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THE TRANSPORTATION QUE8TION
The Fairbanks Bulletin of January 25 says editorially :
1 ‘Last week we put before the public a proposition
which offers a solution of the transportation problem,
namely the inducing of some other firm to enter into com"
petition with the present combine which controls the carry
ing trade of interior Alaska. Since the last issue of the
Bulletin came out various staples have increased in price
and the need of a change is becoming more apparent to all.
Onfe the public can be got to look the matter squarely in
thfe face, they cannot fail to see that it is incumbent on
them to take some action if ever anything is to be accom
plished. Only last summer another firm brought two boats
on the river. The arrival of the new firm was hailed with
delight, as it gave promise of some improvement on the
present deplorable conditions. All these hopes have been
shattered, however, by the rumor that negotiations are now
pending which, if successful, will make these two boats sub
sidiary vessels of N. C. Co.’s fleet.
H/. “No firm which has so far attempted to gain a foothold
ii#the territory has succeeded in doing so, as either the
N. C. or the N. A. T. <fc T. have offered inducements too
alluring to cause them to risk running in opposition. Un
less the public are organized into a body which can take
concerted action it is useless to expect any new concern to
embark on an enterprise so risky as the entering into com
petition with such old established and wealthy firms as the
N,VC. and the N. A. T. <fc T. companies. Whenever a new
firm ventnres to put boats on the river it is invariably ap
proached with profitable offers for the carriage of freight
t Jgr the two companies at present operating here, and fear
ihg a long rate war if it refuses these offers, it allows itself
tb be absorbed, knowing that its chances as a newcomer of
supremacy in case a rate war were inaugurated would be
,very small. This has happened in the case of the many
independent boats which at different times have been en
gaged in the carrying trade in the interior, as it seems
-about to happen in the case of the two boats w'hicli made
their first entry into the transportation field of interior
Alaska last summer.
“With a population disorganized and unable to offer
any guarantee to newcomers, it is rank foolishness for any
one to hope for better conditions. Nothing beneficial can
be obtained in the world without conscientious, strenuous
/effort. If the people wish to lower these freight rates, they
■"must take a hand themselves aad they must do so at once,
and not delay until the summer time, and lose another
t ^twelve months.
in r, “The public should remember that capital is timid. A
'' Company which would undertake to run up against the
present combine would have have to face a great many
risks, and it is up to us, therefore, to lessen these risks by
-^offering to guarantee the buying of so much freight at rea
sonable prices, no matter how the old companies butcher
rates. Solitary individuals cannot do this, it requires con
* £ certed action on the part of the entire population.
‘‘If some public-spirited men who are not afraid to take
_the initiative would be willing to devote a little time to this
matter, one of the main drawbacks to prosperity in the val
ley would be speedily remedied.
ALASKA’S FUTURE
Alaska the Golden is becoming a land of rare surprises,
lo Neglected and abandoned for years as an almost outcast
territory, it is now rapidly coming into its rich and glori
ous heritage. If the present rate of progress is kept up for
a decade, and there appears to be no reason why it should
*'jaf not continue, Alaska will be found knocking for admission
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JOE KELLY L. E. ANDERSON
Central Roadhouse
SULLIVAN CITY
Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars Meals at All Hours
6oed Stables Dog Feed for Sale
to the Union as one of its richest states. There is enough
quartz and placer mining in Alaska to keep half a million s
miners busy for a century; there is sufficient coal, copper *
and other minerals to keep busy another half million of 1
miners for the same period, and strangest of all to the un- .
initiated, investigation has shown that the fertile valleys of
the far Northern country will support 500,000 prosperous
farms and homes. The government agricultural station at
Copper Center has demonstrated that wheat, oats, barley,
and practically all of the common garden vegetables can be .
grown to perfection in the rich virgin soil of Alaska. l
Railroad development is all that is needed to bring ^
about a wonderful transformation, and already lines of 1
steel are penetrating into the empire. Frederick H. Chase, j
in a current review’ says: “Alaska has more gold than ever i
had California, Australia, or South Africa; it has more
copper than twenty Buttes; it has more hard coal than
Pennsylvania, and it has more tin than Wales. The hay
that rots on its tondras and plains would fatten all the
cattle that roam on the plains of Kansas, Oklahoma and
Texas. And there the wild, fertile, untouched plains and
valleys await the ax, the spade, the plow and the reaper of
half a million American farmers.”
Three railroads are now being constructed from points
on the Pacific coast to the interior, and other projects are
under consideration. The roads now being built are the
Alaska Central, from Seward City; the Valdez-Yukon, at
the head of Port Valdez, and the Copper River & North
western, at Cordova, on Cordova bay. The completion of
any one of these roads to the Yukon means the opening to
settlement of an agricultural and mining territory larger
than Texas. But the primary object of the railroads is the
development of the copper and coal fields, said to be among
the richest in the world. One of the bridges on the Cor
dova road, it is stated by the engineers, will cost $2,000,
000—good evidence that some one believes in a rich and
prosperous future for the territory.
A new era is dawning for Alaska, and it may not be
long before the vote from beyond the Arctic circle will be
a more or less decisive factor in the election of a President
of the United States.—Washington Post.
Pat O’Connor, the Fairbanks policeman, displayed good judg
ment a few days ago when he put a quietus on a movement by
over-zealous citizen* that had for its purpose reward for his effec
tive action in a recent deplorable tragedy in that city. O’Connor
demonstrated himself to be a brave peace official, and on this occa
sion did his whole duty; besides, it is an affair which cannot be too
quickly effaced from the minds of the younger generation of that
city. __
President Roosevelt’s much-advertised African hunting trip is
liable to be abandoned in order that he may “go gunning” for sev
eral congressmen who have recently said some very unpleasant
things about the strenuous President’s connection with the Pan
ama canal purchase.
BEFORE AND AFTER
He promised be would wait on her and all his life would try
To make her happy every day or know the reason why.
He swore that silks and satins for her every week he’d buy.
He begged her on his bended knee to be his happy bride,
He swore he’d be her willing slave and always by her side,
And that when they were mac and wife in carriages she’d ride.
He told her that she’d never have to do the housework. No,
He’d hire a maid to do all that and she could come and go
Exactly as she pleased and not a cross word should she know.
They married. Now she has no maid, no silks or satins fine,
He does not even help her put the washing on the line,
But still she doesn’t nag him and she doesn’t fume and whine.
She seems to be quite happy and she thinks her husband good,
She doesn't make a slave of him and wouldn’t if she could.
He hasn’t kept his promise, but she never thought he would.
. —Detroit Free Press.
No Second Class
for Hot Springs
Jack Price, who left here on
January 25th for Fairbanks for
a load of second-class mail, re
turned home Tuesday morning at
4 o’clock with a ton of the stuff,
but not an ounce of it was for
residents of Hot Springs, all
going to lower-river points.
Charley Surridge, the driver of
the Hot Springs-Tanana stage,
laid over a day for this consign
ment, and hauled it along with
him on Tuesday morning.
A widower who was marked recently
for the third time, and whose bride had
been married once before herself,
wrote across the bottom of the wedding
invitation: “Be sure and come; this is
I no amateur performance.”
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Some men don’t care whether the
preacher preaches with notes or with
out, if only he will preach without
bank notes.
The liquor license of Cbas B. Clark,
i saloonkeeper at Circle City, has been
mspended by Judge Reid. Clark was
recently fined $100 and costs for selling
iquor to natives.
See us for Cloth Posters.
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD — Camp
Hot Springs No. 24 meets every Mon
day evening at 8 o’clock in hall over
Traeger’s store. Visiting brothers
always welcome.
3. A. Meyers, C. A. Davidson,
Recorder. Arctic Chief.
MAIL SCHEDULE
\rrives from Fairbanks Saturday p. m.
Arrives from Rampart, Sunday p. m.
Arrives from Tanana Sunday p. m.
Departs for Fairbanks Monday a. m.
Departs for Rampart, Monday a. m.
Departs for Tanana Monday a. m
HENRY RODEN,
Attorney at Law
Fairbanks, Aka.
Oflice: First Ave. and Cushman St.
JAS. BLODGET,
Freighting
AND
General Teaming
Prices Reasonable,
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Leave Orders at Morrison’s
CHAS. A.
TRAEGER
LADIES' AND DENTS'
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Goods
Underwear, Sox, Mitts, Hats, Caps,
Boots, Shoes, 6old Seal and
Eureka Hip Boots and Shoes,
Blankets, Quilts, Moccasins, Axes,
Picks, Shovels, Drugs, Station
ery, Cigars and Tobaccos *
NEW MEN’S SUITS
JUST RECEIVED
Latest Styles in Everything
Fits Guaranteed
HOT SPRINGS. ALASKA
That gladdens
the eye of the
trail-weary pil
grim on his ar
rival in Fair
banks is that of
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FRACTION
Sideboard—where only the best and
most recuperative Liquors are di
spensed by skilled mixologists.
LOUIS SPITZ, PROP; FAIRBANKS, AU.
Our Guarantee
There is nothing, however small, which goes from this house but what
carries our stamp of satisfaction with it—not only representing our guaran
tee for the rjghtness of the goods, but for the uniform fairness of our prices.
We count this guarantee of absolute satisfaction, and the confidence it
begets, as the basis of our success.
Lcasey^jHotel NorthernI^rbanks]
LARGEST
85 6UEST ROOMS 85
BEST
Pioneer Hotel
DAVE PETREE, PROP.
Dog Houses With Corral
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
Stein Hooted Stables