The Nome nugget., 1931-03-14
LEGISLATIVE REEDS SECOND DIIII$>Ily lyl1

is.r the deyelopmmt f those two
 .a.. named creek It. nks to the
 '4.r's ol Thoma- A. D1ffney, who
 was instrumental in oDlaiuing five
 hous3nd dollars las summer thru
 he Terri orial Road Engineer to
 .tart this much needed road This road at the present time has been A.aIted and We urgently reque-t
 ha' at least it be continued a. lrT as sunset this coming summer and further if pos 'ible Last sum iIae, 9. Sunse, creek considerable preliminary work was done com
 nensurate to getting the property
 iH shape to mine it .nte.ligently,
 and there is no dUub' tha. con sidera ble work will be done ou i this property this coming season. 1 Consequently you zee the urgent
 and immediate neei of this par
 Of the road.
 That an additional wagon road
 of at least 20 miIo9 be added tJ 1 the Nhme-GlAcier ro3l to eX end
 it further up into Saak" Riy""
 and Stewart River regions, as there gre thousands of acres of
 dredging ground awaiting trans portation. \ number of these creeks were worked by hand met
 hods in the early days and paid , dividends. but it canno: now be worked proftablv except by the
 small dredging process The price 0 fr5'~ht 70 thie seton a- r." present time is prohibitive con-e- ru"ntly there are no chances Of dredses being transported unlesa road is built to minimize freight rates. This road will also serve IT. transportation for four dftereui quartz prospects of which good q va have hoeY obtained on all of them. We feel sure that if tth:s !oul :2 cons-T'ucted that the owners of these quartz properties will have littln trouble in obtain ing interested "an:tal t) continue
 their prospec'ing
 Starting from q point about I mil" and half or two miles be low Fort Davis on the Nome-Solo-
 mon road. somewhere near the Old
 Chicken Ranch. We advise that road he run directly north 10 con meet with q road on Osborn creek This passes over a number of irrepks nGmely. Irene. SweeDstakeS 1 Moss Gulrh, Stevens. Laredo and i Washington creeks. all of wNirh in tthe earlier day prrAH"ed consider ! able moner with tn" crude hands methods then in use. Las. sum fmer one mining outfit n0erated ion one of those creeks and pro Idneed considerable money, hut wa | very much Handicapped by tho i lack If transportation. This win ter there has been nroru prospect i ing going on in and aro"Ad these : tc"a"kS and in nrr opinion h'-
 heon carriei on in a'1 other of | nur d'arnnt crears This would he the first Ia@ of road which
 event"ally will he ey'cnae' Frrth- lgr into the tntarior 5o ounn ur
 '''amb"au. Ed s@1n Hn4vor "nl : Ranan2a rjver -artions witch qre
 sill uuprosperfed. and in time ithi& road will couuo,' with the
 Solomon Rjver-Casa d. pa~a road and thence to Cpnr"il hv Ntuknk
 River This '"s' named section
 containe fhoneanas of acras of low grade dredse7hlp gr md
 That the road from Cape Nome ito Bonanza Ferry be abandoned and that substitute road be con s7nGcted north of the lagoon ro | Bonanza Ferry, The ground in his section is of such nature
 th.it q road could be constructed very chcaply on the north side Of
 thH lagoon, This will eliminate
 the eXnensc of maintaining two ferries. as bridges W.I he huilt I4lroSs Bonanza and Solomon Riy-
 CTS. Our opinion is that this road VII pay fer i. of n yerv few years. eliminating the expense of
 ma1niaining the f'l'ricG above men toned. as at varicms times travel .cannot be accommodated on account .0f the elements of waathe" nd
 warer conditjnn. at those ferries.
 Resides 1t will be 49ie condition for travel at all ines of the year.
 tiSp eliminating cost of main tenancn of the present. road 0n the beach between BonaN"a and Cane Nome
 Tha, the work of rahabiIitatin
 the old solomon River railroad into wagon road be continued nn'u over t'e Ruby Divide and then the road be continued down along the Casa de Pa@a River. Last summer dredge was install ed on Ruby Creek. coming into the Casa imSt where the wagon road comes down the Ruby hill and strikes C1sa River. and there is considerable mention of other dredges 10 be installed farther