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OFFICIAL ORDER CREATING THE LAND AND INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT
From Alaska Railroad Record.
ORDER.
(The Land and Industrial Department wa« created by the
following Order of the Chairman of the Alaskan Engineering
Commission, under date of April 12, 1916, and the Order Is re
produced In these columns for the Information‘and guidance
of all concerned. The headquarters of the Department were
transferred from Seward to Anchorage on November 12, 1916.)
By virtue of authority vested in me by the Executive
Order of April 10, 1916, there is hereby created a Land
and Industrial Department of this Commission, which de
partment will have entire charge, under the immediate
supervision of the Chairman, of the following subjects:
(1) Encouragement of the development of the natural
resources tributary to the railroad by bringing about a
closer co-operation between the merchants, miners and
the farmers.
(2) Dissemination of information to the public relat
ing to the construction and operation of the railroad, and
to furnish to the public reliable information on the natural
resources and possibilities tributary to the railroad.
(3) All questions involving the purchase of lands or
improvements thereon for terminal and station grounds
and rights of way.
(4) All matters relating to real estate and land im
provements thereon owned and controlled by the Commis
sion. .
(5) The withdrawal of lands of the United States for
townsite and railroad purposes.
(6) The designation of land for townsite and other
purposes.
(7) Co-operation with the General Land Office in the
surveying of townsites.
(8) The reservation of lots and blocks within town
sites for public purposes.
(9) The appraisal and sale of lots under the Alaskan
townsite regulations.
(10) The management of towns after the sale of lots
and all matters incidental thereto.
(11) The leasing of lands under the control of the
Commission.
(12) Restoration to entry of any and all lands which
may have been withdrawn for townsite or railroad pur
poses.
(13) Creation of timber reservations and the elimin
ation of lands from such reservations.
(14) Any changes in the public land laws and regu
lations thereunder.
(15) Any changes in the townsite laws and the reg
ulations thereunder.
(16) All legal questions involved in any of the above
subjects, and such questions of law as may be referred to
it by the Chairman.
All matters relating to the above subjects will be re
ferred to the Land and Industrial Department for consid
sideration and appropriate action, and such matters as in
volve major questions of policy and procedure shall receive
the approval of the Chairman.
The headquarters of this department will be at Seward,
Alaska, and the head thereof will report directly to the
Chairman.
Mr. Andrew Christensen has been appointed in charge
of this department, with the title of manager, and he will
be obeyed and respected accordingly.
WM. C. EDES, Chairman.
Approved: FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary.
HOMESTEAD ENTRIES MAY BE ALLOWED ON AGRI
CULTURAL LANDS NOT CONTAINING COAL
IN THE MATANUSKA FIELD.
Many inquiries have been made by persons desiring to
file homestead entries upon non-mineral and non-coal lands
in the Matanuska Valley.
An inquiry was therefore made by the Land and Indus
trial Department to the Register and Receiver of the U. S.
Land Office at Juneau concerning this subject. In re
sponse, Clay Tallman, Commissioner of the General Land
Office, has advised the Register and Receiver of the U. S.
Land Office at Juneau, Alaska, that homestead applica
tions may be received for lands in Township 19 North,
Range 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 East, and Township 20 North,
Range 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 East, Seward Meridian, in accord
ance with circular of September 7, 1909, the provisions of
which are in effect as follows:
When an application is received for any of the lands
within these townships, accompanied with the proper non
mineral affidavit, the Register and Receiver will advise
the applicant that he will be allowed thirty days in which
to submit such evidence as he can—preferably the sworn
statements of experts or practical miners, showing that
the land is in fact non-coal in character—and a request that
the land be reclassified. If such evidence is not furnished
the application will be rejected. Upon evidence being fur
nished, the application, together with the evidence, will be
forwarded to the Commissioner of the General Land Of
fice at Washington, D. C., for action. In the event the
showing made warrants, the land will be classified as agri
cultural land and the homestead application, in the absence
of other objections, will be allowed. If, however, reclassi
fication be denied the applicant may within thirty days
from the receipt of notice apply for a hearing at which
he will be afforded an opportunity for showing that the
classification of the land as coal land is improper, in which
event he must assume the burden of proof. If he fails to
apply for a hearing within the time allowed his applica
tion to enter or filing will be finally rejected.
RUSSIA’S NEED
FOR III OUTLET
PARIS, France—Following upon M.
Trepoff's announcement in the duma
that Russia’s allies had recognized
her right to Constantinople and the
straits, the Journal has published an
interesting communication on the sub
ject from M. Paul Miliukoff, the emi
nent Russian statesman, who is the
leader of the cadets, and who played
so large a part in securing the retire
ment of M. Sturmer.
Now that it is permissible to speak
of the matter, he wrote, it is import
ant that everything concerning v it
should be made known to the public,
for the impression produced in Russia
by a friendly reception of the an
nouncement will be beneficial. The
question of the Straits then, he ex
plained, is a great and vital one for
Russia, and dominates all others with
her at the present time, just as that of
Alsace-Lorraine does with France.
She does not consider that to take pos
session of the Straits would be an act
of annexation-the Russian empire with
its immense territories has no need of
fresh conquests—but simply the logi
cal and inevitable result of her social
and economic development. As a
national and territorial organism Rus
sia is not complete, and cannot be
until the day when the Dardanelles
becomes an integral part of her em
pire. The infirmity from which she
has suffered—especially since the con
gress of Berlin—and which has been
the cause of so many disappointments
and reverses for herself and her allies
during the present war, must defin
itely disappear.
We have made violent efforts, wrote
M. Miliukoff, to secure an access to
the free seas for little states like Ser
bia, for example. That free access is
still more indispensable for a great
power like Russia. Can our legiti
mate rights be contested? Can it be
said of our aspirations and—why not
use the word?—or our demands, that
they are inspired by a policy of con
quest. Russia, he pointed out, did not
agitate in the matter, and did not de
mand an immediate solution, so long
as Turkey remained sole mistress
of the Straits, and if she did so now
it was because the circumstances
had changed. Turkey had become the
humble and docile vassal of Germany,
and her fleet and her army were in
the hands of the lieutenants of the
kaiser. It was a question now, not
of a choice between Turkey and Rus
sia, but between Russia and Germany,
the invisible mistress of the Straits,
and that choice must be made with
out delay and without bargaining.
A proof of the intelligent and close
solidarity existing between the allies,
the Russian statesman continued, was
the impartial and friendly manner in
which they took account of historic
necessities, and made the vital and
imperious interests of one another
their own. Thus it was that the ques
tion of the Straits had become the
subject of a formal agreement, and
that Russia had received full satis
faction. Moreover, Russia’s posses
sion of the Straits would not mean
that they would be closed to free com
merce. The regime she would intro
duce would closely resemble that pre
vailing in the Panama canal, except
that, of course, the warships of other j
ocuntries would be rigorously ex
cluded. With this exception, com
plete liberty would be assured to in
ternational commerce both in war and
in peace within the limits defined by
Penha Garcia in his report to the con
ference held by the Inter-Parliamen
tary Union in Brussels. M. Miliukoff
also considered that it would be right
to accord to the other states along
the Black sea littoral rights which
were sufficiently extensive to permit
them to make full use of the Straits
without hindrance and with no dim
inution of their national interests, a
diminution which would be incompat
ible- with the dignity of independent
states.
The establishment of Russia in the
Straits, therefore, he concluded, would
but ameliorate the present state of
things; and perhaps it would even
help to facilitate the solution of the
other Balkan problems which form a
complicated knot, and which the Euro
pean conflict is also called upon to
deal with.
Abandoning his main theme to dwell
for a moment on this latter subject,
M. Miliukoff recalled the views he ex
pressed on the Balkan problem in 1913
as a member of the Carnegie commit
tee, and how he had maintained at that
time that the Treaty of Bucharest
with its unjustifiable spoliation of
Bulgaria, would provoke a universal
conflagration in the future. Events,
he wrote, have but confirmed my pre
dictions. ... I am profoundly con
vinced that if the treaty between Bul
garia and Serbia had been respected,
and if, by its violation, the Balkan
bloc had not been destroyed, this war
would not have been brought on the
world under the derisive pretexts
given by the central powers. Austria
Hungary would not have dared to at
tack little Serbia knowing that behind
her there stood a solid confederation
of the Balkan states. I do not mean
to say by that that the world war
would have been avoided, but that
perhaps it would have been post
poned . . . and, in any case, it would
have taken its course in different cir
cumstances.
The agreement of the allies with
regard to the Dardanelles, he added,
will solve only one part of the Oriental
problem. There still remains the
question of the Balkan nationalities, a
question of a most complex and deli
cate nature. In order to pave the way
for a solid peace in the Balkans, an
equitable and satisfactory solution
must be found for all the people of
the peninsula. That solution, if the
entente wants it to be really wise and
durable, must be sought in the light
of ethnographical considerations,
which alone permit of an equitable
adjustment.
SKAGWAY MEN MAKE
FIND OF MOLYBDENITE
SKAGWAY.—A molybdenite claim
discovered by Charles Cartwright and
Joe Guyot about eight miles from here
gives promise of being one of the big
gest and most valuable mines in the
vicinity of Skagway, says the Alaskan.
Recent assay tests made in Juneau
show values taken from this prospect
to run from $500 to $1,000 a ton.
A tunnel has been driven 50 feet
into the mountain side and the further
in it goes the richer the ore becomes.
This molybdenite was first discovered
in the surface rock and traced along
a blanket vein, 140 feet wide, for a
distance of more than one and one
half miles.
There are very few molybdenite
mines in the world, and the value of
the ore is great since it is a good sub
stitute for platinum and tungsten.
The metal is practically non-fusible.
The ore occurs in foliated masses or
scales, and is lead grey in color, with
a metallic luster. In feeling it is soft
like graphite.
The metal is used largely for hard
ening steel, especially the steel used in
the large fighting machines of Eur
ope.
Mr. Cartwright said that if they
could not bond their property to some
big concern, they would work it them
selves this summer. The process of
mining is very simple, it being the
crushing of the rock to a 20-grain
mesh, and the washing of it in sluice
boxes similar to placer gold mining.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The auditorium of the Alaska La
bor Temple may be rented for social
affairs and entertainment. Make your
bookings now at office in Labor Tem
ple.
Wood and coal delivered to any
part of the city. Phone 43-Y. Uni
versal Taxi and Transfer. 126 i
DO YOU WASTE MONEY?
Almost every one does. Bread east upon the
water comes back again. But when you throw
money away it mighty seldom ever comes back.
What’s going to happen to you when you have
no more money to waste? Why not open an ac
count here? $1.00 does it. - Doing it once a week
for a year means $52 to the good for you—and
the interest we pay you in our Savings Depart
ment. Try it for a few months, you will be sur
prised to find how fast your account will grow.
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