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“Vessels arriving from the South
are bringing in more people to Alas
ka) Ketchikan than were booked for
here a year ago. * * * Some of
them are miners, fishermen, can
nerymen, cannery helpers, trapmen,
and others. This sign presages well
for the coming season. Chronicle.
The Petersburg ALASKAN takes
direct issue with the conclusion of
this editorial. The trouble with Alas
ka is that everything come in dur
ing the spring and goes out during
the Fall.
“IMBECILE OPTOMISM”
“Althougn Alaska’s foreign and
domestic commerce fell off nearly
one-fourth during the last year, the
territory is on the threshhold of un
paralled prosperity, Governor Parks
reported to the Secretary of the In
terior, Roy O. West.”—Seattle P. I.
Can any sane man show tlie resi
dent Alaskan any facts that would
justify this prediction of ‘“unparall
eled prosperity”?
Last year we said that our local
fishermen had no place to fish law
fully. But to make matters worse,
even the small legal area ol last year
l as been cut down still further “for
purposes of conservation” for fish
traps owned by Seattle citizens.
CONSERVATION OF “INTERESTS”
By E. S. Hurgerford
Why is it *hat after a hundred and
fifty years o*’ epoch making progress
in the settling and developing of a
new land, under laws which allowed
the man or woman with ambition
and backbone enough to move to the
edge ot settlement, file on a piece of
land and acquire a patent title to
that land, to have and to hold, our
governing bodies some years since
passed a law putting a stop to such
precedure?
It must be that the old order
changeth.
It must be that the private citizen
can no longer be trusted with pro
perty. Especially timber or prospec
tive oil or coal lands. It must be
that advanced thinking legislators
realize that pur forefathers made an
awful mess of things when they
allowed so much of the country to
get into the hands of irresponsible
owners.
I would hate to think it an im
mense conspiracy or graft being
worked on the people of this United
Hates of America under the guise
of efficiency and conservation of
national resources. ' *
You cannot blame the Sinclairs
t.f the past nr the Zellerbachs or
Camerons of the possible future for
v anting a nice juicy plum if it may
be safely plucked. It is more sim
ple and cheaper to contract to buy,
tax exempt, pay as you use it tim
ber than it is to buy outright.
I will admit that there are an aw
ful lot of hard heads among private
citizens. Some of them might even
refuse to sell timber holdings unless
they got a reasonable price. Some
might even be fools enough to think
that with some privately owned tim
ber in the not very distant - future
they would have a valuable and mar
ketable asset. -
Large export mills would realize
that logs could be put into their log
booms here cheaper than they could
on Puget Sound and would no doubt
be willing to put in sawmills, pro
v'ding of course that they can have
an assurance of log supply free from
the dictates of their competitor.
Pulp and paper mills are essential
and will one day be the greatest in
dustry of Southeastern Alaska". But
is it necessary to tie up vast areas
cf timber for their exclusive benefit?
Are they such papered weaklings !
that they cannot go into the open ^
market for their raw material here
as elsewhere?
They will get it as cheaply as
possible never fear and the people
of Alaska will get little enough for
their hardships and privations even
if they have the disposal of their
own timber, but if we have to stand
oy and see the present plans put
through under the name of economy
: ud conservation, the dose will be
very, very bitter, ilow bitter, will
not be realized in full until we at
tain Statehood.
1 cannot think that this South
eastern Alaska is deliberately being
jetrayed to the timber interests even
if all the facfs of the case point that
v. ay.
It must be that Roosevelt and his
advisors and their more recent suc
cessor in office realize that the pri
\ate citizens small holdings of tim
ber was in a fair way to overwhelm
he large timber holding companies.
rihat if the balance of available tim
ber was not at once withdrawn from
entry, these poor companies who al
ready had hundreds of millions of
dollars invested in standing timber
would have to compete in the open
market with some poor boob with a
section or two of timber and a hay
wire sawmill, who didn’t have much
of any sence and figured that so
long as he could saw lumber at a
profit and was an American citizen
he had as much right to be in the
limber business as they.
This attitude on the part of the
small mill man of course is very
wrong. When any man or group of
men have through the manipulation
* f laws or weight of money establish
* d a monopoly it is very wrong al
most criminal in fact for any citizen
to ask for any right he may claim
lo have if such rights in anyway em
tarass or inconvenience said mono
poly. Don’t you think so?
Of course the Forestry Depart
ment, operating under the banner
of conservation is seeing to it that
privately owned timber is harvested
first so that the timber owners will
net be stuck for dividends altho of
course the government timber rots
, and burns and in a good many lo
• calities is losing value the longer
j :t stands.
1 he privately owned timber is un
fortunate as to location. It is to
be regretted that the settlement of
the Northwest was not restricted as
lias been done in Alaska. It seems
that the legislators ahead of Roose
velt were asleep at the switch and a
lot of irresponsible people slipped
in and took up timber land. Then
they organized state government and
no many more people got their fin
gers in the p;e of government that
they mussed things all up and the
matter of ta<es was beyond the con
trol of any Bureau at Washington.
However to equalize the matter
the price of stumpage on Govern
ment timber has gradually increased
1o cover the carrying charges and
taxes on privately owned timber so
that no man wishing to start a saw
mill to cut Government timber shall
have any undue advantage.
This protects the privately owned
timber from any very drastic com
petition from the Government’s for
ests, it is also gradually increasing
the value of all forest products.
It is also fast bringing nearer the
day when Southeastern Alaska must
be dealt with as a factor of large
importance. If the timber of Alas
ka cannot be kept tied up and prac
tically elirinated from the market
a-J it is today, or disposed of to pri
vate companies, which policy is to
the detriment of the country, Alas
ka will soon take its place as a real
producer of timber products.
The law of supply and demand
and cost of production are both
working in her favor the latter get
ting in the heaviest licks.
For twenty years we have watch-.
ed the operation of the Act for the
Conservation of natural resources.,
From under its cover have issued
some of the foulest stinks and vilest,
scandals that our government offi
cials have had to explain. It is the
law that lias Alaska by the throat
today.
All told, there are not a great
many of us ht re in Alaska. We have
s.ayed here in the face of opposition
bearing silently this unjust burden
to the advancement of our country
It is time that we unite our vioc
es in a demand that our country be
given us. Pride in our country and
our dignity as American Citizens al
lows us no other course.
V\e must have our land for private
ownership.
We must not sit supinely silent
and watch big business and careless
or grafting public officials dispose of
our land and our resources in im
mense parcels to non-residents, with
no interest in the country or its peo
ple other than the profits they may
derive therefrom.
I LOVE THAT LAM)
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S know a land, where men under
stand!
[ And a handclasp, is something
You feel'
I Where friendship’s .true-blue, .all,
the way through!
j And a man’s heart’ .as .big as a
wheel!
That land is where men deal the
game square,
?i» Alaska, where the Yukon flows.
Where a man is.a friend, true to the j
end!
In the Land among < Id sour
doughs.
By James R Little, Sourdough of tVm
j vintage of 1S J7, now of Portland,
j Oregon. I
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THf:1 W KOX KSVEi;
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'A heii win; lias wrought a lovely
transformation on the Yukon Ui\».r.
j the memory of splenfli I p- His in
I l obes ol summer verdure u . er, w ns
•of dazzling snow, the rivj: of i"il
. liantly reflected color. Cr/.bnl w.i
| terfails following untramnui _ 1 tin ir
boisterous course, is now dimmed
by a picture no less beautiful, no h ss
sublime. How I loved to sit in in'
j cabin on these beautiful Yukon
| Winter’s days, a moose stew in the
| pot, while outside, bounded by skies
of cerulean blue, the landscape for
countless miles presents an unbrok
en study in green and white. The
j sturdy branches of dusky birch
I droop low under trappings of spark
ling snow, and every stump is glori
1 bed with an overgrown mushroom,
light and feathery as swansdown.
i The rivers where they break their
> Icy bonds, run vividly green, their
| depth of color, exaggerated by con
trast of bordering snow, chiseled by
the wind into graceful and fanci
ful formations. The waterfalls on
the hills stand petrified as if an un
seen hand had arrested in a single
instant thei" headlong plungs. Dur
ing the first part of the freeze-up,
a few of the more torbulent streams
maintaining a narrow channel of
unfrozen water. The wild charm of
tile Yukon, MY Yukon Itiver! fasei
nating as it is in summer is alto
j getlier irresistible, under winter
spelt. Its whole length is an incon
sistency of waters,—waters running
j peacefully under a mantle of dia- j
i mond dusted show; water break-!
ing free in glorious abandonment
or pausing in a frozen cascade, but
never completely submitting to the ;
harness of F,rost .King. Up on the
beautiful hills .exist veritable fairy
lands of frost, formation, the loveli
ness and perfection of which can
scarcely be imagined. Every lit
tle blade of grass and every twig
stand glorified in the light moun
tain sunshine, green’s transformed
into Horesfs of _white coral and etch
ed against for-getjme-not blue skies.
Complete a rare picture of almost
unearthly beauty. “Winter twilight”
on the Yukon though short in win
ter, is the epoch of the day’s beau
ty. The late afternoon sun uoods
valley, river peaks, forest, and ice,
in rosy glow so vivid, so penetrat
ing, that eveiy object, from moun
tain peak to the little endless criss
crossing rabbit and fox trails made
by their furry feet running away
under low, sheltering brusihes,
stands out in bold relief. WlPie j
one gazes entranced at the swift,y
(hanging scene, a purple diffusv
the rose-glory b£ valley and can
yon, stealinp up and up the moun
tainside ^until only the highest
peaks are bathed in roselight. Rose
changes crimson splendor and, ling
ering in a brief farewell kiss, is
f.one. Purple dusk melts into pur
ple sky; stars hang low over dim
peaks and it is dark.
By JAMES It. LITTLE
WRANGELL CONDEMNS RULE
The Wrangell Commercial Club
in a recent meeting addressed a let
ter to Henry O’Malley, commission
er of Fisheries, protesting certain
sections 'of the 1929 fishery regu
lations. The following is reprint
ed from the Wrangell Sentinel dat
'd the 24th of January 24th:
We take the liberty of stating
frankly that we fail to see how
the conservation cf fish will be
aided to any appreciable extent
by the new regulation which pro
vides that “Commercial fishing
for salmon by trolling, except
from boats propelled wholly by
oars or sails, is prohibited prior
to April 1 in each calendar
year.’’
There is not a great deal of
power trolling done during the
winter months of January, Feb
ruary and March. Those who
troll during those months gener-,
ally do so because of necessity, S
and do not catch spawn fish except j
in rarest occasions. From our
i viewpoint the closing order will
only have the effect of saving troll
fish until the season opens on
April 1, when weather conditions5
i
are such that trailers will begin j
to appear in larger numbers—
numbers that will increase as the
season advances. Another regula
tion which does not appear to us
as aiding in the conservation of
fish is Regulation No. 3 under
the head of General Regulations
which provides that “The operp
tion of any so-called ‘hammer
head’ type of trap is in any way
more detrimental than the heavier
traps used by big companies in
the exposed areas areas. This re
gulaion means that the owners of
hammer-head traps must either
go out. of business or spend thou
sands of dollars in having their
i
! traps altered.
We reshpectfully petition that
: the regulations above menioned
be changed, unless there are rea
sons of which we have no knowl
edge why hese regulations should
be changed.”
. AX ERA OF PROSPERITY
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R. G. Dun in a recent report in
jdicate that there were 23,842 fail
ures in 1928. The greatest increase
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LOSES AN'OTHER $100,000
Henry M. Blackiner, oil magnate
vito dodged telling what he knows
the Teapot Dome oil scandals is
finding it expensive. The govern
ment recently divorced him from
another $100,000 in bonds for his
failure to answer subpoena to ap
pear before the Supreme Court • c
tfie United Slates.
C. H. Sundmacher
Attorney at Law
Arctic Hotel Petersburg
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Physician and Surgeon
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Phone - - 62
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