The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-02-03

Thirty-sccond day. February goth.
We left chitina at Z a. m. in "a snow
storm. on the Copper River and
Northwestern railway, and came
down the gorge to the river bank,
and skirted along the water of the
river the whole day with the cliffs
running up thousands OF feet above
us. The Dad Is cut FOR miles out
of this cliff, aud crossed all the lat
ernl canyons that come In, There a
an equally p%rccipitous ranEe on the
other side of the liver. The train
consists 81 an engine aud about
eight cars OF copper ore in sacks. a
dining car and a passenger car. The
fare IL $3.50 The meals are first
class The railroad il standard
gauge md IL ono Of the best built
railroads FOR such n country imaf-
Unable; @ IL flrst-class Ia every way.
II ~ said to awe oost $50. 600. 900.
although II Is only 100 miles long. I
don't believe 10 cost moro than ten
million, and hat a quarter of "
must have been wasted. I could du-
plicatc 1t with an Of is maeniflccn,
bridgcr ! ann sure. FOR less than
seven million. I am sure that q
railroad from CordoVa 20 tho Yukon.
over the pass which | came down.
could be built Inside Of twenty init
lion OF dollar and I have seen some
railroads and know something about
their cost. -Four feet OF snow fell
In the forenoon: that's awful isn't
M and it's almost true. We got
stuck In IL. and the engine pulled
some OF the ears orr the track In
Jerking them through the snow. Il
took many hour Co put them back
We were to arrive at Corduva az >
a. m, but We didn't get In TN mid
night. u was a dreary ride through
the deep canal of snow. which. in
many places. WAS higher than the
ears themselves, along Those high
cliffs They had 10 send FOR a ro-
ltary nov pillow down the line. II
~ "a clous machine. u spat out
ia stream OF SNOW from the track
and the canal which it dug. 0Ner In
TO the river forty feet away for
miles. as n progressed, and went
along at the rate of twenty miles an
hour in some places. A blizzard
ragged Hll the way. There must be
a dozen great bridges built of yteei
and some 81 them u have cost a
fortune. They ave many great
snow sheds. but wki have more.
They are built oUt OF very %pondcrous
timber. The whole road b. more or
less over glaciers In its lower end
Some OF the precipices hat loom
- 80. ...aTsNa..Haa
awe-lnspiring We got into cordo-
VA at midnight and ! went TO the
Windsor hotel. first going forward
Ca the engine 4 see tine snow pillow.
which I couldn't get forward to all
day. as tho snow WAS too deep
/ could only see Il work az Il went
around bends once In a while.
Thirty-third day, February 2ist
stopped az Cordoya all day. II is a
nice little own al the head of a hay,
with sky-scraping p%recipitous noun
tains an around; everything e. o Y
cred with snow, but right at cordova
there isn't much snow. a. h a
booming little town with about 1900
people Ia Il perhaps, maybe less
/ Fairbanks h. the biggest place 1
/ struck, and Ia about the size OF
Nome. The boat came In late In the
afternoon, but had to go ove Co Val
: drz and seward. | thought u wss
wen a. Eo with Il and see those
towns. and do some business Tor the
office, as Ia stay al Cordoya ~ loaf
and pay hotel bills, the fare To Scar,
he being the same ~ the three
towns: ~ at midnight l got on the
boat ana got located permanently.
During the day, I went ali over Cor
doyu, and applied for mail as the
' postoffice. bat there was none, and
talked To many people ana dlsabus-