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Entered in the Anchorage Postoffice June 5, 1916, as second cUsj matter
under the Act of of March 3. 1873.
For President—Charles Evans Hughes.
For Delegate to Congress—James Wickersham
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4. 1916.
THE VITAL NEED OF ANCHORAGE.
The vital need of Anchorage is adequate docking facilities
for steamships, and this comprehends the necessary harbor
improvements that must be made before any steamer dock
can be installed. This town is growing so substantially; its
permanence and stability are so certain and assured that there
is no longer any question about the future. During the year
,1915. government tests were made of the month of Ship creek
to determine the character of the sea-bed that would have to
be dredged in order to make a deep-water channel from tlie
present mooring ground to the site of the proposed steamship
docks in the creek. These tests, according to the information
given by one of the commissioners, were all that could be de
sired—that is to say, the sea-bed is composed of sands and
gravels easily handled by a dredging machine adapted to the
purpose.
Tt is within the scope of the powers of the members of the
Alaskan Engineering Commission to make harbor improve
ments at any point they may deem advisable. The bill author
izing the construction of the government railway system spe
cifically makes such a provision.
Property owners in Anchorage were under the impression
that the harbor improvements planned would be inaugurated
this year. They based this belief on the fact that in the esti
mates made by the Engineering Commission, in requesting
further appropriations from congress for continuing construc
tion work on the railway system, during the year 1916, there
was an item which read, “$250,000 for harbor improvements
at Anchorage.” Chairman Edes, of the Commission, in ap
pearing before the senate and house appropriation commit
tees in support of the additional appropriations, explained at
some length why this specific item was placed in the estimates.
The congress passed the appropriation asked for, carrying the
item of $250,000 for harbor improvements here.
But there appears to be 'ome unnecessary delay in get
ting started on tills very necessary work. A committee of the
Anchorage Chamber of C ommerce waited on ( hairman Edes,
wlieu Mr. Edes was here recently, to discuss the harbor im
provements. Mr. Edes was inclined to take the view that the
necessity for further facilities for handling freight at this
point was questionable, inasmuch as when such improvements
became necessary and warranted by the business available,
they could lie installed on a comprehensive plan. He referred
to the fact that the government proposed to promote private
enterprise in the development of the coal fields in the Mata
nuska; that the coal areas were now available for leasing, un
der a workable leasing system inaugurated by Secretary of
the Interior Lane. Mr. Edes stated to the committee that Sec
retan’ Lane was expected in Anchorage about the first of Sep
tember, and that he hoped a representative committee of the
citizens of the town would meet the secretary in conference
and submit matters of this character to him in person.
In a conference between the committee and Commissioner
Mears, the commissioner gave a very conservative statement
with reference to the period of time necessary for the install
ment of harbor facilities at Anchorage. If bids should be ad
vertised for the dredging of the channel and the construction
of dockage facilities in the very near future, it would enable
contractors along these lines time to inspect the ground and
plans here this season, and by the time the bids were opened,
examined and allowed in due form, the spring of 1917 will
have arrived, and it would take one and possibly two years to
complete the dredging, and at least two years to construct the
dockage facilities.
The laying of steel to the Matanuska coal fields will be
completed in the year 1917. Hence, if the initiatory steps in the
harbor improvements were inaugurated this season, it would
not be posible to complete them before the coal fields were
reached by the railway. •
We disagree entirely with Chairman Edes’ implied sug
gestion that it might be advisable to delay harbor improve
ments here until the coal fields were opened, for the good and
sufficient reason that the coal fields will never be developed
until there is harborage facilities at Anchorage, which is the
only logical and feasible place for the coal terminal. Before
captital will enter the Matanuska, it must be assured, beyond
any question of doubt, as to cheap transportation cost from the
mines to the markets. And Anchorage is the only port that
can provide and insure a low transportation cost, in that it is
the nearest port to the coal areas, and there is a water grade
from the mines to this point, permitting the hauling, by a sin
gle locomotive, of many carloads of the product.
In view of the attitude of the chairman, it remains for the
citizens of Anchorage to strongly present the facts in the case
to Secretary Lane, upon his arrival here. If the government
is to open the resources of this part of Alaska within the short
est space of time possible, it must provide facilities for the
handling of the resources when developed. Second in im
portance to the building of the railway system, is the matter
of harbor improvements at Anchorage, the logical gateway
to the Matanuska and Susitna valleys.
Bailway construction in this division of the work, immedi
ately under the direction of Commissioner Mears, is being
pushed with great diligence and intelligence. It is a matter
of regret that the planned harbor improvements are not keep
ing pace with the splendid progress made on the railway line,
in that the two development cliemes should go hand in hand.
One is vital to the other.
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Agents and distributors:
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Augustine & Kyer’s Chocolates.
R. Service’s Poems of Alaska, “The Spell of the Yu
kon,” “Ballads of the Cheechaco,” “Rhymes of a Rolling
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The Ansco Camera.
Libbey’s Cut Glass.
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Carrying U. S. Mail Between
Anchorage, Hope, Sunrise
and Glacier Creek—All
Points on Turn
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REO AUTO SERVICE
Passengers and Baggage.
Storage Five Days Free
NIGHT AND DAY SERVICE
Stand:—
Front of F. J. Cotter’s Store.
HERMAN L. GENTSCH, Mgr.
Pioneer Sheet
Metal Works
YUKON STOVES
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HEATERS
Corner Fifth and C Sts.
Anchoraee - - Alaska
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TONY’S
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Opposite Empress Theatre
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WEATHER REPORT.
7 a. m. August 3, 1916.
Station Temp. Day Wind
Ship Creek . 55 Rain Calm
Summit.50 Cloudy Calm
Girdwood.51 Rain Calm
Mile 52 . 49 Rain Calm
Seward.62 Rain Calm
Mat. Junct. . 58 Cloudy Calm
Moose Creek .... 58 Cloudy Calm
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Hardware Company
Fourth Ave., Near H St.
RIFLES. GUNS, AMMUNITION SHIP CHANDLERY
STOVES, RANGES,
COOKING UTENSILS
Everything in Hardware
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EAST and SOUTH
LIMITED TRAINS — MEALS AND SLEEPING AC
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SIGNAL PROTECTION all the way to Chicago, Den
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JUNEAU.
E. Coke Hill, attorney, and Dick
Button, a banker, discovered and ex
tinguished what , might have been a
disastrous fire at Iditarod recently.
Read Th« Dally Times and be aa
Anchorage booster.
Louis Hamill and Mike Goonan, of
Iditarod, are en route to the new town
of Nenana, taking with them a com
plete restaurant outfit. They will
open for business soon in the new
trovemment town.