Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
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SENATOR HOWELL AND HIS REPORT ON
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
(Continued from Paue One)
Those forests of cottonwood and balsam poplar,
which are in greatest demand for packing crates and
for tough wrapping paper, at the highest prices paid for
any kind of pulp and veneers, cover not less than 100,
000 acres along the Susitna River alone, in addition to
larger areas of the same kinds of forests in the Mata
nuska and the Talkeetna valleys. The stands of those
cottonwoods and poplars run from 10,000 to 60,000 board
feet per acre. It is the most valuable forest of those
kinds of trees in all the Territory of the United States.
Why Senator Howell omitted reference of any kind
concerning them, when they are well known to all Alas
kans in the railroad belt, and to all timber operators on
the Pacific Coast—in Washington, Oregon and Califor
nia—is one of the enigmas that have caused so much
skepticism in the minds of people who have read his
report.
Senator Howell’s report speaks of “some birch
northwest of Anchorage.” The able and accurate report
made by the Agricultural Department, Bulletin 226,
states definitely that the amount of birch near the head
of Cook Inlet is all of 2,000,000,000 board feet. Timber
cruisers in Alaska and the Pacific States of Washington,
Oregon and California know that there is twice as much
more, or 4,000,000,000 board feet of birch, east of An- j
chorage, northeast of Anchorage, north of Anchorage,
and also west of Seward on the Kenai Peninsula, making
a grand total of 6,000,000,000 board feet of the best
qualities of birch—one of the most valuable of all hard
woods. They know, too, that nine-tenths of all that birch
must be shipped over the Alaska Railroad to Seward for j
transport to the Outside markets, and that none of it:
can be floated down any river to Cook Inlet.
If Senator Howell and his Senatorial Committee had j
investigated thoroughly, and learned all the facts about
timber of different varieties and amounts in Central
Alaska, tributary to the Alaska Railroad, and about the
markets awaiting that timber, they would know that this
one resource alone is more than enough, when rightly
developed, to make the Alaska Railroad financially prof
itable in freight revenues alone.
That does not take into account the vast deposits of
coal, running literally into trillions of tons, in the field of
the Alaska Railroad, nor the mineral resources of gold,
copper, silver, lead, tin, and iron, nor the grazing and
agricultural lands of Norwfay, Sweden, Finland, Den
mark, Latvia, Scotland and other countries of north
western Europe all put together.
If Senator Howell and his committee will come to
Alaska early some summer and stay until late in the
fall, investigating every hour of the day all summer
long, and then follow with another investigation the
next summer, and then a third, summer and a fourth
summer, he would learn something now and valuable
every month of all that time, and still not know one
fifth of all there is to know about the variety and extent
and possibilities of the many kinds of resources in the
great country of 400,000 square miles which the Alaska
Railroad serves. An investigation of that nature would
produce results more informative to his fellow Senators
than is possible from an investigation of a few hours a
day for 12 days, conducted from a car window.
With all due respect to Senator Howell, with full
credit to his honesty of purpose, The Gateway believes
that if he should make the kind of an investigation here
indicated, extending over four full summers of hard and
intensive work, he would not supplement his report with
a recommendation for an increase of freight rates and
passenger fares to an exhorbitant and prohibitive figure,
as he did in his hasty and inaccurate report of January,
1930, with the effect of strangling and suppressing all
developments of every kind in the field tributary to the
Alaska Railroad, but that he would then point the way
boldly and truthfully to a systematic plan of develop
mente, for the real opening of Alaska, for extensive set
tlements by American citizens in Alaska ultimately num
bering many millions, for the common welfare of all
Americans in all the States of the Union.
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TRADITIONAL HATRED
OF MOUNTAINEERS IS
MOUSED BY OFFICERS
CASWELL, Tenn., Sept. 15. (/P)
—W. S. Thompson, revenue offi
cer, was seriously wounded, one
other officer suffered minor in
juries while the third agent es
caped to bring aid when the
trio of revenue agents met with
resistance as they attempted to
make a raid on a suspected boot
legger.
The traditional hatred of the
mountaineers was aroused by the
attempted raid and they opened
fire on the “revenuers.” When
the men of the mountain folk
were put out of action, the women
took up the battle. Even a daugh
ter opened up fire on the “rev
enuers” as they attempted to
raid her “pappy’s still.”
The dry agent, who escaped,
soon brought a large party back
with him and they surrounded the
women who were shobting with
high-powered rifles.
The still was found, reported
the dry agents.
HI ISLAND KILLED
Mrs. Pete Sather, on Nuka Island
in the Nuka Bay region, who, be
sides being an expert at fox farm
lore, is proving herself quite a big
game hunter. A few months ago
she killed a record eagle. She re
cently added a nice, big bear skin
to her trophies.
For some time some thing or
creature had been molesting the
foxes on the island and it was for
the purpose of trying to find out
what was causing all the distur
bance that she went out one day
to watch the foxes. While observ
ing the foxes and as they romped
about, Mrs. Sather became aware
of a large black bear about 50 yards
away from her With a 22-high
powered rifle she took aim and top
pled the huge animal over with one
shot-stone dead. However, to play
safe, Mrs. Sather put another lead
bullet into the bruin, which had
been creating a disturbance on the
island for four years.
MOYLE AND ALLEN THOT
FALLEN DEATH IN PACIFIC
SEATTLE, Sept. 15. (A3) — Don
Moyle and C. A. Allen, who left
Samushiro Beach, Japan, on a
non-stop flight to Seattle, contin
ued to belong to that company of
birdmen who have roared into the
sky, never to be seen or heard of
again.
With slight hope, Coast Guard
vessels in the North Pacific, steam
ships belonging to private lines
and fishing boats were on the
alert for any clue to their where
abouts.
Ayiators here felt the Califor
nians probably fell to their death
in the ocean near Japan, basing
their belief on the trouble which
Clasina Madge, then the City of
Tacoma, encountered when Thom
as Ash, Jr., and Harold Gatty tried
the trans-Pacific flight.
A plane sighted over Carmacks,
200 miles north of White Horse,
Yukon Territory, which was
thought to be the missing ship
probably belonged to a mining
company operating on the Yukon
River, later reports said.
The Seward Chamber of Com
merce met at its regular weekly
luncheon in the Seward Grill today
at noon.
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Chilberg have
moved into the home next to Mr
and Mrs. L. V. Ray on Second Ave.
This residence was formerly occu
pied by the O’Neil’s who have mov
ed into the residence next to the
Seward General Hospital.
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