The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-09-04
HALL LOWELL SAYS NEW RAILROAD APPROPRIATION MEASURE TO BE
 PASSED GIVING PLENTY FUNDS

\ Hl}DIAG GA AlS'
 Adequate funds for comp are sure to be provided, i~ the IIajIoWcII, assistant to ~crrcJa of interior Alaska. Shortly q. IIaIloWclI told q representative committee on territories has a the request of the department appropriation for SlIooo.oo) be passed a~ soon as congress '
 The party consisting ol AIr AIears, chairman ol the Alaska its only member at present. an, of the Geological Survey, arw midnight, coming over the ri4h were met at Camp It' b> Eu@I mission stall, and broI to town
 TO GIFT INt.
 Speaking of the purpose ItaIIoWcll said he came To look get some first hand informant, tcrior regarding the country th. covered the entire line, with C. os he expressed il has seen a E. prise~ to one seeing iD tho first
 The party will be here for no definite uro"ram has been much ol the surrounding couuII will go over the Tamau1 \a)) government project and when well will have seen all Ol the \ done, trips to various parts uG |
 DEPARTMENT DISAPPOINrED |
 Speaking of the ten million doUa cut m rhr original appropriation re- quested for the Alaska project by Secretary Lane, Mr iIalIuWell said that the department Was greatly dis appointed at its failure lo pa.a a- requested especially a- ii was put thru by the senate, but that lh, houac was mWiIIin& to nclud" such an appropriation in the general ap prOpriatiOn bill in view of the fact that 1t was already sWamped with 1, requests for funds for various pur- poses. IIr does not believe that thorr . will be any serious difficulty in se. curing the passage of thr new meas ure which provides for $lL0OO, ,o00.
 FIRST TRIP
 This is his first trip to Aluala 'I had heard much about the cOun- try, and seen pictures of il, and real i2ed that it was not the land of per petuaI snow and ice that it is some times pictured. But it takes a view of it to grasp it as il really exists" he said Notwithstanding the fact that a great deal of publicity has been given Alaska recently, he stated that there is still a depIorabIe paucjly of information about the country Mrs. IIalloWcll accompanied the party to the coast, making the trip from Cordova out to see the glaciers in the Copper river district, IIe will re- join her on his way out.
 MEARs RETURNS OVERLAND
 Colonel Mears is not d stranger to the country, having been in charge of the coast end of the work until 1917, when he heard the call of war and deserted the North for France. He was in Fairbanks in 1914. But this is his first visit since his ap- potntment to succeed former Chair man Edes. He expressed himself a~ satisfied with conditions along the line. He will return from Fairbanks to Nenana in a few days and go from there back over the line 10 Seward.
 DR. BROOKS HOME AGAIN
 Dr. Alfred H. Brooks, whether or not he wills it, is considered by most people to be an Alaskan. He has been actively connected with Alaskan mineral surveys for years and re turns to the North after service on the western front. He expressed him self as being glad to get back. He was greeted by a number of his friends at the hotel last night and will probably be kept busy eycEang ing greetings during his stay here. Alaska, he said, looked as good to him as ever it did.
 COMMITTEE APPOINTED During the stay of the party a 1 joint committee from the Fairbanks | Commercial Club and the city cOun cil will do everything possible to make it agreeable and take the mem