Final Report

State-funded report done by Contract; prepared for State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Division of Planning and Programming, Research SectionACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE: EARLY EXPLORATION OF ALASKA -- CHAPTER TWO: THE APPOINTMENT OF RICHARDSON AS PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF ROAD COMMISSIONERS FOR ALASKA -- CHAPTER THREE: WILDS P. RICHARDSON AND JAMES WICKERSHAM -- CHAPTER FOUR: THE BOARD OF ROAD COMMISSIONERS FOR ALASKA, 1912-1917 -- CHAPTER FIVE: A NEW ERA FOR THE ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION --CHAPTER SIX: THE BOARD OF ROAD COMMISSIONERS FOR ALASKA, 1920-1925 -- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE MIDDLE YEARS OF THE 1920s -- CHAPTER EIGHT: HIGH HOPES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS -- CHAPTER NINE: THE LAST FEW YEARS UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT, 1929-1932 -- CHAPTER TEN: THE ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION AND ALASKAN AVIATION -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE TRANSFER OF THE ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION -- CHAPTER TWELVE: TOLLS ON THE RICHARDSON HIGHWAY -- CHAPTER THIRTEEEN: THE DIFFICULT YEARS OF THE EARLY 1930s -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE LATTER YEARS OF THE LEAN 1930s -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE WAR YEARS -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE FUROR OVER HOUSE REPORT NO. 1705 -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: POSTWAR REORGANIZATION AND A PROPOSED FERRY SYSTEM -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: PECULIAR ALASKAN PROBLEMS, THE STRUGGLE FOR PREEMINENCE, AND THE GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE -- CHAPTER NINETEEN: THE FLUSH YEARS -- CHAPTER TWENTY: THE LAST YEARS OF THE ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION -- APPENDIX A: MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ROAD COMMISSIONERS FOR ALASKA,1905-1932 -- APPENDIX B: LAWS RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS IN ALASKA -- APPENDIX C: WORK PERFORMED DURING THE 1917 CONSTRUCTION SEASON -- APPENDIX D: RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY - FORT GIBBON (TANANA) TO KOYUKUK AND KOBUK RIVERS TO KOTZEBUE, 1923-1924 -- APPENDIX E: SUMMARY OF ALL EXPENDITURES TO JUNE 30, 193