Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1915 — Begin an Alaska Railroad. [ARTICLE]

Begin an Alaska Railroad.

The steamer Wilmington from Panama began discharging fifteen hundred tons of equipment for the government railroad, says a recent dispatch from Seward, Alaska. Cominissioner Edes of the Alaska engineering commission is now at anchorage conferring with Commissioner Mears concerning details of winter railroad work. A force of men is rebuilding the first thirteen miles of the Alaska Northern track from Seward and another force is repairing the trestles further out The Alaska engineering commission and the Alaska railroad commission will co-operate in improvement of the winter trail between the end of the present road and anchorage, over which heavy travel is expected.