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AN ALASKAN “AUTHORITY”
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, who with two other
machine age senators,saw Alaska from a railroad coach,
said, respecting the Matanuska colony, in pronouncing
it a failure: “The experiment was worth every penny
of its cost, because it has proved once and for all that
Alaska is not suited for a large-scale colonization.”
Back in the ‘eighties' the East was saying the same
thing in effect, respecting Oklahoma. If we remember
our history, much sport was made of a signboard found
nailed to a sod house n the Oklahoma praire,which said:
SIX MILES TO WATER
SIX MILES TO WOOD
AND SIX INCHES TO HELL.
And six inches to hell turned out to be 1,600 feet to
a million-dollar oil well.
Of course we have no evidence of such underground
treasure because no one has tested the oil formation of
Alaska save in a cursory manner.
But many spots in Alaska have revealed equal for
tunes six inches below the surface in the form of virgin
gold.
No one knows what lies in the vast unexplored region
of the Territory awaiting the prospector.
The homesteader did not discover the mineral wea
lth of Oklahoma, nor did the cattlemen and sheepmen
discover the value of Oklahoma soil—the nestor—w’ho
followed the primordial system of soil culture.
Only recently a man struck pay while digging a cess
pool near Sturgis, S. D., by digging a few feet below the
false bedrock of Deadman creek, in a region beli^ed to
have been worked out a quarter of a century ago.
But possibly Senator Thomas is apprehensive that
some of the share-croppers—a sort of legalized slavery
in the South—will pull up stakes and cast off their bond
age by coming to Alaska.
This is one of the burdens of Alaska—seeing it from
a train window by men wholly out of harmony with
frontier conditions.—Seward Gateway.
BARGAIN
Mowcher—“How much do you want for that suit
if I Pay cash?”
Beerstein—“Twenty dollars.”,
Mowcher—And how much if I buy on installments?
Beerstein—“Forty dollars, and the best part is that
we only ask half down.”
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The Washington
News-Letter
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OFFICE OF A. J. DIMOND
Delegate from Alaska
(By J. J. ECKLES)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 6
i —In connection with the visit of
Hon. McKenzie King, Prime Min
ister of the Dominion of Canada,
jin Washington this week to dis
cuss trade matters between the
United States and Canada, Sena
tor Schwellenbach and Delegate
Dimond joined in a request to
the President to use this occasion
to speed arrangements tending
j toward early construction of the
part of the International High
way that will connect Alaska thru
western Canada with the United
i States.
! The Delegate said that in his
opinion the Hgihway project hold
the greatest possibilities for gen
eral development of both north
western Canada and Alaska of
any thing that could now be un
dertaken. He also pointed out
that building the Highway will
greatly strengthen the admirable
bonds of friendship and sympa
thy, both economic and moral,
that have always existed between
the two countries. ,
It is understood that the location
and construction of the Highway
is now being held up only on ac
count of the problem of financ
ing that part of the road that will
be in British Columbia and Yu
kon Territory. As this is the
lonnest section of the route that
will probably be chosen for the
Highway the larger part of the
cost will result from this constr
uction, and since it is apparent
that Alaska and the United Sta
tes will enjoy a greater benefit
through the completion of the
highway than Canada will, the
view has been advanced that our
Government can properly cooper
ate in financing part of the Can
adian construction.
It is known that the President
is sympathetic toward construc
tion of the proposed Highway and
it is hoped that the Premiers call
at the White House will result in
something substantial being ac
complished in getting the work
under way Senator Schwellen
bach, Dr. Gruening, and Delegate
Dimond have also tried to ar
I range for a conference with Pre
mier King upon his return to
i Washington a week or two later.
The Northwest Aviation Plann
, ing Council has announced its i
next conference to be held in1
j Boise, Idaho, on June 17, 18, 19.
[ This is an organization which
| aims to harmonize airport con
struction and air route plans of
the Northwest with the Federal!
military and civil air program &
: secure the construction thereof :
[ through the unified support of
Government department officials
and the Members of Congress &
! Senators of the interested States.
At the last meeting of the Nor
, thwest Aviation Planning Coun
cil, which was held in Portland,
I Oregon, representatives were pre
sent from Alaska, Canada, and
the four Northwest States. Reso
lutions were then approved re
commending the establishment of
an air mail route between Alaska
and the United States, endorsing
Cavey’s Bakery
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the Alaska airport program to be
constructed at an estimated cost
of $2,900,000, and also urging a
central military air base for Al
] aska as the initial step in the
i Army air defense work. Contin
ued endoremcnt of the several
aviation projects for the Terri
tory should be of definite value
in obtaining the needed facilities
and in order to have these needs
presented for inclusion in the fur
ther endorsement of the North
west Aviation Planning Council,
the Council has invited all public
officials of Alaska and- of Alaska
towns to attend the conference
scheduled at Boise. Where offic
ials find it impracticable to at
tend it has been suggested that
they delegate some other A’as
kan who may be in the States in
June to represent them at the
conference.
At a lecture given in Constitu
tion Hall in Washington this
week, Father Bernard Hubbard
gave an accurate picture of Alas
ka as it is. The Glacier Priest,
as he is generally nown, did
much to dispel the idea so many
people have that the Territory is
an icy barren and to'.d of the
modern cities, the producing
farms, the industries and the na
tural resources that are really
representative. In speaking of
the colony at Palmer, he said that
many unfounded rumors have
drifted back to the States about
the project, but that ’’’the land is
good enough for the people if the
people are good enough for the
land.” The lecture was illustrat
ed with sound pictures.
Father Hubbard is planning to
spend a winter on King Island
in Bering Strait, to record on
film the customs and language of
the native people. He iteds to
take a 75 foot boat that is oow
under construction. The boat is
being made of stainless steel and
will have sheer welded seams so
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