Photo from U. S. Department of the Interior 



VIEW LOOKING SOUTH, SHOWING THE SITE OE THE PROPOSED ALASKAN RAILROAD 



CROSSING OF MATANUSKA RIVER 



neer in the United States to locate and 

 build the Alaskan road. He has located 

 and built some of the most difficult rail- 

 roads in the West. Mr. Harriman chose 

 him to locate the new lines across the 

 Sierra and the Siskiyou Mountains. The 

 Alaskan work is in his charge, and asso- 

 ciated with him are two younger men — 

 Lieut. Frederick Mears, U. S. Army, and 

 Thomas Riggs, Jr., of Utah. 



Lieutenant Mears is one of the young 

 veterans of the Isthmian Canal construc- 

 tion. As superintendent of the Panama 

 Railroad, he relocated and reconstructed 

 a large part of that line and operated it 

 successfully. Governor Goethals recom- 

 mended him as the best equipped of all the 

 excellent engineers at Panama to grapple 

 with the difficult problems of railroad 

 location and construction in Alaska. 



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