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CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1916.
A FAMILIAR TWANG.
Seward papers have found a mare’s nest. Steve Burch, Fal
con .losliu, Col. W. I’. Richardson and the New York and Se
attle organs of the Alaska Syndicate have entered into a fell
conspiracy 1" strangle the government railroad project from
Seward to Fairbanks until another administration comes in,
which they hope the Alaska Syndicate can control as complete
ly as it controlled the Taft administration, they say. The ob
ject in view is a chance for the Alaska Syndicate to get rid of
the Copper River railroad, which is a white elephant, and
which opens no resources but. the copper mines owned by the
Syndicate, they also say. I’art of the general plan is to defeat
Delegate \\ ickershatii for reolection and to send a delegate in
his place who will oppose* further appropriations for the gov
ernment railroad.
The Seward papers are confirmed in their surmise of such
a conspiracy by John E* Ballaine, who has gone to \\ ashington
to drive a nail in the coffin of Joslin and his co—lobbyists.
AH this is “good stuff” in an overdone newspaper field
where war news palls and little else is available*. rl hat there is
much substance to the sensation is not apparent. The law has
authorized the building of the Alaska railroad, the machinery
for the work is organized and in operation. It is not likely
that a lobby could' be formed with “front’ enough to get in
the way of the Alaska railroad project at this stage of the
game; or that if it did' it would not cut any figure in the regular
course of events.
The thing that looks queer about the whole business is
that such a holler should be made about a “corrupt” lobby at
a time when an opposing lobby is so much alive.
If outsiders are to carry superior wisdom to Washington
for the aid of the administration and Congress, probably the
administration and Congress had' as well be permitted to make
their own choice among the advisers.
There is a familiar twang to all this dope, and it is not.
likely to fluster anyone very' much.—Ruby Citizen.
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It is encouraging to note that numerous copper properties
on Prince William Sound are now on a shipping basis.
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The Cordova Times pragmatically asks: “Has the Limit
Been Reached?” We don’t know what the limit is in Cordova,
but if they play ’em any higher there than they do in Valdez
we w ould suggest that they got a balloon..—Valdez Miner.
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BUILD TO FAIRBANKS FIRST.
'^The Pioneer is of the opinion that the railway line leading
from Anchorage toward the interior should be completed to
Fairbanks just as soon as the branch line into the Matanuska
is finished, before any considerable time or funds be expended
on the two streaks of rust originating at Resurrection Bay.
The inhabitants of tin* great Tanana valley are very anx
ious for the completion of the railway line to Fairbanks, as
they would thus be relieved' of a very burdensome transporta
tion problem. Under the condition existing in the Tanana
valley, freight rates are exorbitantly high; in fact, if the rates
are not extortionate, they very nearly border on this undesir
able state.
The Tanana valley is a very important and a very desir
able part of Alaska- The people of that region, we believe, are
entitled to relief ;rs soon as possible, and a happy solution of
the difficulty would be a concentration of the railway forces
in construction work toward the interior terminus.
\s a matter of fact, it is well understood that the import
ant tonnage and passenger traffic that will come to the gov
ernment railway line originates in the country intervening be
tween Anchorage and' Fairbanks, and including the Matanuska
coal fields. Tile tonnage between Anchorage and Seward will
amount to but little, at best, and construction may, withoutj
working a hardship on any considerable number of people, well;
be delayed until the line from Anchorage, the coal terminal, to
Fairbanks, the interior terminus.
i 1 w •» \ tn n 1 t 1*0111 Anchorage to Fairbanks, the;
interior transportation problem would bo solved. There is
.,1 for thought in the suggestion.—Anchorage Pioneer.
In addition to tin* regular service of three trains a week
each way between Cordova and Chitina, specials are frequently
run in orded' to handle the large tonnage offered. And this in
face of the fact that there has been anunusually heavy fall of
snow this winter which, fortunately, has not interfered with
traffic on the Copper River railway.
Fits obviously intended for humor are indulged in by the
editor of Musical America over a report that there are seven
teen composers in Seattle. It is time for the east to wake up to
the fact that it hasn’t a monopoly on culture.
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To speed the parting guest the Turks all gathered on the
peninsula and threw iron boquets, not even giving him time to
put an extra pair of socks in his gripsack.
The name of the kaiser’s illness would kill a weaker man.'
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