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INEXCUSABLE DELAY
Our ambitious contemporary up the inlet. The Anch
orage Times, comes forth on the twenty-third instant and
declares that our agitation for early completion of the
railroad from Seward to the coal fields, so that fuel from
that source may be made available for use by the l nited
States navy, is based on the erroneous assumption that
there is coal to haul when the road is opened.
Not so.
Onlv too well does The Gateway know that the coal
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fields are not open. It does not know all of the officials
who are to blame for this attempt to kill off or delay Alas
kan coal development, but it knows one or two, and they
can easily be picked out from among the crowd by the
feverish way in which they are flopping around like be
headed chickens, first at one thing and then another. Too
much time has been wasted on townsite lot sales and in
efforts to cause forfeitures of lots under the clause which
President Wilson finally was forced to revoke to prevent
this un-American persecution of men either guilty or sus
pected of guilt in minor offences.
Without publicly denouncing the responsible officials
efforts have been made to force this coal issue for a year
without avail, so the only resort left is publicity.
We do not believe that Secretary Lane has been aware
of the manner in which his subordinates have handled this
situation, but he soon will be and, Alaska, the government
railroad and opening of the coal fields all being especially
favored by him, action may be expected.
The Aiaskan Engineering Commission itself was not
charged with the duty of actually opening coal mines, its
1 esponsibility ending with the construction of the rail
road. But the department of the interior added coal con
trol to the land and industrial department officially re
cently, it having been nominally under guidance by that
division for some time.
The responsible officials knew at the time they drew
up the coal lease that it was objectionable lor othei offi
cials so advised them. They have known for a year that
no coal company would accept one, but instead ol show-.
iug speed they sat back in bureaucratic complaisance,
thereby leaving themselves open to the charge that they
have delayed th opening of th coal fields.
The Times further says: “It will be late in the fall,
despite all efforts in this direction that are being made b\
the commission, before the rails are laid to the Chicka
loon coal fields (from Anchorage).
“In the first place, coal mines cannot be developed
until machinery can be transported to the scene, and ma
chinery cannot be transported until the rails are laid. In
other words, the railway line will tap the coal fields late
iii the fall. It will tap a virgin field. Then it will be pos
able to begin the development of coal mines, and not until
then. It wdl take two years after that date to place these
mines on a substantial producing basis. _
And this in the face that immense gold dredges, the
largest tvpe of mining machinery made, have been hauled
all over Alaska, one in particular being hauled from Anch
orage up the Susitna and lbO miles overland to Cache
creek, without the aid of a railroad. Machinery for all;
preliminary development and even for a mine could have i
been landed in Matanuska over the snow just as easily as
the navy department hauled out 800 tons of coal thiee i
years ago.
Two years more delay in opening the fields as sug-j
gested by the official who inspired the above, is absolute
lv inexcusable.
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THE COURSE OF LEAST RESISTANCE
Should it prove to be just a question of pay and
not German influence, the Kennecott strikers might save
time and money by coming over to work on Uncle Sam’s
government railroad where the hours are short and the
pay the highest ever offered for similar work. There is
a lot of hard rock work to be done along the line and men
are needed to get the coal road open as much as they are
to mine copper. Men who work a long time at one task
often become dissatisfied through restlessness and pos
sibly there are others willing to mine copper who would
be satisfied with such compromise terms as the copper
corporation may grant after looking into its affairs at
' McCarthy.
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It is not going to take long to convince anti-conscrip
tionists and others that the United States is the poorest
place in the world in which to start trouble.—(Indianap
olis Star.)
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With congress squabbling over the army bill no won
tier the people are more and more in favor of letting Wil
son manage the war.—(Charleston News and Courier.)
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If you have anything to say about the president or the
government which is derogatory you had better say it to
yourself.—(Indianapolis Star.)
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Alexander, Deceased
« The creditors of the state of Charles
James Alexander are hereby notified
that the undersigned, J. Lindley Green, ■
has been appointed administrator of
said estate and all creditors of said
estate are hereby notified to present
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