Northwest History. Alaska, Highways & Bridges. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1929
• Subjects: Alaska; U. C. Bucks Plan; Washington; D. C.; department of the interior; Canadian government; Pacific highway; Canadian-United States border; Fairbanks; Wrangell; Juneau; Yukon transportation; Cordova; Tia Juana; Mexico; the United States; Hazelton; Bering sea; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Bering Sea; Pacific; Yukon
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/92280

Link Alaska By Road: U. S. Bucks Plan To Extend Pacific Highway North. LINK ALASKA BY ROAD U. S. Bueks Plan to Hxtrnd Pacific Highway North. WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 4. (/P) —The department of the interior annonneced today that it was collaborating with the territory of Alaska and the Canadian government in preparing plans for the extension of the Pacific highway from the Canadian-United States border to Fairbanks, Alaska. This is a distance of 2000 miles. It will connect with road systems of Alaska, which may be followed to the Coast at Wrangell, Juneau, Cordova or Seward, with Yukon transportation which leads to Berling sea and with the system of airplane transportation which centers around Fairbanks and reaches into practically every part of Alaska. The Pacific highway, which starts at Tia Juana, Mexico, connects with a Canadian raod already at the peace portal on the United States boundary, which lead 1000 miles north to Hazelton.