"Alaska Soda Fountain"
ALL
CIGARS
KINDS OF MIXED
CIGARETTES
BILLIARDS
D RINKS
CANDIES
Ice Cream and Ice Cream Sodas
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
CALEH CORSER Supt. C. E. PUGH. A trout
Kennecott
1 aikes C arc o1 tine
Laundry
amity Wasti
F. H. FOSTER
A TTORNEY
Motar Fiiblic Heal Estan
Transactions of all Kinds
Lt gaily arranged
Cordova,
Alaska
|ASA C. BALDWIN
U. S. Mineral Surveyur
SEATTLE, WASH
.”>!2 Ho^e Building
McCarthy
Alaska
“The McCarthy Club”
< >n Second Si reel
CARD TABLES
CIGARETTFS, CIGARS
TOBACCO and SOFT DRINKS
Neat ( lean—New ly Pu rnislied - Rooms
Fi>c All Guests. Charley Clion^ Prop.
McCarthy Stage
WINTER SCHEDULE
Leaves McCarthy For Kennecott
Daily at 4 P.M.
Returns From Kennecott to
McCarthy at 6. 20 P.M.
Leaves McCarthy for Kennecott
at 11 P.M.
Returns from Kennecott to Mr
Carthy at 12 midnight.
Sunday & Wednesday even
ings stage leaves McCarthy for
Kennecott at 7 and returns at
10.30 P.M.
Hill Berry Props Henry Olsen
EXTRACTS FROM
GOVERNOR BONE’S
ANNUAL REPORT
Governor Bone’s Annual Re
port, which was given to the press
.yesterday, follows in part.
Of the inefftcciency of Feder
al administration in Alaska,thru
innumerable agencies constitut
hig a bureaucratic form of gover
ninent, official testimony, based
'upon experience,is in full accord
jThe system is too complicated to
[render satisfactory service, how
ever earnest its aims, and this
fact has been uniformly attested
and emphasized by those who
have been brought into direct
contact with the system since
Alaska became a Territory and
upon whom administration has
chiefly devolved. Upon this point
there is and has been a perfect
unanimity of opinion. A simpli
tied and centralized system brot
closer home to Alaska is urgent
y and obviously needed to speed
the progress of the Territory —
”a shortening of the line of com
munication as much as possible
between Alaska and Washington’
as suggested by the late Presi
dent, in order to "bring about the
closest cooperation and under
standing between the national
agencies” operating in the Terri
tory.
It is gratifying to report that
cooperation in fuller degree anu
a better understanding have
been attained and that further
coordination and increased efflci
cieney are surely coining about.
It is altogather manifest, as sta
ted in the report for 1922, that
Alaska’s destiny,“cannot be shap
ed at long range by multitudin
ous bureaus, however commend
able their aims and activities,”
and in this connection, in order
to prevent misunderstanding, it
is well to repeat that condemna
tion of bureaucratic control“does
not imply criticism of the bureau
as such,constituting the system’
and “the value of their expert
services is not gainsaid or under
estimated.” A centralized and co
ord inated organization,consisten
tly advocated by Governors in
succession foryears,clearly would
not rob Aluska of the expert ser
vice of any needed bureau or min
^mize its usefulness in the very
least. On the contrary, inpromot
ing efficiency, it would manifest
ly turn such expert service to fu]
ler account, and increase the use
fulness of the bureau.
Alaska requires conservation—
favors it and welcomes it. and
gives steadfast support to every
practical safeguard, existant or
proposed, necessary th prevent
reckless exploitation in any di
rection in the development of the
Territory. A concentration of an
thourity and responsibility - a
business like organization of A
laska’s affairs, in lieu of divided®
authority and responsibility—
certainly would would make for
adm nis.rative efficiency and has
ten the safe solution of Territor
ial problems. That government
through bureaus is good for any
land or any community is too un
tenable for sober discussion. E
qually so is the thot that conser
vation in Alaska is dependant up
on such a system,or the abroga
tion of bureau racy would render
the protection of the resources
less secure.
The Territory since it was
granted a limited form of self
government has exercised its
powers wisely. It administers its
purely local affairs efficiently and
economically. Its legislatures,
meeting in biennial sessions.
hav« made exceptionally good re
cords during the decade since
the organic act was passed and,
in personnel, measured up to
ieglislatures of the States. All
plans for the future government
of Alaska, in preparation . for
Statehood, should contemplate
extension of Territorial powers
and a fuller exercise of those
powers.
KECCOMENDATIONS
The placing of affairs of Alaska
under one department head at
Washington and the substitution
of a coordinated and centralized
system of administ ration for tli
present inefficient bureaucratic
system at the earliest possible
a te.
An appropriation of $300,000
to suppement $150,000 already
authorized for the erection of a
capitol building
The appropriation of $1,500,000
annually for the construction of
roads and trails. Provision for
construction of roads and trails
into Katmai and McKinley parks
Appropriation to cover cost of
maintainence and cost of new
spurs and branch lines as they
are needed.
A consolidation of all law en
torcing agencies in A.aska under
the Department of Justice.
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