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THE cons'* SOURCE OF TKIUUTOfUAD REVENUE.
There is food far though* in the figures fpirbttshed by the Time*
bra days aso, giving the (relative (percentage of revenues irSdrgksfiaETAe
racenfy, giving the relative percentage at revenues derived by the Terri
tory Crain Its four divisions. That the Third Division contributes by fair
the greatest percentage of revenues from ail sources in the Territory is
dhowu by the report of the Territorial Treasurer. Of all the fisheries
taxes, contributed by the First and Third Divisions, the Third Division
tarns to 53.47 per cent as against title 46.53 per oent of the others. Of
the revalue from mining the Third Division brimgB an far and away the
preponderating amount, 83.43 per cent of the whole coming from i“/is
serfdom. Of the poll tax the Third Division turns in 11.68 per cent more
than all other districts combined. Only in taxes on furs does the Third
Division fall Short of amy other, conning In a close second to the Second
XMvtatan. And of all the revenues from taxation in all Divisions of the
Territory (the Third DivAsioo stands weB ahead wffth a percentage of1
To the plaint of the First Division that it has borne the burden of
the Territorial (taxes, carrying the Territory on its shoulders, this Us
doaure wIM undoubtedly come as a startling dtaUusionment. It 1s put
■mother teetSmoniail in favor of the argument for such a division of the 1
Territorial administration as w*IH give the Third Division a more adequate
tad efficient control of and benefit from its own preponderating e.nter
Apropos the recent controversy over the extent of the fishing in- :
dutsrry there is IhteresCing information in the statistics showing that the
•revenues accruing from that source were almost three tifmee as great as
that from any other, the Territorial Treasury profiting from it from Jidy
lat. 1$1« to Debember 31«t, 1622, to the amount of $1.850,433.3tf.—
Cordova Times.
BROTHER THOMPSON STANDS BY.
There's awful war over on the Coast and south. 9aottlIawards, be
tween the newspapers, over the location of the Capital of Alaska. The
Cordova, Times wants tit at Cordova, which is reasonable, and the Juneau
and Ketchikan papers wish 1t anchored there forever with an expensive
Gwpiftol bunding, and the fight is on.
Under (natural conditions it would not be for us to mix in this
pipofrieet war, and we would not do so, but thatt in the effort (to escape
from the ignominy of being “near Alaskans” spending chelT toe and
money hi Seattle, John Troy says that the AJaskam who do that come
from Fairbanks! When anything hike that te daM of Fairbanks, peace
begfas to disturb our mAnd.. We. therefore, unhearfatiingfly state that
from reading both sides of Che controversy and having known Alaska
fur a quarter of a century, we wftl put in with Harry Steel and go so far
as ito say Chat or the two of thorn Harry ha* Due facta and -the right on bis
There is enough of truth to make a fearsome- Me out of John's
cuntemttijans that Juneau and the Cordova, section- or any ocher section of
the real Alaska compare 4h the nrafite-r of hard rock mining, copper pro
duction- and the like, fbr whereas the miines of the Cordova sent ion aire
producing daily and will be producing daily for generations yet to come,
the prod tiding mines of the Juneau camp, which -never did produce in
any but the lowest of low-grade ways, have ceased to produce and their
mocdiinery is ail being shipped away from there and their mines abandon
ed. Juneau is a has-b<*Mi if it ever was -Cordova and Alaska are "com
ers” which has aJnrived good and plenty. Juneau has been the cemetery
of Alaska hopes for half a century, and it would dfeease the real Alaska to
longer hang cmto that "dead one.1' The .soonor Alaska beicomen Alaska :
and Juneau is ccnnpdDled to swath itself only in its own peculiar camou
flage, the better itt will be for Alaska.
Day by day, in every way. Juneau is getting lessor and lesser, and ,
the leaser it gets the worst it propagandas and hOtters for recognition
;i« being A'lasakn, which it isn’t and nover was and never w*IH be. John !
« past-master in writing that propaganda fo r"TatthoPts,” having gradu- j
ated in ilt at Skagway. If we could assimlKa>te just three drinks of the !
stu which makes John write that way, we could write stuff which would j
make the circulation of the News-Miner greater than that of the Bible. I
Y*t from all we have heard, or a<H we have learned, you wouldn't have !
to tear John’s clothes to get him to leave Juneau - -just a fair price for
his interests there and John would be on his way.
Juneau reminds us that of returns from Territorial timber which
happened to grow in the Juneau section the other three districts of Alas
ka each got a quarter of the money. Why not? The basts of Juneau’s
wEFltagness to divide the territory is that Juneau might fall heir to natural
wealth which is the property of all the Territory and all the United States
now, and Juneau cam see where any opportunity to "dean up” is an oppor
tunity devoutly to be Sought for by Juneautt.es. Time will divide the
Territory, as It has been divided sfmoe its birth by natural conditions and
mteredto, and when it does what 1s left of Juneau or all that Juneau will
thereafter be wiM be one of the smarter assets of Seattle—Fairbanks
Mews-Miner.
Down in S(?aitfk; Uhey are planning to form a third 'political party,
to accomplish local reforms. Arnd among the projectors is William A.
UibnoTo, formerly Mayor -of Nome and 'long prominent in the councils of
the Republican (party. He was a delegate to the Republican National
Convention at Chicago in 1916 and was one of the right-hand bowers of
Prank Hitchcock in bringing about the nomination of Judge Charles
Evans Hughes for President. Had the Republicans succeeded in defeat
ing President Wilson that year it was understood that Judge Gilmore
would have been appointed Governor of Alaska.
Galll an try consists in carrying the mast empty things in an agreeable
manner.
AIASKA—\ l/A\l> OF KKSKKVKS.
Recent telegraphic advices Htate that a tract of twenty million
acres of land—where. it was not stated, have been withd-jw;i ri*t>in entry
in, Alaska to form a Naval Oil Reserve.
These reserves are not uncommon in other portion.- -j< th - couutry,
whore government land a-rwl oil exist together, one of which, covering the
Teapot Dome in Wyomtog, havmg come in for ntore or k«w notoriety of
laito. We Ml] frankly admit Chat we have not d-ug very deeply into the
wTiys and wherefore of these nav*al reserves, hut their apparent object is
to place in the hands of some government officials the power to lease the
reserve to some favored corporation, and of course there are numerous
means by whnch such favor is obtainable, though far be it from us to even
insinuate that there is anything involved other than brotherly agection.
What we started out to say, however, is that Alaska is fast becom
ing a land of reservations—Bird reserves. Forest reserves. Fish reserves.
Coal reserves, Oil reserves, Indian reserves and others too numerous to
montfiom.
Alaska is some sizable country, and the lopping ofT of a few million
acres here and there don’t make much of a showing when deducted from
the total acreage of the Territory, but there are quite a few acres in
Alaska that are not part he u far ly attractive to settlers, and these acres are
not -included in any of the reserves to date.
If we want to out a few trees for wood to keep the bean pot boiling,
we have to seek permission from some federal bureau; df we want to mine
a little coal to keep the wtiife and kiddies from freezing during the w fin ter,
we have to send to Washington for permission; If the old standby, bacon
amd beans becomes unpalatable and we seek a change, we have to send
to Seattle to get permission to catch a salmon; if we want to harness a
stream that is going U> waste and put it to work at something we have to
make application to Washington and if the circumstances are propitious
we get consent.
So far there have been no air reserves, nor do we have to get a
perm-fit to drive a well and use the water which the old -pitcher spout pinup
brines up, but no doubt, if we are patient, these will come fin due time.—
Valdez Miner.
While some of <rar statesmen and scientists advocate the tunneling
of Bering Straits im order that thru trains may run from Chicago to
Peking, China, its it not possible that airships may eothre the problem amd
hop off from Nome to the mainland of Asia.
A 'thing that makes the Hired business man more so is to go to a
theater and have to look at ti lot otf advertising on the screen when he
has paid his money to see a picture.
If you can’t reach the grapes, don’t cry “Sour"—try a stepladder.
Criticism should never exasperate us. On the contrary, it should
benefit us, and even occasion ally amuse us.
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