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SEDITION AT ANCHORAGE
Final report from the special grand jury drawn ex
clusively from residents of Anchorage, which adjourned
last week, contains in addition to the usual findings a
startling announcement that there is a disloyal element
in that section who oppose the government and are try
ing to impede government projects and enterprises.
Without knowledge that such a finding had been
made the Gateway called attention last week to the fact
that the opening of the Matanuska coal fields was being
delayed and it was not improbable that spies or traitors
were at work. This finding would indicate that the ac
tivities of alien enemies extended even to interfering with
the construction of the government railroad.
Coupled with all serious things, however, there is a
bit of fun, as will be noted in another paragraph of the
report in which the most excellent grand jury, picked en
tirely from residents of upper Cook inlet, point to the
“urgent necessity" for a federal building there.
An intelligent inquirer might be led to ask why all
the money wasted on flimsy frame structures for gov
ernment use within the town of Anchorage, including
residences, offices and what not, was not expended on
one permanent structure—if such a structure is needed.
THE COLONEL’S AMBITION
Col. Wilds P. Richardson, president of the board of
road commissioners of Alaska, who is on his wav from
Washington to the territory, tells the Seattle people, in
an interview in the local papers, that he proposes to "make
the Valdez-Fairbanks road the most scenic in the world."
To this end, it will be necessary to expend, on this road
this season, the greater part of the $500,000 appropria
tion, gained from a reluctant congress, for road and trail
building in Alaska. We really hate to disturb the colonel’s
dream of a monument to himself in the wilds of Alaska,
as represented by an automobile road leading from a coast
town to the interior, but we are persuaded that the time
has not arrived in this territory to build such comprehen
sive pleasure bouhwards, when there is such a crying need
for roads and trails devoted to the development of the re
sources of this vast, undeveloped country.
We are frank to confess that it is our unqualified
opinion that every nickel of this $500,000 appropriation
should be expended on road and trail building that is es
sential to the opening of the agricultural and mining in
dustries of Alaska. When our nation, as officially stated
by those in high authority, must cultivate evei'y acre of
available agricultural ground in the country, to avoid a
food shortage, it occurs to us that it is a gross lack of
judgment, to say the least, for the president of the board
of Alaska road comnxissionex*s, himself a soldier of the
United States army, to even talk of building pleasure
roads, when the same money, propei-ly applied, would
open hundreds of acres of agricultural lands in the Mata
nuska, Susitna and other fertile valleys of the northiand.
Fui’ther, this big appropriation was obtained from
congi-ess, on the theory that the funds were needed to
build feeders to the government railway project.
What i his territory most needs at this time is a perm
anent population. To encourage the settlement and de
velopment of thousands of acres of good agricultural
lands in the fertile valleys of the territory, passable roads
of ingress and egress are needed above all else. We like
to see pleasure seekers come to Alaska. And in time, we
should like to see a boulevard from the coast to the in
terior. But this boulevard is not a pressing need; it may
weil be deferred until a later date, or until roads and
trails of more material and urgent need are supplied in
other parts of the territory.
We express the hone that the colonel will see the
light.—(Anchorage Times.)
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