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AIjABKA'S OPPORTUNITY.
Tile suggestion that the Alaska legislature pass a bill governnng j
the salmon industry is one of the beat solutions that has been otferedto 1
the vexatious question. Incidentally it inaugurates a step in the direc- ,
tton of home rule. Pt is now uip to the legislature to demonstrate its (
ability to solve domestic questions without the aid of Washington All j
that is necessary is the passage of a fair and equitable measure guaran- !
teeing safeguards for invested capital, protecting »the rights of Alaskans
and adopting some means of saving the salmon from depletion.
The major question confronting the legislators is not the number
of canneries permisisabin. but the matter of prevention of destruction of j
fish. Coupled with this is some system whereby those entrusted with .
the duties of enforcing the law will be emancipated from all courtesies *
and favors of those engagt*! in the canning industry. II reports are ;
oorrect. this is one of the most flagrant evils in connection with the fish- 1
cries question. So long as inspectors are compelled to accept courtesies (
in the way of transportation, etc., just so ioug will the human impulse
overshadow the str^tf. lujter of the law. The inspectors should he pro
vided with transportation by the way of U. S. craft. There arre hundreds
of such boats lying off southern winter resorts and hovering near the
fashionable centers that would be bettor engaged patrolling the water
of Alaska.
Dereliction in law enforcement does not imply corruption, it is
the natural! result of this very faiilure in giving the officers independence.
Large traps appear to be another eviil that must bp dispensed with,
but until some system of providing fish for the pack is worked out inter
ference with the traps can only extend to the number of fish packed.
This may eventually be overcome by substituting for the trap a netting |
system, the price of the fish being agreed upon for a period of years, to j
fluctuate with the price of canned salmon in the same manner that the '
miners have adopted as a wage system in the States. This would insure '
a fleet of fishermen, whose families wouJd lave in Alaska instead of the
objectionable system of bringing in Chinamen and wharf rats.
The action of the legislature will he watched with keen interest,
both at home and abroad and on passing a just and fair law will hinge
the matter of future delegation of domestic questions to Alaska for
solution.—Anchorage 'Times.
RAILROAD FKraiKKH ARE ESSENTIAL.
Twenty years ago some Denver capitalists seriously considered
the project of building a railroad to run through the northern country
to a .point called Cape Prince of Wales, in the neighborhood northwest
of Nome and then to .bridge or tunnel across Betting straits to Russia.
Now prominent engineers again advocate running a tunnel under Bering
Straits so as to make possible a railroad to run from ^Chicago to Peking
without change of cars. All of which suggests that in time Alaska will
likely be a network of railroads, .which will prove of material aid in the
development of the potential and rich resources of the territory. The
completion of fthe government railway that runs from tide-water at
Seward and Anchorage to the interior at Nenana and Fairbanks w-i 11
prove of incalculable value as time goes on. bu*t it will !>«• necessary that
branch lines be constructed as feeders in .the development of a rich
mineral and agricultural country. Whether this be done by the govern
ment or by private capital the necessity for such construction cannot long
be overlooked. Likewise-, as time goefe on there will be manifest neces
sity for the extension of the Copiper River & Northwestern railway, as
well as for numerous feeders. This lin* now runs 19fi niii-les from tide
water at Cordova to Kennecott. where are localttMl some of the richest
copper mines in America. There-are other valuable contiguous properties
that must soon be reached by the railroad while in the White river coun
try beyond there is much mineral that, bull awaits a means of outlet to
materially increase the supply of Uncle Sam's minor a I that is now grad
ually declining in volume. In the general discussion of "What's •he
matter with Alaska?" the great, necessity for additional railway facili
ties must not be overlooked.—Juneau Capital.
KYIIIKM’K OF IMMMillKSS
As .shown by the annual report of the Collector of Customs for
Alaska, (here has been a .4toady, if not inflated .growth in a 14 lines of
business with the volume so evenly spread that no particular resouVce
may claim great advances over anc-ther. such as sudden production of
large volumes of precious meftaJs, etc. Bvudduce -that the railroad belt, or
the thii’nd division, has passed through iits ^lowesft. level of business re-1
action and emerges in 1922 on the ascendancy with the outlook never
brighter for continued forward progress fn&y be noted in all phased of
the report.
As has been poiinted out from time to ‘time. It he success of fhet
territory does not binge upon some sudden boom or sporadic epoch of
prosperity so much as upon Mia gradual growth of industrial development
with civic progress keeping pace. Under this latter system what is devel
oped remains perniane-ift. and supplies a basis upon which business can
estimate atnd labor can plan for the future. Of the industries developed
and developing not one may be «fciid to be (threatened fwiikh the smallest
element of retrogression, but on the other hand each year should see
them grow .in volume of output an*l labor employed.
These conditions make for security in every Iritie of endeavor in
that the element of speculation ife removed ami the individual ,may shape
hfs conduct with a full knowledge that there can be no disturbing element
to thwart hiis program.
Man Is no Angel, neither is he as black as he is painted. The best
plan iis to-believe the best of 'him always, or at least until -thej other has
been proved, blit proved by hard, cbld facts, not hearsay. gossip or cir
cumstantial. for the last of these has condemned many an innocent man
and woman and hanged ot a few of them.
By the fimilrtion of the gr«stt bridge over the TUnana river, eon
jcf ruction of the Alaskan railroad in finished, ami the (operating authorities
j are now in roll control. It i* interesting to nor*- th:*f this great work is
j another instance of the capacity often found in the enlisted men of the
j LTKed Stat.ee army, in which capacity ,C\don«I Meats entered ihe army dur
ittg the Spanish-American war. Colonel Means has had charge of con
st ruCrto-n fro.ni the beginning, except during the great war. when he was
rendering still more important service in France.
The building of this road has not on*!.v made accessible valuable
deposits of high-grade coal, buttiias opened up the great interior of Alaska
to pf.rmanont settlement, Impossible on any important scale without mod
ern moans of comm unit ration. Tt would have been done more gradually
by private enterprise, but the road would have bee.n no such road as the
government has built. Pf has been built to stay And we shaW begin
to hear from Alaska pretty soon as w-* have not heard before. Alaska
is likely to become the horn- of iflhe nfost virile and competent of the
This cost of the road, in round figures. was $56,000,000. To pay
5 per eont net on cost W must yield, lafter all charges. $2,800,000 a year.
Although it is the one completely untaxed road in the United States, 1t
wfll be a long time, befinre if js a net revenue producer to thirt or any
other important extent. But it will open u.p a new continental area to
settlement, and the values thus created will be taxable. For the present
its .main business will be haulmng ores and coal.—-San Francisco Uhronicle
WORDS OF WISE MEN.
»Sorrows are milestone*; on the road to wi.^dom.
A good excuse is better than a poor reason.
On big difference let weeiu the famifly and t he sp<*cialiat is the prhe.
Will power plus won'1 power equals do power.
Narrowness of iniimd is often the cause of obstinacy We do not
easily believe beyond what we see.
"Married troubles" are so-calMed because "troubles never come
A good theatrical producer has Ik-coi know to make a laughing
success out of a crying shame.
A lot of '“lady-killers" do their killing by causing women to laugh
I hem Helve- to d<*i.th at them.
'ftike care to be au economoat in prosperity. There is no fear of
adversity.
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