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A new shipment of popular selections now in
stock. Played with the steel needle.
DARDANELLA . Fox-Trot
Fast Asleep in Poppy Land . One-Step
DESERT DREAMS . Fox-Trot
Missy . Fox-Trot
I MIGHT BE YOUR ONCE-lN-A-WHILE . Song
Tulip Time . Song
WHERE THE LANTERNS GLOW . Fox-Trot
Lucille . Fox-Trot
O’ER THE DESERT WIDE . Fox-Trot
Vamp . Fox-Trot
BOW-WOW . One-Step
I’m So Sympathetic . Fox-Trot
MY CUBAN DREAM . Fox-Trot
La-La Lucille . One-Step
PATCHES . Fox-Trot
Swanee . One-Step
VENEIAN MOON . Fox-Trot
Mystery . Fox-Trot
CHINESE PICNIC .'... Banjo Solo
Daly’s Reel ... Banjo Solo
LAST PART OF EVERY PARTY . Fox-Trot
Hold Me . Fox-Trot
FLUFFY RUFFLES . One-Step
You’ll Be Sorry .-. Fox-Trot
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ALASKA ADVISORY COMfflTTEE’S
REPORT IS PRESENTED IN DETAIL!
Secretary of the Interior Payne Gives Out Full r
Text of Data Gathered by Investigators of
Three Federal Departments and Presents at
Length Their Recommendatons for the Ad
vancement and Development of the Territory
(Concluded from Saturday’s Issue)
CONCENTRATION AND CO-ORDI
NATION OF FEDERAL CONTROL
Nearly all of Alaska’s resources are
directly or indirectly controlled by
the Federal government. About 99
per cent of the land is still in govern
ment ownership. The development of
coal and oil deposits is under govern
ment leases. Water powers and fish
eries are under federal control, and
nearly all Alaska timber is in govern
ment ownership.
The federal control of Alaska’s re
sources is vested in a number of bu
reaus an ddepartments. Rules and
regulations relating to Alaska af
fairs, under the existing statues, must
be made by Washington authorities,
who are also in large measure direct
ly charged with their execution. This
long-distance administration has been
a serious handicap to the develop
ment of Alaska. In many instances
►regulations have been made which
did not meet the local requirements,
and unjust decisions rendered because
those making them were not familiar
vvith local conditions. This situation
has worked a particular hardship on
the operator with small capital who
could not afford to make the long
journey to present his argument in
person to the Washington authorities.
Owing to the divided authority and
the limitattions placed by statutes
and appropriations, there has also
been a lack of co-ordination between
various Alaska federal activities. For
example, there are four different fed
eral bureaus who have funds for con
struction of wagon roads in Alaska,
in addition to the grants made by the
Territorial government. So far as
possible this situation has been met I
by co-operation between the several
agencies involved. Again, the duty of
enforcement of game laws is shared
by the governor of Alaska and the
departments of commerce and agri
culture. To improve these condi
tions the committee recommends
that:
1. The passage of an act providing
for an Alaska development board, lo
cated in Alaska, and authorized to
administer the federal laws relating
to public lands, leases, water powers,
fisheries, timber, railroad construction
and operation, and wagon-road con
struction.
2- That the Alaska development
board should not take over the purely
investigated work in Alaska forming
' a part of the activities of the large
federal scientific organizations. This,
because such investigations as, for
example, those of the geological sur
vey, coast survey, weather bureau,
and of other scientific bureaus, can
best and most economically be car
ried on by the existing agencies.
Mr. Sherman, representing the de
partment of agriculture, refrained
from joining in the above two recom
mendations. On May 24 the secre
tary of agriculture addressed a let
ter to the departments of war, labor,
and commerce, suggesting that any
comprehensive legislation for the re
organization of the administration of
national property interests in Alaska
should be based upon a joint consid
eration of the departments concerned.
Since the matter is therefore under
inter-departmental consideration at
the request of the department of agri
culture, Mr. Sherman did not feel
authorized or qualified to give ad
vice in the premises.
Pending the congressional authori
zation for an Alaska development
board and as a temporary expedient,
the committee further recommends:
1. That an inter-departmental com
mittee be organized, to be comp'sed
of representatives of all government
departments concerned in Alaska af
fairs. Also that the governor of Alas
ka be made an ex-officio member of
chi« committee.
2. That an additional assistant sec
retary of the interior department be
appointed who shall be chairman of
the committee and shall devote all
iiis time to Alaska affairs.
3. That the chairman of the com
mittee shal spend a large part of his
time in Alaska and thus by personal
contact become intimately acquainted
with Alaska conditions.
WAGON ROANS AND TRAILS
The committee finds that the con
struction of wagon roads and trails
is one of the most important and ur
gent needs of Alaska. Without the
construction of a large milage of
wagon roads and trails the resources
of the territory cannot be made avail
able. Nothing will contribute more
to development of tonnage for the
government railroad than a system
of tributary wagon roads- The com
mittee recommeds that:
1. A general system of main high
ways be planned to be constructed
and maintained by the federal gov
ernment.
2. The construction and raainten- j
mce of local roads and trails be left!
to the territory.
3. The systems outlined in the; |
above two recommendations include | -
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the construction of properly located
trails, to be subsequently improved ■
into wagon roads, into every new,
district where promising discoveries |
af minerals have been made.
4. A plan for co-ordination, so far
as it has not already been done, of
the various federal road-building
agencies be prepared by the proposed
interdepartmental Alaska committee,
with the advice of federal officials
resident in the territory, as well as
af the territorrial officials. That this
matter be delegated to the Alaska de
velopment board as soon as it is or
ganized.
5. In acting upon the foregoing ;
recommendations the following road l
building projects be given considera
tion : _
(a) A wagon road from the Alaska
railroad to the Kantishna mining dis-i
trict, to be connected with Mt. Mc-j
Kinley national park, and extended to |
McGrath, and to the Iditarod dis
trict.
(b) A wagon road from the Alaska;
railroad to the Valdez Creek placer
district, to be subsequently connected
with the Valdez-Fairbanks trail.
(c) Trails, and eventually wagon
roads, connecting the Alaska railroad
with the copper deposits of the Tal
keetna and other nearby districts.
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(d) A wagon road from the Alaska -
railroad to the Yentna (Cache Creek)
listrict. to be later extended into the
Kuskoltwim valley.
(e) A wagon road from the Copper
River Railroad into the Nizina placer
district, and its eventual extension
into upper Chitina valley.
C) A wagon road from Fairbanks
into Tolovana (Livengood) district,
later to be extended to the Yukon
and connecting with the Koyukuk
road.
(h) A wagon road from Fairbanks
(Continued on Page Six)
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rONIGHT AND TOMORROW (
The girl knew Greenwich village back- J
wards and forwards. She knew that Keene
was of that variety of village denizen that
neither toils nor spins. Yet when he offered her
“fame” and “wealth” she forgot her know- H
ledge of the way of his breed, and she— *|j|
But it’s a rattling fine story of Bohemian
life in America’s greatest Latin quarter.
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