A Protest Against Present
Tax On Trappers
If 1 had the lamp of Alladin,
iiome wonderful things I’d do.
If yon have a moment to listen
I’ll mention one to yon. First of
all, on each lawmaker, a life-long
tax I’d impose, because tax se
ems to be the nature of those
who to Juneau go.
By action of our legislature a
tax now does impose on the hide
of the rat or weasel, for wan t
purpose no one knows. The
mink and the marten also their
mite must give. The warden
says, ‘‘I’ll warn you one boys,”
if in this country you want to
live. Emergency they’ say is the
purpose, I think it's against our
will, their figures on taxation is
like hootch from a still.
Many a poor and honest pros
pector his grubstake has tried to
make in this, God’s free country’
a few of nature’s furs to take.
Just look at our millionaire
trappers, and our wealthy pros
pectors too, and all of the well
to-do Natives who can hand this
to you.
Now, to one and all what’s the
incentive? This applies to our
lawmakers too. it’s the percent
age check you’re after, instead
of encourage, we’ll tax you.
It seems to me it would be bet
ter to encourage the few who
are left, God knows Alaska needs
them, this tax has heft. Oh, yes
I’d almost forgotten, the fox.
whose fur is blue, it did not es
cape the attention of this bunch
the chosen few. The man who
spends his money for im prove
ments and for this fox of blue
a license if he is to continue, &
a taxon what he raises too.
What a howl you would hear
from the farmer, the bean and
the spud who grows, if a tax on
his efforts were levied as the
resnlt of the seed he sows.
Now, who is the one to suffer?
Just listen this this means
you. It’s the prospector, the Na
tive, the trapper, the country al
so, and the chosen few. To those
who are still in the country, the
few who are left behind, a few
more .jabs of this nature, then
we’ll move to another clime.
A Subscriber.
— Valdez Miner.
OF LOCAL INTEREST
ANOTHER CANDIDATE
Charley Veach, an employee
at the Bonanza mine, was down
this week to McCarthy and vi
cinity with a petition for the ap
pointment of Jack Reynolds as
U. S. Deputy Marshal for this
precinct. This petition was sign
ed by a number of the residents
of Kennecott and by the miners
on the hill.
We did not hear of any signa
tures being secured here as the
McCarthy residents had already
endorsed H. H. Mitchell for
this appointment.
Mr. Reynolds has been con
nected with the Kennecott Cop
per Corporation for number of
years and his many friends are
working hard to secure him the
much coveted plum.
J. B. O’Neill left on the last
train for Cordova on business
connected with the McCarthy
Mercantile Co.
Sig Wold, one of the genial
proprietors of the Alaska House,
took a year’s subscription to the.
News, so the folks back, home
could read about the “doings” In
Alaska.
H. Olsen returned from the
glacier yesterday.
Writing from Point Richmond
Cal. Andy Bnask says he is fe
| eling like a two year old & will
| return here in the Spring. Mr.
Brask renewed for one year.
Another imposing stone, extra
chases and rollers arrived on the
last train for the News plant.
DELEGATE WRITES TO
RESIDENT
Mr. R. L.H. Marshall received
the following letter on the last
outside mail from our Delegate
to Congress. Dan Sutherland,
which reads as follows:
Some time ago I -wrote you
regarding a petition signed by
miners of Fairbanks and your
vicinity asking for a road from
Ohitina to McCarthy. I have
taken this matter up with Col.
Steese and any allotment for
that project will depend wholly
on the amount he obtains from
Congress, for this year’s work.
Col. Steese is asking for one
million dollars and if ho gets It
I believe ho would spend seme
on that project, but inasmuch sa
Congress is in a period of re
trenchment it is a question in
my mind as to whether he gets
the amouent he asks for.
I am doing the best f can to help
him get it and Governor Bone
will be here in a few days to
lend his aid in the matter.
I talked with Col. Steese re
garding the Nizina bridge Of
which some one in your section
: of the country wrote me, and I
know the Colonel will give that
I matter his attention. You
| might say to any one who is in
terested in that Nizina bridge,
j that it has been called to the at
: tention of the Commission and
. will be given attention this sum
: mer, but that of course is also
; conditional on the amount of
money they receive.
Under the new Forest Roads
act, Alaska is going to get about
one million dollars in the next
two years for roads in the vi
cinity of Forests Reservations,
and even if this might not ex
tend to your section of the
country, It will serve to release
some of the money that the
Road Commission has been
speuding in the vicinity of
forests that should go to sec
tions such as yours.
I have always maintained that
more money should be spent in
the McCarthy* Nizina section for
the reasen that the big copper
mines at Kennecott have in the
past paid considerable money in
tothe territory & I have thought
it would be an equitable thing to
spend some of it in the section
in which the mine is located.
It seems pretty tough that we
should have to ask the Road Com
missisn to build a wagon road
to parallel a railroad in Alaska
at this time, but I am well a
ware of the reason for it and so
is Col. Steese, and there is no
good reason why the Copper
River Railroad should not give
rates between Kennecott and
Chitina, at least such as would
help out in the prospecting and
development of the country.
To be seeking an outlet from
McCarthy by way of Valdez
when there is a railroad running
right down to tide water, would
sound a little peculiar to the ap
propriations committee in Con
; gress, and yet it would serve to
: call their attention to the condit
ions that prevail in the Copper
mining section of Alaska
(Signed) Dan Sutherland.
BRIDGE CREW ARRIVES
John Vinquist and crew f
bridge builders arrived in Mc
Carthy this week and will do
considerable work on the trestle,
blasting out boulders in the chan
nel to make the pile driving eas
ier in the Spring. The following
are in the party, August John
son, Ed Fundeen, Nils Forsberg,
A. R, Reeves, Andrew’ Anderson
and R. B. Edmison.
ASA C. BALDWIN
| U. S. Mineral Surveyor
SEATTLE, W \SH
512 Hoge Building
McCarthy Alaska
F. H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY
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Legally arranged.
Cordova, Alaska