The Cordova daily times., 1917-06-09
RAILWAYS FOR NORTH

 In this day great projects and rapid development will be of the range of pausby for the newly allied tions of this continent to consider plan of building trunk railway to span and Yukon and Alaska War opens new visions and new vistas
 Alaskan newspapers telling of the people of the Alas peoning Uncle for ships for eenses of Alas kan seapo vast shore line there exposed and the coun try depends wholly service by for connection with the older ceners for the delivery of supplies needed in that vast rich and growing young territory Coast defenses should be provided At time would be wise to also have back door route of supply that will connect by aand high ways with the heart of the continent At first thought this geson may undertaking to be but
 dream But consider the conditions and what has been done elsewhere and the service that would be rendered. and the iect will not fetched improbable.
 Alaska is building railway system today cost of $35 100000 for the first estimate By the time is fully completed probably will twice that The may large to some but is much compared to the magnitude of the territory the untold centuries for which the region being opened to be made land of homes productive of mankind
 Uncle Sam is spending twenty to thirty million dollars for single high class batteshp If that much go into vessel for coast defense-and defense which eerior and becomes obsolete decade esssurey the nation afford spend that much, times much, build another interior line to connect with the big neways of railways in the heart of this continent The railway from Sew ard to the Yukon will be only local section run to the Canadian boundary, little north of Dawson somewhere in the vicinity could be made another link in system be constructed by the Canadian from Dawson to the Grand Trunk Pacific system British Columbia system in Alberta
 It may be claimed that such roads would stretch two thousand miles through country little known and sparse settled On the other hand let the benefits be balanced against the costs Such interior railway would make it possible open the mineral wealth along these routes not within of development because of high costs of trans portaon under the privately owned individual enterprises The system built by Russia for other pur pose than to develop the interior and afford military on and protection for its Pacific holdings for fear the routes would prove inadequate The Russian also has built since the began great railway system north the proJected largely for similar reasons Other long distance railways the globe might cited whose crea tion sprang from similar desire.
 If trunk line be opened from the heart of continent the heart of Yukon and Alaska distributed by pregnabe for all me There then would dread at any time for centuries of Teuonic yellow pers ever acing this region The would be than the anen ance Of even small fleet the long British Columbian and Alaska coast.
 With the coast lines centerng in Yukon mobile force of the combined American forces defy any trans Pacific the north With Russia now looming up as new and uncertain power she we'll nations may time have to be reckoned with possible rival for in the north Pacific
 With all these contingencies of defense prospect and with the great need of interior railway to develop this realm to the and with the conviction that ocean war fleets costing such rendering naught but the naval service surely logical that the nations will con sder seriously the suggestion possible look into the plan o building and maintaining through this region thorough railway system such will give the manifold bene fits indicated in the foregoing. Let the federal governments investigate and they cannot but what tremendous benefit would come to them from such a system.-Dawson News