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THE COAL TERMINAL.
The Seward Post appears especially exercised over the
matter of the terminus for the Matanuska coal fields and in
clarion tones, as represented by big type, calls on the business
men of the Resurrection bay community to get busy, to the end
that the coal terminal be established there, instead of at An
chorage. The Seward newspaper sought an interview with
Captain Mears, the commissioner in charge of railway activi
ties in the Anchorage division of the work, but the commw'ision
er very wisely declined to be drawn into a controversy as be
tween Anchorage and Seward.
The Alaskan Engineering Commission, we take it, is not
concerned in any rivalry that may exist as between Anchorage
and Seward. The members of that commission are charged
with the responsibility of building a trunk line railway system
and a branch line that will tap and open the Matanuska coal
fields. One of the strongest arguments in favor of the passage
of the bill calling for the construction of the Alaska railway
system was a vast prospective tonnage in the coal fields. Now,
it is distinctly within the powers of the commission to make a
selection of a point for a coal terminal. After looking over the
situation from every standpoint. Ship creek was determined i
upon as the logical terminus for the coal fields. Why? Simply j
because it is the natural, logical point. What would be said
of the efficiency of a commission composed of railway builders |
that would pass up a port like Anchorage, which is but 75
miles from the Matanuska coal fields, with a down-grade haul
the entire distance to this point, and make the coal terminal
on Resurrection bay, distant some 160 miles from the coal fields i
and with two summits to travel over, requiring the services of:
assisting engines? As a business proposition, the coal termi-j
nal will never be established at .Seward, because nature has |
placed two great mountains between that place and the coal'
fields.
If the coal measures in the Matanuska fields arc to be
mined and sold for commercial purposes, it is obvious that the ;
transportation cost from the mines to an ocean port must be
reduced to a minimum. This is self-evident and needs no elab- J
oration. Will anyone undertake to say that coal can be trans
ported as cheaply to Seward as to Anchorage? We think not.
Rut the Seward publication is fearful lest the government ex
pend a few hundred thousand dollars at Anchorage for a coal 1
terminal that can only be employed seven or eight months in
the year. Well, what of that? Tt will be a great many years j
before the Matanuska coal fields will produce a greater amount
of coal than can be handled from this port in seven or eight
months of the vear.
Let 11s assume that the eoal fields will produce five hun
dred thousand tons of the product annually. The freight
charge from the Matanuska fields to Seward will be at the very
least a dollar and a quarter more per ton than the cost of
transportation from the fields to this port. In one year, wo
state with emphasis and without fear of successful contradic
tion, the government will save enough to extend $500,000 for
harbor facilities and coal bunkers at Anchorage.
The policy of successful railroading comprehends the han
dling of large quantities of freight at the minimum of expense.
The Matanuska fields will provide the largest tonnage of the
Alaska railway project. Tt is the distinct duty of the Alaskan j
Engineering Commission to provide a coal terminus that will ;
make it possible to ship this coal product from the mines to j
an ocean port at the least possible expense to the coal operator.
The Alaskan Engineering Commission has chosen Sj)ip j
creek as the most available point, for the coal terminus. The ■
members of this commission made this selection without any |
reference to Seward or Anchorage. Tt would impose on the
credulity of thinking persons to assume for a moment that any
other terminal could be selected, all tilings considered. Nature
made Knik Arm the logical outlet for the Matanuska fields.
The founders of Seward should have selected a site on Knik
arm for a townsite. They had the first opportunity. Had they
been far-seeing men and acquainted with transportation prob
lems, instead of townsite boomers, they would have done so.
What if this port is closed for three months in the year?
Some of the greatest shipping ports in the world suffer in like
manner. Don’t ever think for a moment that transportation
men will haul coal over two mountain ranges just to get to lles
urrection bay, when nature has made a good port on Knik arm,
75 miles from the coal fields and with a down grade haul the
entire distance. There is reason in all things. There is a rea
son for the selection of Anchorage as the coal terminal. This
reason is obvious to those informed with respect to transporta
tion problems.
Seward will be the terminus of the government railway
leading from the coast to the Yukon river. There is no doubt
about that. And this fact will tend to make Seward a good
town. Anchorage has no quarrel with Seward. This com
munity has a most advantageous location. Tt can afford to be
geneous to its neighboring towns. Seward had reaped a big
benefit from the activities in the Cook inlet country. T t
will continue to reap benefits. Why, then, should that
town, through its newspapers, continually agitate against
ibis community, never losing an opportunity to knock
and belittle it. The Seward Post, in a recent issue,
makes the statement that the entrance to Knik arm is being fill
ed; that a certain steamer, (that got off its course) went
aground and was delayed until the tide rose before it could
reach the anchorage off Ship Creek. Therefore, concludes the
Seward publication. Ship creek is not a desirable place for the
Matanuska coal terminal.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1916.
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