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OPENING COAL FIELDS TO WORLD
The announcement that C. P. Peterson has finally
completed his plans for placing a power schooner on a
run between the Matanuska coal fields and San Francisco
comes as one of the most welcome auguries for an era of
prosperity in the Railroad Belt since the railroad was
constructed. With the San Francisco market prepared
to absorb a steady tonnage of coal, said to be in excess of
1,000 tons daily, it means that a payroll of more than that
many men will be maintained winter and summer in the
coal fields, added train crews and added stimulus to all
lines of business. The influence of the enterprise will be
felt from one end of Western Alaska to the other for it
will provide winter employment to many men who are
compelled to migrate each year to seek a livelihood in
the States and will give the seasonal metal miner opportu
nity to earn a grubstake in winter and call for additional
employes of the Alaska Railroad.
Among those communities that will feel the effect of
the new condition will be Seward, which is the all-year
round port and the logical point from which winter ship
ments will be made, and to which point tramp steamers
plying the Pacific may call for cargoes.
The credit accruing from this enterprise rests with C.
P. Petersen, pioneer of Alaska and one of its most loyal
optimists. For more than three years Mr. Petersen
pressed his project, finally securing its financing by Alas
kan capital.
The Gateway congratulates Mr. Petersen and his as
sociates on their enterprise.
Vieing with Mr. Petersen in his courage and fore
sight are those pioneers of the Matanuska coal fields who,
laboring under stress of small capital and peculiarly dis
advantageous conditions, have finally leveled the barriers
reared up by representatives of the Federal government
who sought to discredit the coal fields as inadequate and
lacking quality. In the face of this assault, the pioneer
• coal operatives have finally emerged with their judgment
vindicated and stand at the threshold of bigger and better
things. |
It is not stretching the imagination to predict that!
in the not far distant future Seward will have a coaling:
station with facilities for serving the coal carriers that
will come to Alaska for cargoes once the superior quality
of Matanuska coal becomes known in the markets of the
States.
LAND PURCHASE BILL INTRODUCED
Delegate Sutherland has introduced a bill in Con
gress that has for its purpose the permitting of purchase
of lands in Alaska as a cost of $2.50 per acre. The bill, as
it is understood, would extend the privilege to embrace as
much land as may be desired by an individual.
The principle involved in the bill is a good one, but
there is danger lurking in the limitations. Applied to
the areas now allotted for homesteading 160 acres, or 320
acres, the act would do much to attract land acquisition
and improvement in that it would permit of those who
are unable to perform homestead duties because their oc
cupations stand in the way, to acquire a tract of land and
expend money earned in other occupations in developing
it to productivity.
In sueh matters as colonization along the Alaska
Eailroad, sufficient land could be reserved to the rail-,
road to permit of sale in tracts suitable for this purpose
with safeguards against acquisition and holding for spec
ulation in large tracts.
The homestead law, as applied to timbered or par
tially timebred sections of the public domain, and especi
ally in regions like Alaska, is a failure. The average
man cannot acquire a homestead because of the sacrifice
of time in performing residence duties, whereas if pur
chased. outright and subjected to the same rules as apply
to a mining claim for a period of a few years, it would be
a desire to go upon the land, to develop a farm to a self
possible for any young man with a lucrative position and
sustaining basis before taking up residence.
With safeguards agaihst tying up large tracts for
speculative purposes and the principle centered upon at
tracting the settler to Alaska, the measure is a progres
sive one and has much to recommend it.
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FIRST REPRESENTATIVE
TO IRISH FREE 5TITE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. (^—Fred
erick A. Sterling counsellor of the
American embassy in London, has
been appointed the first American
Minister to the Irish Free State.
Robert Woods Bliss; Minister to
Spain, has been appointed to succeed
Peter Augustus Jay as Ambassador
to Argentina.
SON OF OUIDSTONE IS
ACQUITTED OF LIBEL
LONDON, Feb. 5. (JP)—'The court
which yesterday tried the son of
the late Premier Gladstone on a
charge of libel and slander for call
ing the author of a story, in which the
elder Gladstone, was criticized as im
moral, a liar and a coward, acquitted
the son of the famous lawyer’s de
scendant. Crowds cheered* the ver
dict.
LAUNCHES INQUIRY
ATLANTA, Feb. 5. (#>)—'The Grand
Jury, launches inquiry into the coop
erative club party, which was held
January 7., and climaxed by a bath
tub scene.
BAN RED NECKWEAR WORN
Of BRITISH RAILROADERS
LONDON, Feb. 5. (/P)—The famous
red neckties -worn by English railroad
men are doomed. They are to be re
placed by a more prosaic article in
blue.
They caused a lot of trouble during
the general strike, it was explained,
being ‘‘reds” and Communists.
The red tie was issued originally
with the idea that in case of emer
gency it could be pulled off and used
as a danger signal. *
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