A COBliEOTiON
Last month, we noticed that William L. Paul said
he opposed certain discriminations pvacl iced by the Por
estry Department, and that our local loggers are
charged $1.50 per M for stumpage, while the same
timber is offered to pulp mill promoters for GO cent-:
for hemlock and $1.00 or Spruce.
The facts are that non-resident pulp promoters ar.
given five BILLION foot of timber as follows: GO cents
Per cord for Spruce and 30 cents for Hemlock. There
are 153(5 hoard feet in eacli cord. Allowing one-fourth
would give you about 1,000 board feet per cord.
The price is virtually the same, tovvit: 60 cents per
M. for Spruce and 30 cents per M for hemlock, while om
local residents men who are really PIONEERING, blis!
ering their hands to keep our present sawmills running,
are charged $1.50 for Spruce and $1.00 for hemlock.
It pays to be a non-resident, Mr. Forestry Bureau
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..PICTURESQUE “LON CABIN Ciil'UCH” .Juneau,
Destroyed by fire and now replaced by a
modern structure.
MEMORIAL DAY EORROTTEN
Except for the closing of a mile
Dor of stores and places of busim-s-;.
and pleasure trips on the .‘10
May in many places, it could not 0
‘-•aid that there was such a day as
Memorial Day, a day in which
v ommemmorate the spirit of heroes
of the past and in remembrance >c
i hose things for which they pai l
the supreme sacrifice.
Tt is a sad fact that too many
Americans look upon our national
In1:days as days upon which they
’"ust make “good money” from the
' ■ 1 le; days upon which to speed un
and drum up business rather than
days in which to stop in retrospec
tion; and days especially set apart
bv national enactment to keep alive
the spirit of those who had made
their supreme sacrifice.
In some quarters Memorial Day
is’ sacredly observed in honor of
(he lives which have been given to
keep alive those ideals which have
been passed down thru the years.
!t means to them a day in which to
hallow the memory of the honored
d ul by placing upon their graves,
a wreathe, a flag; and upon the
water a wreathe for those who
have honored their country and
flag
It is to be hoped that this purely
American custom will not he forgot
ten in days.—Petersburg ALASKAN
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Little Girl Mamma. I want ...
heavy breakfast.
ATother— How can 1 give you a
heavy breakfast?
Little Girl—Well, you told sister
Ala v to give me a light slipper, and
I didn’t like it,
TOO M.W V TKOLMOIIS
-t is reported (hat more (lia:i
fi.Odo (rollers will be al Port Ale-;
.''V’ii• r this snmmer. I'] .ideme i ■
non- a t hand i i:d iea I i ng that eve- .
o*!if’r l rolling ground will he w I
r’nwded with i rollers migrator
fly-by night birds from P u s_r > :
<(n:iid. And these t roller-; in tin .
backed by a strong organi/al ion. nr
cr.-wding local tishernian out of the
ft old.
These non-residonl trollers nv '
pvoteeted by “resident laws” in tli
States of Oregon and Washington.
\n Alaskan may not go to either
of those States and fish unless and
un’il he has qualified by residence
of one year in those States. The
men from those States come to
Ma.ska and by intensive fishing, de
p'-de the waters of salmon, tali'5
the r earnings to the Slates an l
lea ax* Alaskan trollers and business
men holding an empty sack.
The curtailed earnings of rex
dent fishermen makes living condi
lions for them harder; the resident
businessman must carry the (roller
th'-i/tigh a hard winter; wholesale
houses in the States are compelled
to clamp down on credits and it
order to protect himself Mr. Busi
ness Alan adds to the cost of opera
Hon and the resident foots the bills.
Fine buisness—NOT.
The Republican Candidates up for
ol( ction next November are pledged
to work for a “resident law” for
fishermen and a prohibitive tax >r.
those who migrate up this way with
the birds and go south in the same
way —Petersburg ALASKAN.