The Nenana daily news., 1919-02-24
PENNINGTON IS BOOSTING TRAIL
 VIA BROAD PASS

nington, who recently made the trip over the Broad Pass trail, enroute to the territorial capital to attend the forthcoming session of the legis- lature, has sent to Dr. J. R. Bowen. of this city a detailed account of his trip between the ends of steel on the government railroad, and states in his letter that he Is "very highly pleased with the prospects and very enthusiastic over the possi- bilities of diverting travel and traffic in general this way"
 "I do not doubt for moment" continues the lawmaker, "that if an amount, let us say, not to eX- ceed ten per cent of the money and labor that has been expended on the Fairbanks Chitina trail, could be devoted to the improvement If the Nenana-Talkeatna trail, it would result in making this route, beyond question, the quickest, safest, least difficult and therefore, the logical route to the coast from all points in the Panama valley"
 MT. Pennington tells of the re-
  ception accorded Nenanaites at Tal keetna and Anchorage, where no opportunity was lost to boost the Interior In this MT. Pennington was ably assisted by w. A. Ryan and F. L. Laughlin Mir. Penning- ton made a brief address before the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. on the possibilities of trail improva- ment, with the result that very [ substantial amount was voted by the chamber, to be used for trail 1 improvement, in conjunction wich the Talkeetna Commercial club. Tn work was to have been started at once.
 Mir. Pennington also tells of d very educational visit with the prin- cipal of the Anchorage schools, ana on the night of the day the letter was written, he was to have been guest of the Anchorage school board.
 The detailed account of the out ward trip over the trail, as re- corded from day to day in Mir. , Penningtsn's diary, and which was printed in full by the Anchorage Times, upon the arrival of the tray elers at the coast metropolis, is re printed below, for the benefit of those who may have occasion to make use of the trail, now generally recognized as the Shortcut route between the coast and Interior Alaska:
 Jan. l3.-Left Nenana this date 8 a. m., enroute to Anchorage via Broad Pass. Reached end of steel ? p. m. Dog team there awaiting us. Lost no time in getting away. Weather delightful. health excellent; feeling physically fit to face any hardship, however fierce. Dogs vc"y ambitious and hard to manage. Drivers attention diverted for a moment, and they dashed away, up setting our Alaskan coach. spilline both passengers and baggage. oon had them checked, reloaded while indulging in few endearine ad- jectives particularly applicable to dogs. Reached end of first days journey at D. m. .'ncventful day except our spill at the start. Time to Singletor's r>adhouse, a distance of eight miles, P hoirs.
 Jan. 14.--Only ,ighteen niles te go today. Felt no necessity to make early start Temperature ! below. Trail very bare of snow and rather hard drilling for the dogs. Charlie Smith just ahead with heavy load. MT. w. A. Ryan's party with three outfits also one day ahead, which greatly modifies the difficulties If the trail for us. So far our trip has been a joy-ride. Morris Mor- rino's tonight. Time 4h hours.
 Jan. l5.--Trail today rather rough, and difficult to negotiate until we descended to the Nenana river. There we found it most ex-