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TERRITORIAL DIVISION.
There is a growing sentiment throughout the portions ol the !
Territory that contain its population in favor of Territorial division and :
the cause for such division is becoming more apparent every day Jr
former years the unfair manner on which representation in the Territorial j
Legislature has been brought prominently t«> the front at every session i
of the Legislature in. that divisions representing Jess than ten per cent of!
the population of tho Territory have half,.the voice in legislative .piatter
and tr>t fully half the money appropriated for the welfare and advan • 1
merit of the Territory, the other ninety per o ut of the taxes, having no j
more to say in the conduct of affairs and distribution of money than ii.iv.
thOH*t portions which have but little population and which pay pra« i iv I
nofhintr fovfrnfd tlie support of Territorial institutions.
And in addition to Territorial money, practically .tii the» J-.;>5
money ulloted to Alaska is spent in these same unpopulated and non
productive, communities. Not only is it spent there but is charged to
Alaska as a whole and Alaska proper—the portion thai h;i~ the r»<v**lOped
resources—never sees a dollar of it.
Th.* fact that the seat of the United States Land Oflio wr> narig
ed from the business center of the Territory to a location wh< r. more
homesteads have been cancelled in the past three years than hev. been
located, taken away from the center posse<«isng three-fourth; 11 the
quarts mining industry In the country, is ovidence tha* favo- fi*m s
being played and that if the business part of th*- Territory is to «••[> stop
with the march of progress planned and started for herself, s:h. must
cut loose from the dead wood and go it. alone. Solidly-founded inter
ests demand such division as do those contemplated tor tin future It
is the only hope for the business end of Alaska. Stroller’*. Weekly, of
Juneau.
The above article which is taken from the Cordova Daily 'limes
*nd originated from Stroller’s Weekly published at Juneau, is : revelation
as wei! as a surprise. That the editor of Stroller’s Weekly would write
or allow an article of such misrepresentation to be published is indeed
a surprise to tho people of Northern Alaska The editor and publisher
of Stroller’s Weekly was at one time a candidate for Delegate to Con
gress from Alaska, that fact alone after reading the above article, iff
a surprise, it is surprising tty^ a man who cither knows so httle about
the Territory, or who does nbt care to know, should aspire to being
elected to represent the Territory in Washington.
The editor of Stroller’s has with out any though* of th> ronse
quence of his article, misrepresented, not only a Division of Alaska, but
the entire Territory, for Alaska is not, or should not be thought of In
crtns of Divisions, hut ns n groat Territory. The article in question
•efers to other portions of Alaska, other than the Division desiring Terri
orial division. a< unpopulated, non-productive communities. and states
hat the portion of Alaska that has the developed resources never sees
i dollar of the Federal money alloted to Alaska, that statement is de
serving of stronger language than being termed a misrepresentation of
acts, and no doubt the writer of the article, evidently thinking, as
teems, that the other portions of the Territory were so ‘‘unpopulated”
hat there would he no come hack he evidently !«•! hi- fertile imaginfion
?et the upper hand.
We do not oppose the Territorial division of rh< First division,
hut do resent the fact that a paper in the First division deliberate';- mis
represents the population and productiveness of the other portions f
Alaska. When i becomes necessary *o knock certain portions of this
•■eat Ter.'lory in order to get what one small arei desires. »h»* S.iond
Division will draw the line. We of the S< -ond Division are not s» nar
row between the eyes that we believe that the people of the First Divi
sion sanciioii such an article as printed -n the Stroller’s Weelcy. It
s no doubt ‘.vhat the editor of that worthy publication would rail an
attempt t) facilitate the much desired divi-un of the Territory, hut had
ite stopped to consider the fact that he wan taking a mighty swing at
iin* real truth of conditions in Northern Alaska perhaps he would not
tiavo been so vttrolie in his attack on the “I Nl'OPl’LATKD NON-l’KO
DITCTIVK communities.”
The cost of the development <.f that portion of Alaska known as
the First Division compares In no way to what it would cost to develop
the vast areas of the Territory further north. The fishing industry
needs no good roads or trails, as i« the case in the mining districts. The
first Division is in constant communication with the Outside world by
open navigation the year round, which is denied the northern portion,
locked in by the frozen Berime Sea during the winter months, to make
a long story short, the First Division with at least on*- third the money
alloted the Second Division should be able to make developments, not
to be thought of. with the same amount of money in the Second division.
The editor of Stroller’s would, no doubt not hesitate to ask the
Federal Government at Washington for money to spend on the develop
ment of his respective division, hut he is skeptical about any money de
rived from the Territorial fund in his division beng spent elsewhere. To
the Alaskan who knows his Alaska as a good Alaskan should, the article
in Stroller’s Weekly which is referred to here, is no more than a direct
misrepresentation of facts made in Order t.. advance saltish desires.
When Nome. Alaska had a population of 40,000 people at one
time, and for a long time, a population of 1 a,000,. who then contributed
fh.- larger sum of money to the Territorial Fund? That question is easi
ly answered. , A c-asuyl reference to th- statistics of the Territory i
enough to. convince any ope of fair mind that Northern Alaska is any
thing hut "unpopulated and non-productiv
While the fact remains that the Second Division does not now
pity as much taxes as the First, Third m Fourth Divisions, that does
not prove the fact that, the Second Division is an unpoulated and non
productive division. Gold, which the lu.un product of the Second
Division is to a certain extent nan-taxable. After a certain amount of
gold mined by one individual or on< c ompany, there is a small tax levied
on the product, hut there could be thousands of small miners operating
and who would not exceed t he amount termed, non-taxable. and thereto) e
would not he taxed. This niamn-i of taxing the gold mining industry
was inaugurated in order to encourage the prospector and small miner
who after all are the real foundations of the mining industry in Alaska.
It is not our itnenjtuHi to 'attempt to show our Division’s super
iority over other divisions, but rather an attempt to disprove the gross
misrepresentation of the article print'd in Stroller- Weekly under the
caption of "Territorial Division."
The Nome Nugget stands for Alaska, as Alaska, first, last and
always, and not for one small portion alone.
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"P.ous statements. scientific discussion. ami political oratory will;*
Much that has gone befrn.- - summed up in this terse sentence!
from the recent statement or Secretary Herbert Hoover relation to !'
the fisheries ■ .f Alaska: and the whole-j>resent policy of the government j
in this respect is set out with equal candor in Mr Hoover’s declaration j
that ”oiir primary purpose is t.> restore tins industry. '
There is no lack of exp* i • nee upon which to draw in framing j
a fisheries program for Alaska: m. lack of. examples of the perpetuating
benefits of regulation and reasonable restraint, nor of the tremendous '
and irrevocable loss io be incurred by neglect. Nowhere is the const rust
more sharply shown than in th. Pacific Northwest. The fisheries of i
the Columbia River have been preserved; the fisher.es of Puget Sound (
have been depleted to the point of exhaustion.
No need to tefl- ini; detail just how these vastly different results j
came .bout The story.-is an op. n hook to Secretary Hoover, and to!
Bovernor Bone and his associates on Alaska’s territorial fish commission 4
mil th*- new'y appt>: ' d fisheries advisory hoard. There are plenty of
laiumn in 'h- ('oiuinh.a K.v. r an : ■ i**ni> more t<* come In later years;
^ b ‘ »•* th< ! in on ..-.heries o:' f’ugei Sound have been fished out. In
he one case thought has h*-.*n taken for the future; In the other case
in thought at all beyond fh»* uftn<»st l,mit of a single season's catch.—Ex.
Issorted I'mii, IV-nholdore, l^rad l’«sn iN. Ik'd and Black Ink and Tablet*
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