HYDER WEEKLY MINER
Formerly The Hyder Alaska Miner
Published every Monday by the Hyder Miner Publish
ing rtyder, Alaska.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at
Hvd-'r. Alaska, November 4,1010, under the Act of March
8 1879.
f * fT sANDFORD. Editor.
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CHRISTMAS GREETINGS
The Weekly Miner extends io
rll eaders its best wishes for a
M„rry Christmas. May the day
for each of you be filled with
bounteous good cheer and
lie oed with the joy of kina
i emembrances.
Down through the ages comes
t1'1'1 message of a wondrous
Christmas day: “Peace on
i • i h good will to men.”
W'th tomorrow’s dawn let the
thoughts of your heart be at
tuned to the spirit of that mes
sage of peace and love. Even
tho the inhumanity of man has
seared your soul with the
l rand of bitterness and resent
ment, for that one day at least
forget that mankind is mean,
P'l’ish and cruel and remember
that the only real, true hap
piness is found in kindness and
service to one’s fellow men.
Lay aside your bitterness and
g ve your self up to the good
impulses of your heart; and
then go forth and find some
one to whom you can offer a
g'ft of kindness and good
cheer'— even though it be no
more than a word or two of
friendly interest or sympathy.
Bet.er still, if you would make
your heart feel glad, give some
one a present. If you can do no
more, find a little child and
g've to it a bag of sweets or a
reiny toy. At any rate give
something to some one and you
w 11 find a rich reward in the
knowledge that you have help
ed to make the day brighter
and happier for some one.
Try it and see.
EXIT ACTS FROM THE
ANNUAL REPORT
OF GOVERNOR BONE.
Of the inefficiency of federal
rd ministration in Alaska,
through innumerable agencies
con tituting a beaucratic form
of government, official testi
mony. based upon experience,
i n full accord.”
* The system is too complicated
to render satisfactory service,
however its aims, and this fact
has been uniformly attested
end emphasized by those who
have been brought into direct
contact with the system since
i liska became a territory and
unpn whom administration as a
whole has chiefly devolved.
“A simplified and centralized
system brought closer home to
/ laska is urgently and obvious
ly needed to speed the progress
of the Territory—a shortening
of “the line of communication
as possible between Alaska and
Washington,” as suggested by
the late President, in order to
“bring about the closest coop
eration and understanding be
tween the national agencies’
V W * V* W * * * £3 » t* A v* ». •
The governor said he intend
ed no criticism of the efforts
of any particular bureau or
department in its administra
tion of Alaskan affairs, and
characterized as “unworthy
propaganda” the charge that
“sinister influences are seeking
to despoil Alaska and waste
its resources.”
“ Alaska requires conser
vation—favors it and welcomes
it, and gives steadfast support
to every practical safeguard,
existant or proposed, necessary
to prevent reckless exploitation
in any direction in the develop
ment of the Territory.”
“ A concentration of author
ity and responsibility—a bus
iness-like organization of Al
aska’s affairs in lieu of divided
authority and responsbilty—
certainly would make for ad
ministrative efficiency and
hasten the safe solution of Ter
ritorial problems.
“That government through
ureau’s is good for any land or
any community is too unten
able for sober discusion. Equal
ly so is the t hought that conser
vation in Alaska is dependent
upon such a system, or that
the abrogation of buracracy
would render the protection of
the resources any less secure.”
Included among the reccg
mendations made by the gov
ernor were the following:
The placing under one depart
ment head at Washington all
the affairs of Alaska and the
substitution of a coordinated
anil centralized system of ad
ministration for the present in
efficient bureaucratic system
af the earliest possible date.
Tice ting in the Depart
ment of Commerce of complete
authority over the fisheries of
Alaska, with its Bureau of
Fisheries adequately equipped
and empowered to make and
enforce rules and regulations
limiting the catch and number
of traps, curtailing fishing a
reas, closing streams and re
ducing cannery waste for the
public good.
An appropriation of $300,000
to supplement the $150,000 al
ready authorized for the erect
ion of a capitol building.
The appropriation of $1,500,
000 annually for the construct
ion of roads and trails, includ
ing provision for the construct
ion of roads and trails into
Katmai and McKinley national
parks.
An appropriation to cover
the cost of maintenance and
cost of new spurs and branch
lines as they are needed.
The consolidation of all law
enforcing agencies in Alaska
under the Department of Jus
tice.
A colonization plan to be op
Alaska railroad, with priority
rights to lands granted to Al
aska soldiers of the World War
and their dependents.
The allotment of a fair per
centage, at least one half, of
the net revenues derived from
the Pribilof Islands, which are
in Alaskan waters, to the gen
eral fund of the Territory.
FORGET IT.
If you see a tall fellow ahead
of the crowd,
A leader of men, marching
fearless and proud,
And you know of a tale whose
telling aloud,
Would cause his proud head to
be suddenly bowed—
It’s a mighty good thing to for
get it!
If you know of a skeleton hid
den away,
In a closet and guarded and
I
kept from the day
In the dark, and whose show
ing and sudden display
Would cause grief, sorrow and
life-long dismay—
It’s a pretty good thing to for
!get it!
If you know of a thing that will
darken the joy
Of a man or a woman, agirl or
a boy,
That will tend to disturb, or
molest or annoy,
A. fellow, just take this sug
gestion my boy,
It’s a pretty good thing to for
' get it!
Paul Hopkins, of the Bureau
I of Mines, with headquarters at
Fairbanks, is authority for the
statement that the estimated
gold output of the Fairbanks
| district for the past season was
I S900.000.
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