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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1920
CHANGING MAIL ROUTES
The proposal of the Nenana Com
mercial Club to change the route now
used to bring mail into Interior
Alaska to Seward and the Broad pass
for next winter comes as no surprise
to Fairbanks people, who are per
fectly familiar with similar efforts
which have been made for the same
purpose in the past. Its inclusion in
a program for the development of the
Interior is also not surprising to those
who have watched the methods of the
dab in the past.
Fairbanks realizes that the days of
the Fairbanks-Chitina mail route are
numbered; that the time is coming
when a faster, surer and more effi
cient service can be had, and when
the time does come no one will wel
come it more heartily than will Fair
banks. If the present route is un
satisfactory to Nenana, it is much
more so to Fairbanks, where many
mere interests are to be served and
more people are demanding mail. The
creeks adjacent to this town draw
through the local office for more mail
than Nenana itself, exclusive of the
•cmmission, distributes. All of the
patrons of the local postoffice will
welcome the time when the time re
quired for mail transportation can be
cut to the shortest possible limit. But
mest of them doubt that it can be
•tone next winter.
Jtfenana asserts that it can be
brought in next winter in two days’
less time than it will take on the
present route. The club, however,
makes an unsupported assertion. It
produces no figures to substantiate
its claim, probably for the reason that
■one are available. It might be pos
sible for Nenana local mail to arrive
earlier by that route; it wouldn’t hurt
the case to concede that it could. But
that it would shorten the time of de
livery to the other sections of the
Interior by so much as a single hour
is something that has got to be
proven. It is fatuous reasoning that
would conclude that the delivery of
mail to Nenana a day, or even twro
days, sooner than is now being done
would add to the development of In-*
fcerior Alaska. Nenana is primarily
a railroad town, built around a con
struction camp, fostered by the gov
ernment for the “protection” of its
employes from vice and disease that
has always heretofore existed in all
frontier railway construction centers.
JHeonomic reasons had no place in its
foundation as a town; it filled no
demand caused by Alaska develop
ment. We say these things without
any intention of knocking, and be
cause they are self-evident. Having
come into being, there is no more ex
cuse nor justification for Fairbanks
knocking Nenana than for Nenana to
knock Fairbanks. Common sense de
mands that both towns unite in work
ing for the salvation of the territory.
It is wasted energy for one town to
try and take away something that the
other has. A commercial club seek
ing to justify its existence by such
enterprises is a parasitic growth on
honest business interests. Its first
duty is to go after new things. Pro
mote harmony between towns instead
©f discord and factional bitterness.
The situation in Interior Alaska to
day requires the united effort of every
inhabitant in securing remedies for
it. And it can’t be improved by
changing a mail route from Cordova
t© Fairbanks to Seward to Nenana.
The immediate hope of the Interior is
its gold industry. The very exist
ence of that industry is threatened by
high costs of operations. Every ounce
of energy possessed by the Nenana
Commercial Club, the Fairbanks Com
mercial Club and all other interests,'
whether they be social, business or
political, should.be exerted toward se
curing some method of material relief
from the pressure of high costs on the
gold miner.—Fairbanks Citizen.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Newspapers are suspending on ac
count of print paper shortage and the
forests of Alaska contain enough tim
ber to make sufficient paper to last
for generations. Seems to us that
there is something wrong about the
situation somewhere.—Douglas News.
Maurice D. Leehey, Seattle attor
ney, writing to Governor Riggs, says
that people on the coast are back of
the proposition to put a bonus on
newly-produced gold, and predicts the
enactment of such a proposal into
law. For interior Alaska the consum
mation of such a plan means much—
probably more than to any other gold
producing country under the sun.—
Fairbanks ‘Citizen.
“Watch Seward blow” is an Anchor
age man’s paraphrase of the railroad
city’s trademark. It takes more or
less blowing to make a town grow, and
the quicker a city can raise the wind
the better off it is. Any kind of ad
vertising i£ better than no advertis
ing. “Pink Whiskers” made J. Ham
Lewis. Ole Hanson was quick to take
advantage of the Seattle strife to
advertise himself. Therefore if Sew
ard acquires the reputation of blow
ing over her advantages it will be ad
vertising for the city.—Valdez Miner.
Your eyes fitted. Compound and
stigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
Scarborough Pictures that please at
prises that are right. Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
Delicious mince pie at the City
Bakery. 13-tf
Congoleum Rugs, suitable for every
room in your house, can be found at
the Northwestern Hardware Co.
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Call 104. 17-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished cabins. See
Dooley.
FOR RENT—Furnished rooms for
light housekeeping. Phone 128.
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