Seward daily gateway., 1933-08-23
REPORT
 IS BEING GIVEN
 MUCH PUBLICITY

4A1C 1CpOAC C OA GIlc f1AlC4 1Cdll ScC- tion of the International High way Commission has been printed and released and copies of the re- port have ben sent to the Gateway by Delegate Dimond As the report was made directly to the President, | it was necessary for the Delegate to secure the personal approval of the Chief Executive for immediate public distribution.
 The report is considered to be a favorable one by persons who ihave kept in close contact with the highway developments.
 Its most important conclusions, from the standpoint of friends of the highway, probably are: l. The Commission declares the highway project to be feasible one
 2. The Commission urges an early start of construction of the Fair banks-Dawson section irrespective of the highway as an entity.
 This last recommendation has long been urged by highway proponents, their argument being that building of road from Fairbanks to DaW- son would be convincing proof of the benefits of a road through to the States and would act to hasten construction of oher sections of the road.
 Copies of the report have been mailed to Chambers of Commerce, newspapers, gove nment officials, both federal and territorial, and to others in Alaska. They will go to every member of Congress, ot lib- raries, to automobile and tire manu- lecturers and oil companies thru out the land. It is planned to secure for the report all possible publicity.
 The total length of the highway from Seattle to Fairbanks would be 2,256 miles. By no means does that mean there is that much con- struction to be accomplished. AL ready 1,073 miles are built, leaving ,183 miles to be finished
 There already is in use, of course, a highway from Seattle to Hazel ton, British Columbia. Eight hund- red and eighty two miles separate those cities. From Hazelton to the boundary of Yukon Territory new construction would total 480 miles, with 50 miles already built. The In ternational Highway, according to present plans, would branch off the Richardson Highway at Mccarthy, 91 miles from Fairbanks. From Mo |Carthy to the boundary is a dis tance of 91 miles.
 The conclusions and recommen- dationS of the Commission are giv- en here for the benefit of those who may not see the report:
 l. The highway is a feasible pro- ject and can be built as a reason able cost, which should not exceed $2,000,000 for the Alaska sect ion and $12,OOO,O00 for the Canadian section.
 2. If the project is adopted, the stage-construction process is fav- ored. That is to say, the initial standard should be no higher than is required for the estimated traf- fic, and improvements to higher standards would be made as de- manded by traffic and as funds may become available.
 3. Financing is primarily the re- sponsibility of each of the nations concerned for the section of the road within it's own jurisdiction. and any departure from this prin- ciple should be covered by inter national agreement. The Alaska sec tion of the road should be financed in about the same ratio between federal and local funds as obtains under the Federal Highway Act in 1 the Sparsely settled states, resulting probably in about 90 per cent of