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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1917
Page
11
A historical account extols military engineers who plan trenches build bridges and lay mailways and dig mines while setting up telegraph lines. It highlights feats at Port Arthur and wartime rail and bridge work by French British engineers aiding Allied efforts in 1914 18 and the strategic impact of underground tactics and demolition.
The text details engineer corps roles in World War I, including erecting bridges and laying pontoons under fire, repairing telegraph lines, tunneling under enemy trenches, and maintaining roads and supply lines. It notes U.S. Army engineers trained at West Point Fort Leavenworth and Fort Meade, with many graduates sent to France to plan camouflage, demolition, and rapid construction under combat conditions.
Government built Alaska railroad aims to move coal to sea, supply Army and Navy, and spur inland development. Route from Seward to Tanana River, 1000 miles, with Alaska Northern line already repurposed, construction advancing near Nenana, Fairbanks, and Anchorage. Government housing, commissary support, and labor camps sustain rapid progress amid mineral and timber wealth, oil near Katalla, and broad economic potential for postwar production.
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