1. The operation and maintenance of the Tanana Valley Railroad between Fairbanks and Chatanika and Fairbanks and Chena; covering also the new trackage on the Goldstream line north of Tanana River to mile 414 under a Superintendent and Disbursing Agent whose office is at Fairbanks.

2. The operation and maintenance of completed track (standard gauge) southward from Nenana (mile 414) as well as all new construction south toward Broad Pass, under the local direction of the Superintendent of Con

struction.

3. A Disbursing Department, under a Special Disbursing Agent.

4. Nenana Townsite, under a Townsite Manager. 5. Hospital Department, under a Chief Surgeon. Supply. This division, under an Engineer in Charge with headquarters at Seward, has four general duties:

1. Supervision over all supplies required for construction and all supply offices. All orders and requisitions for supplies are routed to the Supply Division and are disposed of according to directions of the Engineer in Charge.

2. Control of all shipments of ocean freight, in and out bound.

3. The operation of the Seward Dock.

4. Management of the Employment Office.

Accounting. The Accounting Division, the head of which is an Examiner of Accounts, is located at Anchorage and has charge of all accounting matters for all departments and divisions. It includes the following offices:

1. Disbursements

2. Appropriation Accounts and General Statements.
3. Auditor of Station Agents

4. A Southern Division Accounts
5. A Northern Division Accounts
6. A Supply Division Accounts

Purchasing. The Purchasing Division, under the General Purchasing Agent, is located at Seattle. In addition to handling all details relating to the purchase of supplies and equipment for the work in the field, it has supervision of all Seattle activities of the commission, including the hiring of employees, the receipt and shipment of ocean freight, and the inspection. of material and supplies purchased.

Personnel. The number of employees in each division as of April 15, 1921 is summarized in the following table:

* This inspection is usually done by contract with a commercial

company specializing in that field.

APPENDIX I

OUTLINE OF ORGANIZATION

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Outlines of Organization have for their purpose to make known in detail the organization and personnel possessed by the several services of the national government to which they relate. They have beeen prepared in accordance with the plan followed by the President's Commission on Economy and Efficiency in the preparation of its outlines of the organization of the United States government. They differ from those outlines, however, in that whereas the Commission's report showed only organization units, the presentation herein has been carried far enough to show the personnel embraced in each organization unit.

These outlines are of value not merely as an effective means of making known the organization of the several services. If kept revised to date by the services, they constitute exceedingly important tools of administration. They permit the directing personnel to see at a glance the organization and personnel at their disposition. They establish definitely the line of administrative authority and enable each employee to know his place in the system. They furnish the essential basis for making plans for determining costs by organization division and subdivision. They afford the data for a consideration of the problem of classifying and standardizing personnel and compensation. Collectively, they make it possible to determine the number and location of organization divisions of any particular kind, as, for example, laboratories, libraries, blue-print rooms, or any other kind of plant possessed by the national government, to what services they are 1 House Doc. 458, 62d. Congress, 2nd Session, 1912—2 vols.

attached and where they are located, or to determine what services are maintaining stations at any city or point in the United States. The Institute hopes that upon the completion of the present series, it will be able to prepare a complete classified statement of the technical and other facilities at the disposal of the government. The present monographs will then furnish the details regarding the organization, equipment, and work of the institutions so listed and classified.

OUTLINE OF ORGANIZATION

ALASKAN ENGINEERING COMMISSION
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

2 Detailed to Chief Clerk's office of the department, Miscellaneous division.

The administrative staff of the southern division is merged with the General Administrative Staff.