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Seattle Link Seen In Alaska Road
Stumbling block at week’s-end to hopes for linking,
existing highways north of Vancouver, B. C., to the
new Alaska Highway now being constructed north
from Edmonton, Alta., was the problem of finances.
That such a move was gaining momentum was ad- i
mitted by proponents north and south of the border,;
but at a cost of between $25,000 and $30,000 per mile,
the 250-mile link admittedly was too great a burden;
to be borne by sparsely populated British Columbia.
Despite the cost barrier, Premier John Hart said in
Victoria this week that the connecting road “was in
the early stages of consideration,” because he declared,
of increasing public demand. Meanwhile, Arthur Dixon
provincial deputy minister of public works, said there
were two routes by whch the new Alaska Highway
might be tapped. Either would enable Vancouver and j
Seattle bound traffic to avoid the out-of-the-way Ed
monton terminus.
First proposed route was from Prince George via
Sumit Lake and Pine Pass to Dawson Creek. Alternate
was from Vanderhoof to Stewart Lake and Fort James!
to Findlay Forks and down the Peace River to Fort St. i
John. Below Prince George, on either route, traffic
would use the Caribou Trail, a gravel road which fol
lows the Fraser River into Vancouver. Original “coast
al” route, urged by Pacific Coast and British Columbia
proponents of the Alaska Highway, contemplated the
use of the Caribou Trail north to Fort St. James.
Since disclosure of actual construction of the “in
land” route from Edmonton, Seattle business men, al
armed at certain loss of a large part of this city’s Al
aska export business, were preparing a campaign for
U. S. funds to complete the “coastal" link. Leaders
of those seeking federal funds for this purpose point
out that the cost of this link is insignificant as compar
ed to the $50,000,000 purported cost of the main high
way and that, without .such a link the road is utterly
valueless to the Pacific Coast.
Foster L. McGovern, assistant manager of the Scat-,
tie Chamber of Commerce, and Glenn Carrington, chair'
man of that organization’s Alaska Committee, are in
Victoria to confer with Premier John Hart and Deputy
Minister of Public Works Arthur Dixon on the pro
posal to build a road from Prince George to Dawson
Creek. They will meet with officials of the Vancouver
Board of Trade in Vancouver, B. C., and will take up
the matter of the connecting highway with other
British Columbia organizations.
Tungsten In Yukon
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There is no more valuable war metal than tungsten.
The Canadian government and the American govern
ment need plenty of it for war purposes. Every year
brings the further realization that this prceious metal,
now considered more important than gold or silver,
may be found in abundance in the Yukon. Tungsten
deposits, no matter where they are found, attract the
eyes of mining men everywhere today. Action follows
almost immediately.
Up in the Bridge country an importanant tungsten
deposit was located only a year or so ago. Great pro
gress is being made in mining this deposit. Here, in
the Yukon, it has been the opinion of learned mining
men, that tungsten exists in no small quantities. Up in
the Mayo country, a valuable tungsten or scheelite.
find has been made near Dublin Gulch. Preliminary
development work on this find last summer and the
work is to be continued again this season. Another
tungsten property was opened up and developed last
summer on Canadian Creek and this year the Bralorne
Mines have taken an option on the ground and are al
ready at work.
During the past winter '‘Stampede John” Stenbraten
has feen prospecting for tungsten or cinnabar in the
Sixtymile country and with good results. Over 30
years ago prominent mining men pointed out the fact
that placer miners in the Yukon were losing thousands
of dollars by allowing tungsten to go out through the
sluice boxes. We have been reliably informed that
there is an abundance of cinnabar on a creek close to
Dawson but that so far, no actual lead has been located.
All in all, it would appear that this vital war metal
abounds in this mineral belt but that it is only now
being exploited.
Who knows but what the day may be near at hand
when a deteruined effort will be made to prospect and
develop tungsten deposits in the Dawson district. When
this has been done a valuable contribution will be made
to the war effort. Moreover, such action might well
lead to the opening up of an important new source of
mineral revenues in this country. — Yukon Miner of
Dawson.
Japanese Moving Day Looms
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WEST COAST OPINION HARDENS IN FAVOR OF
REMOVAL OF ALIENS AND CITIZENS ALIKE
By LAWRENCE E. DAVIES
San Francisco—Within a few weeks 60,000 or more
American-born Japanese doubtless wil be on the march!
away from the West Coast “combat zone.” With them
will go many thousands of alien Japanese not affected!
by Department of Justice orders, which this month
sent 8,000 nationals of Germany, Italy and Japan out j
of “prohibited" zones adjadeent to defense plants and |
military installations. Sections of the public will sym
pathize with the plight of some of these American
citizens, but the substantial part of the Coast popula-:
tion that says “you can’t trust a Jap" will applaud their'
going, and the applause will join throngs which “be
fore Pearl Harbor” would have denounced as violation j
of civil liberties any treatment for Japanese-Americans1
which was not considered proper treatment for other!
citizens.
Protest “Soft" Policy
The first outcries against “soft” treatment of the,
Japanese problem came from a few members of Con
gress from the West Coast and from a Mayor or two j
and a half dozen County Boards of Supervisors in Cal
ifornia. The Federal Bureau of Investigation began
raiding all along the coast, with the aid of local police
and deputy sheriffs. The haul included, in addition to
hundreds of “potentially dangerous” aliens, great quan
tities of contraband, such as guns and radio sets.
Investigations by Earl Warren, State Attorney Gen
eral, showed instances in which an airfield was sur
rounded entirely by Japanese-occupied land. An air
base was located adjacent to arid waste tracts on which ,
“not even a jackrabbit could grow” but on which Jap
anese began farming. All of these developments chang
ed the mood of the public adn made Japanese in some i
sections of the Coast, particularly California, fearful of
their safety. Up to now the Japanese population move
ment has affected, officially, only aliens, although those
with small children, American-born, have naturally
taken them to their new homes. As for the American
born Japanese, there was a divisions of opinion as to
how they should be handled. Of some 93,000 Califor
nians of Japanese ancestry. 60,000 are American citi
zens. More than half of the 14, 565 Japanese in Wash-i
ington are American citizens. This same is true of,
Oregon, which has 4,000 Japanese.
What menace to West Coast security do these 71,500
citizens' of Japanese ancestry represent? And how real
is the danger from the Coast’s 41,00 alien Japanese?
On every side, from police officers, district attorneys
and others, one is told that “the American-born Jap
anese are more dangerous than the aliens, because there
are more of them.”
The resident Japanese may be divided into two class!
es: the Isei or first-generation members, who cannot
obtain American citizenship, and the Nisei, or second-1
generation, who are citizens. Then the Nisei may be
broken down into two groups, the Kibei, American
born Japanese who have been educated in Japan or!
stayed any length of time there, and the group whose
members have obtained all of their education in this
country.
Factor of Indoctrination
The fact that the Kibei are comparatively numerous
is disturbing to many officials, who warn that in attend
ing school in Japan these Ameircan-born Japanese
must have become indoctrinated with the present im-,
perial aims of Tokyo. Japanese-American spokesmen'
relate that when the Kibei answered the draft call,:
many of them, thinking to advance in the army, detail
ed in their questionnaires the experience they had had
in Japanese military organizations studying abroad.
Now, these spokesmen report, the United States Army
is going through the questionnairs again and giving
honorable discharges to the Kibei.
Preliminary steps taken by the Army and the De
partment of Justic did not satisfy the Coast. Whether!
inoculated with a form of hysteria or just being sen
sible in the light of what happened in Hawaii, residents
demanded more than the mere moving of aliens out of
the defense areas.
Military officials are surveying possible sites for
Japanese reservations, on which a minimum of con
structon work would have to be done before the move
was begun. Committees representing Japanese com
munities will meet with government officials and rec
ommend certain procedure, such as the “freezing of
mortgages and leases until after the war.
Federal officials take the position that although the
Army can order American-born Japanese out of mili-j
tary areas they cannot tell them where to go; this would
deprive them of their rights as American citizens,
j But spokesmen for the Japanese-American Citizens1
League want military areas established in the districts!
, to which they move from the Coast. They contend 1
i that if groups of them start settling here and there in
other parts of the country those communitities will
rise up indignantly and make life miserable, if not
wholly unsafe, for the newcomers.—New York Times '
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The Army is planning two main reception centers in
southeastern California for 200,000 Japs and others
evacuated from Pacific Coast areas: one in Owens River
Valley (1), and another in the Parker Dam-Blythe dis
trict (2). The Owens River Valley base was criticized
by the Mayor of Los Angeles. The aqueduct carrying
city drinking water runs through the valley (3).