The Cordova daily times., 1920-06-28
ALASKA ADVISORY COMMITTEES
 REPORT IS PRESENTED IN DETAIL
Secretary of the Interior Payne Gives Out Full Text of Data Gathered by Investigators of
 Three Federal Departments and Presents at Length Their Recommendations for the Ad- vancement and Development of the Territory
Concluded from Saturdays Issue)

board and as temporary expedient, the committee further recommends:
 i. That an inter-departmenta com mittee be organized, to be comp >sed Of representative of all government departments concerned in Alaska af- fairs. Also that the governor of Alas ka be made an ex-officio member Of this committee.
 2. That an additional assistant sec retary of the interior department be appointed who shall be chairman of the committee and shall devote all his time to Alaska affairs.
 8. That the chairman of the com mitteo shal spend large part of his time in Alaska and thus by personal contact become intimately acquainted with Alaska conditions.
 WAGON ROANs AND TRAILS
 The committee finds that the con- struction of wagon roads and trails is one of the most important and ur- gent needs of Alaska. Without the construction of large milage of wagon roads and trails the resources of the territory cannot be made avail able. Nothing will contribute more to development of tonnage for the government railroad than a system of tributary wagon roads. The con- mittee recOmmeds that:
 1. A general system of main high ways be planned to be constructed and maintained by the federal gov ernment.
 2. The construction and mainten- ance of local roads and trails be left to the territory.
 3. The systems outlined in the above two recommendations include the construction of properly located trails, to be subsequently improved into wagon roads, into every new district where promising discoveries of minerals have been made.
 4. A plan for coordination, so far as it has not already been done, Of the various federal road-building agencies be prepared by the proposed interdepartmental Alaska committee with the advice of federal officials resident in the territory, as we'll as of the territorial officials. That this matter be delegated to the Alaska de- yelopment board as soon as it is or ganized.
 5. In acting upon the foregoing recommendations the following road building projects be given consldera- tion:
 (a) A wagon road from the Alaska railroad to the Kantishna mining dis trict, to be connected with Mt. Nc Kinley national park, and extended to McGrath, and to the Iditarod dis trict.
 (b) A wagon road from the Alaska railroad to the Valdez Creek placer district, to be subsequently connected with the Valdez-Fairbanks trail.
 Co Trails, and eventually wagon roads, connecting the Alaska railroad with the copper deposits of the Tal- keetna and other nearby districts.
 (d) A wagon road from the Alaska railroad to the Yentna Cache Creek) district, to be later extended into the KuskolWim valley.
 le( A wagon road from the Copper River Railroad into the Nizina placer district, and it's eventual extension into upper Chitina valley.
 (f) A wagon road from Fairbanks into ToloVana (Livengood) district, later to be extended to the Yukon and connecting with the Koyukuk road.
 (h) A wagon road from Fairbanks
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