The Kusko times., 1937-10-29
BUILD INTERNATIONAL HIwAY WITH GAS TAX

Suggestion that the proposed high way .o Alaska might be financed by gasoline tax has been made by War rea c. Magnuson, representative of Wash;agton's First District in Con- gress.
 tctual construction could be fnan- ced by some sort of joint loan by the United States and Canada, this am our: 70 bs -erai5 through gas tax receipts or sim tolls. Manson roirte3 GU. in a recent speech.
 ~ am reliably informed by an au- thrri+v on such matters. Lacey Mur- TOW, director of the Washington State Highway Department, who is familiar with the whole situation, that reas- enable gasoline tax, based upon the most conservative estimates Of future travel. would more than pay for the cost of the read in approximately seven years" Narnpson said.
 i'The tr;1 to Alaska bv automobile world ba the most desirable of all American vacation iaunts. l. might be recessa-y for the United States an7 Canaia-ani | would be fine thing f it could be accomplished this way-.o make the whole strip an in- ternarional rark in order that they both might better mutually partici- pate in the financing"
 Marnuson recsll=d that the project was studied by commission appoint cd in 1880 and that it's recommenda- ticns arg embodied in 9 bll which he introduced this year. The bill author iZes the president 10 appoint com mission If five to cooperate with Can a3ian representatives in 3 study for tFa sG-gev, location and construction of fhe h;ghwa~ and report within two years.
 q have been ra'fahly informed that the government at Ottawa is willing ard P eady to receive such 2 commis- sion for negotiations" he continued. ''Th4 provincial housa Of parliament Of British Colu.nb;a is more than an- -;ol's 10 co-operata and have so re- s-l-ed on many occasions. The citi- -.r7 nt the Pacif. Northwest of the Un'+e1 States. of British Columbia e71 f the entire Pacific Coast will be glad to aid.
 "A sensible revival of the spirit, courled with the actual opening of the frontiers is part of the answer to OUT economic dilemma. Just where are these frontier regions? They lie in the Pacific Northwest, in British Colurbis and in Alaska. Essential to the dsval3pn -r- of any rev territory IS means of in7ress and e~ress-a road. The necessity is obvious. It would give the United States greater access t9 it's own Alaska. It would open up g great section of Canada to us for trade.
 Further, n Washington, the Fed eral Government is making great ex- penditures on the Grand Coulee dam. This state, located at the very door Of this new territory we speak about, contains about two-ifths of all the po- tential water power in the North Am erican continent. Complete develop nent of the potentialities, such as Grand Coulee, coupled with the ad- vancement of transmission facilities, could furnish enough power and irri- gation, if irrigation is needed, for the ultimate development of the whole section.
 People would move in. The road would abound with trafic of g new economic empire"
 He compared this area with that of the Middle West and raised the ques- tion of where the people of the"dust bowl" are to go.
 Finish the Grand Coulee project with its resulting power and irriga- ton development, join up this distric; and the Pacific Coast states with sim liar power projects in the far West with 8 connecting road to rich Alaska and it is my prediction that the econ. omic growth of the Pacific Northwest will be assured" Manuson said. "Al