Machinery
For Alaskan
Development
The biggest bargain sale of machinery
in history is promised upon the com
pletion of the Panama canal. To dis
pose of machinery costing more than
$15,000,000 is the problem confronting
government authorities when the canal
is opened.
Although understood in a general
way, Colonel Goethals, superintendent
of the canal work, reports actual figures
bought since the United States began
digging the “big ditch.” Here are a few
of the principal items:
Steam shovels, 102; cars, 4181; loco
motives, 180; rock drills, 725; cranes,
79; dredges, 14; barges, 44.
Many of the locomotives and cars will
be useful in operating the canal and the
Panama railroad, but most of the
dredges, steam shovels and mountains
of other steel implements will be put on
the block for sale.
Secretary oi the Interior Fisher is in
favor of transfering much of the dis
carded machinery to Alaska. If con
gress does not authorize the federal
railroad in Alaska, however, most of the
Panama machinery will be sold for the
best price it will bring.
Colonel Goethals emphatically de
clares, however, that the French plan of
leaving discarded machinery to rot and
rust will not be adopted by this country.
Uncle Sam is too thrifty. Old, cor
roded, discarded machinery, once used
by the French in their attempt to dig a
canal were monuments of their failure,
lining the canal route until the Ameri
cans took charge. Some of the old
French material was used, but most oi
it was dumped into the jungle far away
from the excavations.
That much of this discarded machin
ery will be purchased for a song and
shipped to Alaska by private companies,
to be used in working the low grade
placers is extremely likely.— Tacoma
Times.
The minister of militia of Canada, in
a speech this week asserted that there
would be war between England and
Germany within the next six months.
The assertion, coming from a cabinet
minister, has created a great sensation.
f POST NOTES j
Lawrence Turner has been appointed
engineer for the quartermaster’s depart
ment. Mr. Turner is from Indianapolis
and arrived here last week on the St.
Michael. He likes the place and will
send for his family at once.
Those who attended the moving pic
ture show on Wednesday evening, state
that it was real good, but that the best
part of it was the music.
The quartermaster received $75,000
on the last boat and this is said to be
only a small part of the money that it
yet to come. The appropriation for
paying the garrison for 1913 is allready
here, but the money for paying them
now has not yet arrived.
The quartermaster this week has had
advertisements out for tenders to build
two relief stations between here and
Kokrines. The tenders will be opened
today.
Sergent Patterson late of this post is
now stationed at Alcatraz island.
The May Roberts Co. left Nome for
Seattle. Business was poor at Nome.
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