THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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H. G. STEEL
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TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1920
BIG RELIEF TO ALASKA
The abolition of the eighty-rod
strip reservation has been urged for
a number of years by the homestead
ers and Other land settlers of the
North who have found that it was
one of the greatest factors in pre
venting the locators from securing
patent. Particularly was it a hard
ship for those settlers along the
rivers of the Interior which con
stantly kept changing their courses
with the result that the boundaries
of the homesteads were quite differ
en at the time patent was applied
for than when they were originally
located.
Along the coast, too, there has
been much objection to the reserva
tion as it tied up hundreds of miles
of good land that could have been
put to use in developing the re
sources adjacent.
In compliance with the request of
several homesteaders organizations
Charles A. Sulzer, when delegate to
congress, introduced a bill provid
ing for the abolition of this law.
The bill was passed by the house
but the senate failed to take action
on it and it died with that session of
congress.
Shortly after going to Washington
last summer, Delegate Grigsby in
troduced a similar bill and secured
the approval of both the agricultural
and interior departments.
The secretary of the interior is
given authority under the bill passed
recently to sell the land which was
reserved under the old law; and he
also may wave the restriction that
no homestead should exceed a dis
tance of more than 150 rods along
any navigable water.
NOME’S TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY
Twenty years ago today Seattle’s
waterfront was swarming with gold
seekers bound for the new Eldorado
at Nome. Alaska, for the purpose of
working the rich beaches following
the discovery of ’99. It is a great an
niversary and one worthy of being
remembered for not withstanding the
fact that Nome is at present experi
encing a dull period, exclusively due
to the fact that gold cannot be ex
tracted at the present time on the
same basis of profit as formerly, the
good old gold camp is not dead by a
long way and with her new Siberian
fur trading and a continuation of her
larger mining enterprises, she is yet
going to provide another interesting
chapter to the story of Alaska’s de
velopment. Twenty years ago Nome
was on the lips of the prospectors
throughout the world and the great
rush of 1900 rivalled that of the
Klondike, two years before, in inter
est and intensity. So that the record
may be preserved, let it here be re
peated that gold was discovered < n
Anvil creek in October, 1898 by Jafet
Lindeberg, John Brynteson and E. O.
Lindblom. all of whom are now living
in California. It was much later be
fore news of this discovery became
general property. The discovery on
Anvil creek was followed later in the
year 1899 by finding pay in the sands
of the Nome beach and it is stated
that the clean-up of ’99 represented
$2,000,000, or an average of $4,000 to
each man working. It was this news
brought to Seattle that started the
great Nome rush in the early days
of June, 1900, and since then the
Seward Peninsula is estimated to
have produced $1,000,000 worth of vir
gin gold. The Victoria is booked full
on its first trip this season and in
tho list of passengers are found the
names of many of the old timers who
are returning to the scene of former
successes.—Railway and Marine
News.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
The statement has been made that
the Alaska shipping board already has
saved the people of Alaska $1,200,000
in freight money. How? And who got
the money?—Juneau Capital.
It makes the average Alaskan bach
elor sore to read about the Californ
ian marrying 30 women and killing
them all. If women get to be a drug
on the Outside market why not send;
them to Alaska?—Valdez Miner.
To the uninitiated it might seem
that Ketchikan was undergoing a
boom, similar to those of other towns^
of the North which have gone before,
but there is no more similarity than
night and day. Ketchikan has grown
because of the steady growth of two
great industries, mining and fishing,
and soon will be added the third and ;
possibly the greatest industry, paper
making. With these three, neither de
pendent in any way upon the other,
there need be no fears as to the fu- |
ture, for should any one of these three
fail in any year, a thing that is un- 1
likely, the other two will always make ;
Ketchikan a good town.—Ketchikan
Chronicle.
For the benefit of the bona fide
prospectors who have written this
paper we will state that the season
this spring is extremely backward and
it is doubtful if much can be done in
the hills before the middle of June.
Of course it is well to be on the
ground in plenty of time to be pre
pared to follow the snow back. That
is the best way to prospect this coun
try. The vegetation here is very
dense, and because of the extreme
length of the summer days it grows
with a rapidity that is amazing to the
folks from the South- The snow lays
this vegetation flat and before the
new growth starts the prospector has
his best chance. There is a vast
amount of unexplored territory with
in the presumed area of the mineral
belt on both the Alaskan and Cana
I dian sides.—Hyder Miner.
For the first time since work was
started on the government railroad
in Interior Alaska, Sunday is to be
observed as a day of rest by those
employes of the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission whose wages are
computed by the hour. Announce
ment of the change from the old
order of things, which permitted the
railroad workers to get in every
day during the brief working season,
is contained in an offcial circular
posted- We question the right of the
Alaskan Engineering commission to
curtail operations at this time, when
all the work possible is necessary to
hold the Interior country together un
til relief can come by way of the
completed government railroad. We
feel that it is our duty to make vig
orous protest, and do so in the hope
that some good may come of -it..
Nenana News.
The passage of the military appro
priation bill (by the senate) with an
item carrying $350,000 for Alaska
roads means an increase of $200,000
since the bill was passed by the
house. Credit for this increase is due
to Delegate Grigsby. Gov. Riggs, Gen.
Richardson and other Alaskans and
friends of the territory who did ex
cellent team work in the interest of
the North. The people of Alaska
should unite in this fight for roads.
Congress should be appropriating not
less than $1,000,000 a year for roads
in this Territory. The United States
owns 98 per cent of the resources of
Alaska and should contribute her
fair share toward making these re
sources available. It is not fair to
ask the people who own two per cent
of the resources to build the roads
and make valuable the federal gov
ernment’s share of the Territorial as
sets.—Juneau Empire. %
WICKEDEST PLACE ON
WHOLE EARTH SURFACE
CARDIFF, June 8 (by Associated
Press).—“Port Said still is the wick
edest place on earth,” said Brigadier
General J- H. Bateson, principal
Wesleyan chaplain, in an address to
soldiers. “I know Calcutta, Bombay
and Madras, better than I know Lon
don,” he continued. “I have had to
live in the East for a quarter of a
century, and I know what Cairo and
Ismalia are; but I have seen more sin
and appearances of sin in one hour in
Port Said than in all the rest of my
experiences”
New and Second-hand Un-called-for
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If you change your address, do not
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new address to the office.
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FAMOUS CLAMS
AT KATALLA
ARE WANTED
Two new coal companies have ap
plied for leases on ground located in
Alaskan fields covering a total of 3,120
acres and calling for an investment
totaling $183,000, according to inform
ation received by the general land
office. One of the applications is far
a lease of 1,080 acres in the Mantan
uska coal fields, the other being for
2,040 acres in the Bering river field.
CUNNINGHAM CLAIMS SOUGHT
The latter covers a portion of the
ground once located by Andrew L.
Schofield and 32 other parties and
nationally famous as “the Cunning
ham claims.” In 1903, one Clarence
Cunningham, for himself and as agent
for 32 others, filed on a large area of
coal lands in what was then known as
the Controller bay district. During
the Ballinger-Pinchot episode, a con
troversy arose over the legality of the
claims, charges being preferred
against the claimants with the result
that applications for patents were
held up and a hearing ordered by the
department of the interior.
NATION-WIDE ATTENTION
- The attention of the entire nation
was drawn to the cases by the pub
licity given the matter. Hearings
were held on both the Atlantic and the
Pacific coasts, also in Paris, France,
and Rome, Italy. Upon the findings of
the special commissioner, appointed to
try the cases, Secretary Walter L.
Fisher denied patents to all claimants,
ruling that none of the entrymen had
complied with the mining laws.
A new company has now been
formed and has made application for
blocks 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31 in the
Bering river coal field, proposing an
investment of $75,000, mining opera
tions to be begun this year. These
blocks are about one mile east of the
holdings of Falcon Joslin and associ
ates in the same field, and are also
east of one of the government leasing
blocks. They lie east of the Kush
tana lake and along Trout creek and
Kush tana glacier.
$108,000 IN MATANUSKA FIELD
The other application is for block 6
in the Matanuska coal field. It is
west of the government operations on
block 7 and lies on Wishbone hill. The
company, or individual, making appli
cation, proposes to make an invest
ment of $108,000. Work is to begin
on July 1 of this year if permits are
issued by the department of the in
terior. The applications will be taken
up for consideartion on June 20 by
Secretary John Barton Payne. The
names of the applicans are not known
to the Juneau office.
Scarborough pictures that please at
prices that are right. Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
Why do we sell so many Congoleum
Gold Seal Art Rugs? Northwestern
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