q to just where the trail will tf ard where roadhouse should be located so that persons in- tending tc establish them may intsliI- gently do so and be on the trail.
 All trail work that win be done win be of permanent nature and along the line of what will be permanently constructed next summer. and thus not be lost.
 The route is definitely decided on but Goodwin will at all times be fin advance of the working party. recon noitering and blazing the trail and picking the location and the psrty will camp several days at time at sev- eral places. The idea Is to get the very best and shortest trail and make travel safe and speedy.
 sufficient sum has been allotted for the work and Goodwin is not handi- 'apped in any way. but is given suffi- cient latitude to enable him 10 make the trip without embarrassment.
 Having been over the route two win ters ago. and picked it out. he is Of course. acquainted with just what he will run into and the conditions. Tn fact Goodwin has had 13 years of such work in Alaska. having been the first person employed on the White Pass
 md Yukon railroad and has been all through the Copper River country and large part of Alaska. From Seward