The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-01
ROSS ID BUILD NEW TRAIL ID
 THE TOLOVANA
CATERPILLAR MAN WILL LAY OUT A NEW ROUTE
 DOWN GOLDSTREAM

Returning from a trip down Gold | stream as far as the Ohio roadhouse. where he went to look over pos
 sible route for trail for his cater pillar, with which he expects to haul freight to the Tolovana coun- try during the winter, H. H. Ross
 arrived in town Wednesday night. He reports that he found conditions such that he believes that a good
 trail can be constructed by that route, and will therefore make the
 attempt
 | Mir Ross idea is to have the busi- ness men of Fairbanks subscribe $500 toward the construction of trail. As the Fairbanks end of t
 would be finished at the Log Jam, from where a great deal of freight is now being transported to West fork and Brooks, the people of thu, Tolovana camp will subscribe enough
 in labor and money to complete such
 trail from that point on up the
 Tolovana and Livengood creek tp | Brooks. MT, Ross and J. c. Sayers,
 the other owner of the caterpillar,
 would use the machine to crush
 the niggerheads practically the only obstruction, the former being of the opinion that about five miles of trail per day could be gone over
 in this manner The money sub
 scribed by Fairbanksans would prac
 tically all be used for gasoline to
 operate the caterpillar while 1t is | working on the trail, and for the
 hire of additional help in the con struction work
 By the route selected by him. MT Ross figures the distance to Brooks
 as in the neighborhood of 90 miles The last thirty miles of this would be constructed by the people of the Tolovana, 50 cnly 50 miles of trail
 would have to be actually construct ed out of Fairbanks. Then, too, according to MT. Ross, several miles
 of trail have already been construct
 ed by the Alaskan Engineering con-
 mission on this end of the project ed line, cutting off a few more miles of work which would have to be done by the caterpillar,
 The projected route is from Ester Siding to Happy station on the Tan
 ana Valley railroad, by a trail a. ready constructed; thence, across
 small divide and down Happy creek to Goldstream. As soon as Gold SlIedll IS SlIuCh IL W III De CTOSSeu on bridge put in by the last sum mers survey party of the Alaskan
 Engineering commission. and the
 trail will then be constructed en- tirely on the right limit of Gold
 below the Ohio roadhouse, or to a
 and the Chatanika river. The route would hn t, Chatanika flats to the Tolovana, thence up the flats of the Tolovana
 to the Log Jam, all through an en tirely flat country.
 MT. Ross states that the pro-
 jected route would never be any thing but winter trail However. he is of the opinion that trail
 which could be used both winter
 and summer could be constructed up Murphy creek and down Moose creek with oily very slight di vide to cross He may possibly undertake the construction of such
 a trail later by using the funds
 allotted to him as territorial road overseer.
 When asked if he did not think the government trail from Ester Siding to the Ohio roadhouse could oe used, MT. Ross stated that such a route was entirely impractical,
 owing to the heavy grade at the head of Alder creek. In fact, it is his opinion that, when the trail is constructed over the route con templated by him, travellers to the lower river will use 1t. as far as they can in preference to the gov ernment trail.