ABOVE: Ice breaker and supply ships off Point Barrow coast, 1950 INSET: South Barrow No. 4 gas well, 4-inch line to Barrow Camp, Sept. 7, 1950 BELOW: Umiat Terminal, winter 1951-52
Dalton’s work for private sector engineering firms
1962-64: Organized a cat train for the Kennecott Copper Co. and located a winter trail into the Kobuk Valley’s Bornite areas in Northwest- ern Alaska. 1964-65: Supervised the con- struction of the Dahl Creek runway and road system. 1966-67: Supervising engineer for Burgess Construction on the first segment of the four-lane construc- tion of the Richardson Highway outside Fairbanks. 1966-67: Helped engineer a 6-mile portion of the Skagway-Car- cross Highway, the first direct road link between Southeast Alaska and Whitehorse, Canada. 1967: Worked as an engineer on the construction of Barrow’s first paved runway. 1967: Completed the first survey
for a proposed extension of the Alaska Railroad from Nenana to the Yukon River for the State of Alaska. 1968-69: During the winter, set up drilling wildcat rigs and camps at East Kuparuk and Shaviovik on the North Slope including mobili- zation, construction of runways and winter freighting from Fairbanks by cat train and trucks. 1969-70: Relocated the state’s route for the northern sector of the controversial winter haul road from Anaktuvuk Pass to the Sagavanirk- tok River near Galbraith Lake — the “Hickel Highway.” 1974-75: Helped complete three more development wells in the south Barrow Gas Field, expanding the gas field and support facilities at Camp Barrow.
Charlie Parr, State House Representative from Fairbanks, sponsored and introduced a bill in the State Legislature to name the highway north to the oilfields after Jim Dalton. And in 1981, the North Slope Haul Road was officially named the Dalton Highway.
Jim driving Alcan in September 1949.
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