. Alaska and the Klondike . moraine out into the harbour. You know what the boyphilosopher said, that just cause nothin aint ever gotyou taint no sign nothin aint ever goin to git you, butthe people of Valdez arent afraid. Their principal busi-ness just now is waiting for something to turn up and theygo on working at it without any apprehension about theglacier. The something they are waiting for to turn upis a railroad. They have got there first and they are hold-ing what they regard as the key to the situation—the mostpracticable and perhaps the only available open-all-the-year-round port fr
. Alaska and the Klondike . moraine out into the harbour. You know what the boyphilosopher said, that just cause nothin aint ever gotyou taint no sign nothin aint ever goin to git you, butthe people of Valdez arent afraid. Their principal busi-ness just now is waiting for something to turn up and theygo on working at it without any apprehension about theglacier. The something they are waiting for to turn upis a railroad. They have got there first and they are hold-ing what they regard as the key to the situation—the mostpracticable and perhaps the only available open-all-the-year-round port from which a railroad can be built fromthe south coast of Alaska to the interior. Their hopes arecentred upon the construction of a railroad from thatpoint, northeast through the Copper River valley, acrossthe valley of the Tanana, through the Forty-Mile districtto Eagle on the Yukon. In 1899 the United States Gov-ernment sent a military expedition into this country toexplore and open a military trail which should be made a. > no ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE mail route from Valdez to Eagle. Over that route mailis carried weekly during the summer on pack horses. Hon. John G. Brady, Governor of Alaska, when askedwhat Alaska needed most, replied: The great essentialto the development of Alaska is transportation. Andthis is the fact which impresses the student of Alaskasfuture more than anything else. He is especially impressedwith this thought after having visited Yukon territoryon the Canadian side, and having seen there what has beendone by the Dominion Government for the developmentof its most northern possession by the construction ofwagon roads. One of the most important branches of theorganisation of that territory is the department of British Yukon is young compared with our districtof Alaska. Prior to the discoveries on the Klondike in1896 and 1897 there was practically no settlement and nodevelopment in that country. But during the last five orsix years, according
Size: 1301px × 1920px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidalaskaklondi, bookyear1915
