The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-04-21
ROAD COMMISSIONERS REPORT
 OF WORK DONE IN YEAR 1918

would be too expensive to run long lateral ditches to drain the ground. FAIRBANKS DISTRICT. Most of the work in the Fair banks district was maintenance, ex cept a few miles of new easily grad ed road. and the building of a bridge across the Moves slough ir connection with the Alaska Road commission. A total of $11.119.45 has been expended on roads numbered , from one to eleven in the Fairbanks district. About three miles of road on route three. one mile on routs eight and three miles on route nine were newly constructed this year Eleven hundred seventy-two dollars and eighty-one cents was expended upon the new construction and g.. S18.57 was used in the construction of the bridge across the Moves slough. leaving balance of $7.128.07 expended for maintenance in the Fairbanks district. The amounts ex. pended for maintenance upon the several routes and number of miles were as follows:
 Route Fairbanks to lower Fair banks creek. 30 miles.
 The amount expended, exclusive of the Moves bridge, which is on this road. is $3,704.43. being an average cost of maintenance of s223.47 per mile. The Moves slough bridge was constructed in the latter part of June under charge of the Alaska road commission. An agreement was made with the commission whereby they furnished the plans and had charge of the construction of this bridge and agreed to pay the sum of s2.500.00 towards the cost thereof. They did, however, pay the total of the labor on the construction, ann bunting to s1,6SS.OO. the divisional commission paying the balance of $2.S1S.57. This bridge is built of two fifty-foot spans and approaches. and the total cost was $4,506.57.
 Route 2.-Cleary summit to Chata. nika, g miles.
 The total expended for mainte. nance was $76625.
 Route.-Cleary summit to Fish creek. 5 miles.
 This was quickly built road, being simply narrow grade on the hillside. About three miles of this was graded and connected with an old road on the summit. The grading was done at a cost of $180.50. mak. ing narrow but fairly good road.
 Route 4.--Little Eldorado to sum. nit, 6h miles.
 This road was little more than a trail until in the past three years work has been done in grading and improving until now it Is fair wagon road. A total of $631.00 was expended in maintenance and improv- ing in the past year.
 Route 5.-Gilmore to head of creek, miles.
 This road was finished in 1917 and not much was done on 1t during the past summer: $79.00 was expended in maintenance.
 Route 6.-Fox to Olnes. 10 miles.
 Not much was done on this route proper. only s150.00 being expended in maintenance; but $544.32 was ex. pended in rebuilding a suspension foot bridge across the Chatanika river. This bridge was first put in in June at a cost of $25S.77. but was washed out by high water. It was put in again on higher ground later ill the season at a cost of $285.55. This bridge is on the road or winter trail from Olnes to Brooks, and is used by pedestrians in the summer in travelling between these points and is great convenience. Route 7.-Vault creek. 3h miles.
 Very little was done on this route in the past year. only $63.00 being expended in maintenance.
 Route 8.-Fairbanks to Ester creek. II miles.
 This road had total of $608.0O ex- pended in its maintenance, and $200 in building one mile of extension or side road to quartz mill at the head of Eva creek. The miners con- tributed most of the work in pre- pairing the right of way for this extension, the territory doing the grading, which was on the side of a hill.
 Route 9.--Birch hill road, 5 miles.
 A part of this road was built in 1917 and $304.00 was expended in maintenance and improvement, and about three miles more were built this year at a cost of $792.31. This road was built across the Isabella creek flats and Is of great benefit to the farmers on the sidehill of Isa. bella valley. Some of the labor was contributed by the farmers. This