The Nome nugget., 1929-08-17
WHAT MORE ROADS
 WOULD MEAN TO NOME
 AND SEWARD PENINSULA
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prOpSlJlOu Ou AOSt n1Sel ouAy cS' eral miles from tide water and on a good creek bottom over which freight is easily transported. Just this year they have gotten it to ! a point beyond the prospecting stage and are going to install the proper machinery to handle this ore in large quantities. had talk with the manager, and l am satisfied, after learning from him the expense of such /an undertaking. that if $75.0O or $1O0.OO per ton had to be added to the transportation from tide water to the mine, this mine would be lying dormant; there is absolutely no doubt about that. This also applies to the four lode mines which have been previous ly mentioned.
 These two hundred miles of new wagon roads which we have just recommended will cost ap- proximately one million dollars. Now there is no chance for us to get any immediate relief thru the Alaska Road Commission be- cause the entire allotment for this division is only hundred thousand dollars annually which the upkeep of our present roads, the stalking of our trails, the building and taking care of our shelter cabins and other expenses are all taken care of out of this amount, So that very little of the allotment is left for new roads, consequently we will have to do something to get relief in some other way.
 "One legislator that I talked to suggested that we get a slight increase from the Federal Road Appropria tions, but this would not be of any material benefit to us in this program. It is so large and is so urgently needed at pres
 Tt. The writer had intended to interview Mr. Smith of the Geo. logical Survey last summer, but MT. Smith did not happen to pass through this part of the country. l believe if the pr position was submitted to MT. Smith, he is so familiar with this part of the coun- trp, that he could immediately see our needs and could. and would. be beneficial in assisting us to obtain some immediate relief, prob ably party through the Interior Department or the Forestry Roads Department. Our governor, MT. Geo. A. Parks, has been associat ed for many years with the h. terior Department and I fully be- lieve that he could and would as sist us in planning out some pro- gram for immediate relief. If We could get the IDterior Depart ment to assist the Territory, and the Alaska Road Commission, to immediately put up a one million dollar, say three years road building program, it would solve the problem and make this section one of the biggest gold produc CTS in Alaska. The summary of - the whole thing is that we have hundreds Of thousands of acres of dredgable prospected ground which will pay profit if we have roads for the transportation of the facilities to work the ground. there by increasing the production of gold beyond what it has been ev- en in our best days. We also need the. Shelton Candle Tram road.
 During the last few years the Territorial Board have been re- luctant in asking for increasing allotments from our meagre ap- propriations distributed over the four divisions, simply because we knew that the Richardson Highway and the Steese Highway needed to be built just as badly as our roads, but now. as those large projects are about completed. there is possible chance that we might