Ad Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 16, 1990

Resource road go-ahead
word expected this week

Skeena MLA Dave Parker
expects to be able to announce
"any day now" that construction on
the road info the Iskut River valley
gold fields will start this summer.
He doubts, however, that it will be
finished this year,

Parker, speaking from Victoria
last Friday, said the road proposal
went before a full Cabinet meeting
May 9. "There are just a couple of
loose ends to tie up," he remarked.
Under the proposal as it stood at
that time, the road would be built
by a combination of government
and mining company financing.
Parker said an operating company
to deal exclusively with the road
would be hammered together, with
new mining companies who come
on stream after the road is built
paving up front for its use and
ma:ntenance. The most recent cost
estimate available is $12.5 million
for construction of the road, which
would run westward off Highway
37 at Bob Quinn Lake 100 kilo-
meters to the Bronson Creek air-
strip near the confluence of the
Iskut and Stikine Rivers.

Private players in the deal are
Cominco, Prime Resources and
Skyline Gold. Skyline has a pro-
ducing gold mine at Johnny Moun-
tain that is currently losing money,
Cominco has a strike at Snip that
is nearing a production decision,
and Prime is the operating com-
pany working on the spectacular

‘ Bskay Creek property. Personnel,
materials and, in the case of Skyl-
ine, gold concentrate presently go
in and out of the sites by air. Road
access would mean a considerable
drop in operating expenses for
every company working in the
area, and that could mean the
difference between starting a mine
and leaving the gold in the ground

for some of them.

The proposed road, if and when
it is finished, would be restricted
to industrial traffic.

Opening the road would place
additional stress on Highway 37,
already in a deplorable state of
repair. Parker announced May 4
that the start of a paving program
for the dirt and gravel route is part
of the district highways capital
budget for this year. Last week he
clarified that by saying he wants
the route upgraded to Highway 16
standards and better: "100 percent
loading year round... that’s my
argument anyway."

Alaskans are also interested in
building a road into the area, but

by Tod Strachan

It’s all a misunderstanding. At
least that’s what Kitimat-Stikine
Regional District director Dan
Pakula hopes. And director Les
Watmough, too,

For some time now, Pakula has
being trying to convince the prov-
ince there’s a need for a road
upgrade on the first four miles of
the Iron Road near Telegraph
Creek. Four residents use that
four-mile stretch to access their
homes, he explains, and the old
forestry and mining road is a little
more than just substandard. At
some times of the year, it’s impas-
sable, 2

Last month, though, he finally
got an answer from highways

Minister Rita Johnston. "Ministry

Staff tell me the Iron Road is a 45
kilometer-long resource bush
road’ with a natural surface, grades
of 20 percent and ‘a width of less
than 4 meters," she replied.

"In order for any portion of this

from the other side of the map.
The April 19 Wrangell’ Sentinel
reporied that governor Steve
Cowper signed a bill authorizing

revenue bonds to finance consiruc-.

tion of a road up the Bradfield
Canal to the B.C. border, but the

bonds can only be issued if a study _

shows the road will generate
enough revenue to pay off the
debt. But the Sentinel quotes an

‘official in the state department of

transport as saying, "I can’t get
active cooperation from the Cana-
dians."

Parker would only say, "It’s
going to evolve into a significant
tourist route, and we’d want to be
involved in that.”

And there’s this other road...

trail to become a maintained public
road, the Ministry would have to
acquire right of way and construct
the road to an acceptable design. A
rough minimum cost estimate of
$200,000/km renders this proposal
very low in priority in comparison
with the many other significant
transportation needs in the North
West."

But Johnston may be too far up
the trail without a map. Last
month, Pakula restated his needs to
the board. The "first four miles" of
this residential "bush road" is all
that requires improvement. Not the
whole thing. And the first half of
that four-mile stretch has no exces-

of you.

future.

accessories.

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sive grades at all. "Two hundred »

thousand dollars per kilometer is
excessive," he says.

Pakula hasn’t given up, though.
And someday, perhaps, this little
misunderstanding will be straigh-
tened out. At the same time, howe-
ver, there are other access prob-
lems in that area that are yet to be
sorted out.

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