The Nome nugget., 1929-10-19
ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION ACTIVITIES
 SEASON
 1929 A General Survey Of All The Work Done Seward Pen. On Roads, Trails, And Shelter Cabins
In And Around Nome

ere" COuSlStiuS VI d ASi eAAioh and an average personnel of thir- teen men, with five trucks, one caterpillar, one motor driven load CT, one motor driven grader, one maintainer and one grader, con- pleted the vast amount of work classified as follows:
 The energetic drivers of trucks and road building machines dur ing this past summer constructed one quarter mile of new road from Dry Creek, on the Bessie Road, to the Hammon Consolidated Gold Fields offices. This thoroughfara relieves the traffic on Steadman Avenue. and allows for earlier travel to the Bessie Road during the spring breakup which usually places Steadman Ave, in an un- navigable condition.
 An emergency road was com structed from mile .75 on the Bes- sic Boulevard to mile 1.25 on the Center Creek road. This new ar. tery will handle all heavy trai- fc to the Snake River and Center Greek sertiuns thereby overcom- tug the, danger and delays of roHt- ing by way of Nome city streets and unsafe Dry Greek trestle I>- 4, If It will also allow for earlier traf- fic to the above mentioned sections during the spring breakup, as heretofore, the former route was snow drifted until late in June One and one half miles of third beach line road were rehabilitatei from the end of the Bessie Road at mile 31 to Dry Greek on Os- borne road. mile 3.7. This road in the spring and later travel in the fall as it avoids one half mile of river bed road on Osborne road which is subjected to much gla ciering and snow drifting. This particular section will be dredged by the Dry Creek Dredging Co. next season.
 Regarding took place on several roads of which there is the fol- lowing: between mile and 5 on the Dexter route; one half mile between miles and on the Os- borne route: one half mile be- tween miles 6 and on the An vii route and one half mile between Nome and Cape Nome.
 Road graders and the maintain CT operated over 390 miles of road which included numerous trips over the same sections.
 34S linear feet of galvanized corrugated metal, 290 linear feet of hydraulic pipe and .176 linear feet of wood culverts were placed in the roads.
 The 42 foot Cooper Gulch brid- ge was rebuilt to better handle the water conditions; at Specimen Creek, 4x9 foot deck culvert was constructed and eighty lineal feet of bridges were redecked Hand rails were placed on eleven bridges and all painted white. in c1uding fifteen more bridge rail- ings.
 Three miles of ditching on num- erous routes was completed. IA % hneal feet of rock rip-rap was placed above the ditch line and 1900 lineal feet of road was wid- ened on Cape Nome. mile 13.' 15- %. lneal. feet. of galvanized netting, eight feet wiie at, the east approach to the Safety Fer " was placed in line: and :aree miles of chuck holes were iiile3 ir between Cape Nome and Saf- s:,.
 Through the summer general maintenance of all roads, was car ried on. which consisted of op- ening culverts, spring snow renov- al, small bridge and culvert repairs, widening of roads where neces- sary and the filling in of chuck holes. Extensive improvements