The Kusko times., 1929-11-23
Se tIaONs raF PROJECTED .4CIF.C YUKON HIGHWAY
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 A few weeks ago a bill was intro- duced in both houses of Congress providing for study regarding the construction of highway to connect ' the-- northwestern part of the United < States with British Columbia, Yukon Territory and Alaska, in cooperation l. with the Dominion of Canada" One If the commissioners appointed for this study is the president of the Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska, Maj. Malcolm Elliott, United States Army Engineer Corps.
 Major Elliot, who has been sta- toned in Alaska for over two years, has made an exhaustive study of roads and highways throughout the Alaskan Territory, which offers rich opportunities in mining, agriculture and fur-trading. Hundreds of miles of newly-constructed roads have opened up one of the most beautiful and least known of the United SStates' possessions.
 The latest project for the construc- tion of the Pacific Yukon highway, as this international boulevard" will be known, has met with enthusiastic CO., operation from officials of the h. terior Department, which is the off .cial guardian of Alaska Territory.
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 Accompanied by Maj. Elliot, Ernest Walker Sawyer, executive assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, made an extensive trip by airplane last summer throughout various sections of Alaska, and he has returned to Washington heartily indorsing the plan for the construction of the highway, which will make it possible for citizens of the United States to travel without interruption from any section of this country to the waters of the Yukon, travelling by easy stages, with night accommodations at the numerous "roadhouses" along the rute.
 The Pacific Yukon highway will extend from Seattle to Vancouver, British Columbia, then on through the Yukon Territory to Whitehorse, where it will swing west to the head waters of the Panama river. It will follow down this river to connect with the Richardson highway, which extends from the North Pacific ocean at Valdez through the central part of Alaska to Fairbanks, and then to the upper Yukon river at Circle.
 From the road building standpoint, Major Elliot states that no great diff faculties present themselves in the construction of the highways. About a thousand miles of the road from Seattle to Hazelton, British Colum- bia, have already been built. North of Hazelton there is gap as far as Whitehorse, about 530 miles, over which no road has been built, but it has been ascertained that a trail leads through this territory over which cattle have been driven in the past. This route will follow the old route intended for telegraph line by the Western Union Company, to connect the United States with Eu- rope through Asia. This prooject was under construction but suspended at the time the Great Eastern laid the Atlantic cable with success.
 In the Northwest country through which the Pacific Yukon highway will pass, although nc roads eSis. atspres- ent, there are trails which are con stantly traveled gy foot ani by dog sled, and. the road will therefore lead through we'll known territory. Plans