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REVIEW OF FUST
By special request the Gateway is
publishing the following communica
tion addressed to the Ketchikan
Chronicle which paper published the
article last month:
To the Editor of the Chronicle:
We are not very greatly alarmed
over the controversy of selling the
panhandle to British Columbia,, but
one can’t help but ‘stop, look: and lis
ten\ So far, wre have been a child of
Uncle Sam for 60 years. The only
permancy we have Acquired is from
our own efforts. We have some very
good schools, but we bonded and
built them. When I came to Wrangell
in the spring of 1898, there was not
a school for white children in the
Territory. The sanitation of the na
tive schools, and there upkeep, would
not look 'well in print.
Now, it would be easier and more
quickly written to tell of the fine
things that we have, but just now I
prefer to mention the institutions
that we have not, for in case the
government ejhould look favorably
on such a deal, we will see how little
has been spent within our Territory.
We have no permanent federal build
ing, no capitol building—except at
Cordova. The courthouse here in Ket
chikan was built of boards in 1904
at a cost of $S,000 on a lot 100 by 100.
This is worth now, at a safe esti
mate, 110,000: no doubt twice as muchj
could be realised .for it.
We have no penintentiary within
this vast Territorry; our juvenile^
criminals are taken to Idaho, over
1,000 miles. We have no place for de
fective children; no hospitals for our
mentally deranged. A contract system
was instituted 25 years ago (to a
Dr. Coe of Portland, Ore., who has
bid successfully on our Alaska insane
every four years. In 1903 the State of
Oregon was taking care of Alaska’s j
insane at $20 per mnth. The contract
in 1926 was for $52 per mnth each,
and it Is said that 50 each year are
conveyed thither. This contract start
ed in 1903. It costs the marshal's of
fice to make these trips, at a very
safe estimate, $50,000 per year. One
trip from Juneau and return totaled;
$27a. It all depends on how fir North j
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Seward
Alaska
Seward Alaska
Construction Lumber
Builders’ Supplies
Boat Lumber
Mill Work
RADIO SUPPLIES — SOCKETS — BUSSBAR
JACKS—CONDENSERS—SWITCHES, ETC.
TUBES AND BATTERIES
Flooring
Ceiling
Rustic
Bevel siding
Fir Finish
Mouldings
Doors
Windows
Cement
Lime
Plaster
Lath
Plaster Board
Chimney brick
Fire brick
Fire clay
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it begins (it could be 3,000 miles)
and how long a wait in Seattle on the
return trip.
A few months ago an aged native
on the lower Yukon was left by her
people without means. The commis
siner of the place could not see her
starve and for need of a better place
she was condemned to Morningside.
A teacher who had finished her term
of school took her out, and for all I
know she is living yet and they get
$52 a month for her board. Our de
fective children are taken care of at
this institution, far removed from,
home and friends, and the system is
the curse of a Christian age. I can
only compare it with the exile life
in Siberia 50 years ago.
At the last legislature a memorial
was passed unanimusly by both
houses for such an institution to be
built within our own country or Terr
itory, within four years, but now we
have only two years left. The doc
ument No. 432, 69th Congress, report
of Hon. Hubert Work, Secretary of
the Interior, on the care of Alaska
insane, printed June 11, 1926, gives
the plan of the abandoned Indian
school at Pendleton, Ore., where the
thermometer registers 110 in the
shade at times, as a feasible location
to prepare for the care of our people,
but the cost for the agricultural land
is $56,000, and to make necessary
changes, sanitation, water powfer,
would cost approximately $600,000 or
more.
The great cry against our having
such an institution built in Alaska is
because of climatic conditions. Now
(even) Colonel Richardson says “for
climate and scenic beauty Alaska is
unsurpassed.” It surely is the health
iest country in the world. Statistics
given of the Pacific Coast States,
show Washington with the least per
centage of insane, Oregon a little
more and Sunny California still more.
One argument in favor of the States
is more sunshine. Now, some people
radiate sunshine no matter where
they happen to be.
We need two such institutions
right now. One at Haines or in
Southeastern Alaska, and one on the
line of the railroad, 1,500 miles to
the westward, and while the land is
available.
There are many abandoned re-'
serves in Alaska and thousands of
teres of agricultural land; should we
have the privilege of building insti
tutions for ourselves that alone would
burnish employment for hundreds of
people and Alaska w'ould be settled
up.
This question reminds me of the
colonies in 1762, securing the ser
vices of those engineers from En-|
rland to survey the line that still
sears their name, Mason and Dixon, j
STo doubt we had as skilled engineers
vithin the colonies, for there were
1,000,000 white people, but these fine'
-rou!ng men brot the stone markers
’rom England, thinking of course, if
mgineers, with such a population,
x>uld not be found, we must be iack
t
ng in monuments.
Now, we may lack the necessary
lumbers for Statehood, but we do
jot lack in patriotism. During th*.
iVorld War we gave over 3,000 of our
inest men; Ketchikan district alone j
?ave over $300,000 in Liberty bonds; I
nany of us had to sell those same
ionds for 87 cents on the dollar. We
vere not able to hold them for the;
irofit.
Alaska was terribly hurt by the;
World War, and we are only just be-!
tinning to come back after 10 years;;
)ut we are not complaining about l
hat; it could not be helped (?); but
I
ve do want the necessary institutions
tor building a country put up within
>ur Territory, and let these pioneers,
vho have lived here continously have
the pleasure of seeing buildings that
rightfully belong to every country. I
I
I want to remark about the very
fine Christmas edition of the Cor-1
dova Alaska Times. It has many
| splendid articles by most gifted men.
I was greatly impressed by these!
cuts of the beautiful (?) Morning
side institution, built at our expense,
over 1,000 miles from our door. If
I only such a place could have been
built here within the last 25 years.
Strange, but- the highest percentage
of insane in population is in the Dis
trict of Columbia. She must be lack
ing in sunshine, but we have been
told it is the richest little spot in the
world in moonshine.
The Ketchikan Chronicle says we
have no sunshine and that "it is
ridiculous to think of building our
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