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ALASKA MINING INDUSTRY
Great news came from Washington recently in way of
the Dimond-Pope bill to provide aids for the mining indust
ry in the States and Alaska. With similar action in the Al
aska legislature and cooperation between the federal and
the territorial government, splendid results should soon be
achieved.
With all the reports of numerous memorials and oth
er bills introduced in the Alaska legislature this session noth
ing has been heard of any definite program being offered in
either house for constructive aid to the mining industry.
It is understood Senator Campbell of Anchorage ha
made inquiries as to what might be done to aid the industry.
and frorr that it would appear he has some plan in mind. It
is to be hoped he or other members will put over a definite
program before the close of the session.
The federal administration recently undertook the re
habilitation of the federal mining service with a neyviy or
ganized Bureau of Mines, and bills are now pending in con
gress to provide large sums for aids of mining operators.
Aside lrom hshing, mining is me major inciusirv ol ai
. ska. Furthermore, mining is th< m s' iustry of the ter
ritory that offers the largest possibilities in the way of ex
pansion and increase of the wealth of the territory.
If there is any industry in Alaska deserving aid it is min
ing. B D Stewart, supervising territorial mining engineer,
has been forced to struggle along with no staff and such
meagre funds he could not even organize l lie semblance of
a staff and scarcely get enough funds to cover tne main cen
ters of the territory each year. He recently outlined needs
of the territory in way of a mining bureau or agency, and
has made a special study of the requirements. He assembled
laws from all mining countries as to their modes of aiding
miners, of raising funds for the purposes, and taxation on
producing mines—and all phases of the industry and is con
versant with the needs, and has a comprehensive idea of
what other countries are doing and what is most needed in
Alaska. Conference by legislative members with Mr Stewart
should make it possible for them to formulate a definite pro
gram and put it over this session.
It will be folly to lot this important matter pass over
until another session, two years from now.
To place itself in the rank of progressive mining count
ries as far as aids and encouragement to the industry are
concerned, Alaska should have public sampling and testing
mills or works; placer and quartz drills available to prospect
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as other mining regions have; and an augmented geological
corps and staff of mining engineers and experts to advise
prospectors and miners.
The mining areas should be provided with more and
better roads and airplane fields; and should have the benefits
of lower freight rates on equipment and supplies and better
rates on ores to smelters, mills and markets. And Alaska
should §hare in the federal loans and other aids for mining.
All these and other benefits are richly deserved by the
industry. True, they will cost money, but the returns are
sure to be many fold the outlay. Revenues from the tax
which it is proposed to levy on gold and other mineral out
lays could be applied to the greater extent in providing the
aids such as suggested in the foregoing. If that rule were
laid down it would be found the miner w'ould have little
complaint to make against contributing to the government.
So long as he knows the government will help him he will
be only too willing to help the government and to pay his
hare of overhead for all territorial services as well as what
will come back to him as direct aids to mining.
A program should be formulated and put over this ses
sion of the legislature and if it is put over it will prove the
biggest piece of constructive legislation ever accomplished
in Juneau and a lasting monument to the credit of the pres
ent legislature.
With the introduction of the Dimond-Pope bill in con
gress, aimed at liberal aids for mining in all the states and
territories, movement is given a splendid start so far as legis
iation at Washington is concerned. It would seem that now
the territorial legislature can tie in with or supplement the
provisions that will arise out of any federal act. Coopera
tion between the federal and the territorial government
iiould give the desired results. Now that the matter is
launched at Washington, the territorial assembly can sup
a t the federal movement with much effect and between the
iwo lgeislative bodies Alaska should quickly realize a min
ing program that will bring her the greatest industrial awak
ening in her history.—Anchorage Times.
Administration In
Favor Of Retiring
Millions Of Acres
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 15 — Un
covering the extent of its operations
for the first time the Relief Adminis
tration disclosed that it held certain
options and would retire from cul
’ . ition four million, four hundred
and three thousand acres of sub
marginal land in twenty-three stat
es.
The Federal Emergency Relief Ad
ministration hopes to purchase about
seven million acres in all, at a cost
estimated at about four dollars an
acre- The land will be used for
game propagation and recreation,
similar to the non-crop growing
purposes.
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Soviet May Be Able
Withdraw Troops
From Border Line
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, March 15 —The ultim
ate withdrawal of troops from both
sides of the Manehukuan border, ap
peared as a possibility in view of
the statement issued by LitvinofF,
Foreign Affairs Commisar
Such an action would be “a nor
mal development” if the far eastern
situation continues to improve, he
said Russo-Japanese relations have
bettered very much since the agree
ment for the sale of the Soviet in
terest in the Chinese Eastern Rail
way was made. There is now a de
finite basis for hope of clearing up
the tense atmosphere between the
countries.
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