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In the fourth of a series of articles
on “What’s the Matter With Alaska?”
Edmund Ellsworth Sumner writes in
the Railway and Marine News as fol
lows:
The trouble with Alaska always has
been the lack of authortative govern
ment within the territory and the
seeming indifference of congress and
bureau officials at Washington. In
the old days of Russian occupation it
has been said that the slogan “God
and the Czar are a long way off,” and
so it came to pass that under Ameri
can regime the cry was altered to fit
the great distance to Washington, D.
C. Right here it will be well to quote
a few authentic passages of history.
Following Seward’s purchase of the
territory for $7,200,000 in 1S67, the
United States should have at once be
come the active developing head of
a veritable empire far exceeding in
wealth the fabulous mines of King
Solomon. There can be no contradic
tion to the statement that during the
first three decades of American occu
pation practically nothing was done
toward developing the territory. Ap
propriations were made only for the
salaries and expenses of agents at the
fur seal grounds and sometimes these
appropriations were somewhat lavish
as for exemple, on March 3, 1S81, the
sum of $8,000 was appropriated for
I the repair and preservation of public
buildings, and in 1882 a few postal
routes were established, but for seven
teen years following the actual pur
chase no well defined practical plan
of industrial development had been
made, yet petitions without number
had been presented to congress re
questing some form of civil govern
ment. Each year the president of the
United States called attention to these
various matters and many resolutions
and bills were introduced in the sen
ate but most of them were tabled. The
outside world knew nothing of Alas
ka and, according to the historian
Bancroft, “If we may believe Major
Morris, dozens of letters were address
ed to the United States consul at
Sitka and many governors of states
and territories sent copies of their
Thanksgiving proclamation to the gov
ernor of Alaska territory years before
that country enjoyed the presence of
any such officials.”
When one considers that had the
United States in 1867, or at least in
the following year 1868, organized a
strong civil government, appointing
good, practical men to the positions,
and had followed this up by naming
a special committee to study the fur
situation which would put a stop to
the ruthless slaughter of the sea otter
and the seal, the first, five venrs of
American occupation would have over
paid greatly the purchase price. Let
this be distinctly understood. The sea
otter was the most valuable fur-bear
ing animal in existence and that ani
mal alone, if wise conservation had
been applied between 1867 and 1872
on the strict lines of the utterly ridic
ulous conservation plans of Gifford
Pinchot of 1906 relating to the timber
and the coal, then Alaska would have
advertised itself to an extent whereby
the other riches of its then unknown
minerals and fishing would have been
developed earlied and more intensive
ly.
Mention is made of this fur industry
owing to the fact that it was the only
industry developed under Russian
rule. The sea otter in the fifteen
years following the American pur
chase was allowed to be killed with
out restriction and became extinct, yet
as every one knows, the sea otter fur
is much more valuable than the seal
skin. Here was a country officially
known to be rich in the value of furs
derived from sea animals, yet follow
ing the purchase and for years, not
one thing was done to preserve that
great industry. It was not until Dec
ember 4, 1883, that Senator Harrison,
introduced a bill to provide a civil gov
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ernment for Alaska, which, with some
amendments, passed on March 17,
1884, or nearly seventeen years after
the United States had purchased this
wonderful territory. (The report of
the collector of customs of Alaska for
the fiscal year ending June, 1919,
showed the value of the shipped pro
ducts of Alaska to be $81,000,000, or
more than eleven times the purchase
price. The report of June, 1920, is not
as yet at hand but it will be very near
ly $76,000,000.)
When the government was provid
ed no criticism can be made as to the
salaries offered for officials, or the
size of the appropriation. In fact, his
tory shows that it was fairly liberal.
The great criticism is found in the
fact that it was seventeen years de
layed and while the government in
cluded a commission of four agents
for the protection of the seal fisheries,
this was so late that the agents found
the sea otter extinct and the seals
bordering upon extinction. In later
years the government finaly elimina
ted the private exploitation of the seal
and through its present maintenance
of the seals on the Pribilof Islands,
that animal has been preserved, but
the sea otter is seemingly gone for
ever.
It was not until the autumn of 1S84
that John H. Kinkead, a former mer
chant of Salt Lake City and late gov
ernor of Nevada, was named governor
of Alaska, and reached Sitka.
Here was a country rich in gold, cop
per, coal, furs, fisheries, forests and
miscellaneous minerals, which by pro
per exploitation through the land of
fice, the geological survey, the coast
survey, the bureau of mines, the bu
reau of fisheries, the forestry bureau
and agriculture department, could
have become from the spring of 1868
one of the richest of the wesetrn
states or territories, yet the govern
ment had purchased the vast terri
tory in those early days and for sev
teen years allowed it to be absolutely
ungoverened and unregulated. This
could be emphasized even more strong
ly by showing in a lengthy reference
to history that the seventeen-year per
iod without any form of government
could be lengthened to probably a
great many more years of decidedly
inefficient government by the differ
ent officials appointed from time to
time. As every one knows who has
followed the history of Alaska, every
successful development has been ac
complished by those who as private
individuals pioneered the country and
let us here give crdit to those pio
neers who have made Alaska famous
and in many cases created a fortune
for themselves purely on their own in
itiative without the aid or encourage
ment of any government official but
sad to say, quite frequently desipte
bureaucratic red tape.
Without laboriously going into the
long years of neglect, the real indus
trial history of Alaska dates from the
early discovery and subsequent devel
opment of the Treadwell mine. Later
the Klondike discovery in Canada, a
few hundred miles across the Alaska
boundary line, attracted one hunderd
thousand people to the Klondike and
eventually these people drifted down
the Yukon river into Alaska, with the
result that Nome, Fairbanks and och
er discovereries were made. The Klon
dike discovery was twenty-two years
ago, the Nome rush just twenty
years gone by, and the development
of the great copper deposits began
about fifteen years ago, all of these
events being so recent as to be well
remembered, but each one was the re
sult of private initiative and enter
prise. These discoveries and the sub
sequent development could easily
have been made in the early seventies
had there been any attempt made in
developing the country immediately
following its purchase.
We can show briefly that thirty
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Charles awoke, and behold, his man-about-town
chum wasn’t even in the running.
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