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A FEW COMPARISONS
The Gateway editorial of last week relative to
Senator Howell’s assertion of the “terrible winter dif
ficulties encountered in the operation of the Alaska
Railroad, did not go far enough with reference to com
parison with winter railroading in the States, says an
Oldtimer who dropped into the office to express his
personal views (depleted) of the Senator’s reflection
on winter weather and conditions in this Territory.
Back in Annetta, North Dakota, this oldtimer re
called a winter the likes of which was never seen in
Alaska and probably never will be. Annetta, at that
time consisted of about 40 buildings. In November of
.’96 or .’87, there was a scarcity of fire-wood, and pas
senger and freight trains were stalled in snow7. A ro
tary was sent in and it also w7as stuck. There, the whole
shebang stuck until spring.
But when the town was again glimpsed by out
siders, what a change had taken place. Lo and behold!
The 40 odd buildings had shrunk to a scant half-dozen.
The folks had moved into the larger buildings and
wrecked the rest of the town for fire-wood.
We, in our simple ignorance, would call that real
‘terrible winter railroading!’
Again, and also, sad to relate but we must pick on
North Dakota once more, in the towm of Larimore,
drifts p.iled up in the main streets to a height of 24 feet.
A crew of 400 men were employed in the railroad
yards expressly for the purpose of keeping the
tracks clear. Some more tough winter railroading in
the States, we would say.
When power speeders, a step above a hand-car, can
be operated over the Alaska Railroad throughout the
entire year with a couple of sawed-off brooms draped
in front of the wheels to brush aside the snow on the
track, winter difficulties of operating the Alaska Rail
road are not so bad. A slide or two comes down once
in a while but snow sheds would eliminate tieups, which
seldom occur and then for but a few hours.
Wonder what the committee would say if they
could have seen that mile-long freight train which
came over the mountains into Seward the other night?
CENTURY OF RAILROADS
The year 1931 marked the 101th anniversary of'
the first regularly operated steam railroad in the U. j
S., the Baltimore and Ohio, which in 1830 was only 19;
miles long. Other construction under way brought the
total for the country to 23 miles in that year.
By 1840 the mileage had increased to 2,818 and ex
tensions were made with increasing rapidity during
the succeeding years. When the railroad was 50 years
old in 1880, the United States had 93,671 miles.
The 10 years between 1880 and 1890 was the great
est period of railroad building. American roads built
during that decade totalled 71,983 miles. The greatest
railroad mileage was reached in 1916, when 254,251
mileswere in operation.
Since 1916, owing to the abandonment of a num
ber of unprofitable short lines, the mileage has been
actually reduced, being now about 249,300 miles. At
present new construction is almost entirely limited to
adding a second, third or even a fourth track to exist
ing lines.
If he keeps on licking them often enough those
“wild jackasses” in the Senate may eat out of Mr.
Hoover’s hand yet.
With a couple more Alaska salesmen like Ernest1
Walker Sawyer, the awakening of interest in Alaska
by continental United States, is assured.
Life is much easier to live if one keeps his mouth
shut,,
T BY
Eight requests were received ;
in the last mail from the States, |
reported Acting-Secretary Chii-!
berg of the Seward Chamber of |
Commerce, before the regular
weekly meeting yesterday in the
Seward Grill, for general infor
mation, Communications were or
dered handled by the secretary, j
Rev. Earl Reisner announced j
the annual Father and Son ban- i
quet on February 11.
Reverend Reisner also offer- j
ed the suggestion to the local or
ganization, that upon the arrival J
here next summer of the Los An
geles Chamber of Commerce ex- j
cursion, a “Sourdough Feed’ be
tendered them.
It was moved by M. E. Horner, j
and seconded by J. s. Hofman, !
that a letter be sent to Senator |
Howell commending his report on j
the Alaska Railroad.
The late Professor Bush, the
distinguished mineralogist of Yale,
delighted in the story of -the'
young farmer, who knocked timid
ly at his office door one day.
In response to the professor’s
invitation to enter, the farmer’s
head appeared at the partly op
ened door, and an anxious voice
inquired, “Are you alone?” “Yes,
yes,” said the professor, “come
in.”
The farmer entered, closed the
door carefully behind him, seated j
himself and from the depths of
a carpet bag drew forth a large
lump of yellow mineral, which he I
passed to the professor. “What j
do you think of that?” he said.
Professor Bush examined it for
a moment and then replied, “I j
have never seen a finer speci- !
men of pyrite.” “Pyrite!” said the !
young man, “what do you mean? !
Ain’t it gold?” “No,” said Pro- !
lessor Bush. “It. is only a com
pound of iron and sulphur." The :
farmer sank into his chair, then
pulled himself together, and said
weakly, “My God! Professor. I’ve
just married 20 acres of it.”
Denver Mining Record.
The M. S. Discoverer returned
during the night from a two- j
weeks absence in the Latouche j
area.
FIRST DEGREE MURDER
An indictment was handed up I
to the bench by the federal grand j
jury accusing John Friehage of
Ruby of the crime of murder in I
the first degree, says the News
Miner. He is charged with hav
ing inflicted injuries on Mrs. Big
Joe, an Indian woman, caus
ing her death. Government will
attempt t-o prove that Freihage
beat the woman so severely with
an iron clamp that vital inter
nal organs were broken, causing
her death.
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