Seward daily gateway., 1925-12-14
MOOSE PASS ROAD.

i IVY OIh OA st1CM 1odus SAAApdSA 1uOOSC Pass being constructed. under the able direction of Carl Kiel, is being pushed as strenuously as the conditions of the weather will permit. Snow covers the ground, slowing activities consid- erably, and the bite of the extremely cold weather is such that the dirt and rock work yet continuing credits both the power of the directing force and l the assiduity of the workmen engaged. The engineering gang, the actual l field direction of which is in charge of MT. M Kriger, smooths the paths for the workmen's progress in man. ner which would credit the initiative of military machine. The gangs have followed fast. Eric Nelson and Gus Bystedt, with their men, have completed their sections and left the Pass. About 60 men remain.
 Twenty three of these are grading between Mile 27 and Mile 29, where great amount of rockwork contri- butes toward their problem, Nels An derson and Carl Erickson directs each his groups of men at this location, while parts of both Fred Chalmers and John Oleson's gangs are employ ed in the same locality.
 Done By New Year.
 Jimmie Scimi's boys are hammer | ing at the grade immediately approach ing and continuing beyond Pass Ok, hoping to complete their contract by Christmas Day and to be in town for New Years Eve. Around them, on the hillsides, are falling the choicest l hemlock of the forest. Chatham and four men are gathering the sticks for the Pass Creek Bridge construction of which will begin in the very near future.
 The Frenchy Creek bridge is slightly more remote than that of Pass Creek, but will, conditions permitting, be a frealization of the very near future. John OIeson, Coll McDougal and three or four others return to the Pass on the first train to begin the task of getting out timbers for this piece of work.
 Size of Crews Decreasing
 AS the season has advanced the num- Der of men engaged on the Moose Pass project has gradually dwindled from close to 100 to nearly 60. But Mr. Kiel's problems increase, the wea- ther become more indictment; the snow which three weeks ago necessatated the closing down of the camp at Mile 20 and cessation of the graveIing operations, has disqualified the use Eof the Ford trucks. The operation tor the caterpillar-a spasmodic crea- ture- and the plyings to and fro of Bill Estes dog team, seem to be the solution of the problem of the trans portation of supplies from the railroad to the camps. Estes finds the trail in excellent condition for pushing his dogs. The scraper went over it two weeks ago-and Walter Holben, driver of the caterpillar, after encountering difficulties of many formidable sorts laughs at any difficulties these last weeks may bring.
 Project Assists Minina
 Placer operations in Moose Pass are Fnow idle They only rest; their days will come. The new road will contri bute much toward the development ot the solution, both in the matter of mak ing more facile the transporting oi the ore and in the matter of induc II ing capital to contribute it's functions to the business of production. The land is there, the labor is round about capital and managership are bound to come. The Pass is rich in gold and \ the road will have solved a tremen ldous economic problem in future con alterations of it's development
 -J. s. Rood