diana paid $47,651,000, Texas
Corporation, $37,120,000, Stan
dard Oil of New York $32,234,
000; Gulf Oil $24,190,000; Stan
dard Oil of California, $14,272,
000. The efficiency and ease of
collection it is said “has made
this tax very popular.” In the
states where this tax is collect
ed it isused to build execellent
roads throughout the country.
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Senator Pittman Scores
Bureaus
From The Alaska Weekly
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“The bureaus of our govern -
ment have been so afraid that
someone might acquire title to
something in Alaska, that they
have made it almost impossible
for anybody to even build a cab
in there.”
This was a statement by Unit
ed States Senator Key Pittman
he will make a study of the sil
who left for the Orient, on the
Jefferson, to make a study of the
silver situation and market
conditions.
Senator Pittman stated that
for nearly thirty years he has
been trying to get back to Alas -
ka, and he recalled the day in
1901 that he left the Northlaml
in a “windjammer.” It was all
set for him to go to Alaska in
1914 with the late Franklin K.
Lane, Secretary of the Interior,
but the World War interferred
with that, and this year he was
appointed on a special commit
tee on Wild Life Resources in
Alaska, but the Foreign Rela
tions Committee decreed other
wise, and hence his present trip
to the Far East. However, he is
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ALASKA NATIVE
SISTERHOOD
President Mrs. A. McGilton
Meets Every Monday
Petersburg * * Alaska
planning a visit in 1932.
Must Liberalize Laws
“The war,” said Senator Pitt
man, “was responsible for drag
ging people out of Alaska, and
they haven’t got back yet, and in
order to properly populate wo
must interest tourists and sight
seers and then prospectors, and
capital to visit Alaska in the
next few years. I look for 100,
000 people to visit Alaska in the
next few years, and as tourists
are getting tired of Europe, they
are becoming interested in the
Far North. This is evidenced by
inquiries made at information
bureaus, steamship and railroad
offices and the Chambers of
Commerce throughout the coun
try.
“Congress has to be educated
into taking committees to Alas -
ka and laws will have to be lib
eralized to meet conditions and
amended so as to encourage
rather than to prohibit immi
gration. We have got to give
more liberty with regard to tim
ber for paper pulp, the locating
of mining claims and to do ev
erything possible to interest out
side capital in developing the
Territory’s resources.
Compares Canada’s Policy
“To a great extent we must
encourage and foster the devel
opment of our north country as
Canada has its northern terri
tory. Alaska can progress as
much as Canada’s Far North if
given the same attention and
encouragement. In Canada’s
arctic regions, if a miner discov
ers a prospect, a mining inspect
or is sent out to look it over, and
if he reports favorably and it is
figured that it has a good chance
for development, the Canadian
government immediately builds
a trail into the district and sends
a commission to record claims,
to assist and advise prospectors.
“On the other hand our gov
ernment gives prospectors no aid
Whatever, pp the contrary it ha
rasses them with all sorts of re
gulations relative to forests and
other matters under the control
of departments. These discour
agements force prospectors into
Canada instead of into Alaska.
Lauds Wickersham
“However, I believe there is a
changing spirit in this matter
and at no far distant date I ex
pect to see a great movement to
ward Alaska.”
Senator Pittman spoke very
highly of Judge James Wicker
sham whom he has known since
1895. “He is a good lawyer, ail
able man,” he said, “and under
stands Alaska thoroughly. He
has a great opportunity for for
warding development and in
that connection will have any
assistance I can give him either
officially and personally.”
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Trappers Object to
Sealing Rule
Anchorage Daily Times
The regulations of the Alaska
Game Commission pertaining to
the sealing of pelts are not
working out satisfactorily in the
Kuskokwim district, in the opin
ion of C. F. Hood oldtimer of
the Interior, who came out
from McGrath several days ago
with Pilot “Barney” Barnhill, of
the Pacific International Air
ways. He is on his way to the
States to visit relatives whom he
has not seen since the year of
the Alaska-Yukon exposition at
Seattle, having resumed his
journey south this afternoon.
The trouble with the sealing
regulations, Hood explains, is
that a representative of the
Commission is not always with
in reach when the trappers de
sire to dispose of their catcher
The furs are brought into the
different trading centers an l
left there as security for supplies
pending the arrival of a game
warden to do the sealing, li
happened at one of these trading