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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA,
SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917.
THE OIL LANDS.
That Secretary of the Interior Lane is doing his utmost to
bring about the opening of the oil lands of the nation is re
vealed by a letter which he wrote to Senator Phelan, ot Califor
nia, upon this important subject, and which, in part, reads as
follows:
“It. has seemed to me that to withhold such legislation as
the proposed general leasing bill, and thus keep over (i,000,000
acres of oil lands locked up indefinitely, because there is doubt
as to the policy that should be pursued as to part of one naval
oil reserve, is not the wisest course, as it would permit one
obstacle to master a truly national need. Therefore, 1 had
hoped that a plan could be developed by which these conflicts
could be avoided and a bill agreed upon that would, perhaps,
not be entirely satisfactory to anyone and yet be so reasonable
as to insure its passage by both houses. If it is your desire to
secure my personal view as to the wisdom of compromising,
as proposed, with the locators on the,one naval reservation
involved (No. 2), I would say that I can not property give such
opinion because another department of the government is pri
marily involved in such action.”
We gather from this letter, as well as from a further read
ing of the Congressional Record in which it is printed, that
the oil lands of the nation, those of Alaska included, are held
up just because there is a dispute as between private locators
and the government with respect to oil lands located in one
lonely oil reserve in California. In other words, the whole oil
industry is tied up, so far as further developments are con
cerned, much to the elation, no doubt, of the Standard Oil com
pany and, other great oil corporations that have almost unlim
ited oil lands that they own outright. It does seem that the
congress is remiss in its duty by not settling this vexed ques
tion. It is absurd in the extreme that a little dispute over some
little oil reserve should result in a jangle that, ties up for an in
definite period the millions of acres of oil lands in the United
States and its outlying possessions. Why don’t the congress
eliminate this one reserve, and throw open the vast remaining
oil lands, so that private people, other than the oil magnates of
the country, can have a chance to enter the oil industry? Six
long years have p»i*sed since the oil lands, by a sweeping order
during the Taft regime, have been withdrawn from entry.
While we are oposed to the leasing system, we are persuaded
that the congress will open these oil lands under no other sys
tem. Well, let’s have the leasing system then, and see what we
can do under that plan.
So far as Secretary Lane is concerned, he is alright on this
question. He is always alright. He stands for development
and progress, under proper restrictions, so as to curb the ac
tivities of the monopolists. The pity of it is that the congress
is not made up of men of the mental calibre of the great sec
re tary of the interior.
BENEFITS MAY FLOW.
The national congress has passed a bill creating a national
part out of that part of Alaska immediately surrounding and
including Mount McKinley, famed as the highest peak on the
North American continent. The passage of such a hill presup
poses that funds will be appropriated for the building of roads
and trails, so that sightseers may reach the park grounds and
enjoy the beauties of nature there to be found. Presumably,
a road will be built leading out from the government railway
line flom Talkeetna, about the most feasible point on the rail
way line from which to reach the Mount McKinley district We
suppose, of course, that the advocates of the bill had some
such idea in mind when they introduced aud carried to a suc
cessful conclusion the bill creating the park grounds. Tt, is
not reasonable to suppose that mere boundries are to be defined
and no improvements whatever made,- for the benefit of the
tourist traffic that could easily be attracted bv wide, publicity.
In the course of a very few years, we expect to see a large
tourist hotel located at some convenient point in the park
grounds, where guests may pass the summer months, in pleas
ure and recreation. To those wishing to get away from the in
sufferable heat of some of the states of the union, a trip to Mt.
McKinley would be a great relief and from the standpoint of
health, would be of vast benefit to them. There is hunting and
fishing at the.base of the big mountain; there are beauties of
nature unexcelled on*the round globe.' So much for the park
grounds.
The point we wish to emphasize in this article, is the fact
that a wagon road leading from Talkeetna to the Mount McKin
ley district would serve a two fold purpose. It would serve
the traffic to the park grounds and would provide, for the
greater part of the distance, a road to the Cache creek mining
district. Hence, agitation along this line would be of great aid
to the miners and operators in the big mining camp that lies
within the shadow of Mount McKinley. The present means of
ingress to the Cache creek mining camp is by way of the Su
sitna and Yentna rivers to the mouth of Lake creek, and thence
by wagon road a distance of 50 or more miles to the diggings.
The pew route proposed would lessen the distance to a sub
stantial degree, make the means of ingress and egi’ess less irk
some and expensive and at the same time give traffic to the
government railway line.
The Times has discussed the new route with Cache creek
mining men and without exception they tfavor the plan. Let
us bend our endeavors toward the building of a wagon road
from Talkeetna to the Mount McKinley district.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 3,1917.
Vol. 1. No. 194. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, 4th and D
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the ring for a bout with Jack Dillon,
scheduled to take place at Madison
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