The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-30

level of about Is inches above the 1 higest level reached " the floods i last spring, which is said to be the ! highest ever known to the oldtimers in this district. Mir Frederick D. i Brown, engineer in charge, is now the extension of the road to the foot of A street, and as the grade will be raised to the level of the rest of the road through the yards, this will act as an offect- i've levee and should the waters of the Panama rise to as high level as they did last spring, the meas ures taken by MT. Browne will pro- tect the town from an inundation such as experienced last year.
 It is not definitely known at the present time just when the work of laying steel to the foot of A street and the raising of that portion of the track to grade level will be but plans for the work are being made and just as soon as the men can be spared from the more important work out on the line, commencement will be made alonp the water front
 The extension of the line to the foot of A street is made necessary by reason of the fact that q very large quantity of saplings, brush and other material which will be needed for filling in the space reclaimed from the river, between the double row of piling and the river bank, will be obtained from points along the line south of town and will be hauled in on the train.
 As MT. Browne pointed out, there is plenty of time between now anG the breakup within which the bank protection and reclamation work can be accomplished, and therefore works of a more important nature along the line will first be attended to, every advantage being taken of the good weather to push the build ing of the road ahead The rails will probably be laid to the foot of A street just as soon as men can be released for this purpose and the roadbed raised to grade level.
 The piledriver now engaged in driving piling along the waterfront to replace those taken out by the .ca last breakup, will complete the work in about week more, and the level of the protected bank will be fully as high as it was last year, which means that it is well above high water level. From the end of grade at the foot of A street and on up- stream the ground is higher and is not affected by the floods. The
 back fill will be made to reach this level and the town will be far better protected from floods than it ever was before. The raising of the grade in the yards to carry the track above the flood level so tha; trains can be operated and the work con- tinued during flood time, will also serve as protection against floods from the direction of the Nenana river. ...= ...
 The extension of the track to the foot of A street, while at present
 serving mainly for the purpose of permitting trainloads of material
 for the back fill being delivered at the point where the work wi:l :Dm- mence, will also be handy when coal shipments for domestic pur- poses begin to arrive in town. It is quite probable that Billy Lynn, who is operating a coal mine near 35- mile, will endeavor to supply the wants of Nenanaites in this direction just as soon as he has fulfilled his contract with the Alaskan Engineer ing commission and is free to under take the business. After Lignite has been reached, it is expected that others will embark in the coal business for the local market, and the track along the waterfront will be very handy.