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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1919
TRY HOW IT WORKS
With the mineral land bill passed
by both houses and sent to confer
ence, it is probable that the leasing
system will be definitely adopted at
this session of congress. No alterna
tive of purchase seems to be contem
plated, as in former bills, single lease
holds are limited, and, in the case of
oil land at least, the secretary of the
interior must collect a minimum, but
no maximum, royalty. That may reach
the sky.
We shall see how Americans will
take to this new system. They have
not taken to it at all with regard to
Alaska coal land. It is contrary to
American custom, and is a radical de
parture. Hitherto it has been the
policy of the government to give a
man metalliferous land on condition
that he would develop it, and to give
him timber and water power into the
bargain. He could buy coal and other
mineral land outright at a moderate
price. Now he must give a share of
the product and may not obtain title.
He must submit to inspection and
regulation.
The people of the West have waited
long for adoption of some policy un
der which development of the public
domain could be resumed. Since in
auguration of the conservation policy
the western people have been in a
sense colonies camped around the
edges of the great areas which they
came to develop, but which they are
forbidden to touch. They have held
out for the same liberal terms as were
given to former settlers, but they
have lived on into a new era, when
the disposition is for the government
to own, run or rigidly supervise
everything. That is not the system
which drew the pioneers to the Pa
' ciflc coast, but the present generation
has grown weary of Waiting and will
give it a trial. Perhaps it will attract
investors more readily in continental
America than it has in Alaska. But
when the world settles wdown in the
next few years, inviting fields abroad
will be opened to American capital. If
Americans should turn from their
own West to China and other distant
lands, it would be a grim jest on the
conservationists.—Portland Oregon
ian.
VOICE .OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Eggs retailed in San Francisco this
week at one dollar per dozen. A cod
fish lays 7.634,500 eggs in one season.
The Alaskan who can cross the com
mon barnyard hen with a codfish has
a fortune in his grasp.—Valdez Miner.
The boys who last night organized
a post of the American Legion in Sew
ard could have adopted no more fit
ting name than Post Isaac Evans. It
is a distinct mark to the memory of
a respected citizen who died in the
cause of his country.—Seward Gate
way.
Out of the frying pan into the fire
would be the way we would charac
terize the predicament of Mr. Sawyer
of Alaska Labor Union fame. He got
out of the hands of the civil authori
ties only to be turned over to the
military department to answer a
charge of desertion.—Douglas News.
All honor and glory to the Ameri
can soldiers! The advent of Com
pany B of the Twenty-first infantry is
not particularly in anticipation of in
dustrial trouble, but simply in keep
ing with the administration’s policy
to protect government property. The
Times does not expect trouble of a
radical nature, but nevertheless wel
comes Captain Hugh S. Lee, the other
officers and the buck privates who
wear the honored cloth to Anchorage,
and with the entire citizenship sin
cerely trusts their stay will be both
pleasant and peaceful.—Anchorage
Times.
MILITARY RESERVE
AS GOLF COURSE
AND PLAYGROUND
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 2 (by As
sociated Press).—Plans to utilize ap
proximately 200 acres of the Fort
Douglas military reserve, near here,
as a golf course and public playground,
are being fostered by local civic or
ganizations. Military officials at
Washington, D. C., are said to favor
the plan.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF SALE
In the Probate Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, Valdez
Precinct, at Valdez. In the matter
of the Estate of Robert D. Gray,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that in pur
suance of an order of the above-en
titled court, made on the 22d day of
October, 1919, in the matter of the
Estate of Robert D. Gray, deceased,
the undersigned, executor of said
estate, will sell at pubic auction to the
highest bidder for cash, and subject to
confirmation by said court, at the of
fice of tne United States commissioner
in Cordova, Alaska, all the right, title
and interest and estate of the said
Robert D. Gray, at the time of his
death, in and to all those certain lots
and parcels of land, with the buildings
thereon, situated in the town of Ka
talla, Alaska, and described as fol
lows, to wit:
Lots 3 and 4 and six feet of lot
5, in block 23, of the Townsite of
Katalla, Alaska;
The buildings on said lots, de
scribed as follows: One frame
building 20 feet by 40 feet, one
and one-half stories;
One frame building 12 feet by
46 feet, one story;
One frame building, 22 feet by
28 feet, one story, shed roof;
One frame building 24 feet by
68 feet, two stories. All said build
ings being connected together;
Wharf 16 feet by 40 feet, with
an approach 300 feet by 10 feet,
on lots 4 and 5 above, with 600
feet of 15-pound steel rails;
And certain personal property, con
sisting of hotel furniture and fixtures,
now situated and located in the build
ings above described, and certain
wharf appliances and fixtures now sit
uated and located in and about the
wharf above described, and used in
connection therewith.
That all of the foregoing real and
personal property will be sold jointly
and in-one lot at the place above men
tioned at 2 o’clock p. m. of the 22d day
of December, 1919. For further in
formation apply to the undersigned or
Edward F. Medley, attorney for said
estate. /
JAMES SMITH,
Executor of the Estate of Robert D.
Gray, deceased._
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