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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...northwest portion of America, especially in the interior Alaska country, can not devote too much attention to the study of the cost of transportation of supplies. For the benefit of those who must depend on local supply points in the north for their needs, a table is given showing present costs, tit each principal point, of the articles most necessary to the miner. As regards transportation facilities, care has been taken to collect and embody in this report all available data and statistics relating to the construction of wagon roads in the Northwest. The neighboring fields of British Columbia and the Yukon Territory, in Canada, havo afforded excellent opportunity to obtain costs and methods of road construction applicable to the Alaska interior. Recommendations regarding the most practical and serviceable routes for road construction in Alaska have been made in a previous report by Mr. Alfred II. Brooks. The need of these roads can not be urged too strongly, and the expenditure of 1,000,000, as suggested by Mr. Brooks, would be man' times repaid by the resulting development and increased gold production. Already over 300 miles of wagon road have been built by the Canadian government in the Yukon Territory and the Atlin district of British Columbia, while over HOO miles of sled roads have been made in the Yukon Territory. The fact that in the summer wagons and vehicles of all descriptions, and even bicycles, may be seen daily about Dawson, the Klondike creeks, and Atlin, in British Columbia, while the winter roads in Canadian territory uft'ord continuous easy routes for horse sleds down the Yukon to Dawson, is evidence of the success of the Canadian road-building enterprise. On the other hand, there are in Alaska less than 50 miles of well-buil...

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