ANCHORAGE DAILY TIMES
AND COOK INLET PIONEER.
ANCHORAGE PUBLISHING CO.
Anchorage, Alaska.
CHAS. E. HEUl.ON, Publisher.
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Entered in the Anchorage Postoffice June 5, 1915, as second class matter
under the Act of March 3, 1873.
For President—CHARLES EVANS HUGHES.
For Delegate to Congress—JAMES WICKERSHAM.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1916.
NEGLECTED BY ROAD COMMISSION.
The Times charges that the Alaska road commission is
not keeping step, in the matter of road and trail building, with
the development of the Cook Inlet country. Due to the govern
ment railway project, now under construction with Anchorage
as the chief base; the agricultural developments in the Mata
nuska and Susitna valleys; the development of the Willow
Creek gold camp;—this part of Alaska is at this time the most
important in this broad territory. More people are flocking to
this particular region than to any other section of Alaska. The
reason is obvious. There are things doing hereabouts; there
is employment for workmen; there are openings for the busi
ness men; there is land for those seeking homesteads; there are
opportunities for those interested in the mining industry.
The Cook Inlet country has been making rapid strides for
ward during the past two years. It would move forward faster
and more permanently, if the Alaska road commission, which
has charge of all road and trail building in the territory, were
alive to the true situation.
For years past, the Cook Inlet country has struggled along
as best it could, with practically no aid from the road commis
sion. There were not enough people at any given point in this
section to make a concerted demand for roads and trails. Some
two or three years ago, the people of Ivnik got together and
prayed for a road leading from that point to the Willow creek
camp. The prayer, in part, was answered by the commission,
but only in part. Much remains to be done to make a good
wagon road to this important mining center. Just the other
day, one of the biggest operators in that district said he would
be compelled to close down his mining operations, due to the j
condition of the road, which made it practically impossible to
land freight at his camp.
The Alaska road commission is gradually building an auto
mobile road from Valdez; to Fairbanks; it is about to begin the
construction of a bridge, or something of the sort, across the
waters of Gastineau channel. Both of these projects might be
alright, and The Times does not wish to deny these other sec- ;
tions necessary improvements. We recognize that they, too,
should be considered by the commission. But the point we wish
to make is, that road and trail work in the Cook Inlet country
is an urgent necessity; a crying need. We wish no roads ox
trails for mere pleasure; we want roads and trails so we can get
about and develop this country. The mining men want to
transfer heavy machinery to their claims; the settlers want
roads to haul produce from their farms to the railway line, so
markets may be found. We believe that a goodly share of the
commission’s funds could be employed, with better results, in
the Cook Inlet country than in any other part of Alaska. We
know of no other section in which there is such a vital need for
these improvements. And it is a shame that we are denied
them.
This newspaper has sought to be friendly and support the
Alaska road commission, in the hope that relief would be given
within a reasonable time. But our patience has become ex
hausted; another season is about over, with scarcely nothing;
done, when there is so much to be done. We now propose to j
see if the application of just criticism will result in something j
more substantial.
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH WILLOW CREEK.
Paul Denhart, sourdough Alaskan, who made a substantial
fortune at Nome, after completing a tour of Southeastern
Alaska, returns to Seattle and complains to a Seattle publica
tion that “there are good mines in Alaska, but there are none
for sale.”
This statement may he true with respect to mines, but it is
not true with respect to promising prospects that stand a fine
chance of evolving into producing mines, with adequate and in
telligent development. We wish to call the attention of Mr.
Denhart, and to others who may wish to secure mining inter
ests in Alaska, that when the Willow Creek gold quartz camp
is passed up by them, they are giving the “go-by” to the best
free gold district in all Alaska. This is not a mere newspaper
statement; the producing record of the camp fully substantiates
it. And when we say that there are quite a number of promis
ing prospects that may be secured by mining men, the facts
warrant the assertion.
This season there have been quite a number of deals where
by investors have taken over prospects for development. And
there are a number of good prospects found by prospectors who
would willingly turn their holdings over to legitimate mining
men, on a basis fair and equitable to each concerned. If Mr.
Denhart, whom we know to be a legitimate mining man, would
take the trouble to investigate the Willow Creek gold camp, he
would not return to Seattle empty-handed; he would he sure to
find something there that at least would warrant development
Mines are not found; they are made. And if Mr. Denhart or
any other man comes with the idea that a mere favorable sur
face showing is a mine, they labor under a mistaken impression.
To -wrest the riches from old nature’s laboratory, it takes
money, time, energy, perseverance and intelligence. But there
is a big reward for the successful ones.
We should like to see Paul Denhart’s beaming counten
ance with us next season.
H. H. Bennett, of the United States bureau of soils, tells a
Juneau newspaper that the Matanuska and Susitna valleys
contain a*vast amount of fine agricultural lands. The splen
did root and herb crops raised this season amply substantiate
this claim.
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Vol. 1. No. 73. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA 4th and D
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