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GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.
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KILLING THE GOOSE
At a recent meeting of the Seward Chamber of Commer-,
ce the question of exorbitant freight rates on the government
owned Alaska Railroad again was brot to the front. While
we have not checked the correctness of the items mentioned
in the discussion we know enough about the subject not
to doubt the statements made. A receipted freight bill
showing that it cost $31.95 to haul one ton of hay from Mat
anuska to Seward started the discussion and brought forth
the statement from a local business man that he had paid a
freight bill of $15.15 to have a barrel of sauerkraut transport
ed from Fairbanks to Seward, whereas he could have order
ed the sauerkraut in Seattle and had it hauled to Seward
for $3.50, including wharfage. The man who encouraged
home industry by buying his hay in Matanuska would have
saved $16.93 by purchasing it in Seattle. The deduction to be
drawn from such a story as this seems almost too obvious to
mention. A railroad is built to develop a frontier country,
and a niggardly Congress insists on freight rates which de
feat the purpose and stifle the country. Neither the Alaska
management of the road nor the Secretary of the Interior,!
under whose jurisdiction it is operated, approve the rates
which were rammed down their throats on pain of refusal to
make appropriations for the continuance of operation.
The same mail which brought this story from Seward
carried a communication informing us that a colonization
plan for Alaska which contemplated an initial settlement of
100 families in the Matanuska Valley was almost certain to
be favorably acted upon in the immediate future. This will
eventually lead to the settling at least 500 families in this
farming area at government expense. If they are the right
sort of families they will make the type of sucdess which will
attract many times that number of people to the fertile gov-j
ernment lands of this district—that is, unless Congress de
cides to undo the work of the railroad builders by charging
rates for the hauling of commodities which make it imposs
ible for the farmer to market what he raises.
Alaska is due for a big year, and “there will be great
strides made in the development of the mineral resources
of the railroad belt. This, in turn, will create a market for a
considerable quantity of farm produce and livestock. The
district is facing just the type of prospective development the
roalroad was constructed to encourage. It is, to say the least,
decidedly incongruous to make a special rate on the trans
portation of farm implements and then make the rate on
the outgoing products of the farm prohibitive. Alaska is
today one of the few bright spots in Uncle Sam’s domain—
the one place toward which every informed person is look
ing with opitimism. All Alaska should concentrate on get-!
ting rates over the Alaska Railrod whcih will make it pos
sible for the line to fulfill the purpose for whcih it was built
—and this is the time to do it.—Alaska Weekly.
OUR TIMBER RESOURCES
A. N. Deonier, in a letter to the editor of the Alaska Fish
ing News says one forest has had time to grow up in Alaska
since Uncle Sam purchased it, and adds, “from the looks of
things two or three more will have time to grow up and fall
before the people are allowed to make use of it.” He also
says, in which the Fishing News agrees, “The forest service
is not responsible for this condition.” He makes another good'
point by declaring that use of Alaska timber would help con
serve depleted forests in the states. He also thinks the Al
aska fisheries shoulcThe administered by a commission, in
line with a thought given in these columns a short time ago
by J. R. Heckman. Let’s have more letters touching on in
timate Alaska Problems—Alaska Fishing News.
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