THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second class malter. Septem
ber 17th, 1918. at the £ost Office, a
McCarthy. Alaska, under the Act o
March !>. 1879.
C. O. Marwood Editor
J\. Marwood Circulation Manager
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Saturday, November 23, 1925
The following letter by Win, Sul
zor filed at Washington D.C. dem
onstrates again M r. Sulzer’s cent
inuous struggle for roads to oj>en
up the rich interior sections of Al
ask a
My Dear General Lord:
Many than!:- for your cour
teous permission to file with yt u
this letter. I shall be o-Td'.
Suf fico jt, to sa,\ that I am
interested in Alaska, and in h**r
progress and development. As
you know Al’.Arrs vast aria, is
divided into many Mining 1 jst
ricts. Comparatively few of the
se Mining Districts a.re easy of
access. Transportation is the
p; obiom; good roads to them is
the solution. I h ive spent .more
than tw • a y five years mining
in virions parts of Alaska” and
in mas1: insfaae*es i<r. vo hail to
ovorc une that aim >st insurmoun
is hie obstacle, nam ly. exces-ve
freight rale . duo to 1 ei of tr -n
sporcaton fa -ili' ii s
During tile past I'iftee * years
my efforts have been t<> do th;n
os \\a ri , while i.a the White Kiv
er Mining ') strict, and the farts
herein pre.sente are n«*t exe-rpt
ion d, b it ivprese ,i.ative of ;.he
average lining Dis net, not s -rj
ved by i il o u i er i r ins >ortai i
hit e ' ' S <•; l. ’ \j. S. (.ueolu
leal Sirv -y, (pli.s
‘•a Lmvis oi
will confirm iny statements as
true of interior costs for transp |
ortation in our great Northland. !
Barring the mining camps I
that are served by rail, or water,
1 contend that more than one
third of all the costs of mining
development, in Alaska, has
been consumed by the single
item, excessive freight rates,
due directly to lack of roads
In other words, roads enabling
the economic hauling of simp
lies and products to and from
the mines wiil make possible a1
saving equivalent to at least one!
cli.rd of the total casts. To the
unitiated this may seem incred
ible, but not to the men who have
been through the mill, and 1
speak advisedly.
The White liver Mining
i
District, a permanent copper1
and gt id q
camp, has be >n
Iz, and placer
worked con t in
tiously since discovery in T.toT. i
Tire gold produced run.-, into
hundreds of thousands ol doi!
ars, and of this prod upon sb nit
o le-half has been exp< nd< 1 for
hauling supplies to ti e min >.
Tiiis tremendous freighi c si
has been a hms due to tlu fact
that there never It.is birit a ro ,d
to this Mining District. Toe
lack of transportation . uciiii ie.-.
manes it in possible to develop
ibis it real copper and gold qua i Lz
and placer ui.lricts. The trein
endous mineral producto say
nothing about the agricultural
resources, m ihe Wuite River
Mining District are still inace
essibie. Urn irausportalion costs
so fa have exceeded hi PC,000,
and of this amount more than!
00,000 can be chatted as a loss
dun to the hick of a road. Idlest '
excessive t’reign t charges show
the handicap mining is laboring
under at present in interior
Without transportation con
di ions being improved by the
building of a road into the vVbile ;
I
River Mining District, Mining
in this District is doomed, but
wii.h a good road cutting the
operating costs, the mineral hr
dustry can be made t> pay for
years to come without mater
ially exh t listing tile great bodies ,
of Known ores.
W ai. Sulzer
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