MUNY WESTW1RD FOLK
ENJOYED OEDICmS
Friends and customers in Bristol
Bay of the H. N. Evans general
merchandise store a t Kanatak
recently heard numbers dedicated
to them from K F Q D .These
included Charles Herman at Kog
guing, Oscar Rosears and Guy
Groat; for Emil Anderson, Martin
Munsen, Martin Hagen, Chas. John
son, Mr. Reed, Tom McKean, the
Sullivan family and Stavens, Alfred
Anderson, Albert Johnson, Mr. and
Mrs. Beckman and the Limdren
family; Wm Regan, Zimmons, Gust
Dagg and Alf Holben, all of Naknek.
A number was also dedicated to Mrs.
Evans at Kanatak, one for Mrs.
Tillesen, Hot springs; and one for
Mrs. Hortense Lewis of Nome.
MORE Til HALF OF
From Seattle to Fairbanks, over
the approved location of the high
way, will be about 2,338 miles. Mil
lions have already been invested
in this project and the heavy work
is practically completed. There re
mains but 1,320 miles to be built
at an estimated cost of $14,305,000,
divided as follows:
British Columbia—610 miles, $7,
930.000 (including bridges).
Yukon Territory — 530 miles $3,
975,000; bridges in Yukon, $600,000.
Alaska—180 miles $1,800,000.
Total for a good gravel road, $14,
305,000.
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JUST SOURDOUGHS
’Tis a story of two oldtimers,
Men of muscle, might and brawn,
Who are resting tonight
By my campfire bright,
And telling of days that are gone.
From north of the Arctic Circle
A Norwegian by birth, came one;
A man of great zeal
Who once captured the seal
In the Land of the Midnight Sun.
The other is Irish from Canada
wilds,
With a twinkle and gleam in his eye
And he has no fear
For a storm that is near,
Or snow from a cloud-darkened sky.
In Alaska they’re traveling life’s
pathway,
This land with its summers so mild,
Where the wild flowers grow
From under the snow;
Here they’ve answered the call of
the wild
That call leads them over the
mountain, j
Out across the snowy white plain,
Thru valleys and streams
Where the free gold gleams,
And back to their h’rthstcne again.
Where no fair ones are waiting with
kisses and smiles
To welcome them in from the cold;
For they live all alone
In their bachelor’s home
With its wealth of beauty untold.
And may God in His infinite glory
Some day pardon all sins that are
past,
And give them a home
Around the White Throne,
Where glad tidings forever shall
last.
—The Poet of Peulik Mountain.
PAULUS PETER VREESWIJK, —
Born in The Hague, Holland, Feb.
11, 1880; left St. Paul, Minnesota
seven years ago on his way to Alas
ka. Notify Governor’s office at Ju
neau.
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named him to his job and who rewarded him for his re
actionary service by an increase in salary equivalent to a
professional man’s yearly income, while at the same time
slashing appropriations for urgent and necessary proj
ects affecting not the question of Wages for workers so
much as they affected all business — workers included.
We refer to the mandate of the Howell committee in
throwing 260 men into what would have been a breadline
in the States, but for the fact that many of them were
frontiersmen instead of carpetbaggers, and turned to na
ture for sustenance and shelter.
When he says that the Territory and communities
have been sorely taxed to relieve hunger and distress, he
again rears up a figment of imagination.
Set over against this claim of Territorial alms is his
action in withdrawing his name from school warrants
drawn legally by the auditor, whereby banks were unable
to pay salaries/ and by his obstructive tactics in his con
trol of 80 per cent of Territorial appropriations created a
situation almost equal to that of Chicago.
When he says that “the present policy of the govern
ment in controlling fisheries and wild life is adequate and
satisfactory,” he is confronted with the Juneau Empire’s
expose of the machinations of John Holzworth in an effort
to stifle the development of the pulp industry by making
a bear reserve of Admiralty and Chichagof Islands. Again
he faces the appeal to Washington by the trappers and
frontiersmen to secure rights to trap fur after the organ
ization which he so heartily approves had denied them
the right to secure food and clothing from nature. Again
he faces documentary evidence of an appeal filed with the
President in 1931, asking that beaver and marten be made
available to those facing unemployment. On that appeal
and a threat to expose what amounted to a scandal in the
Game Commission, it backed down and in September re
scinded its rule barring the trapper from the field.
Before us is a bulletin issued by the U. S. Geological
Survey and circulated by Ernest Walker Sawyer dealing
with mining opportunities in the Kantishna. Mr. Sawyer,
whose brother is a skilled mining engineer and therefore
capable of advising him, states these cardinal facts: (1)
That there are immense deposits of this mineral of com
mercial value; (2) that there is a big market for it at
$6.50 per 100 pounds; (3) that coal for smelting may be
had at $3.50 per ton on the Alaska Railroad as against
$12 coal being used by China which exports 10,000 tons to j
the U. S. annually with Europe supplying 15 per cent. }
From his window, he can see the wonder mine—the
Alaska Juneau—whose stock has climbed while national
securities tumbled, yet he says mining does not offer any
thing He sees the worker bees of the hive developing
Willow Creek to a bonanza camp; old placer camps pro
ducing consistently and new finds being made; the F. E.
Co. of Fairbanks announcing the development of $400,
000,000 in commercial placer while extracting $55,000 per
month with dredges; under date of March 14, a bulletin
issued by the U. S. Geological Survey on Valdez Creek
placer says: “ . . . The Valdez Creek district . . . has
been more or less productive since 1903 . . . and large
quantities of potential placer ground remain untested
. . . testing of less accessible ground is warranted ... the
future of the district appears to depend mainly on ex
pansion of placer operations.” (The bulletin dealing with
quartz possibilities is too long to be quoted.)
He does not consider mining promising, yet two men
with pick and shovel develop $60,000 in placers in one
season in a region of 100 square miles of auriferous
gravels.
It has often been asked why the western Alaska com
munities did not employ the methods of the old West and
the big cities in securing population and development, this
through an intensive advertising campaign embodying
facts as to the advantages for men of large and small
means to succeed in Alaska.
It is just such obstructive tactics as employed by the
Governor that have taken the heart out of the many and
all but nullified the pioneer spirit.
And while Governor Parks is misrepresenting and
traducing Alaska, the Interior Department is paying a
man $15,000 per year to travel the length and breadth of
the land armed with official data and exercising his tal
ents to attract settlers to Alaska.
It would be interesting to the Governor to read the
history of the pioneers who settled and builded his birth
place—Denver. If nothing else, he would gain a correct
perspective of the distinction between men of courage and
! action storming the ramparts of desert, prairie and the
Rockies, armed with axe and gun, and the flabby element
to whom he caters. The streets of his great city perpet
uate the names of just such men as Alaska needs; not
those who came after, and on whose patrimony they
flopped along to unearned eminence, to look back with
scorn upon the emblematic type of American.
It is apparent the Governor has a “job” complex. It
also appears to be epidemic in the States. It was not in
its embryonic state at Chilkoot Pass, the Nome beach,
Fairbanks, Dawson, or will the true frontiersman, asking
the privilege of developing a new state, permit it to gain a
foothold in this later day.
Contrarily to the false picture painted by the Gover
nor of Alaska, we again assert: “Any man with the fron
tier instinct, courage, energy and that germ of pride which
will not allow him to set his gauge of achievement as the
wage slave can not only win in Alaska, but in so doing
have more real comfort and security than he can in any
other portion of American possessions.”
And when we come to think of it, the very conditions
of want in the States are due to listening to such men as
the Governor.
ALASKA ITEMS OF
INTEREST AT THE
NATION'S CAPITOL
(By W.A.S.)
The Seward Chamber of Com
merce has been exercised over a
report that the Forest Service may
withdraw from the Chugach Na
tional Forest and throw the land
therein back into the general pub
lic domain. The Delegate took this
matter up with the Chief of the
Forest Service and was informed
that the only consideration was to
exclude a part of the reserve lying
between Seward and Anchorage,
and to throw it open to settle
ment. However, there was more
or less opposition to this recom
mendation and it was not ap
proved by the Secretary of Agri
culture and has been absolutely
sidetracked, for this year at least,
and possibly for many years.
* * * *
As the House Committee on Ter
ritories has made no report on the
bill to repeal the Alaska Bone Dry
Law, and probably intends to allow
it to die in committee, the Dele
gate on March 22 introduced a
new bill to amend the penalty for
violation of the Alaska law, and
which reads as follows: “That ev
ery person hereafter convicted of
any violation of the Act of Con
gress entitled ‘An Act to prohibit
the manufacture or sale of alco
holic liquors in the Territory of
Alaska, and for other purposes, ap
proved February 14, 1917,’ shall be
punished only as provided for in
similar cases in the Naitonal Pro
hibition Act and the several Acts
amendatory of said National Pro
hibition Act.”
There are a few instances in Al
aska where a resident and busi
ness man would like to install a
small electric lighting plant for his
own domestic needs and also to
supply current to a dozen or more
neighbors. But to do this would
subject him to a Federal license
fee of $300 or more per annum, in
accordance with a law passed and
approved June 6, 1900. The sug
gestion has been made that possi
bly the Delegate might secure the
passage of a bill to relieve small
operators from the payment of this
license fee.
* * * *
After advising with several la
bor organization representatives as
to the most desirable phases to in
clude in a bill to give retirement
insurance benefits to employees of
the Alaska Railroad, the Delegate
has introduced a bill extending the
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benefits of “An Act for the retire
ment of employees in classified
civil service,” approved May 22,
1920, to the employees of the Al
aska Railroad. The employees of
the government railroad at Pan
ama are not under civil service and
in the last Congress the above en
titled Act was extended to cover
employees of the Panama Canal
Railway, and it is believed that
Congress will extend the benefits
of the same act to cover employees
of the Alaska Railroad.
* * * *
The Davis bill that would forbid
the transport of passengers on for
eign vessels between ports or places
in the U. S. either directly or
by way of a foreign port, was twice
on the consent calendar of the
House and both times objected to.
Some of the opponents express the
belief that the bill cannot become
a law
* * * *
The United States Geological
Survey, Department of the Inter
ior, announces that a report on
field studies made in the eastern
part of the Mount McKinley Na
tional Park during the season of
1930 by S. R. Capps and F. H. Mof
fit is in course of publication. This
report will be accompanied by geo
logic and typographic maps of the
region, including parts of the Kan- >
itshna district.
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and framing at SYLVIA’S.
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