THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager.
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ALASKA MAIL
HANDICAPS
CiVocrosscd by airplane
routes. Alaska is the scene
of the most intensive avi
atiun jsiivity of any part
of America for a similar
population.
If New York had a> many
planes as F„1 banks on the
per capita bads they would
be so numerous over the
great American metropolis
at any hour of the day as to
form a darkening cloud.
The same applies relatively
to practically every Alas
kan aviation center.
Airplane travel has be
come so common here that
scarcely any other mode of
travel prevails away from
steamer, automobile and
railroad routes—which are
few. While handling all
this passenger air traffic &
a heavv and constantly in
creasing express & freight
ing business the planes also
carry mails under contract
between certain points a
part of the vear—mostly
during the winter.
With the end of April the
airmail service terminates
over most routes. The mail
must go bv the slow old pro
cess until winter—and then
much of it will be dragged
over the long, devious rou
tes bv slow methods of tran
sport, oftentimes reauiring
iournevs of weeks. While
*he mail subjected to such
slow and laboring methods
is moving tediously over
the old trails the passen
gers hurrv from point to
point in a fraction of the
time—most often making
the iournev in hours as com
oared to weeks consumed
in negotiating the land rou
tes.
Alaskans want their mail
immediately—and thev sho
uld have a service as spee
dv as that which thev en~
iov when thev travel bv
nlane.
The interAlaskan mails—
that is the mail originating
at Alaskan points and des
tined to Alaskan points—
especially should be handl
ed bv planes the vear round
Handling of outside mails
over plane routes is some
thing also greatly to be de
sired. But the handling of
interAlaskan mails especial
Iv should go bv plane all
seasons of the vear over
routes not served bv train
or boats. Alaskans want
their dailv papers from the
main Alaskan towns. Whv
cannot thev have a dailv
delivery or at least a week
ly newspaper deli v e r v
when thev have planes ply
ing dailv or weekly be
tween the Alaskan base cit
ies and the outlving points.
For example it now re
nuircs mail weeks to go
from Fairbanks to the For
tvmile. At the same time
olanes span the distance in
two hours. Manv other
similarAlask i route - might
Hnldini to the
old slow pi ace. s is a joke
and retarding Alaskan de~
veloomen’. Why not pull
the molt \v c out of
:\t . . A! iska » ■ ip the
n il h ■ It aps. 1 >t her
have s wires tint will
speed up her devc! mment
and multiply her produc
tion. Members of congress
mav object on the grounds
Alaska has no vote in con
gress-but Alaska produces
tens of millions of wealth
that makes a tremendous
market for those older com
munities and deserves the
best the federal govern
ment can devise.—Fair
banks Daily News-Miner.
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(Continued From Page One)
sec. 263) that prescribes the
form of license required
by boats for carrying on
the coasting trade or fisher
ies.
Under the existing law it
had always been under
stood that licenses issued
for the operation of a boat
in the coasting trade or
fisheries were considered
as alternative. However,
after the decision of the
Circuit Court of Appeals
in the cases of The Pueblos
The Monalola, and the Cho
claws, in which this was
held to be not the case,
the Treasury Department
notified all of its collectors
of customs that a boat lic
ensed for the “coasting
trade” would be forfeitable
if found employed in the
“fisheries” and that one lie
ensed for the fisheries
would be forfeitable if
found in the coasting trade.
Under such a construc
tion of the law, a boatman
would have to go to the
customhouse in order to
change from the coasting
trade to fishing. This
would result in a good deal
of expense and, particular
ly in Alaska, it would
mean a prohibitive loss of
time. There are many ves
sels in the Territory that
a-e used alternately for
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transporting materials and
supplies and then for fish
ing. Since the transporting
of supplies brings it with
in the definition of “coast
ing trade”, a boat so used
cannot legally engage in
fishing without first going
to the customhouse to be
redocumented.
In pointing out these
facts, Delegate Dimond
said that the hardship that
would fall on the Alaska
boatman would be so great
under the recent internre
tation of the law that the
relief provided by the bill
is imperative. The bill pro
vides that vessels of five net
tons and over entitled und
er the laws of the United
States to be enrolled and
licensed for the coasting
trade may be licensed for
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