THEY ARE PLAYING HORSE
American and Canadian Tariff Laws Hamper Development of Countries
on Both Sides of the Boundary and Serve No
Legitimate Interest.
From the Skagway Alttskan.
Will the American and Canadian gov
ernments* ever cease to ]dav horse with
their tariffs and customs regulations? It
seems to he the settled policy of the
countries to vie with each other in de
vising schemes to make international
trade more difficult. First one country
promulgates a ridiculous ruling the sole
purjsose of which is to place an obstacle
of some kind in the path of a business
institution of the other country. Forth
with the other country strikes hack in
kind; and thus they go, each following
a devious course that would cause indi
viduals to la* ostracised by decent society
were they todeport themselves in similar
manner.
A case in point is the ridiculous re
quirement of the Canadian customs
authorities that an American vessel with
American livestock on hoard for the
the American Yukon must call at Van
couver to have the stock insi>ected be
fore it will he permitted to cross the
White Pass and go down tin* upper
reaches of the Yukon river, and the
equally absurd demand by the American
customs that places costly restrictions
upon the passing of livestock across the
eighteen miles of country between Skag
wuy and the summit. Both of these
regulations can have but one result—
they make food and work horses more
expensive on the Yukon and to that ex
tent hamper the development of the
countries on both sides of the interna
tional border. No legitimate interest in
either country is served to the extent of
a farthing, nor is any worthy purpose
benefited in any way whatever.
The American and Canadian tariff
laws should be entitled, “Acts for the
Purpose of Restricting International
Trade; Curtailing Profits of American
and Canadian Business Men, Artisans
and Agriculturists; Delaying Develop
ment, etc., etc.” They are today the
most nearly insurmountable obstacles
in the path of progress with which en
terprise and energy have to contend in
the north and elsewhere along the na
tional border.
In the interest of the American conti
nent and the people that inhabit it, let
us hoi>e that the day is not distant when
the tariff makers will forget to act as
children and exercise some of the com
mon sense in their law making that they
use in their every-day affairs.
IMMENSE WOODEN PIPE LINE
TO BE LAID IN NOME COUNTRY
Nome Go'd Digger, June 25.
“Our company will put water on top
of Anvil mountain in less than two
years,” is the statement tna«le hy I)r.
Arnold, president of the Wild (loose
Mining Company, today.
This means that when the company’s
gigitntic enterprise is completed a torrent
of water will he available with jiower
enough to wash down the mountiin’s
surrounding hills and vast areas of
tundra into Bering sea.
The water will he brought in an im
mense wooden pil*1, from "> to 10 feet in
diameter, from Crater lake in the Saw
tooth mountains, a distance of nearly
fifty miles from Anvil Hock. Three
forks of tliefirand Central river cut r
Crater lake, and it is stated by ex (sits
The official flag of the Alaska-Yukon
Poeillc Imposition has I een selected.
The color scheme is red, white and blue.
Kive stars on a blue field stand for the
I'nited States, Uussia, Frame, hiigland
and Spain, the live countries which tir-t
explored the territory included in the
scopr of the es|>>*iti«n. Mr- lh nrv K.
Heed, wife of |>irector of hxpl.it.ti n
Heed, designed tin* tlag. Mrs Heed sU>
arraugisl the official Hag for the la'wia
and Clark k.xpositu>n The prise
offered for the official de-ign for tlie ex
nstition was awarded to Mi-a Adelaide
ansroni, of ’Seattle
that even if during a dry season this
source of supply should stop,Crater lake
would contain enough water to supply
the pi[>e line for at least thirty days.
Ti e tube has a capacity of 4,000 miner's
inches, and will have a fall of more than
‘ItKt feet at its outlet, and 3,o00 horse
| ower.
l*r. Arnold stated that the water would
probably lie used to furnish electric
{tower to the dredgers, hydraulic eleva
tors, hydraulic mining and ditch sys
tems.
there will Is'enough |*ower and water
to mine the entire surrounding country.
The line will Is- completed to Nome
river this season, and will be rajii Uv
pushed to completion.
Junean Transcript, June 22: Ki-tiov.
John ««. I'-rady arrived in Juneau Sun
day morning by the steamer Humboldt,
direct from Itoston, on his wav to his
old home at sitka. The governor is one
of the la st known of all'our former ufl
rials, an<l it may Is- suid also that he
knows Alaska as well as any other man
in the country, lie will remain in town
until Wednesday morning, when he wilt
take pussugc on the steamer lieorgia
lor >itka, where he will remain f> r a
Mouth. N-> man is doing more to ad
vertise Alaska'* wonderful resources
than the m-governor,
MONEY ORDER
BUSINESS BIG
Issues for Past Seven Years by the
Rampart Office Approximate a
Quarter of a Million.
From July 7, 1900, to July 7, 11*07, the
postoffice at Rampart haw issued 4,700
money orders, for sums aggregating
$248,741. For a small camp this is a
very considerable sum, and every dollar
of it may be reasonably supposed to have
been dug out of the ground and to have
left the country not to return. Of course
it is small to what has been taken out
and spent by people going on visits and
to re-establish their homes in the States,
and is insignificant compared to the
amount sent out, in the regular course
of business, for necessary supplies.
The amounts by years are as follows:
Year ending July (5, 1901. $18,050
Year ending July (i, 1 902 29,223
Year ending July f>, 1003. 27,807
Year ending July (>, 11X14 . 35,807
Year ending July ti, 1095. 20,780
Year ending July 6, 1900 09,110
Year ending July 6, 1907 . 38,223
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where lie is prepared to do
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