The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06

Valdez District.
 Mir. J II. Ingram Is superintend- ent fin charge of this district
 'NalGez-Fairbanks road (No. 4- This Is the main road leading from Valdez to Fairbanks and Is the most important route in the territory. as it Is the outlet during the winter for all that part of Alaska north of the Alaskan range and west of Eagle. and Is the overland sum mer route for a large part of the interior. There Is a mail service over this route all the year around from Valdez to Gulkana. and during the winter from Valdez to Fairbanks During the last year l52,429 pounds of mail and approximately l,940 tons of freight and express were hauled over this route; In addition. about 2.IO0 people travelled over it in go ing 10 and from the interior. Work during the present year has con sisted mostly in the maintenance and improvement of the wagon road constructed last year. and in the conversion of the winter sled road into wagon road. IL is now avail able for use as a wagon road the entire distance except for two gaps, aggregating about miles, which, however, are passable for wagons. The section from Valdez to the Panama river is in the Valdez dis triCt. During the past year $15l,- 107.53 was expended on this DOT tion. Of this amount s13,304.o7 was expended on repairs to the Tazlina bridge nccessitated by the wash out during the summer of 1909. Two 75-foot trusses were constructed and a 7o-foot approach. The bank of the river on the south side above the bridge was rip-raped for a dis tance of 360 feet to prevent the stream from cutting around the south end of the bridge. Two very important glacier streams near the Miller House were bridged, at a cost of 1.440 These bridges each consist of one I5-foot span, with approaches. The large cost of con struction was due to the difficulty in obtaining suitable timber.
 Willow Creek and Chitina road (No. 6l.-This is a branch line con- meeting the Copper River railway at Chitina with the Fairbanks road to Willow creek. Twenty-three and one-half miles of wagon road and 5la miles of sled road have been constructed to date. The total dis tance Is 39 miles. IL is expected to complete this route before the end of the season. It was located dur ing the summer by MT. Lars Hol- land, foreman. Alaska road commis- sion. al a cost of s177O22. Twelve thousand seven hundred and thir- teen dollars and seventy-seven cents road commission funds was expend- ed in construction, and s6,9SS.16 from the local road tax and public subscription by the citizens of Cor dOva and Chitina. Six thousand dollars has been subscribed by the citizens of these two towns to as sist in the construction of the road.
 Fairbanks District.
 "Mr John Zug is superintendent in charge of this district. This dis trict, this year. was extended to include all work in the Yukon wa, tershed above Kaltag, together with the new Iditarod mining district. Owing to MT. Zug's being unexpect' edly detained on an inspection trip, report on this district has not been received and only the approximate distances and amounts can be given. Valdez Fairbanks road (No. 4. This road is described in the re- port for the Valdez district. The wagon road from Fairbanks to Me Carty. including the Panama Ferry and the winter cut off from Wash burn to Donnelly were in charge of the Fairbanks district. Thirty eight thousand five hundred dollars was allotted for this work this season, of which approximately s30000 has been expended to date. The ferry at Shaw Creek was replaced by a bridge last winter. and new road has been graded around Shaw creek hill to avoid the very steep grades going over this hill. The remaind- CT of the work consisted in main tenance and improvement of the road already constructed and In some new construction where it was found necessary on account of washouts and floods to change the previous location. Approximately 1.7O0 tons of freight and $500 peo- pie passed over this section the past year.
 "Fairbanks- Fort Gibbon road (No. 5).-This Is the route for winter mail and travel from Fairbanks to Fort Gibbon, Rampant, and the Roy ukuk country, and to the westward as far as Nome. One thousand four hundred and seventy-six dol lars and fftv-four cents was ex- pended on this road in repairs and improvements last winter. The board has made a further allotment of $2.5O0 for this route this fall of which s2OO has been expended to date.
 Fairbanks local roads (No. D. This system of roads was practically completed last year. This year two miles of new road were constructed The cost, including maintenance, Is about s240O to date in addition to the local road tax.
 "Circ'e-Central House road (No 15).-The work on this road this year has consisted in maintenance and in laying about one-half mile of corduroy to complete the road to Central House. Four hundred dollars has been expended by the board in addition to the amount expended by the road overseer from the local road tax.
 "Cleary-Birch creek road (No. 16) This is part of the winter mail route from Fairbanks to Circle and points along the upper Yukon river Three hundred and fifty dollars has