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editorial page
The Washington Post is printing
tome convincing editorials on the
present day tendency to turn the
principles of conservation into a
permanent government asset In
stead of keeping the natural resour
ces open tor settlement and civil
lMtiou. This has wrought, says the
Post, "the official mind methodical
ly to a point (hat argues for the
withdrawal of all lands traversed by
the headwaters of nonnavigable
streams from homestead entry and
human occupation.
' The sweeping effect of such a
stoppage of the natural forces of
national expansion is best under
stood wheu we consider that the
streams in question are numberless!
as the leaves, and that they flow
through nine-tenths, perhaps all, of
the public lands in the West. Do the
government authorities who con
ceived this unheard-of esploltion of
the conservation policy have any
definite idea of what its adoption
would result in? The stated object
of the government in abandoning
the national lifelong policy of pro
moting agricultural and commercial
development to the full extent of
our opportunities is to conserve the
water supply at the sources of
streams in order that water power
may be developed to its highest ca
pacity, 'having due regard to the
possibilities of marketing the
power."
"But if water-power sites are to
be the only oases In the desert ? if
all else is to be kept in a condition
of futility like Alaska and the dark
sldo of the moon, where is any de
mand for water power to come
from? The Secretary of the In
terior refers to communities in the
locality of power sites, but it is yet
to be demonstrated that towns will
spring up where nothing else
abounds which man is permitted to
turn his hand to in the struggle for
existence. The banks of the
streams must be as barren of fruit
fulness as the lands roundabout.
"However, so highly thought of
officially is this plan to substitute
costly and impracticable artificial
methods for the natural and cheap
er means of peopling the wilds and
profiting therefrom, that it is
further argued that even though
the control of water-power conces
sions properly belongs to the States,
no policy they could adopt could
give as good results as are assured
if the powers and the property now
held in Federal hands be retained
Legislation to this effect is asked
for but so loug as the machinery
for amending the Constitution is in
the hands of the States, it is an
open question if the policy urged
would ever get by as many as the
ten or eleven States that would
come within its provisions. If we
are to continue to thrive as a na
tion, the field of individual endeavor
and ownership must not be abridg
'd _____
A new daily newspaper ha& ap
peared in Seattle, called the Sun.
Seattle already has a Star, and her
remaining; ambition now is to grab
the Earth.
Effect of 1907 Panic Is
About Spent
By President GEORGE F. BAER of the Reading Railroad Company.
E arc mining more coal than we sell all ,|he time. There
are now seven hundred thousand tons of unsold surplus
stock above the normal consumption, and all talk of there
being a shortage i3 merely conjecture.
The COAL TRAFFIC IS AWAY ABOVE ANYTHING WK
HAVE EVER KNOWN.
THIS IS AN INDICATION THAT THE MANUFACTURERS OF THE
COUNTRY ARE BUSIER THAN EVER, AND I CAN 8EE IN IT A
WAVE OF PROSPERITY THAT WILL EFFACE ALL TRACES OF THE
EFFECTS OF THE PANIC OF 1907.
I have studied the effects of panics since 1872, and I find that they
?re all of certain duration. They usually take from five to six years to
recover from, and according to the law of events WE SHOULD
HAVE FULLY RECOVERED FROM THE LAST UPSET BY
1913.
Our Language Too Old
For Writing Great Poetry
By EDMUND GOSSE, Librarian of the Houae of Lord*
CHE POETRY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE LARGELY WRITTEN
IN LANGUAGES WHICH HAVE BEEN 8UBJECTED TO LESS
WEAR AND TEAR? LANGUAGES WHICH HAVE NOT 80
EXTENSIVE AND COMPLICATED A LITERATURE AND IN
WHICH SIMPLE THINGS CAN STILL BE SAID WITHOUT AFFECTA
TION AND WITHOUT REPETITION.
Theee ideas, I need hardly say, are extremely speculative and
might be upset any moment by the rising up of a very great genius,
Only I for one feel sure that every generation that goes by makes
the chance of such an event MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT
TO CONCEIVE.
An enormous amount of poetry will continue, no doubt, to be
produced, much of it excellent up to a oertain poin^ but It will be
come more and more difficult for a poet to reach tho HIGHEST
DEGREE OF EFFECTIVENESS.
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'Phone 10. Skagway, Alaska.
MOORES' WHHRF OG,
Terminus W. P. & T. Route
A llSuuthbouiidSteamern Arrive aud DepartFromThfoDock
REGULATIONS 1910.
Warehouses open (or delivery of merchandise from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Perichables ONLY delivered on Sunday or at night
All freight shipments destined southbound must be accompanied by a
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toms office) and must be delivered before 5 p. m. No freight will be
received on the wharf after this hour.
BAGGAE? Tolls will be collected on CHECKED BAGGAGE ONLY
No charge for bags and grips when unchecked.
The wharf gate will be closed to the public when steamer Is nnartng
dock and will be opened when passengers have disembarked.
Wharfage Tariff can be had on application at office on dock.
P. O. Box 17ft. E. J. SHAW, Qsnsrsl IftftMgy
The White Pass &Yukon Route
TIME TABLE NO. 30.
Mondays, Wednewla) s and Friday*.
No. 1 N. Bound No. 2 8. Bound
1st class lbt class
8:30 a. in. Leaves SKAGUAY Arrives 3:20 p. in.
11:08 " " WHITE PAW Loara 1:40
11:40 " LOG CABIN - 1?:47
12:38 p. m. " BENNETT * ll:BO a. m.
2:00 " " CARIBOU " 10:28 "
4:18 " Arrives WHTTEHOKSE Leaves 8:1.% ??
Passengers must be at depots In time to have Baggage Inspected
and checked. Inspection Is stopped 30 minutes before leaving time of
trains.
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each fall fare
ticket asd 75 pounds with each half fare ticket.
r Alaska Steamship
Company
CARRYING U. ft. MAIL AND WELL?PARQO EXRRIM
N'pxt ?alllnc at (Mt fi'f
DOLPHIN
Jan. - 8
I Company i umurim Ou> rlgkt to ehaar <tet?a wHhtmt mMm
TELEPHONE NO. M. C, ?. OURTILL. AOCWT.
Canadian Pacific Ry.
(R C COAST SERVICE)
Winter Sailings
1912 FROM SKAGWAY 1913
PRINCESS MAY
Jan. 2 - 16 - 30
Feb. 13
27
Hv>bj?ci ?o ?h?or? wl'h ??t S
Vancouver, Victoria^ Seattle via Prince Rupert
Phen* 87 F. F W LOWLE Ag?nt
Steamship Humboldt
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT SIEilSRIP 0PERITIN8 TO S I HASH
Will tail from Skajway for Seattle and War Pod*
Jan. 1-11
MUtt* d?t? ntjrt to aMa** wit* -wit antfe*.
THROUGH TICKITt HONORED
S?*UW 0? tm
711 Hecood Af?wu?.
Tlrkrtu ?mi *11 Inf'
H. HARTHKMrr. Mil A
JUNEAU S. S. CO'B.
ELECTRIC LIGHTED STEAM
HEATED STEAM EK
Georgia
Carrying U. S. Mall
For Haines, Berners Bay, Juneau
Hoonah, Tenekee and Way Port*.
SAILS
FROM 8KAGWAY
December 16, 22 and 28.
January 3, 0, IS, 21 and 27.
February 2, 8, 14, 20 and 2<J.
at 8:00 *. m.
WILLIS NOWELL, Mgr , JUNEAt
SMOKERS ATTENTION
Harold Hartwlgsen, successor U
W. W. I lough ton, baa taken thf
agency (or the Justly famous
EL INF1NITO CLEAR
HAVANA CIGARS.
5,000 Just received trom the fro
tory at Tampa, Fla. If you want the
beet don't fall to give these goods
a trial.
on
Winter Route
Stage Service
I>niing the winter nm?nn of 1012-1013, a throwgh Mail, IWnpr, *arf Pr?UM
be maintained between While Ilorae nml I>aw*on, ?f forcing all |?? MMe ??wwfcm
by moan* of a
Thoroughly Equipped Stage
and Automobile Line
For the winter season the Company's comfortable train* will operate mi a **lf
tweon Skajnmv and While Home, train* leaving enrh termlaal ?*? Mnmlar*.
Friday*.
For Information relative to passenger awl freight rata ?W'l *?
H. WHEE1LKR, Snpt., Mall Service Department.
O. L. DICKESOX, President, -
WhtMfMrm ?. T.
We make telegraphic transfer of fond* to or fnrwn Vancouver * SeaMla.