The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-09-06
Alaska Agitates for Great Highway.
(New York Times.) )

The proposed international highway that would connect Seattle with Fairbanks, Alaska, and make It possible to motor there from Florida on good roads is a project that is awakening wide interest ln Alaska according to word from that Territory.
 As Florida and California constitute the Winter playgrounds of America, Alaska with it's twenty four hour -ong Summer days, scenery and game re- sources, may ultimately become the Summer play ground of the nation if the plans of the many civic associations in Alaska interested in the con- struction of this new highway are carried out
 According to Donald McDonald Locating En- gineer of the Alaska Road Commission and Second Vice President of the International Highway As socation of Fairbanks, which has been formed to speed the development of the project the proposed highway is vital to the future of Alaska and essential to the development of a stable and perm anent population that the association is determined to every in order that the construction be initiated within the next three years
 MT Mcdonald, who is a brother of Mrs. F M. White of TAI Fifth Avenue this city recently gave imaginary automobile tour the proposed highway from Seattle to Fairbanws stretch of I2O 900 miles, and a map of the route which he made appeared in an issue of The Seward Daily Gateway Seward, Alaska. Filling gap of 700 miles is all that is needed to make the needed road nection.
 MT Mcdonald, through this wildly beautiful, primitive country cannot be equaled any place in the civilized world Two thousand miles of scenic beauty, the tremendous peaks of the coast and
 
 vealed in constant succession to the traveller" He then described the journey from Seattle to Vancouver thence to Hazelton, B. C., the ancient camp site of savage tribe, whose totem poles still stand and again northerly about fifty miles to the present end of modern travel, the motor road 1000 miles north of Seattle
 From this point, he said, the road probably would follow the old Telegraph Trail. "This is a line full of historical sgnificance, he said "as it marks the path of those valiant pioneers who attempted in sixties tO nh tO Acia and thence across Europe, and only defeated in their purpose by the success of the Great Eastern in laying the Atlantic cable
 "To this day the Indians still use the wire left along the route In one instance, of their pack trails they used the wire to construct bridge that is said to embody every principle of bridge construction
 1 At Telegraph Creek the Stikine River the head of navigation from the ocean, there is a thriving outpost consisting of hunters traders and trappers adjacent to of the worlds greatest game regions This is some 1900 miles from Seattle
 The next point the road would be Atln on Lake Atin, one of the principle sources of the Yukon. After reaching Lake Kluane in it's noun tain setting, the route would lie through trailless country to the head of the Panama and the Alaska Canadian boundary line.
 Following the Panama through the heart of AL aska, the tourist would connect more with a motor travelled way the Richardson Highway and along this road to Fairbanks, in its green setting of cultivated fields the terminus of the Alaska Railroad, 2,OOO miles from Seattle II MT Macdonald expressed the view that con. structon Of roads for motor travel from tht arterial highway to the coastal towns and interio, of Alaska would naturally follow He said the pro. posd route already has been incorporated in thu construction program of British Columbia Abou 8O0 miles of road, from Vancouver to a point nortl TOT Hazelton already has been constructed The proposed highway, he said has been en. dorsed by all the Chambers of Commerce of the Alaska towns the Seattle Chamber of Commerct and the British Columbia Board of Trade Majol Malcolm c. Elliott, President of the Alaska Roac Commission, has given his approval memorial, requesting that Congress appoint { commission to confer with the Canadian Govern ment to obtain international cooperation was unani mously passed by both houses of the Alaska Leg slature, as was bill appropriatng $l 800 for pub E city purposes.
 ihe slogan or the International Highway Asso ciation is Seven million dollars purchased Alask, rom Russia; seven million more will make Alask one of the United States"