The Cordova daily times., 1922-06-14
PROGRAM ROAD DEVELOPMENT IN MI. M'KINLEY NATIONAL PARK
 IS STARTED; PLAN ANNOUNCED

tion are those stored there at that time. Hence during the winter months the travel for personnel and supplies required from Nenana is transported over the route Nenana or Kobi to Knights Roadhouse to Diamond and Glacier or Knights Roadhouse, Tok- lat, Clearwater, to Kantishna post of flee. These routes are dog trails and the Toklat route is particularly bad.
 The policy of the Alaska Road Com mission has been to give all possible relief on the existing used routes and to investigate and lay out a route following the general principles of be- ing, first, summer and winter route; second, the shortest possible distance from the center of the mining district of the Government Railroad.
 Principle one has eliminated all routes south of Healy and the pos sibility of having the route chosen pass through Mckinley Park. Our in yestigations are not complete in the selection of this route, but all eXten- sive reconnaissances made to date in dicate as most favorable the Lignite- Glacier -Kantishna route.
 PROJECT IS ADOPTED
 The following project has been adopted for the preliminary develop nient of Mt. Mckinley Park:
 FIRST STAGE
 Construction of a pack trail, about S6 miles long from Lynch's Roadhouse at the mouth of Morris Creek to Kan tishna post office. This work would involves a small amount of clearing the erection of the necessary guide posts and markers in the untimbered portion of the trail, the execution Of about two miles of sidehill grading along the bench near Muldrow Glacier the erection of bridges and the erec- tion of 10 shelter cabins.
 The cost of this within the park is estimated to be $25,000 The result of this construction would be an as sured passage for foot travellers Of pack trains with the necessary shelter and guidance for the protection or poorly equipped travellers.
 Tn addition to this, a roadhouse es- tablished at the Mckinley River ter minus of this pack trail would be very reasonably supplied from Roosevelt on the Kantishna. A roadhouse at this location would, in addition, be affording a constant view of Mt. Mc- Kinlev, also serve as base for hunt CTS searching for game without the park limits to the west Of wonder Lake.
 SECOND STAGE COSTLY
 The second stage would involve the construction of wagon road over the first 25 miles from Lynch's Road house to Middle River and over the last 10 between Mckinley River ana Kantishna post office.
 This construction would cost about s35O 900, as both projects are over country upon which winter 'freighting is possible.
 The making of this connection, I,ynch's Roadhouse to Middle River would extend the point of accesslpli- itv for automobile and wagon travel 25 miles into the park. The construc- tion from Kantishna post office would extend the facilities afforded by the supplies now being receivel i'll sum- mer time at Roosevelt to point where the mining operations now in a state of prospect at Copper Moun- tain in Thorofare Pass could be sup piled
 No further stages of the develop ment of this route are included as they are believed to be premature at this time.
 The project for the relief of the Kan tishna Mining district involves the construction, as rapidly as the avail able funds and funds to become avail able may permit, of wagon and auto- mobile road about S5 miles long from a point on the Government Railroad between Healy and Nenana, probably Lignite, to Kantishna post office. The first 54 miles of this road, as stated above, have been tentatively located from near Lignite to the Toklat River. From the Toklat to Eureka Creek there are two possible routes: First, up Crooked Creek and over the Divide to Glacier, thence across to connect with the existing Roosevelt-Kantishna