Railroad and Telegraph and Telephone Lines in Alaska: Hearings Before the Committee on Territories, United States Senate, on Bills S. 6937 and S. 6980, February 10, 1905; Bill S. 191, January 27, 1906; Bill H.R. 18891, January 25, 1907, and Senate Document No. 167, Fifty-ninth Congress, First Session

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories

Jan 1907 · U.S. Government Printing Office

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Congressional testimony showing how the sausage was made in 1907 as various competing rail routes to Interior Alaska were discussed in session. There is no information about the telegraph or telephone lines existing along any of the routes or proposed for any of the routes. Ultimately two of the routes discussed were built and one survived to the present; the other collapsed when the copper was mined out in the Copper River basin at Kennicott and became a road route for dip net fishermen with a charismatically decrepit bridge. Next time we are rich we should re-rail that and connect to Canada's rail network via Whitehorse.