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SNOW BLOCKS ROADAnchorage—Glaciered railsand snow slides have made impassable for the Seward Anchorage line of the government railroad between Mile 49 and Mile 71Across the closed gap of twenty -twp miles, for the remainder ofthe winter, mail, freight and passengers will be transported by dogand horse sleds. Trains will beoperated between Seward andMile 49 and between Mile 71 andAnchorage.The distance between/ Sewardand Anchorage is 114 miles. Themile stations are numbered fromSeware, beginning at Mile 1 andproceeding in regular sequence.The stretch of glacieied railsis between Mile 57 and Mile 62.As a result of warm, rainy weather followed by extremely coldsnap, thiee or four inches ofwater, which had flowed on thetrack, froze solid. When this condition first presented itself, aneffort was made to remedy It bypicking away the ice with handlabor, there being no mechanicaldevice for removing ii. Beforethere was much progress in thiswork, numerous snow siides, particularly between Mile 49 Mile 52and at Mile 53 and a half, and aheavy fall of five feet of wet snowthat soon froze into a solid packbetween Mile 57 and Mile 62, madefutile all efforts to keep open themiddle part Of the line.Thirty three dogs with barketsleds, in charge of Harry Reveller£who last winter had the contract ‘cfor earring the mail betwaen Se- ifward and Iditarod, are used bythe Alaskan Engineering Commission in moving mail, express,baggage and passengers accrossthe blockaded part of thr railroad, and ten teams ef horses:with double ender sleds takecare of heavy freight.C
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Petersburg Weekly Report
Petersburg, Alaska, US
Fri, Jan 31, 1919
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