The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-04-21

!; 1917 from Brooks to the Amy creek road. and has been partially built tc the head of the creek during the pas, season. The cost of completing and maintenance on the road from Brooks to the Amy creek road was $2.99024 a distance of three and . half miles and the new work from there up steam, a distance of one and a Quar ter miles was done at 8 cost oi $2.713.24. This part of the road is lstripped of moss and timber. plowed and practically graded. It should be regarded next spring as soon as the frost Is out of the ground deep enough to start grading. but not deep enough to mire the horses iu working. It can probably be com pleted at a cost of less than $2,0OO AS soon as the moss Is removed the ground thaws out, leaving 1t so soft that 1t is impossible to work horses on 1t. It has made the road rather expensive to build owing to the neces' sity for immediate construction.
 Route 14.--Livengood creek up Amy creek. 1h miles.
 | A part of this road was built in 1917 by corduroying from the Liven. good creek road across the valley to the mouth of Amy creek. From there on the road was graded and one 40- foot bridge across Livengood creek was built at cost of $135.00. The total amount expended upon this road in the past season was $1.881.00. There are, however. few accounts not yet reported to this office charg- ed to this route.
 Route 15.--Brooks to Log Jam, 23 miles.
 This is winter trail or sled road. A part of 1t had been built by sub. scriptions, but 1t was in need of considerable repairs and required changing in several places as the old road had been made thru open country which drifted badly in the winter. and 1t was deemed advisa. ble to change the road to higher ground and thru timber. The right of way was cut out and stumps re- moved. Several bridges had to be constructed: one across the North Fork of the Tolovana river 65 feet long, built at cost of $115. This was built of rough pole timber. The timber was very convenient and the bridge was quickly built. A bridge across slough 30 feet long was built at cost of $100. and a bridge across another slough 45 feet long was built at cost of $170. Another bridge 40 feet long was built at . cost of $40. and bridge 20 feet long was built at cost of $60. In all of these places timber was con. venient. making the cost of con. struction very cheap. A bridge across the Tolovana river at the Log Jam, 72 feet long, was rebuilt at a cost of $135. The total amount ex. pended on this trail was $l,722.3O. Considerable freight isI hauled over this road in the winter, as the only freight that Is hauled into the Tolo- vana mining country in the summer Is that which is absolutely needed, and the bulk of the freight is hauled over this road in the winter, proba- ply amounting to about one thou. and tons.
 In the TOlovana district the com. mission furnished it's own camp equipment and boarded the men. The cost of the supplies for feeding the men amounted to $1.57 per day per man, and the cost of feeding the horses amounted to $10 per day per team for the days actually worked. This is rather high but is caused by the high price of horse feed and the rate at which the teams were hired. $5 per day with feed, made 1t necessary to board the teams on the days they did not work, and some of the time there was not work for the teams until the men had prepared the road for them, making 1t cheaper to lay the teams off for @ few days even tho we were compelled to feed them while idle.
 RUBY DISTRICT.
 Route 16.-Tamarack Landing to Poorman, 3-5 miles.
 Work on this road was started by the commission in 1917, and was re. sumed this past season. In 1917 two miles of the road had been cleared, one mile of which had been stripped and drained. This year the mile of road that had been stripped in 1917 was graded and four miles more had been stripped of moss and the clearing of the timber has been completed. The work this year was done at cost of $9,61S.81.>
 | Nearly the whole of this road is built on the low ridge between Spruce creek and Tamarack creek