reasons are these, the mills are not modern and
the cost of transportation to main transoceanic
lines is prohibitive.
The Immediate Market
The market is ready for exportation of logs.
The hemlock is a drug on the market, but has
a good price for export in large quantities. Spruce
is in limited demand here, but unlimited demand
outside.
Hundreds of loggers with a payroll of two
million dollars could be at work next fall and win
ter, if the Forestry Department would issue per
mits for export for the period of one year.
We Are Criticised
We are criticised for this suggestion and are
told that the policy of the Forestry Bureau has re
sulted in what development Alaska has, and has
forced pulp mills to come here.
We answer that this policy has not been re
sponsible for a single mill in Alaska, and even
those mills that have remained are confessedly in
a bad financial position.
Suppose the Salmon
Raw salmon is exported without restriction.
Why not logs?
Even the canneries which produce the “fin
ished product” IN Alaska do not support the argu
ment of the Forestry Department because about
the only good Alaskans get from these canneries
is that the cannery supplies the market for the
raw salmon. Everything else is done by laborers
“from Seattle.”
Hardly a single resident of Alaska is employed
in a herring plant. Has the Einpired “yelled”
about that?
Virtually no resident is employed in the “west
ward” canneries. Wherein does Alaska benefit?
Has the Empire protested that condition? What is
the difference in this from the exportation of
logs?
But of course, the Juneau Empire enjoys kiss
ing the feet of Bureaucracy while at the same
time it shouts for “full Territorial government.”
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NEW CHIEF OF THE ALASKA BUREAU OF
EDUCATION
Announcement has been recently made by Dr
W. J. Cooper, U. S. Commissioner of Education, of
the elevation of Charles W. Hawkesworth to the
position of Acting Chief of the Alaska Division for
the Bureau of Education. Jonathan H. Wagner,
has resigned, giving as a reason the transfer of
headquarters to Juneau, and his unwillingness to
bring his family to Alaska.
Mr Hawkesworth has been connected with
the Bureau of Education for many years, being
probably the oldest employee in point of resident
service. In 1908 he went to Point Barrow to take
charge of the Bureau’s station there. Four years
later he came into Southeastern Alaska to the
newly established village of Hydaburg. For the
past fourteen years he has served as District Su
perintendent for Southeastern Alaska, with head
quarters at Juneau.
Mr. Hawkesworth’s appointment is coincident
with the removal of Coe central office of the Bu
reau to Alaska. It is understood that the purchas
ing- and disbursement offices, however, will remain
in Seattle. The transfer cf the administrative of
fices, however, will provide closer contact between
the executives and the rhiools and medical service
which is maintained b 7 tire Bureau, in Alaska for
the Indians and Eskimos. The office equipment
and supplies were brou iit north the latter part of
eune, partly on the Boxer and partly by steamer,
and offices will be established in the Goldstein
Building in Juneau.
The members of the Seattle staff who came
north were J. E. Click, who was accompanied by
Mrs. Click and their three children; Arthur Miller*
accompanied by Mrs. Milelr; Virgil Fulton, Miss
Olive Trowcr and Mrs. Emma R. White,
Mr. Hawkesworth’s long expei ience in Alaska
work and his well-known sympathetic attitude
toward the native and his problems point to a suc
cessful and helpful administration.
TROUT BOUNTY HELPS INDIANS
“Commenting on the federal bounty of ridding
the Bristol Bay salmon spawning areas of the pre
datory Dolly Varden trout, with a bounty of 5c
each on trout tails, Hon. Geo. A. Parks, governor
of Alaska, makes the following interesting com
ment:
“The Bureau of Fisheries arranged for the old
er natives of the Bristol Bay district to take the
trout. They were paid in cash if they desired, or
in staple merchandise by local storekeepers. In
the past, not a winter has gone by when we have
not had calls for relief of destitution among these
people. This year, despite the fact that the fur
catch in the district has been almost a failure, the
few thousands of dollars coming in to them from
the taking of trout, together with this additional
supply of food, has enabled them to get through
the winter without either the territory or the fed
eral government being called on to render them
material financial relief.”—Pacific Fisherman.
(Editor’s note:—There is no real merit in help