| Summary: | ROAD TO ALASKA TO COST FORTUNE ROAD TO ALASKA TO COST FORTUNE Extension of the Pacific highway to Alaska will cost $14,300,000, a report received by the Inland Automobile association, says. The estimate was made by Ernest Walker Sawyer, member of the international highway commission and was rendered to the United States department of the interior. The proposed road would go from Blaine, Wash., 815 miles already completed; thence to the Yukon boundary, 610 miles through virgin country, and across Yukon to the Alaskan boundary, 530 miles, and from there to Mccarty, 180 miles. From McCarty to Fairbanks the distance is 90 miles, Yukon Section. "Mr. Sawyer's report points out that the Yukon section probably needs complete regrading for its total of 530 miles," David C. Guilbert, assistant manager of the association, said. 'The cost of this will approximate $7500 per mile, in addition to $600,000 for bridges. 'The Alaskan section is estimated $10,000 per mile. The section from Hazleton to the Yukon border is estimated at $13,000 per mile, including bridges. The entire appropriation necessary to construct a well-graveled highway is $14,305,000, of which $7,- 930,000 would be the expense through British Columbia, $3,975,000 through Yukon and $1,800,000 through Alaska. "This 2225-mile road when completed will make accessible t to motorists the resources and beauties of 387,000,- 000 acres of land comparatively untouched by civilization."
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