The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-24
.STEESE LEAVES ....' ]. FOR N0ME,G0ES INTERIOR ROUTE
Inspect Numerous Projects Close Nome Harbor Work
 Return About Oct. 20.

On an inspection O. aoout twu months duration and which will GOV CT parts of the Third, Fourth and Steese, president of the Alaska Road Commission, will leave Juneau tomor row on the steamer Watson for Val. dez. His itinerary ifrom that point will includeG stops Eat trail points, Fairbanks Nenana Hot Springs, Ia mana, Ruby, Ophir, Tacotna. McGrath, Bethel. Russian Mission, Holy Cross, St. Michael. Nome and various sew ard Peninsula points. thence return ing tot Juneau by the way of Seattle. He wilE probablyi be accompanied M H. K. Thiele.
 ftE Object. of the Trip
 The ma in. objet of the. trip is to get a com brelfensive view of the many Alaska. Road Commission prof ects in sthes districts which are<to he scnvered and settle final details on many bits of construction.
 Among other things, Colonel Steese will inspect the progress of work on the Comfort sideline near Valdez and make arrangements for closing the seasons work there. Also conclude arrangements for bringing several glacial streams between Valdez and Willow Creek, this work to be done during the coming winter and next spring Between Gulkena and Will low Creek, Colonel Steese will make final arrangements for the recon struction of or strengthening bridges across the Tazlina and Gulkena Riv- CTS. and make final preparations for the erection this winter of a bridge across the Gacona River.
 His next work will take him north of the summit of the Alaskan range. where he will settle on plans to bridge a number of glacial streams near Rapids. He will then jump to the Birch Lake section of the road, where inspection of the work of i'm, provement of the bog near Birch Lake will be made. At Munsons he will look after securing final data for the design of a bridge to be in stalled across the Salchaket River. Ten miles north of that point he will make arrangements for rebuilding the Pile Driver bridge.
 Short Stop at Fairbanks
 Colonel Steese will make short stay at Fairbanks and then go to Nenana There he will arrange for depot space for storing plant and equipment to be used in the con struction of the road into the Kan. tishna district next season should funds be made available for that pur- pose. He will also arrange for con- struction of several bridges on the Dunbar Brooks winter sled road.
 From Nenana he hopes to be able to connect with river steamer for lower river points. He will stop briefly at Hot Springs. if possible, inspecting the work on the Baker Creek bridge and other road work being done in the district and make arrangements for closing the seasons work. sA
 From there he will go to Ruby and start on a lengthy overland trip, go ing over the Ruby-Long road, inspect. ing repairs there and making final arrangements for erecting bridge across the Sulatna River this win ter. Thence to Ophir. arranging foI construction of winter sled road between Cripple and Ophir and con clude negotiations with the lnnoSc Dredging Company for work on the Poorman-criple section incidental tC transporting that company's heavy dredge into Gaines Creek. He vii then inspect the work on the Ophir Tacotna project and make arrange ments for the opening of next sea sons work. He will investigate thu trail system in the Kuskokwim an' Iditarod dis.Ticts and decide upoI