HYDER ALASKA MINER
W. R, Hull - - - - Editor
A newspaper whose purpose is to tell
the world about the neweet and bus
iest town in the northland, and [the
native resources which are responsible
for its existence.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY!
Entered as second class matter Nov
ember 4, 1919, at the post office at
Hyder, Alaska, uuder ttiaaaAet of
March 8, 1879.
Sent anywhare for Sfi • year. *
Advertising rates on application.
HYDE*. ALASKA, Sept. ». 1920
HOME GOVERNMENT
Indication of the growing appre
ciation of tht press of the nation of
Alaska's problems and the necessi
ty for giving the territory home
' rule is seen in the compilation of
editorial continent on Alaska as
published in the Litarary Digast in
its issue of August 21. In papers as
widely separated as Knoxvilla and
New Yo«k are statetnenW that Al
aska holds the solution of some of
Uncle Sam's troubles, namely; coal,
fael oil and paper pulp, and the ed
itors quote4 give unanimous appro
val of the territory's claim that it
be freed from the burden of federal
bureau control.
The Digest's article in part says:
Alaska needs less “governmental
regulation" from Wiihihgton and
* Uncle Sam needs iriofk bold. Wei
oil and other essential Uittekial sup
plies from Alaska. TheSfe Seeiti to
i>e the outstanding facts empha
sized by the recent visit of Secreta
ry of the Interior Payne and Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels to ou»
northern territory. The secretaries,
reports J.J. Underwood in the Seat
tle Times, found that by establish
ing a coaling base midway between
the Orient and the United States on
the Aleutian peninsula, the Ship
ping Board vessels plying between
Seattle and the Orient could save a
thousand tons of oargo-carrylng ca
pacity on each voyage, or enough
to enable each ship to pay for it
self through increased earning Ca
pacity within a period of 10 years.
This would also make it unnecessa
ry to ship coal from Virginia and
Pennsylvania to the Pacific fleet.
Furthermore, says this paper, both
secretaries are very much concern
ed over the threatened shortage of
fuel oil, for the Shipping Board op
erates many oil-burners, and in re
cent years it has been the policy to
build oilburning naval vessels be
cause of their increased 9teaining
radius, speed and fight Sag capacity,
and these are not easily changed to
cotlburaers. Alaska's oil resour
ce, we are told, are just becoming
to be exploited.
That Alaska needs more home
rule for the prompt and efficient de
velopment of her vast natural re
sources is the contention of rfiany
of our papers in widely separated
pasts of the Union. ’Washington
Should give the Alaskan Territorial
Government wider discretion, for
Washington c in not know Alaska's
needs," argues the Syracuse 1 ost
Standard; and Secretary Payne is
quoted in ihe New York Times as
saying: “ vVhat Alaska needs is more
men and women to settl. the coun
try and less govermnen ai regula
Alaskan Hotel
McDonell - Jamieson - Reid
HEADQUARTERS FOR MINING MEN
Electric Lights - - Large Rooms
W. R. REID, Manager
For Messenger
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City Messenger Service
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Froiti Atiy Public Place
Pressings Cleaning, Repairing
MtdS LEATHA DAVIS
NeW rfoule Neiir Portland Cafe
LAUNCH tAKU II
U. S. MAIL BOAT
Lllrli Hjrder #
Freight and Pauengtri
IjKA V KH HYUKr iVkrY FhidaY
ED. J. WILLIAMS. Master
tions.” More specifically the Col
umbus (Ohio) Dispatch tells US "
“Alaska is getting sick and tired
of being interfered with in her de
velopment by the people of this
country, who know nothing about
conditions up there. There are
many leal men in Alaska—men who
have gone there to mike their
homes, men Who have developed
themselves along With the develop
ment that tiki tahfen place in the
country, men Who are capable of
saying what ought to be done and
what ought not to be done.
“The Alaskans ask only that the
Government create a Board of De
velopment, the members of which
shall be Alaskans, and leave to this
Board the Working out of the desti
ny of the Territory. It is a simple
equest and one that ought to b<
'granted as soon as Congress agaii
is in session.
"Mails to and from Alaska arc
now handled as freight,” declares
the Seattle Times, a consistent
champion of the Territoey. In oth
er ways, we are told, the people ol
the Territory, six thousand miles
from Washington, are poorly repse
sented. True, points out the Times
they are represented in Congress by
a Delegate, but he does not have e
vote. The chief hindrance to gooci
government in Alaska and the de
velopment of the itmtory, declares
this paper, is “the burueu oi fed
era! ouitaucracy.1
"Alaska neads a helping habd
now," declares the KtloxVillS Senti
nel, “but it woUld seem, In running
I throQgh a catalog of Alaska's to
sources, that the Territory may
have to rescue Uncle Sam from the
plight in which he finds himself,
particularly with regard to coal for
the Pacific fleet, paper for the na
tion, oil for naval1 and merchant
ships, and waterpower for manufac
turing paper." We read in the Bos
ton Herald:
"No area within the jurisdiction
of the United States has been so
grotesquely misunderstood as Al
• aska. The resources of the Terri
I tory have been known for many
years, of course; but theyhtve been
mainly recapitulated in the arid
, pages of government publications,
■ which are read by very few.
i "It is expected that the needs oi
the Pacific fleet in the matter oi
coal will presently be supplied from
this source. The fisheries of the
Territory, moreover, have hardily
been touched, although they are
known to be of great value. It is a
country of wonderful possibilities;
the wonder is that we have been sc
long in realizing any of them/'
As the Boston Herald says, most
of the information we have of Alas
ka comes from “the arid pages ol
government publications." For in
stance we are tol.. that iheFedera
income tax oi A.a3ku usually am
! (cutilmutu ou next i age)
Clothier and Baker
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Hyder, Alaska
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Now located in Hy
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For rates, etc., apply to Bernard M
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Hyder Water Light &. Power Co.
George W. Nelson.
FRIZZELLS’
are now occupying their
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^ full line of choicest
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vegetables*
Kr*>sh Cfeani and Buttermilk,
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at
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New, Neat and Modern in Every Respect
OPEN DAY AND wtortf
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foot of i«aftt Street
Good Beds and Comfortable
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fey
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