The Nome nugget., 1920-11-20

The following summary If the work done in this district by the Ahskat Road Commission from July 1st tp Oct. 31st, 1920, is drawn from the report of Superintendent Chas. Iohes and discloses d range of activities and ;L volume of expenditures which will the average citizen. Owing to lack of space it has been impossible 70 in cIude much of the detail given in the report, thereby eliminating man% in teresting points The first work dealt with is the Nome- Council road.
 This road connects Nome and Coun- cil and is the summer mail route sup plying all intermediate camps between these points. Leaving Nome it fol- lows the shore of the Boring Sea via F1. Davis to a point near the five mile Tost Here it leaves the beach and crosses the tundra for. about one and
 
 the tundra paralelling the coast, un- der which lay the second beach line. II follows this bench elevation to Hastings creek, 91a miles distant from Nome. From Hastings creek it turns to the left SD as to strike the table ly- ing along the base of Cape Nome Mountain. This table it follows to Golden Gate creek II F miles distant from Nome. From there it goes over q slight raise and meanders around Cape Nome mountain until Cape Nome is reached at the 12H mile post. Thence it continues around the face of Cape Nome for 21a miles. when it again returns to the sea beach, along which it continues to Safety. 2l miles distant from Nome. At Safety the outlet from the lagoon caused by the F'lambeau and Eldorado rivers. there IS Il ferry 1,250 feet in length. From Safety the road follows the beach to 3onarza. g miles from Nome. where t;,e Bonanza river, outlet is crossed by a 300 foot fersS ,<
 x.'snc" "s,%n' -,rs, ns4 T. , ..,' ,s.s: 'o,srs $ miles from Nome. Thence up East Fork to Skookum Pass, 5s miles from Nome; thence via Skookum Pass, 6 miles, to the head of the Fox River. The road thence continues about ten or twelve miles down Fox River to the Council corduroy, which is five miles distant from Council
 The work of the commission this summer was done between Nome and Cape Nome. Solomon and East Fork and on the Solomon corduroy.
 NOME-F'T DAVIS.
 Four hundred and twenty five dol lars was spent on the Nome-Ft. Davis section of the road. The work con sisted of dragging and rolling with a,rtotrucks: patching and repairing cnlCk iHu soiiit iiiiH'i iVlsti- ~ to several small bridges. During the time the Army Air Expedition was here il road tender was kept on the road on account of the heavy travel between the Fort and Nome so as to repair ruts before they got bad. One hundred and twenty five yards of gravel were used in patching the road at an average cost of s1 .12. Six hum daesl feet of ditch was cleaned at q cost of cents foot. Rolling and dragging over the entire distance amounted to $120.
 The west abutment of the bridge over Nome River at Fit. Davis w's badly damaged by storms in June and July and was repaired by making an apron of concrete in sacks in and around the piling constituting the abutment. Six thousand three hundred and seventy sacks of sand were placed around the abutment and faced with two thousand one hundred and twenty sacks of concrete mixture, proportion ed eight to one when not affected by the current, and six to one in the cur rent Four thousand odd sacks were secured from St Michael and 3,300 were purchased here at q cost of S413.27. One foreman. five n:en and one team constituted the work crew employed. A wheel scraper and team was used to bring the gravel from the beach. The team was also used in handling materials borrowed from Ft. Davis and was employed for sixty four days at q cost of sS10. co. An average of twenty seven sacks of material were placed daily. The total labor cost was $4,473. .00. The overhead cost. prorortionate share of exchange truck hauling etc with additional material. amounted to $442.25. making total for the work If $6.13S. 9o