The Cordova daily times., 1915-02-08
ALASKA ROAD TO BUENOS AIRES
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NOW tnaJ bncle sam mas started the ball rolling for the big railway system in Alaska, on which it has been decided to spend 35,000, ,O00, further projects are being mooted of connecting the Northland with the extreme Southland by means of a Pan-American railway which will traverse Central America and all of the North American and South Amer. ican region from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Buenos Ayres. Delobel, formerly of Dawson, agitated for a long time in connection with French capitalists, assisted by Capt. Healy, John Rosene and others, for a railway to connect the Pan-American system with the Bering straits and to cross the straits and connect in Siberia with the great trans-Sberian system. It was pointed out what advantages it would be to have a vast system connecting the midland of Canada and the United States with the northern coast, so carried on, if desired, against com mon foe from across the Pacific. and the idea of notifications in all direc- tions after the line passed from Daw- son enlarged an infinitum.
 Now that the American railway system in Alaska has been undertaken by the government. some are coming forward hoping for all the Northland to be spanned and lines to radiate from that center to ever portion of this hemisphere and to connect eventually with the systems spanning Asia and Europe and to connect with Africa Popular Mechanis gives a late yer. sion of the dream as follows:
 The stimulation of commerce be tween North America and South America. due to the European war, has revived interest in the project of an all-rail route connecting the United States with the countries of the south. ern hemisphere. When this plan is carried out, as 1t Is almost certain to some day, for strategic as we'll as commercial reasons, it must be ex- tended to include a railway connection with Alaska, where the United States government now has surveying parties in the field selecting routes for a rail way system to develop the resources of that country.
 Such a railway, reaching continu- ously from the great plateau of Cen tral Alaska to the pampas of South America and beyond would constitute the biggest enterprise of it's kind ever undertaken, if it were not that more than half of the line has already been built and is in operation.
 Since the surveys for the Pana- American railways were made there has been a steady development in railway building in South America, particularly in Peru, Bolivia, ChiH and Argentina, so that much of the work planned at that time has already been done That portion of Western Can ada lying east of the Coast range, formerly considered a forbidding coun- try, with an Arctic climate, has been invaded by two trunk line railways. and it's resources are being rapidly de. veloped.
 Half dozen different routes would be available for forming the link through the United States. Over n route passing down the Pacific coast to El Paso. Texas, and thence through Mexico City to Ajutla, the total dis. tance by rail from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Buenos Ayres, Argentina, would be about 12,700 miles, About 1000 miles of this distance Is covered by existing railways. leaving about 600 miles to be built. On the basis of liberal es. innate the entire undertaking could probably be completed for less than $500. 900 900.
 Every variety of climate, from Are tis to tropical, as we'll as Typographical conditions of the most diverse kind. would be encountered in building and | operating such line.
 Owing to the difficult construction and the long gaps to be filled, by far the biggest expenditures will be re- quired in building through Central