The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-26
COAST CHAMBER ISSUES BOOKLET
 OF ROAD FACTS

of progress made by the Alaskan. Engineering Commission since the commencement of railroad construc- tion in Alaska, the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce has issued an eight-page folder containing a convincing array of railroad facts and the assurance of Anchorage ties that construction and operation activities on the government-owned railroad in the Anchorage division have been directed and effected intelligently, efficiently and econo- mically. The folder contains six pages of reading matter, with a full page sketch of the proposed harbor improvement at Anchorage and is addressed to Mir Congress man. The accomplishments of the commission are set forth in concise form, and charges of political ac- tivities, coal monopolies and loca- ton mistakes are denied in vigorous terms
 Track has been laid, says the booklet, and trains are operating over 154 miles of new main line as far north as Talkeetna, and 3S miles of branch line, making a total of 192 miles on the coast di- vision, exclusive of many miles of track in yards and sidings. Thirty miles of roadbed north of Tal- keetna is ready for track.
 Among other accomplishments are:
 More than six miles of wooden bridges.
 Twenty-four hundred acres of right of way cleared and grubbed.
 More than three million yards of solid rock and nearly six million yards of other material moved.
 Two hundred and thirty miles of trails and 195 miles of wagon roads built to move supplies to camps
 Approximately $50 miles of tele- grsnh and telephone lines con- st:ulted.
 More than 200 buildings erected to house employees and supplies.
 Coal mines opened at Eska creek and Chickaloon and 9O,000 tons of coal shipped in two years.
 Temporary wharves and docks built at Anchorage, over which 20,- 900 passengers and l8S,00O tons of freight have been moved in three years. Permanent dock now under construction.
 There is marine ways for re- pairing and caring for floating equipment.
 Nearly 100000 passengers and 250,000 tons of freight have been handled by the railroad since the first train was operated less than three years ago.
 There are in the Anchorage di-,, slon, seven water tanks, five pun1p- Ing plants, three and one-half miles of water mains, and one and one half miles of sewer mains. H.
 In the way of rolling stock. tn gre are Tn the coast division, dozen locomotives, five passenger cars. 42l freight and other cars. besides five steam shovels, a number of cranes, piledrivers, tugs, barges and lighters
 Three townsites have been laid out in Anchorage division-Anchor- age, Matanuska, and Wasilla-oc- cupying l43 acres of cleared land. There are ten miles of graded streets in the three towns. nearly five miles of wooden and mere than a mile of cement sidewalks. over seven miles of water mains and a mile and quarter of sewers.
 At Anchorage there are five churches, large school building. about 500 storebuildings and resi- dences, several of these privately owned structures costing from s2O.- 900 to s55,000. In addition ,o these, the government has a muni. cipal building, a federal and iail building, telephone and electric building, postoffice building, pump ing plant, water tank, warehouse. lire station building, cottages for commission employees and dorm;- tories and other quarters.
 There has been no politics in the Alaskan Engineering Commission in Anchorage division, declares the booklet. and no evidence of ineff- clency or waste in buiIdin0 tho r.;,