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NOME. ALASKA. AUGUST 18, 1916.
ROADS FIRST CONSIDERATION
Tin communication of Geo. M.
Pilcher relative to transportation eon
ilitions at Fortune Hedge, published in
yesterday's issue of the Nugget, is but
one out of many stories reaching this
office concerning the manifold diffi
culties encountered by the men who
an devoting their strength and energy
to tlie task of developing this section
of Alaska, because of the absence of
proper roads and trails. Hardly a
week passes that some person does
not unfold a tale similar lo that of Mr.
Pilcher.
Not all of them describe such par
ticularly severe traveling conditions as
seem to obtain at the new Yukon min
ing ramp, some of them tell of even
worse conditions but one and all are
eloquently descriptive of the over
whelming need for more and better
highways in the outlying districts.
Kvcrywhere throughout the Seward
Peninsula progress is retarded and
development hindered by the almost
insurmountable difficulties of travel.
The miner and prospector, the men
who are making the country, are
everywhere confronted by traveling
conditions which not only limit the
scope of the operations hut also tend
greatly to discourage all efforts at
development, save in the districts most
easy of access.
Hundreds of square miles of terri
tory are entirely unprospected or un
exploited, are lying absolutely idle
for the (ini' and only reason that they
cannot la* reached save at a cost so
prohibitive that their profitable explo
itation is Impossible.
Kvcrywhere throughout the Penin
sula the crying need is for roads. P' r
same conditions admittedly exist In
other sections, hut no where arc the
traveling conditions more severe o:
the need for roads more imperative.
Also it may lie said that no other
section of Alaska has been so t.idly
neglected by the government in this
respect. Other sections of the I 11
tory have- miles of road where Seward
Peninsula has yards. The .-•> 'us.st
ern districts ) ive compreher: u r nil
systems. Tie territory in and around
Fairbanks is moderately well covered
and liuby, eu" nearest neighbor, is
about to enj •; the use of a highway
costing two hundred thousand dollars
tor which s " at provisions have; iieen
made by the government. Practically
every section of Alaska is fairly well
supplied wi*li ) ighways exec. • Beware.
Peninsula. Most of us are given *o
believing that outside capital is the
primary requirement in ttie further
ance of mining development in this
section. In a great sense it is, but,
it Is also an undeniable fact that min
ing development cannot progress until
open avenues of communication are
provided.
Roads are, therefore, the first con
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sideration and the greatest need.
Throughout the whole of Seward
Peninsula, a district containing an
area of nearly twenty three thousand
square miles, there are less than sixty
miles of wagon roads and the greater
portion of these only in the immediate
vicinity of the towns.
How the country is to make progress
under such conditions is difficult to
see. Hoads and trails must be provid
ed before we can reasonably expect
capital to take an interest in the min
eral resources, except in a limited
degree. Capital will not come into
the country, develop the roads and ex
ploit the resources by itself. In the
first place it would require the bulk
of what capital would be willing to
invest to create the roads before any
thing could be done in the shape of
extensive mineral development. And
Capital does not usually work that
way. If we want the country develop
ed we must first make it accessible
and must take upon ourselves the
business of making it so. And there
is only one way to do it and that is
b\ keeping up a ceaseless agitation.
Wp have long ago learned the futil
ity of waiting for someone to do
things for us and should by now real
ize that what we want we must go
after, not by merely talking, but be
acting.
Hoads are needed more than anything
else to bring about the development
upon which depends our future pros
perity and to get them we must work.
Congress must be made to realize
that what is beyond question one of
the richest mineral sections of the
national domain must continue un
developed until loads are provided to
the extent that the miner and prospec
tor can, as the author of the commun
ication referred to puts it; ‘‘transport j
their bacon and beans for less (ban
five cents per pound."
If we want these all important high
ways we must keep up a ceaseless
bombardment of Congress until we get
them.
JAPS KILL 2
WITH SHOTGUN
News of a bloody tragedy was re
ceived ny l\ S. Marshal Hrenneman
youtorday in i (ologpum from I'nitctl
States Commissioner. K. C. Driffield,
at I nga, says the Valdez Miner of
recent date.
The message states that on June
11, a Japanese cook in the employ of
the codfishing station at Sanborn
Harbor, Nagai Island one of the Shu
magin group south of Cnga on June
11th ran amuck and seizing a shotgun
fired into a hunch of fishermen, kill
ing two of the men and wounding
three others before they could seek
shelter. Following this fiendish act
tile crazed Jap proceeded to set fire
to three of the buildings belonging to
the station and then committed sui
cide. The wounded men are now
being cared for by the surgeon from
the cons I guard ship Manning, which
arrived there a few days ago. and are
expected to recover.
It is believed the Jap suddenly be
came insane, as no other cause can be
ascribed for his sudden attack upon
the men and the firing of the build
ings. The message to the marshal
Professional Cards
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
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Local 868, B. I. L. of A. (Affiliated
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AL. NICHOLSON, Pres
(loos not state whether or not the
buildings were destroyed nor does It
give any of the details surrounding
the crime. The message states that
a letter Is following with full partic
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