The Nome daily nugget., 1916-09-30

cnange, The railroad VIII De great
 lactor m the development or I part oi Alaska but. alone It will not suffice.
 The one great need or Alaska is now.
 as it has been for twenty years, the
 immediate construction of a large number of good roads at those places where they are needed. To emphaize
 We repeat, the immediate construc-
 ton ot roads at places where they are needed This is just where the sys- tenn we have had for seventeen years
 roads hay not been built when needed or where needed. But they have been
 according to some great mysterious plan supposedly devised by q super man and incomprensible to those who wanted To have the benefit of the roads
 It is true that the Alaska road com
 mission has labored under the handi- cap of not having a sufficient amount
 of money available 10 build roads eX- 1 tensively in all parts of Alaska. A small fund has been appropriated each l piiecerneal in many widely divergent
 sections. AS the mileage of roads has l increased the cost for repairs has also i increased until now practically all the roads passable The Alaskan roads | has to be used to keep the same 1 have not been built right and the bill
 for repairs for most of them will in l few years equal the original cost of l building. And the original cost in
 some instances was excessive because l the construction was wrong.
 Now as to the immediate need of 1 roaIs, !. ere is Ma .ha!l or FJtuna , Ledge. That camp h .s been struggling
 toward real prosperity for two years. i Now it is a producing camp with f b. tpis ~ tiiOuoetiih ptoPit NiiNit' III us l two years of existence the government has done nothing towards building a
 road from the head of navigation to l the dggings and men and animals have to wade through a sea of mud 1 all summer. After while quite like l ly the road commission will begin operations as it did at Rampant. At 1 this place four or five years after the 1 greatest need for roads had passed grand trunk line was commenced and
 In few years advanced twelve or if
 teen miles up the Big Minook valley. So far as we know 1t was never finish | ed and it wouldn't make any differ
 ence if it had been for it didn't lead
 anywhere, and it couldn't be. kept pas
 sable without excessive yearly outlay
 because of frequent washouts because
 again. of faulty construction.
 I Marshall and Rampant are typical 1 the one of Il new camp without a
 road, the other of the tardy construc- 1 tion of what was to have been an in- tegral part of a military trunk line.' 1 There are other instances, quite number of them, where roads are need ed to connect established towns with it's tributary creeks. For a dozen years Nome has needed such roads and still
 needs them. They are not only de- sirable for present requirements oi
 business but they would unquestiona- 1 bly be a powerful stimulus to new
 developments
 | In q section of Alaska such as Sew 1 ard peninsula where there are not only 1 ing to be worked but also immense ore bodies of different metals all oi l which can and will be operated when | transportation is made possible, in | such district as this whose perma l hence is unquestioned there is real | need of a number of trunk lines lead
 ing from Nome to the important cen l ters.
 | That the money for an extensiva | road system has not been forthcoming {! is not the fault of the road commis-
 sion. The commission is trying to gel
 q large appropriation for early use 1 Every citizen of Alaska should do all 1 in his power to aid in securing this
 appropriation and should go further in 1 agitating, whenever it can be done to ! advantage, for an even larger amount ! of money with which to build our need | cd trunk lines.
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