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1 An open letter to Senator Robert
B. Howell:
Dear Senator: News dispatches
state you are continuing your in
vestigation of the situation along
jthe Alaska Railroad, and last year
i when you were in Alaska the fur J
! farmers asked you to investigate j
matters that they felt was an in
justice to them and the fur rais
ing industry along the railroad.
In no part of your published
report did we find any mention
of the unfairness we pointed out
as suffering from the railroad
management.
More than $20,000,000 is now in
vested in fur raising in Alaska;
some of the industry is located
j along the route of the government
: owned Alaska Railorad, where it
has prospered, not with the aid
of the railroad, but in spite of it;
which is also true in regard to
the Biological Survey and Land
Office.
On the Alaska Railroad the
freight rates have been upped and
upped, and classifications changed
with every issue of a new freight
tariff issued to 1925. Freight rates
were upped from 1923 to 1925
around 140 per cent.
On December 13, 1926, the man
agement of the railroad issued a
circular which inhibits the fur
ranchers from shipping their prod
ucts by freght, so that the ranch
ers could no longer fully enjoy
and profit from his industry or
| exchange or sell his breeding stock.
In case you no longer have a
•copy of the circular referred to.
I we will repeat it here:
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
Transportation Department
, Anchorage, Alaska,
December 13, 1926.
Freight Circular No. 45
iSubject: Shipments of live valua.
ble fur bearing animals.
Shipments of live valuable fur
bearing animals such as fox, mink,
etc., must not be accepted for
shipment by freight.
Shipments should be referred to
the express company and handled
as express shipments.
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J. T. Cunningham, Supt.,
Transportation Dept.
| The railroad will raise the point
i that fur bearing animals are wild
| animals. This fallacy was elim
' mated by the Territorial legislature
| four years ago, which classed all
animals born and raised in cap
: tivitv, domesticated and personal
I property, same as a horse, cow,
: etc. The railroad will further say
a fur bearing animal is too val
uable to ship by freight, yet will
accept a horse that might be
worth $5,000 to $10,000. As such
shipments are at owner’s risk, why
bring that up?
You will notice the reference to
shipping by express. Now express
rates are some 750 per cent higher
than freight rates. Then to ship
a fur bearing animal in a steam
heated express car is:
1. Inhuman and an extreme act
of cruelty, only equalled by a.
war ship that confines their en
emies and prisoners over the boil
ers.
2. Shipped in an express car
subjects a fox to fright that de
stroys it as a breeder, which is the
main reason for shipping an ani- j
mal alive. Few, if any, silver fox
es thus shipped have ever pro.
duced young. Nor can any ranch
er shipping by express guarantee
his animals to breed.
The humane and safe way to
ship by rail is in a stock car or
open door boxcar where a care
taker can be wtih them.
The “nigger in the wood pile”
why the officials try to force the
fur farmers to ship by express is
because all agents receive 20 per
cent of the revenue (both sending
and receiving agents get the same)
while the higher-ups know best
what their’s is.
This has resulted in many ranch
es having to pelt all their animals
(because breeding stock cannot be
shipped safely by express) close
their ranches and start new where
no such drastic rules are in force.
Many another rancher will be com
pelled to sacrifice his improve
ments and move to where he can
supply a demand for breeding
stock. The railroad is thus being
robbed of much revenue from
freight business (besides crippling
the fur farmers) to provide extra
“grease” for the railroad officials
and agents.
We hope you will give this mat
| ter your attention.
FUR RANCHERS.
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