The Gateway has been asked by
the Evan Jones Coal Company to
publish the following letter in or
der to present their views on the
proposed coal bunker in Seward:
Seward Chamber of Commerce, j
Seward, Alaska, Mar. 19, 1932. |
“Your telegram of March 12 ad- I
dressed to Mr. Anderson has not
been answered heretofore for the
reason that Mr. Anderson has been !
at the mine during all this time.
“We are sorry that our attitude
regarding the coal bunkers for
Seward is apparently misunder
stood by you. We have not at any
time, and do not now, favor the de
lay in this project: on the con
trary, we have used our very best
efforts in getting the matter un
der way and in trying to build up j
the tonnage to a point where it
would receive favorable action.
During the fall and winter we
I
wrote to every cannery concern
operating in central and south
western Alaska, as well as the lar
ger ones in southwestern Alaska,
explaining the situation and ask
! ing their support. Likewise, we
jsent telegrams to members of Con
Jgress in Washington, asking that
they support Delegate Wicker
sham’s bill. These efforts have not
been confined to the past year,
but extend back over a much lon
ger period of time. As a result of
jthe combined efforts of all con
cerned, including your own selves
| and the officials of the railroad,
there has been a very decided in
crease in the tonnage passing
thru Seward. When we finally wir
ed Colonel Ohlson, while he was
! in Washington, that we felt safe
| in assuring the department that
a tonnage of 10,000 would be at
tained this year, the matter re
ceived favorable action immediate
ly and orders were given to go
ahead on it.
“However, when, at the instance
of Senators Howell and Kendrick
an absolute guarantee of 10,000
tons was asked we were forced to
refuse to give it. In concrete fig
ures it meant that we would have
to obligate ourselves to see that the
government received not less than
£5,000 this season for bunkerage
charges. Such a guarantee on our
part would be folly, inasmuch as
all the heavier shipments would
have passed through Seward be
fore the bunkers could possibly be
built. In the face of the conditions,
the best we could do was to decline
the guarantee alnd continue our
efforts to build up the tonnage.
“As a result of our appeals, Lib
by’s are this year taking 2,100 tons
of coal at Seward, an increase of
more than one-third over last year.
Alaska Packers Association is also
increasing its shipments over those
of last year. Owing to the unfor
tunate situation of the salmon
canning industry generally, we
have not been able to yet get a def
inite idea of the requirements of
the other canneries. You are aware,
of course, that it is almost a cer
tainty that a considerable number
of them will not operate this year.
The U. S. Office of Education has
not yet reached a decision as to
its shipments this year. As stated
in our former letter, we are trying
to get into the commercial market
of southeastern Alaska and hope
to get a start on it this year. We
have already made two initial ship
ments to Skagway.
“In all our efforts along these
lines ,we have received the fullest
cooperation and support of the
Alaska Railroad.
“We cite the foregoing in order
that you may clearly understand
that we are doing all we can to
build up this Alaskan coal indus
try. We realize the importance of
bunkers in Seward as well as you
do, and have been tyring for a j
long time to get them. We shall j
continue to do so. But we cannot j
undertake any guarantee such as j
this one.
“We hope this letter will make
it plain to you that we want the
bunkers in Seward and will do all
we can to see that they are erected
as soon as possible. We have been
doing our best in the face of ad
verse conditions, and will keep on
trying. Yours very truly,
Evan Jones Company,
Z. J. Loussac, treasurer.” j
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Editor Seward Gateway:
“It gave me great pleasure this
: afternoon to read your article, re
! Stroller’s Weekly and its unquali
fied support of the present admin
istration in Alaska. The one in
which you touch on the Southeast
ern Alaska pulp sales is the one I
have in mind. It wish to congratu
late you on the able handling of
your subject.
“The pulp -sales program cer
tainly stinks to high heaven but
unless one has actually been in
contact with the regulations of the
forest service and has a physical
knowledge of the forests in South
eastern lAlaska, the enqjrmity of
the betrayal is not apparent.
“This Southeastern section is
the natural stepping stone to the
development of northern and west
ern Alaska. We have here in South
eastern Alaska alone, room and re
sources to support a million people
and do them proud. In my estima
tion, founded on observation and
experience of a 23 years residency,
we would have half that number
today were it not for the obstruct
ionist policy of the forest service.
“An idealist’s dream is all very
well, but the practical application
of such is something else. Yet, we
have and will continue to have, un
der a policy of national forests,
the very real bugaboo of taxes and
sources of taxes staring us in the
face. What the answer is, short of
abolishing the national forests, I
would hesitate to say, although
it seems to me some program of
lease holding could be worked out
that would be satisfactory. It cer
tainly is suicidal to the future de
velopment of Southeastern Alas
ka to allow the present program
of the forest service to come to
fruition.
Ketchikan and Juneau news
papers and business interests, all
blinded by the promise of pulp
mills in their immediate vicinity,
are silent on the subject. It was
good business on the part of the
bureau to throw a bone to each
dog. As I wrote Stroller’s Weekly
some time since and which com
munication they published, God'
knows I have starved in Alaska
long enough to be willing to give
the whole country to anyone who
will build a couple of good husky
pulp mills, if it were merely a
question of personal profit. I would
perhaps be more willing, were I
not personally familiar with the
dirty deal the sawmills and the
loggers who have been operating
in the Tongass forest have been
getting in the past, and were not
personally familiar with the phy
sical possibilities of our land and
forests, especially if I were depen
dent on articles and estimates
published by the forest service for
my information.
“I have thrown my hat into the
political ring this year, God only
knows why. I do not, unless it is
because I am plumb sick and tired,
fed up and disgusted with the
farce of past political efforts. It
seems to have been more impor
tant to get your feet in the trough
of political patronage than to re
present and work for Alaska. My
aims and principles I am publish
ing in the Alaska Fisherman, page
six of the issue which will reach
you at the same date as this letter.
If you mention my candidacy in
The Gateway, whether for or
against me, please remember that
my sole air and interest is to turn
the public eye on the injustices
being perpetrated on Alaska and
Alaskans. Again I thank you for
your article on the pulp sales.
E. S. Hungerford,
Petersburg, Alaska.
(Editor’s note—Mr. Hungerford
is a candidate for delegate to the
Republican National Convention.)
EDITOR DODDT IS NOT
Contrary to being unfriendly to
Alaska, Editor Manchester Boddy
of the Illustrated Daily News, of
Los Angeles, is a friend of the Ter
ritory, according to information
supplied The Gateway.
It had previously been said the
Illustrated Daily News had jokingly
said: “We paid a paltry $7,500,000
for Alaska ... we took several hun
dred millions in gold . . . and if
Russia wants it back, she can have
it.”
In reality, Editor Boddy wrote:
“ . . . that land of tremendous po
tential resources.” The only error
noted, a slight one, was when he
said Los Angeles and San Francisco
are sending a joint expedition to
Alaska.
The activities of the two cham
bers are entirely independent. The
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
excursion will leave for Anchorage
in June, and the annual excursion
of the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce will leave for Fairbanks
on July 28.
Harry Crib, of the Pioneer Lum
ber company of Anchorage, and
Mrs. Cribb, are enroute from the
States on board the SS Yukon.
The Cribbs have been in the States
for several months owing to the
health of Mrs. Cribb.
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF SALE
Public notice is hereby given that
pursuant to a final decree duly
made, rendered and entered by
and in the district court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division,
on the 18th day of March, 1932, in
that certain action In Admiralty
in said court wherein GILBERT M.
Chambers, doing business under
the name, style and designation of
CHAMBERS AND COLWELL, is li
bellant and The American Oil
Screw BLANCHE (224785) her en
gines, tackle, apparel and furniture
is respondent, FISHING VESSEL
OWNERS MARINE WAYS, INC., a
corporation is intervening libellant,
ATLAS ENGINE COMPANY, a cor
poration is intervening libellant
and claimant, MICHAEL HENNIG,
doing business under the name of
HENNIG MACHINE WORKS, is in
tervening libellant, and CARL EI
DEM is intervening libellant, the
same being cause No. S-312 of said
court, and pursuant to a writ of
Venditioni Exponas issued out of
said court in said action on the 25th
day of March, 1932, and to me di
rected and delivered, I shall on the
8th day of April, 1932, at the hour
of two o’clock in the afternoon of
said day at the front door of the
court house of said district court
at Valdez, Alaska, sell at public
auction to the highest and best
! bidder for cash the said American
I Oil Screw BLANCHE, together with
her engines, tackle, apparel and
furniture.
Dated this 25th day of March,
1932.
H. P. SULLIVAN,
United States Marshal
for tire Territory of Al
aska, Third Division.
Publish Mar. 28-29-30-31, Apr. 1-2
4-5-6-7.
Dim PEOPLE
VOICE OPPOSITION TO
WELSH FISHING BILL
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bradford have
recently returned to Seattle from
an extended business trip in the
East, reports the Alaska Weekly.
Mr. Bradford, who is president of
the Associated Fishermen of Alaska,
Inc., appeared before the commit
tee on merchant marine and fish
eries, at Washington, D. C-, in op
position to the so-called “Welch
Bill” which he felt was detrimental
to the interests of the fishing pop
ulation of Bristol Bay and other
sections of Alaska depending on the
salmon fisheries.
The same bill was introduced by
Congressman Welch of California
in the last Congress and railroaded
through the committee without op
position but fortunately Congress
adjourned before the bill came up
for a vote of the House. It was
again reintroduced in the present
session of Congress and the hear
ings set for last month.
The statements submitted by Mr.
Bradford and others with similar
interests in Western Alaska, were
attentively and sympathetically
considered by the members of the
committee who were anxious to
learn the facts.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradford, who have
a home at Dillingham, Alaska, will
leave Seattle about May 15, on the
MS Santa Flavia with a complete
outfit for this season’s pack on the
Nushagak River and in addition
about 600 tons of general mer
chandise for the chain of stores
and trading posts operated in Bris
tol Bay by the Marguerite Lowe
Company.
C. F. Cadwallader, former popu
lar and efficient game warden but
who saw the error of his ways and
now conducts a transfer and hotel
business at Wasilla, is a north
bound passenger on the SS Yukon.
That’s right, Fred Wright, the
DD cafe man of Anchorage who
left Seattle Saturday on the SS
Yukon, accompanied by the Mrs.
NICHOLS WILL REMAIN
Deputy Stanley Nichols of the
Kuskokwim country will remain in
office as long as he wants the job,
according to Marshal Lynn Smith
who rejected the petition from a
number of citizens of the Kusko
region asking that Nichols be re
called. Marshal Smith minced no
words in support of his man.
Veteran Sol Silverman, of the
stores department, Alaska Rail
road, left Seattle Saturday on the
SS Yukon for Seward.
CALL FOR BIDS TO FURNISH TIES
Sealed hid* will he received by The Alaska
Railroad up to 3:00 P. M. on the Third Mon
day in each month, for furnishing: Standard
Mountain Hemlock Cross Ties in lots of 10,000
or less. Specifications and other particulars
may be obtained from D. W. Metzdorf Gen
eral Storekeeper, Anchorapre, Alaska.
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