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Organized under the laws of New Jersey, the Western Alaska Construction Co., with a capital stock of $1,000,000, organized for the purpose of constructing the Council City & Solomon River R. R. and extensions. The company was composed principally of Chicago businessmen. The company offices were in Chicago, with fiscal agents in New York City. [4]
The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) of 1980 added 53.7 million acres (217,000 km 2) to the National Wildlife Refuge system, parts of 25 rivers to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers system, 3.3 million acres (13,000 km 2) to National Forest lands, and 43.6 million acres (176,000 km 2) to National Park land. Because of ...
First built Use Notes Russian-American Magazin: Kodiak, Alaska: 1810 storage facility Oldest building in Alaska [1] Church of the Holy Ascension: Unalaska, Alaska: 1826 Church Earliest surviving Russian church in Alaska Russian Bishop's House: Sitka, Alaska: 1841-1843 Church Early Russian architecture Russian-American Building No. 29: Sitka ...
In 1903, the Alaska Central Railroad began a rail project north from Seward. The company encountered the most significant geographic obstacles to construction between 47 and 53 miles (85 km) north of Seward, a section known as the "Loop District", where the line would need to cross a high-point in the Kenai Mountains and avoid the paths of two glaciers.
The original pipeline proposal called for an initial capacity of 0.6 million barrels per day (95,000 m 3 /d), then an increase to 1.2 million barrels per day (190,000 m 3 /d) after two years, and then a further increase to 2 million barrels per day (320,000 m 3 /d) at an indeterminate time thereafter.
Alaska is the least densely populated state, and one of the most sparsely populated areas in the world, at 1.2 inhabitants per square mile (0.46/km 2), with the next state, Wyoming, at 5.8 inhabitants per square mile (2.2/km 2). [76]
The Whitney Section House, also known as Whitney Station, is a historic railroad-related building in Wasilla, Alaska. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, which was built in 1917 by the Alaska Railroad. It originally stood at mile 119.1, about 4.8 miles (7.7 km) north of Anchorage Station, and was one of a series built by the railroad and ...
The Monadnock rests on the floating foundation system invented by Root for the Montauk Building that revolutionized the way tall buildings were built on Chicago's spongy soil. [90] A 2-foot (0.61 m) layer of concrete, reinforced with steel beams, forms a spread footing extending out 11 feet (3.4 m) under the surrounding streets, spreading the ...