The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-02
WORK ON ALASKA ROADS SPEEDS
 UP NOW
Col. Richardson Goes on Trip to Westward and Mehaffey Starts
 to Interior.

The Alaska Board of Road Con- missioners have set the road con- structing machinery in motion for the year. All the appropriations for the year have not yet been made, but they will be decided as fast as the arrangements for performing the work can be perfected.
 Col. w. P. Richardson, President of the Commission, left last night for hurried trip to the westward. He will stay a few days in Valdez, and then proceed to Anchorage to look into the situation there. Capt | J. c. Mehaffey, the engineer officer of the Commission, left on the Hum boldt for Skagway, whence he will down the Yukon, visiting all the Yu- kon river points, and then go to Nome. Yt
 Col. Richardson expects to be back in Juneau within two weeks, and then he will remain here some time It is not his present intention to go to Nome, and he may not even visit the Interior, though that will be de- cided later. Capt. Mehaffey will probably not return to Juneau until early in the fall.
 | Major P. w. Davison, will remain in charge of headquarters at Ju- neau.
 All the members of the commis- sion have been very busy since the arrival of Col. Richardson, making preparations for the summers work. They have consulted with the Ter ritorial Road Commission, and there will be further consultation later in the year. to the end that there may not be conflict or duplication of work.
 | Appropriations Are Fixed 1 Before Col. w. P. Richardson left for the westward, the members of the Alaska Road Commission made their tentative appropriations for the year to the different road districts of the Territory The amount set aside for each district will not be lowered in any case and in several will be raised, according to the state ment of Major P. w. Davison, dis bursting officer for the commission today. Work over the entire Terri ltory will start on July 1st.
 The amounts set aside were as fol lows:
 Ruby District, $30.0OO; Fairbanks district, including Eagle and Ram vt r1 IL, will lated be increased by substan- tial amount; Nome. S40,0O0; Juneau, 1 $35, 1000, which does not include work near Petersburg and on the Stikine River projects; Iliamna Bay project, $S,000 and the Ophir-Tacotna road, $2O,OOO.
 J It has been practically agreed be- tween the Board of Road Commis- sioners and the Territorial Commis- sioners that the Territorial officers shall care for the road from Fair banks to the Tolovana and other To- cal roads in that section with the ex- ceptiOn of the Esther-Fort Gibbon road. The Territorial Commissioner in the Third Division has agreed to spend $25,000 in the vicinity of An chorage. and also to take care of the road from Strelna to the Kus- kalana river. No agreement has as yet been made with the commission. erss from the Second and First Di- visions.
 Wages Are Raised
 Major Davison this morning stat ed that wires had been sent to all superintendents in the Territory in. structing them that on account of the high cost of living the Commis- sion had decided to raise the wages of employees. All employees hired by the day will receive a half dollar a day increase while those working
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