The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-03-10
PARTY IS
BACK FROM TRIP
SOUTH Of TOWN


Browne, H. K. Ward, William Sbor
gia and Dorwin Browne, who hat
been on a reconnaissance trip to tn,
Broad Pass country, and some dis
lance toward the Kantishna district
The party was met at the end OF
steel by Mrs. F. D. Browne anC
W. L. Packer, who went out on the
special
The Browne party left Nenana
on the morning of Wednesday, Feb.
rury %, for the end of steel, stop
ping at camp 367 for the night
Starting out next morning, the
party, travelling by dog teams driv-
en- by William Sborgia and Dorwin
Brown and carrying a light camp
ing outfit, headed out for the Broad
Pass summit, on the first leg of an
extended reconnaissance trip Mr..
Browne had planned.
The railroad right of way over
a section of the main line lying
between Carlo creek and the Broad
Pass summit, a distance of about
25 miles, on which only a prelimin-
airy survey by Mr.. Bacon had been
made, still remains to be located,
and the party traversed this stretch
and definite location of the right
of way will probably be made in
the spring.
Fine weather was experienced by
the party on the journey to the
summit, and the object for which
the trip was undertaken being ac-
complished, the party returned to
the end of steel, arriving at camp
367 on Sunday evening, March ?.
1t was the intention of the party
to make a trip to the headwaters
of the Ignite and Riley creeks, but
in view of the fine weather pre-
vailing, with the possibilities of
easy travel to the Kantishna dis
trict, this plan was abandoned and
a reconnaissance trip to the Kan
tlshna was commenced
From the confluence of the Riley
with the Nenana river the party
started out over a trackless waste,
headed in westerly direction to-
ward the Muldrow Glacier and the
Mt. Mckinley Park country. Tray
cling was necessarily slow as trail
had to be broken all the way and
the snow lay deep. There was not
even a trapper's trail in the region
through which the party passed and
the increasing depth of snow as
they penetrated farther in toward
the mountains bordering the Nc
kinley country, made progress slow
and the going very difficult.
What might be termed the prin-
cipal object of the reconnaissance,
was a study of the country through
which the road is to be located,
with special reference to the guam
tity and class of the material that
would be available for the construc-
ton Of the proposed rail or wagon
road and the approximate cost per
mile.
As far as could be ascertained,
no one had traversed this part of
the country in the summer time,
and the data available regarding
swamps, ETC., was very meager. The
course of the party and what would
ultimately be the location of the
road led over a series of low d.
vides and necessitated the crossing
of many streams, some of the later
of which were quite large The
Savage Fork, for instance, being
about 800 feet wide. Timber for
structures to carry the road across
these streams did not appear to be
very plentiful nor quite suitable for
the purpose, although perhaps, this
want can probably be supplied from
woods not far distant
The snow covered the country
to a depth of from three to four
feet and more, and thus defeated
, the main object for which the trip
was undertaken. There was no