The Kusko times., 1931-10-24


 inches. This route is frte fraxi f60g and follows the natural flying xeute to the Orient. The .rsad to Haxelton is at present used the year xournis and the 2,0a0 motor cars in Alaska aper- ate throughout the winter in the vi einity, of the towns. Whenever, traffic warrants, the Alaskan .roads can ..he kept open the year around just as IS . now done under similar .sinter eli matic conditions in the States.
 An excellent gravel road to Fair banks could be completed and in ser vice in less than five years from the time the money Is available 1t 5s believed that si9.900 per mile would put through apassable gravel road. The driving distance from San Fran cisco to E-airhanks will be. about .5o0 miles, 0 (which only LOGO remains to be ,complstei.
 The ,Proyince of sRrltish Columbia will no doubt find a financing plan of concessions, gas taxes or toll gates to cover the necessary constructlon with little or no burden on the people of the Province. 1t is expected that the Yukon -Territory section will be
 In Alaska .there .are funds avail able annually for road building, and i if additianal funds are needed to ,ex- tend ar inspraye the existing Alaskan road system undoubtedly sCongreV would aHproEriate the ,1nonsy, as a few dollaEs -speat to tconstxuct this highway wil be repaid many fold in the increased valuation af Alaskan propertys most of which IS at present ia Federal aWnership.
 If left to itself, this road would no doubt be huilt lay natural piecenesI extension ten:siqfn in the ,next twenty years, but twith 3 little concerted action and cooperation at this time 1t Is possible to put it through within tue next few years. Ihe Pacific InternatienaL Highway will open untold mineral re- sources sources of Alaska Hundreds of uailss of heavily naineraHzed zones Ee spread over three great nlountain ranges lin, -antimony, silver, copper and gold and anthracite await tue ia-- Aux af prospectors and capital which will come quickly via the motor xonte. The completion Of this highway to Alaska will in 2 yery few years add 2 hundred thousand Eastern people t0 the population of Alaska aud several hunpdre hundred thousand to British Golnna- bia. Yhis highway to Alaska will be the greatest single drawing card the Pacifc coast will have for tue naatos- ist sf America.
 Alaska scenic attractions axe ua- sprpassed- Thousands will wish ts travel from their own daorstep to the Land af the Midnight Sun. The Are tic Circle will be crossed and re- crossed and the Aurnra Boreaiis viii become hyword. Dawson, klandike and the Yukan river will draw the curious, and the aaexcelied climate af  Fairbanks and Aachorage will hold the homesteader, Maunt Mckinley, the highest mountain in the world above it's hase, will claim many ad- mirers. The better class of tourist. will no douht go north from Los An geies, San Francisco, Portland aud Seattle via meter, aud will return from Alaska via haat through that fairy land of inside passages Alaska. The Great Land" has been an island. This highway will produce 2 rich, powerful American State. in 2 tremendously strategic position. half way across the Pacific, 2 keystone of trade and commerce
 The Pacific Foreign Trade Council should definitely endorse the project and assist in its promotion to early completion. Each member of the | Council ShAuhi tuvaSfirato kha 'ra