THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second class matter. Septem
her 17th, IU1S. at the l ost Office, at
McCarthy. Alaska, under the Act of
March 1879.
L. M. Linder Manager
R. K. Lander Editor
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Saturday April 5 , 1924
We Have Another official
n Alaska
As the Stroller has it. Alaska “must
ante to sit in the game with the Fed
erui government.” 1 he Seattle Cham
her of Commerce informed the Juneau
organization that Alaska would have
raise about l.”> or 20 percent of a mil
lion for every million they receive from
Federal sources, under the ioad Act.
Exclusive of thi> sum is the new En
gineer s salary. Alaska has no Federal
money yet under the State Aid Act
and until the hill passes Congress,there
is no crying need for an Engineer. We
have managed to stagger along without
one for quite a while now, so what is
the matter with letting the eggs hatch
before the chickens are counted.
We have an increasing expenditure
|but the population is not coming in
|at any .ncreased speed Towns are bond
ing so heavily that it is cheaper in a
lumber of places to pa t rent l ather
lan taxes. The would be homeowner
|: ts ?w*v: and oen u lly leaves the
'runic fai'iiuin and Fred O
lira who took an outfit to their
dins a couple of we-.*ks a«?o
[turned to town on account of
lep snow.
An Engineer Appointin'!
By Hoad Commissioners
The Alaska Territorial Board
of Road Commissioners have ap
pointed R. J. fcfommers Engineer
of the boat d for the year begin
ning April 1, 1AC4 with a salary
of $4000 per amuim,says the Als
ka Empire.
in order to qualify for govern
mental assistance under the state
Aid act, an amendment to which
extending its provisions to the
Territory is now pending before
Congress, the Territorial Board
considered it advisable to create
the office of Engineer and thus
complete the organization at once
Governor Bone, the Chairman,
felt this necessity was urgent and
jiirther, that an engineer would
greatly strengthen the Boa id in
providing first hand inform ilion
and <1.closer supervision of road
building projects.
Fpeaking of tin* action. Cm
Theile said “It is the opinion and
belief of the Board that tiiN ap
pointment will pretty ml the
general prosecution of the Terri
torial road building progaam
now carried on with the various
Federal organizations.
"In the past Board, in discus
sing and passing upon the pro
jects submitted, Ins often lacked
direct knoweledge of their merit
and felt the need of local opinion
of the coQuuunities in which the
projects are located. Thru the
aid of of an engineer, actively
engaged in the field,woo will in
inspect the iunneoiate work in
progress and report upon ail
projects proposed, the Board wni
he equipped with necessary data
and information necessary to
! promolguate and safeguard a
more constructive program,
“it is the confident opinion of
the Board, based upon recent
reccomeiiuations of Cabinet offici
als that additional Federal road
money, in tile near future, will
he extended to Alaska and that
in order to avail itself to these
• unds. the creation of a l'erritor.
ml Engineering Department is
highly impo. tant at this time.’
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First Step In
The Kight direction
It begins t“ loolc as though our
Undo is beginning to make a
few plans toward the cousolidat
ion of the mill; itudious bureaus
that infest our fair country.
in letter written by 1st Assist
ant,Secretary of the Interior, E
C. Finney to the Juneau Chamber
of Commerce, in reply to petit
ion by that organization that an
other land district be created the
Secretary says that after an ex
tensive study of the matter as
it now stands the Department
believes Alaska has now reached
the stage where it needs control
over its public lands and that ;l
b 1 in now in Congress that wii
consolidate tin* offices of Survey
<»r General, Assistant Supervisor
of Su rve.vs, Chief of the Field Di
vision and the Registers.
Tlie new head would be known
as Supt of Public lands in Alaska
and would be responsible to the
Secretary of the Interior, alone
This would tend to centralize
the bureaus connected with the
public domain and cut down the
existing friction.
Naturalization Clerk Arrives
This Week
The following message was re
ceived by Judge Sundmacher
yesterday: Miss Scott will go to
Cordova Sunday and will take
the first train North on Naturali
zation business at McCarthy and
Kennecott. Give notice in town
and at Kennecott. —Richie