ALASKA RAILROAD
REDUCES DEFICIT
Reduction of $394,692 in the
deficit of the Alaska Railroad was
effected during the first nine months
of the current fiscal year, accord
ing to a report made public at
the Department of the Interior on
June 17. The Alaska Railroad is
under the jurisdiction of the De
partment of the Interior.
The deficit for the nine months
period in the fiscal year 1920 was,
according to the report, $011,608,
as compared with $1,006,300 dur
ing the same period of 1925. An
increase in operating earnings of
the railroad amounting to $107,901
occurred during the first nine
months of the year, while the
operating expenses were reduced
by $286,791.
Reduction in the operating costs
of the Alaska Railroad was accom
plished, the report stated, chiefly
through a decrease in the number
of employees. It showed that an
average of 122 less employees per
month were employed during the
first nine months of the fiscal year
of 1926 compared with the same
period in the proceeding year. An
average saving of approximately
$21, 796 per month in pay-roll
expenditures resulted, the report
stated.
A LETTER FROM
HENRY W. ELLIOTT
Washington, I). C.
June 26, 1926.
TO the Editor of the Alaska Fisher
man, Ketchikan, Alaska.
Sir: The following clipping, from
Juneau Daily Empire, June II,
1926, has just been received by
me, in this morning’s mail:
“Dr.” Elliot and the Alaskan Seals
‘‘Dr.” H. W. Elliott, who spends
his time in Washington, D. C-, and
pretends to be an expert on all
things Alaskan and particularly on
the fur seals, declares that Secre
tary Hoover is enthusiastically fos
tering a policy inaugurated by Secre
tary Redfield, his predessor, which
is destroying the Alaska seal indus
try. He is quoted as saying that
“the present indiscriminate slaugh
ter of fur seals is rapidly depleting
the supply.” «
“Capt. O,Connor, who recently re
turned from the Bureau of Fisher
ies Sea Patrol off Sitka, says that
actually the largest herd of seals
that has gone to Bering Sea since
the United States undertook the
regulation of the industry passed
Sitka this year. He estimates the
number at one million. There were
less than one-third of that number
of seals in the herd when the Gov
ernment took charge of the bus
iness.
“All the evidence is that “Dr.”
Elliott, as per usual is talking
through his hat. He seems to like
the sound of his voice.
This is the same Empire editor
who forged my name as “Dr.” H.
W. Elliott to a statement which
he published in the Empire some
two or three years ago, ag he again
now falsified it as above quoted,
on the 5th. instant.
I am not, and never have been
quoted by any reputable editor or
correspondent .as “Dr^’ H. W.
Elliott. The “Dr.”, and the state
ment made above are inventions
of the degenerate who publishes
them as cited.
Henry W. Elliott.
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