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< ’() If I >( >VA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, .JULY 1, ID1T.
SELLING LOTS BY AUCTION
The government’s method of disposing of the lots at
chorage is arousing a great deal of adverse comment among
people of Alaska. The government in the position of a
<1 boomer does not present a dignified appearance, and we
st confess, hardly meets our conception of the proprieties of
situation. The Seward Gateway, published at the railroad
minus, while naturally perhaps tending to side in with the
/eminent officials utters the following gentle protest over
i auction sale:
“dust now the idea of a government selling lots by nuction
supies the thoughts of people in Alaska and the question is
rth thinking over. There is no attempt made to treat the
.tter exhaustively or to express favor one way or another
t it will help us all to think over the matter and say whatever
can that might direct each other’s mind into a channel that
uld lead to some understanding about the whole thing. Most
us hvae lived so long in Alaska that the custom of gov era
*nts selling lots or any other property is something new to us.
e have lived far away in such blissful ignorance of such
mgs that the government’s sudden entry on tlx* stage of our
istence with lots for sale has been a somewhat startling
iiiiuemuiii.
“To discover whether it. is right or not for a government to
1 lots to the people at public auction it would be necessary,
doubt, to begin by asking ourselves what government is. We
e then brought to the thought that when a government sells
r,s at public auction it means that the representatives of the
ople—the people thcmselvs practically—are selling to
rticular people the property of the whole people and making
e particular people pay the highest price for it. Whether
at is a better course than to give some of the people a present
the property of the whole nation is a question which must
decided by political economists or philosophers.
“The alternative to a sale by auction would be a drawing,
lis would let some persons into some easy money but it might
•ssibly be unfair to the owners of the public domain whom
e government desires to re-imburse. The government also
11s us that by selling lots and inviting all comers to bid not
dy greater prices are secured for the property but people of
oney are enticed into the country, and the1 money obtained for
ic property is used for the development of the territory while
le coming of wealth also aids in the development.
“It would be apparently a graceful act on the part of the
Iministration to let oldtime Alaskans have some lots or some
.her sort of property easily convertible into cash but, after
1, a government well conducted is a business well conducted,
ne of the most notable drawbacks to the idea of selling
ovemment property by auction is that the govmment tries to
et the largest prices possible and it is tempted to adopt the
dvertising methods found by professional real estate men to
e most effective. In this respect a government takes an unfair
dvantage, probably without being aware of the fact. It can
dvertise so much more effectively than a private individual
nd the confidence reposed in its statements by the people is so
fell calculated to create a blind confidence in what the govern
ment agents say. The chances are that a man will pay more
or government property than he would for any other, or more
ban it is worth. Is that so, or is it not?”
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The Britis hliave reason to feel proud of the loyalty of the
Canadian people to the mother country. Premier Borden savs
hey have more enlistments in Canada than they can arm and
tquip. The same sort of loyalty is evident in the other colonies
tf the British empire. New Zealand has concentrated her
•nergies on assisting the mother country. We may criticize
hese English for apparently not having done more in this war,
jut old Johnny Bull’s pertinacity and doggedness may yet
iccomplish wonders. He can stand an awful lot of licking and
;ome back for more.
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The fact that the government is advertising the lots at
Anchorage with all the ardor and zeal of a private real estate
agent, may seem all right to the officials themselves, but it
hardly makes a hit with the average Alaskan who has spent
the best years of his life developing the territory, to see the
officials trying to bring people with money here from the states
to attend a land sale, with the probable result, that the
Alaskan would never be able to bid against them unless they
put a money value on his experience and value to the country.
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Whenever a battle is lost, it has become the fashion for
the defeated nation to say, we were licked because we were
unprepared for war, we ran out of supplies, it will be different
• hereafter, for we will now form a Munitions Board, and
organize the resources of our empire. All very well gentleman,
but should not the Germans be given some credit for being tip
top fighters.
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Last year Europe bought from us a billion dollars more
than we bought from them. We ought therefore, to be so
much richer than we were a year ago. Examining your indi
vidual finances how do you feel about it. The editor admits
that he couldn’t even contemplate buying a lot at Anchorage.
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There are five transfer outfits at Anchorage, and freight
charges for carrying them are only 75 cents per ton. The situa
tion is not a pleasant for one to contemplate for the man who
has to pay his help, and feed his horses. Then there is
nothing to do in that line except when the boats are in.
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Evidently the rich people of England are not conducting
themselves in accordance with the exigencies of the times over
there. A Zeppelin bomb dropped on their source of income
might make them realize it and relieve Premier Asquith from
the necessity of exhorting them on the matter.
SAN FRANCISCO AND THE WAR FLEET
As every one knows, the big Atlantic wnr fleet is not to
visit San Francisco, according to the original program, says the
Portland Telegram, and the reasons therefore are quite
generally understood. San Francisco is disappointed, natur
ally; but with some of the San Francisco papers disappointment
has run to resentful criticism of the navy department and the
administration.
It is generally realized on this const that the show at the
“Bay City” is a little the biggest show of its kind that ever
happened; and in that fact there is Pacific Coast pride and
congratulation. There is also a general feeling that nothing
is too good for the San Francisco exposition enterprise; nnd the
greater, more attractive and more glorious it may be made the
greater credit to all the citizenry of the** Pacific shores. Yet
there must be some consideration of expediency, of possible
contingency with possible results seriously affecting the entire
country, and of good sense in avoiding the one course of action
by which such contingency might be realized.
We are not living in a condition of undue alarm over the
thought of impending war; neither are we as a nation shutting
our eyes to the gravity of the situation which actually exists.
We certainly should not take chances merely for the greater
enjoyment of a holiday with the possible development of
physical trouble in the canal which might compel us to remove
one of our big battleships therefrom piecemeal. In existing
circumstances, it is only tin* part of common and patriotic
reason that the sea force we have should lx* well in hand, and
that in no sense should its efficiency be risked as a mere matter
of merrymaking.
Originally there were ambitious plans for an international
naval demonstration and review at San Francisco, but world
war has upset those plans. It is not good sense to undertake to
carry them out so far as the American navy is concerned, and it
is not good manners to be peevish about it!—Skagway Alaskan.
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Tin* price of armored steel and other munitions of war are
advancing. This is a sign of the times, and let us hope that
the cost of this fray will increase so much and so fast, that flic
warring nations will be soon brought to realize that they can
not keep on.
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Bryan is on his way trying to convince the world that
peace is the hotter way for the nations, and they are making so
much noise in Europe with their hig guns that they cannot hear
him.
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A hig series of ball games is being arranged for the Fourth,
and if the Gods will favor us with a little nice weather, the
people of Cordova will surely enjoy the holiday. The com
mittee in charge is sparing no efforts to arrange a fine program.
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Yesterday the train brought down 25 more cars of copper
ore, and four cars of fish. Cordova marches on triumphantly
far in advance of the other Alaskan cities in the point of
tonnage going to the states.
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Just as we had heard that Germany was going to lx* good
about sinking ships we hear of another big liner meeting a
watery grave.
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Will German diplomacy make another mistake, when it
states that Roumania will not enter tin* war on the side of the
allies.
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The experiment of prohibition in Chitina and McCarthy
will be watched with interest.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calle may be left at Cordova
Drug 8tore. Reeldence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office In Adama Building
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at Law
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Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, S. 8 Seward. 8. 8. Seward. 5th; 8. 8. Latouche, 15th; S. 8.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not bo received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
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Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
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Schedule subject to change without Notice.
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Copper River &
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Effective June 12th, 1915. ;,
Two trains every six days between Cordova and
; Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making 11
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