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FRIDAY, JANUARY, 9, 1914.
THE NATION’S UNDEVELOPED
RESOURCES
The report ol' Seereary of the Int.v
ior Lane is worth anybody’s reading
and should be read in full by all bust -
ness men. It is easy reading, for it
has little detail, and is written in a
spirit of constructive optimism. He
attributes the deadlock in the devel -
opment of the national resources to
the fact that no substitute has been
found for the system of exploitation
of public resources for private bene
fit which the nation has resolved
shall end. The secretary thinks that
a beginning should be made by ceas
ing to regard all acres as alike and
disposing of government land with
respect to . its suitable use. Farm
lands should be sold to farmers, 'so
that the nation should not be de~
faauded by not getting homesteaders
when it sold homesteads. Forests
should be sold to lumbermen who
Would develop them, rather than with
hold them for a rise in prices due to
scarcity. Grass lands should be sold
to stock raisers, and riparian lands
with a view to utility for irrigation
or power, and so on.
The secretary’s suggestions regard
ing Alaska are much more elaborate.
He proposes a commission govern
ment for the terr'tory. That is to
say he would have Alaska delivered
to a Board of Directors who should
administer all its assets primarily
for the development of the territory.
Congress should indicate only the
broad lines of policy, and the new
Board of Directors should have no
thing to do with territorial politics.
The duty of the board would be re
stricted to dealing with the property
of the nation’s territory to an en
tirety. With a separate budget, and
on a co-ordinated scheme which
should relate each undertaking to ev
ery other. Thus the states would be
relieved of the burden of developing
Alaska, and would profit by its self
development. The secretary knows
no better way of developing railways
for Alaska than the time-honored
method of granting alternate sec
tions to the builders, so that the in
crease of value by the construction
of the railway would be saved to the
ungranted sections retained in gov
ernment ownership. The secretary
would allow private railways beside
the public railways, subject to the
government’s right of purchase. Rates
he would fix rather with regard to the
development of the country than re
gard to operation profits, and he
would not apply the principle of the
commodities clause so highly esteem
ed by many reformers among our
selves.
The secretary would develop the
coal lands in two ways. The mineral
which is not suitable for transporta
lion he would convert into power and
transmit it by electricity, and he
would grant lo operators leases long
enough to repay them for their costs
of devlopment, including building of
railways in suitable cases.’ Time is
of the essence of the contract in the
case of Alaska, and what is done is
doubled in value by expedition.
The secretary is of another opin
ion regarding the development of the
coal lands in the states. No less
than 56,000,000 acres of coal lands
are included in 66,000,000 million ac
res of lands withdrawn from private
development under the defective laws.
The secreary thinks that it is not
for the public interest that these
lands should be opened rapidly or
ruthlessly. Neither should the lands
be held idle from fears of exhaustion,
since science now knows how to
convert rain and snow into heat and
light in competition with coal, or in
substitution for it. A royalty basis,
with precaution against waste in
mining, is his suggestion, with a fair
compromise between the ne^ds of the
present and the rights of posterity.
In the development of oil lands the
secretary fears yest the present me
thods are defective in “not sufficient
ly rewarding the pioneer,” and he
proposes rewards for prospectors up
on lands now withheld from develop
ment, with a royalty agreed upon be
forehand for discoveries.
The reclamation service has not
given satisfaction, through excess ol
optimism on the part of both the
government and farmers who bought
irrigated lands. The ten years given
for payment should be doubled, to
allow them to earn themselves out of
their troubles, by - cumulating their
earnings of the earlier years into in
vestments for greater profits in the
extended period. The secretary
thinks that $100,000,000 more can well
be used in this manner, and he sug
gests that the work should be done in
co-operation with the states benefit
ted by the development of resourc
es within their boundaries.
Mr. Lane has written what is al
most a prospectus for the develop -
ment of the national resources. He is
an optimist as a speculator in fu
J tures, and he is cautious as a con
servationist. Thus there is in his
report a rare mingling of the meth
ods of wealthy malefactors and of re
formers more rabid than ,he. He
balances his proposals as our recent
President balanced his literary per
iods. In the pages of his report the
oil and water are made to mix al
luringly. Practical men will find
some thnigs to their liking, and those
who think that conservation is more
important than use will find some
thing to their dislike.—New York
Times.
Mr. Rockefeller purchased goods in
a Cleveland store the other day and
asked to have the amount charged.
However, he did not attain his pres
ent modest competence by getting
things charged.
General Villa has captured a Mex
ican federal brass band. Now' it is
playing rebel music, for even the
most exciting experiences do not take
a brass band’s breath away.
Perhaps the earnest bankers are
becoming reconciled to the idea of
Mr. Wilson’s kind of currency re
form. At least their shrieks are less
agonizing than formerly.
Proving the healtbfulness of a life
i free from toil .and excitement, Wey
mouth, Mass., has a policeman 93
years old w’ho has been 50 years on
the force.
citizensHmand
MORE FIRE ROSE
•
Owners-of Property On Outskirts of
■ City Complain At Lack of Fire
Protection.
Much complaint was heard last
night from property owners living on
the outskirts of the city and a long
distance from the fire hall, at the
lack of hose to reach the distant
sections of the city, thus preventing
the use of the big fire engine which
cannot be moved from the building.
They claim that the city authori
ties should provide more hose and
while admitting that the cabins own
ed by them are on the outskirts yet
in many cases they represent all
they possess and that the loss of the
cabins are as much to them as the
loss of the oneness block to the
business men.
While not bjecting to the placing
of the hose at the small building at
broadway and McKinley street, thev
assert that more hase should be pur
chased so that enough can be had at
the Fire Hall to reach the smalle'
buildings on McKinley street, Broad
way Keystone avenue.
| When the lack of lire 'hose was
i called to the attention of the coun
cilmen, all of them stated that more
w'ould be ordered immediately, but
that the lack of it was not known to
them.
Musings of the Gentle Cynic.
Don’t scorn the man who fails. The
human race is largely made up of
also rans.
Some men are born fighters. They
fight for their rights, and when they
get them they fight for more.
Id’s all right to let your light shine
before men, but it isn’t necessary to
make a pyrotechnic display of it.
It sometimes happens that the play
wright who makes bad plays makes
good.
It’s all right to have taking ways,
but it is also just as well to have a
few bringing back ones.
Poets are born, not made. Conse
quently Adam, with all his other
faults, couldn’t have been a poet.
To be absolutely happy a woman
must have almost as much confidence
in her husband as she has in her
dressmaker.
j Wonderful, Wonderful!
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Mrs. Asker—Has Van Dtisen many
family heirlooms?
I Asker—A few. He lias the stylo
| graphic pen his great-grandfather
signed the Declaration of Indepcnd
i erne with and the safety razor pre
I sen ted to him by Lafayette.—New
! York Globe.
A Broad Understanding.
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“Now, look hero, wlfle! 1'ou have
got to cut out this extravagance!
From now on I am going to put down
my foot on nil unnecessary expenses.”
“Hull! Your foot will more than
cover all expenses!”—Chicago News.
Wish Was Father to the Thought.
I
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“Excuse me; I thought it was some- j
hoily else.”
“No apology necessary. 1 wish it
was.”—Pittsburgh Press.
Mutual Decire.
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“At last,” he sighed, “we’re alone.
I’ve been hoping for this ohnnce.”
"So have i,” said she very frankly.
“Ah! You have guessed, then, that
I wanted to tell you that 1 love you?”
"Yes. And I want to say 'No' and
got it over with.”—Philadelphia I.edger.
What’s the Difference?
^ -^1 p
“But you can't shoot before the sea
son opens.”
"It makes no difference. 1 never hit
anything anyway.” - Pittsburgh Dis
patch.
So Gone' ,us!
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Hlic-Mix. tjrouch sn.vx ebe'il give
UN Just six mouths to live together.
He l>enr old oirtlmistie aeull—New ;
Yuri; < !lobi«
Hfte Home of
Hart SchafFner
& Marx
TWENTY-FIVE dollars isn’t much
money to spend for a suit of
clothes; when you come to know what
first-class quality of materials and
tailoring, and what restfulness of
mind as to style that price commands,
you will almost think it isn’t enough
to payWe carry a large line.^
Schedule of the Donaldson.
The following schedule for the
launch “Lieut. C. V. Donaldson" will
take effect today. All orders 10 the
contrary are revoked.
Daily, Saturday and Sunday except
ed:
Leave Fort Liscurn, Alaska, 8:15 a.
m. and 1:15 p. m.
Leave Valdez, Alaska, 9:45 a. m„ 2
p. m. and 5:30 p. m.
Tuesdays:
Leave Fort Liscurn, Alaska, 8:15 a.
m., 1:15 p. m. and 5 p. m.
Leave Valdez, Alaska, 9:45 a. m..
2 p. m. and 5:30 p. m.
Leave Valdez, Alaska, 4:00 p. m.
and 10:30 p. ui.
Leave Fort Liscurn, Alaska, 1:15 p.
m. and 7 p. m.
There will be no trips for the
launch on the 2nd and 4 th Fridays
of each month, these days being us
ed to clean boilers.
Special trips or cancelling of the
above will be made without notice
only to meet exigencies of the ser
vice.
By order of Lieut. Col. O’Neil.
R. G. SHERRARD,
Second Lieut. 30th Infantry, Quar
termaster.
Geo. f. white
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
No More, No Less
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