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ROADS AND ROAD BUILDING IN ALASKA. 
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The portions of Alaska represented by Alaska Peninsula and neigh- 
boring- islands, and the Copper River basin, north of Prince William 
Sound, have not been especially considered, as there appears to be no 
present need there of expensive routes of communication. In general 
it may be said, however, that the cost of construction in Alaska Penin- 
sula is the same as in Seward Peninsula, and the cost in the Copper 
River basin the same as in the central Yukon province. 
Table 16. — Cost of road construction. 
Locality. 
Authority. 
Construction, cost 
per mile. 
Annual 
mainte- 
nance, cost 
per mile. 
Notes. 
South Coast prov- 
ince: 
Juneau 
Private construct- 
ors. 
do 
$3, 750 
6,000 
300-1, 000 
1, 500-3, 300 
250-350 
3, 000-4, 000 
6,000 
1,200-3,000 
300 
Good road built 
S k a g w a y — 
White Pass. 
British Columbia: 
Atlin 
Yukon Territory: 
Dawson and 
vicinity. 
Do . 
under great to- 
pographic diffi- 
culties. 
Road no longer 
used. 
Good roads easily 
B. C. Atlin, gold 
commissioner. 
Canadian depart- 
ment of public 
works of Yukon 
Territory. 
do 
$350 
25 
500 
built, very little 
corduroy. 
Standard high- 
ways construct- 
ed as described 
below. 
Sled or winter 
Seward Peninsula: 
Nome and vi- 
cinity. 
Do 
Estimates based 
on cost of rail- 
ways already 
constructed, 
Private railway 
enterprises now 
in operation. 
Estimate based 
on work done 
by Canadian 
government in 
Yukon Terri- 
tory. 
...do 
trails; rarely 
used in summer. 
Standard high- 
ways construct- 
ed as described 
below. 
Railway — 3-foot 
Central Yukon: 
Tanana, Birch 
Creek, and 
Koyukuk 
districts. 
• 
Do 
350 
25 
gauge, 20-pound 
rail, 2,600 ties 
to mile. 
Standard high- 
ways construct- 
ed as described 
below. 
Sled or winter 
trails. 
