Alaska Road Commission,
Valdez, Alaska.
Gentlemen: We, the undersigned
mine owners and operators in the
Willow creek mining district, respect
fully beg of you to reconsider the
building of a wagon road at Mile 26
supposing the same to be used by us
as a freight road. We have made al:
arrangements to have all our supplies
and freight hauled from mile 15, anc
suggest that the money which is tc
be expended on the proposed new
road be expended on the governmenl
road from mile 15, as the grade is sc
much better and easier than could be
procured on a road from Palmer.
Rae-Wallace Mine, by D. A. Rae.
Free Gold Mining company, by Wm
Martin.
Kelly-Willow Creek Mining com
pany, by Milo Kelly.
Yogo Alaska Gold company, by H
O. Schaleben.
Mabel Mine and three other proper
ties, by Fred Laubner.
Gold Bullion company, by Harrj
Landers.
The above petition has gone intc
the seats of the mighty for theii
weighty consideration. This prayei
will be duly considered and in the
course of time and human events ac
tion will be taken. In the meanwhile
the great gold producing mines ol
Willow' creek will lie dormant, the
prospectors and the men who make
development possible will lie idle ane
several hundred miners will be throw/
out of employment.
The old-timers say that this sea
son’s rain fall is extraordinary whicl
undoubtedly has a great deal to eh
towards making the wagon roads ii
the Willow creek district practically
impassable. The ultimate idea ii
building a railroad is to produce traf
fic; the same theory should hold gooe
in the question of wagon roads. Thi
proposed wagon road from Palmer, oi
the government railroad, to mile 26,
on the Knik-Willow creek wagon road, ,
will unquestionably be of a benefit to ,
the farmers in this rapidly growing j
section tributary to the railroad. The (
idea as advanced by Engineer Zug ,
last summer, is to build up the roads j
through the more thickly settled parts ,
of the country depending on the gov- ]
ernment railroad for transportation ,
and incidentally swell the traffic of ^
the road. These wagon roads are .
technically known as feeders and the (
idea is good, as it helps the farmer ,
and the railroad system. (
There is no argument against good (
I roads; in fact there is every reason 1
for good roads and every effort should ]
be made to impress upon the road j
commission the dire necessity of bet- t
ter conditions than exist in this part 1
of Alaska at the present time. I f
The mine operators of the Willow 1
creek district do not want any consid- *
eration or assistance at the expense of s
the Matanusfla farmer; nor are they 1
asking for anything that will work a <
hardship or be a detriment to the •
farmer or the home builder. '<■
There have been several hundred *
thousand dollars appropriated for
wagon roads for the territory; this (
money is proportioned to the different 1
sections upon the advice and recom- <
mendations of the engineers, through 1
petitions and by means of personal '
and combined efforts of the people.
It is an open secret that the road
commission have played their favor
; ites and thousands of dollars have been
spent unwisely. There has been very
little money spent on good roads in
i the Ivnik, Willow creek and Matanus
i ka districts. It is true that this sec
i tion of Alsaka has grown beyond the
dreams of even the most optimistic,
i but that is no excuse for the Alaska
Road commission in not keeping pace
I with the development and coming to '
< the aid of the mine operator and the j
i farmer at the present time—the time .
hey need assistance and good roads
,nd need them badly.
If it is logic to improve the condi
ions of the wagon roads from Palmer
hrough the farming district the same
easoning should hold good for the
line operator and the prospector and
heir prayer should be granted; and
iot necessarily at the expense nor to
he detriment of the farmer.
Both of these roads are needed and
here is no legitimate reason or ex
use that both should not receive just
nd fair consideration from the Alas
a Road commission.
10CIETY DRAMA “ARISTOC
RACY” AT THE EMPRESS
Tyrone Power, playing the leading
ole in “Aristocracy,” a pictorial dra
latic study of society and its shams,
3 to be featured at the Empress thea
re this evening, and repeated tomor
ow evening. The play is from the
ien of Bronson Howard, and has won
/ell-merited success in two continents,
dr. Tyrone Power, the cultured and
minent actor whose wonderful por
rayal of the drainman in “The Serv
.nt in the House,” thrilled the entire
heatrical country, again assumes the
ole of a man of the people, who
lacks the aristocracy of worth against
hat of birth. In the play tonight,
lowever, Mr. Power does not play the
art of a workman, but a wealthy
American, (Jefferson Stockton), who
hrough his own untiring energy has
isen to a high place among the “Cap
ains of Industry” of the great west,
iut whose success has left him un
poiled and contemptuous of the
hams and insincerities of the so-cal
ed “aristocracy” of America and Eur
pe. The play has many charms,
rowded with intensely dramatic situ
.tions, all of which work up to a pow
rful and logical climax.
In addition to “Aristocracy,” a spe
ial production in two parts, featuring
^ord Sterling, entitled “Court House
Irooks,” a Keystone comedy, will be
iresented.
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fare and the Bethmann-Hollweg, the
more temperate German chancellor,
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