The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-03
ROAD WILL BE CONSTRUCTED
 ID T0LOVANA
COMMERCIAL CLUB OUTLINES PLANS FOR RAISING
 FUNDS.

That a practicable road will be built from the Tolovana district this summer connecting that place with Fairbanks now seems assured, and there Is reason to believe that the Alaska Road commission will bear an important part of the ex- pense.
 The Commercial club, at it's meet ing last Thursday evening, submit ted plan to the Road Commission, in which it is proposed that if the people of Fairbanks raise s5,000 for the building of the new road the commission will provide $10000. The proposition will be forwarded at once to the headquarters of the commis sion at Valdez, and it is expected that the offer will be accepted
 John Zug. superintendent of the roads in this district for the Road Commission was present at the meeting, and told the members of the club that he had telegraphed to Captain Edgerton of the commiS sion, explaining the situation here and suggesting that funds be pro- vided for the road. Captain Edger- ton had replied that nothing could be promised until Colonel Richard son, head of the commission, re- turns to Valdez which will be about May s.
 ZUG GOES TO CAMP
 For the purpose of looking over the Tolovana camp and determining for himself the outlook there, MT Zug left for the new camp last Fri day morning. On the day previous, he sent Clyde Geraghty, represent ative of the commission, to inspect one or more of the proposed routes to the Tolovana.
 At the meeting of the Conner cial club it was decided that the se- lection of route to the Tolovana should be made by the Alaskan Road is raised by subscription for the be turned over to the commission to be expended by the latter
 If MT. Zug finds that the camp is as promising as it is represented to be, he will. according to what he intimated at the meeting, send men to inspect the various routes and lO CIoOSS lIC ollC lo pC II the Road Commission accepts the plan of providing s1o,ooo for the road this year, to be used in con- junction with s5,00O to be subscrib ed by the. merchants of Fairbanks, it is quite certain that work on the road will start as soon as the route is selected.
 There is a little in excess of $11,- duo aJ, ie;o yh@ fn~ est reserve funds, and this is to be used largely for road improvement. It is expected that some of this will be available for the proposed road to the Tolovana.
 ROUTES INSPECTED.
 At the expense of some of the merchants of Fairbanks Fred Date made trip to the Tolovana dis trict to look over proposed routes. He returned several days ago. He was accompanied by representa- tive of the Fairbanks Telephone Company. and they went out by way of the proposed Happy creek route and returned by the Olnes route. Mir. Date declared upon his return that the Happy route is the best from every point of view He pre- pared a report of his trip and it had been planned to have him read it at the meeting of the Commercial club, but later it was decided by the executive committee of the club | that it would be best for that organ ization not to discuss routes, but to let the Road Commission decide which route is the best. It was reasoned that the Road Commission would determine for itself the most | practicable route before it spent any money. and that there is no use for the local people to spend money | on any route not favored by the l commission. This sentiment met | with tie favor of the members of the club at the meeting.
 It was explained by MT. Zug at the meeting that the government in building road would choose route that will promise the cheap est and best transportation facili l ties to the people of the camp to which it is built. Therefore the 1 interests of the miners in the Tolo- vana district will be served first.
 He further explained that as Fair banks is the natural base of supplies, ! the road must connect with this 1 city. The money to be used by the | Road Commission, which has been | appropriated by congress, will not | be available until July, but the money from the Alaska fund can be used as fast as it is made availa- ble. How much there is in that | fund now, MT. Zug does not know.