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TRANSPORTATION SITUATION
mall room for hopt
market] champ in
its present stat <
ie economic conditions which have brought
production and industrial stagnation. To
even t.sn.i! • ervatflon it is plain that the steamship conyismy aims at re
ducing its so; v ice to this section to the lowest possible minimum that can be
employed in handling the traffic and is hardly likely to recede from this posi
tion unless there is an increase in the volume of business. Where such an
increase is to come from is something that cannot be discerned at present by
even our most sharp visioned seers, hence the outlook is that the transporta
tion difficulties which have inflicted such grievous injury this summer will
probably appear again next year and possibly the yeai after.
Nome is, therefore, presented with the choice of. two. alternatives,
cither to put up with whatever service the transportation company is willing
t<» provide or to cast about for other means to meet her transportation needs.
As the first is entirely out of the question, no time should be lost in putting the
second into effect, Left to do as it pleases, the company undoubtedly will re
duct- its sendee to a spring and full run of the Victoria or some otheT passen
pW boat and will handle the remaining traffic with a few of Its slow and
antiquated ex-cattle boats. Furthermore it v
with any vessel. The argument offered by
do not warrant making a late trip thiis fall w|
or the year after unless there is an improveme
corrupany claims justify its application this y
probahly make no late trip
company that “conditions"
hold equally good next year
in the conditions which the
Raring such a change.
which no one can forsee, the company wil
it attempted t>» do in th^present season.
It is true that the present transportation demands of this section are
not ns great as formerly. Adverse economic conditions have admittedly
forced a marked reduction in the volume of local production and industrial
activity, together with a resultant moderate decrees.• in population. For
this reason there is not as much traffic as before. It is hard to discern, how
ever. where the company has been greatly effected by this condition. As a
result of the withdrawal of its sole competitor, the Piicdflc Steamship Co., last
Steamship Company now possesses a complete monopoly of
d is charging immensely increased rates on a
filer than that which was formerly divided be
fbe if-aflfic of this :
volume of traffic but little «m;
tween the two companies.
n q doing fully as well In th
or five years when the busine;
difficult to conceive that the company ;s
trade as it (Lid during the previous four
shared by a competitor. As a further
substantiation of the view that the season's trade has not been unremumra
tive. It may be recalled that the company would make no July jailing with the
nd no ves.v-I to Kotzebu. Sound. Roth declarations
the Victoria making a July sailing and the dispatch cf
this it will be seen that the company has
r.ot only done all the business it expected to do but also considerably more.
It is unreasonable to believe that the July trip of the Victoria or the present
■voyage of the Cordova were made if there was no demand for such service.
The truth is that practically full cargoes were carried by the two vessels
Victoria and would
have boon negated I
the Cordova to Kotzebue
Ihe indicated sailings and the company exceeded the anticipated volume of
business at least by the volume of those two cagoes. We. therefore, fail
to see wherein the company found "conditions” so bad. or could lose any
thing on a volume of traffic which so far exceeded expectations that it ne
cessitated two extra sailings of its most important Rering Sea vessels.
In attempting to make us believe that "conditions” do not warrant
former service the company is clearly trying to “put one o'
of bigger dividends.
h' interest
If it succeeds most of us may as well throw up the sponge, turn the
country over to the Eskimo and reindeer men and seek other fields. Fur
ther curtailment in ship traffic, and particularly the cutting off of the late
sailing, will work an Injury on every activity in the district and all but kill
the basic mining industry.
PETROLEUM AND OIL SHALE
In ;in Interview with a representative of a .Ww York paper. Professor
\ ictor C Alderson, Dean of the Colorado School of Mines, said: —
"This country must look its oil situation in the face. T^ast year the
1 nlt»ii States produced 36G,000,000 barrels of ortidie petroleum and consumed
4"C.OOO,nOO barrels, a shortage of 70.000.000, pro\ided in part by importation
from Mexico and drawing from reserve storage..
‘The price of crude oil is today the highest in history. IV'fore the
war I'ennsylvania crude oil sold for }3 a barrel. It now sells for ?0.10 a
band.Gasoline, the refined product cf petroleum, is now selling
at 33 cents a gallon. By autumn it will sell for 40 cents, and higher after
"This situat'on is not an economic one. but an exhaustion of nature,
according to Pi-ofessor Alderson. Nature, however, has come to the rescue
with oil shade—oil hearing rock—which must take the place of oil fields and
‘gushers' ar.d which brings oil production down to a manufacturing basis.
“The supply of oil shale in Colorado and Utah alone”, he declared
“exists in tremendous and unlimited quantities. In Colorado then"- is enough
of it immediately available for 100 retort plants using 2,000 tons a day to work
fcOO vears. There is seven times as much available oil a squan° mile from i
10 foot vein of oil shale as has been produced or will be produced from a
souare mile of proven oil ground. The shale crops out of the surface of the
ground In strata form. There is so much of its above the surface B t v.-e
^need not worry about the lower levels. Digging for it would ha ii'e'e-s
eerpense.”
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AIRPLANE MAIL
That the New York to Nome flight
Is in no sense a race is indicated by
the statement Issued at the time of the
hopoff at Mlneola Meld. It is a pioneer
effort to establish a military route
over the northwest corner of the Nort’i
American »*nntinent and to gather In
formation relative to the establish
ment of an aerial mail route in In
terior Alaska.
The cost of the flight to the Gov
ernment will run well Into the thous
ands of dollars. As a sporting event
it would hardly be justifiable. But if
it achieves only a portion of the ends
sought, as an investment it will l»e gilt
j fine of the greatest drawbacks t->
the Interior country as a place in
which to build homes, is its isolation.
Its enormous distances render it im
possible to establish a mail service that
will put its residents within even re*is
| enable connection with the outside
world. Bettors are months reaching
some of their destinations .and only
the more populous places have a tele
graph service, making other settle
ments entirely dependent on mail ser
vice for communication purposes.
If the New York to Nome flight re
sults in the establishment of a fast
mail service, it will have brought
about a revolution in the interior and
eliminated one of the most objection
able features of residence there. Its
coutse and the achievements made by
the expedition will be of utTfst inter
est and closely watched by all of Al
aska.—Juneau Empire.
JUNEAU IS PROGRESSIVE
The Juneau commercial club has
prevailed upon the municipal govern
ment to take an option of purchase
of the Juneau cold storage plant, the
only freezer on Gostineau channel.
This marks the first effort of the
business interests of Gastineau chan
1 nel to induce one of the larger fish
companies to make Juneau headquar
ters for the handling of large cargoes
of halibut and other fish. Juneau has
for thirty years been the greatest hard
rook enfrrop in the north. Back of gov
ernment assistance has caused a lull
in gold ore mining and Juneau busi
ness interests are seeking to establish
other industries to carry the metrop
olis over to such a time as gold mining
is again profitable. This effort np- i
■ parently has the united support of j
Juneau.
57.(tinted >. "he her:t of Alaska s
great fisheries. Juneau offers an ex
ceptional opportunity for inerers-’d
production. Those interested in se
curing locations would do well to get
in touch with Juneau business inter
ests. Juneau has both wealth and
enterprise. The busine.**; Interests at
Juneau are alive to the situation an 1
would be a factor if allied with some
large cold storage concern.—Seattle
Alaska Dispatch.
HOW EDITORS “FEEL”
The editor Is populnrly supposed to
see everything, hear everything, and
publish everything that is going on.
But sometimes he doesn't do it—
doesn’t want to see it—because, being
and trained to weigh all angles of
every question, he knows that it i*
better for the community if he does
not see it. The»o are many things
*he editor does not publish because
they contain no element of news, are
distressing to many innocent peop'e,
and their public.iPon could serve no
good purpose. Sometimes the editor
is criticised for his forebearance, but at
least some of his critics do not stop
to remer’be- that possibly the paper,
is just forehearing regarding an inci
dent or two of th» r own lives There
are manv t • tr considered before put
ting It in cold type. —Exchange.
ALASKA PAPER
INDUSTRY STARTED
(Alaska will soon be numbered
among the a rests which contribute to
the nation’s paper supply through the
establishment of a pulp mill near
Snittisham. ;nitont fifty miles south of
said to he exceptionally favorable.
Work on the mill was STartrd in
the early part of the summer by the
recently incorporated organization,
which has contracted for the purchase
of one hundred miiliion feet of lumber
FAIRBANKS TO MILL
TANANA WHEAT
Residents of the Fairbanks section
are probably now enjoying bread made
from wheat grown in the Tannna val
ley, as a result of the recent installa
tion of a small flour mill at Fairbanks
by the Tannna Valley Agricultural As
sociation. According to the August
15 number of the Alaska Bureau of
Publicity bulletin, in announcing the
innovation, offers the following apt
comment. "As late as ten years ago
the suggestion that a flour mill would
ever be needed in Alaska would have
been jeered and scoffed. ” The mill
cost $15,000 and ds Intended to convert
home grown wheat and other cereals
into flour for home consumption.
There Is a difference of only two
degrees In mean annual temperature
between Puget Sound and Sitka. The
mean temperature for Januery is 33
and for August 56 degrees, an annual
ran eg of only 23 degrees at Sitka.
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VOTE KOR
Hon. Dan Sutherland
FOR DELEGATE FROM ALASKA
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
VOTE FOR
Hon. John Rustgard
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
EJECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
VOTE FOR
O. D. Cochran
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
VOTE FOR
O. H. Flowers
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
VOTE FOR
Andy Anderson
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
VOTE FOR
Victor A. Julien
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
VOTE FOR
Jas. P. Daly
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920
VOTE FOR
Ed. W. Burroughs
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920
James B. Ivory
Independent Candidate
FOR SENATOR
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920
VOTE FOR
E. L. HOLT
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd. 1920.
I am out of politics.
I have withdrawn from the Senatorial race.
I thank all my friends for their support and I am indeed very sorry
to disappoint them at this time.
I have taken over the management of the D. E. Crowley Grocer Co.
and expect to remain In Nome indefinitely.
R. B. Julian
P. S. See news item in ^liis paper for further information.
VOTE FOR
James J. Bogan
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE, ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
Chas. W. Brown Jr.
23 YEARS OF AGE AND 19 YEARS RESIDENT OF NOME
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
FOR TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE AT JUNEAU
ELECTION TUESDAY. NOVEMBER Snd, 1!W>.
E. B. (Duffy) O’Connor
(INDEPENDENT)
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATI VE
ELECTION TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2mL TOO.