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Proprietor n Chitina, Alsaka
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Opposing Purchase
Copper River Road
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The Seattle Commercial Club unani
mously adopted a resolution, which
has been forwarded to President Wll
son, advising against the purchase, by
the government , of the Copper Rivet
* Northwestern railway, as announc
td exclusively In the Daily Times on
March 10. The Bulletin, issued week
ly by that club received in yesterday's
mall, contains the memorial, which is
herewith republished so that Cordo
vans may know exactly the kind of
deal they are getting In Seattle:
, The Club's National Affairs Com
mute, consisting of Messrs. W. K.
| Sheldon, chairman; Col. J. M. Hawt
horne, Edgar C. Snyder, C. A. Reyn
olds and John B. Sharett, after sev
eral months' study on the question of
railroad development in Alaska, has
prepared a memorial to be forwarded
by the Club to President Woodrow
Wilson.
The report of the committee and
the memorial were placed before the
Club at its last regular session, and,
upon motion, the recommendation on
this subject was unanimously adopted.
Following is the memorial we are
forwarding to the President;
“To His Excellency, Woodrow Wilson,
FREIGHTER HUS
ESCAPE
Henry Alheidt, who has been freigh
ting between McCarthy and Chisana,
during the past winter, having made
five round trips, narrowly escaped los
ing his life on the last trip. Re
counting his experience, Mr. Alheidt
writes:
“On Feburary 23, I was traveling
with 600 pounds of freight and six
dogs. A storm and blizzard had been
blowing on Rohn glacier for three
days, at a place known as the ‘Rough
Ice,’ and believe me it is rough, and
four miles long. The wind had blown
and drifted the snow and ice into a
ridge or hog back thirty feet in height.
The narrow road-bed on this ridge
was only two feet wide and on a de
scending grade of about 60 degrees.
I walked alongside the sled in order
to check its momentum down the pre
cipitous incline, when just as I came
alongside I noticed where the two-foot
depth of snow had a false surface and
was drifted over. Down I went 30
feet Into a glacier crevasse, dogs, sled
and all tumbling on top of me, I was
trapped and pinned down, with not a
soul within thirty miles of the place.
I kept absolutely still for about twent
ty minutes, with the cold Bweat pour
ing from my forehead and my faithful
dogs licking off the perspiration. I
vainly tried to pull my legs from under
the sleigh, but they were fast. I sure
thought I had to perish there and then.
But I had my camp axe on the sled,
but unfortunately it was lashed on the
front part of the ioad, some eight or
nine feet from where I was pinned
down. I was trapped fast; my legs
being pinned hard and fast. However,
I had my dog whip, a wooden stick.
I split the dog whip handle and then
spliced the handle of the dog whip to
my pocket knife; then cut the sled
lashings and procured the axe. This
took fully an hour.
“I commenced to work on the ice
under my legs. In two hours of hard
work and much suffering, I finally
got one leg out bleeding and bruised
from cutting and exposure. It took
three hours before I was a free man.
Then I had to climb out of the crev
asse to accomplish this feat I cut steps
with the axe in the ice and finally 1
got out, but worry and loss of blood
during the six hours I was imprisoned
in the crevasse weakened me consid
erably. I had still to puli my dogs
out of the hole, one by one. After I
got two of the animals out, I made
them pull the balance of the team to
the surface; I had to climb down a
half dozen times in order to gather
up my freight and dogs. This work
i took me about four hours, making a
President of the United States,
Washington, D. C.
“Sir:
“The Seatle Commercial cluh, ever
alert for the promotion of the best In
tereats of Alaska, is opposed to and
respectfully protests against the pur
chase by the Government of the Cop
per River and Northwestern Railroad
for the following reasons:
1st. This Club enthusiastically
supported the appropiration of the
public moneys for the building by the
Government of railroads In Alaska,
and for the sole and only purpose of
developing the vast rich, varied and
undeveloped resources of that terrl
tory.
"2nd. The purchase by the Govern
ment of $ railroad built by a private
corporation, not for the purpose of de
veloping the territory, but for the
purpose of hauling ore from a rich and
vast deposit of copper, owned general
ly, ns we are Informed and believe, by
the same stockholders who own the
railroad, and which railroad, as we
are Informed and believe, is not pay
In expenses of operation, in the opin
ion of this Club would be an unwar
ranted diversion of public moneys
total of ten hours in ‘hell.’
“I have been in Alaska 22 years and
have had some mighty close calls, but
this was the closest. After getting out
of the awful predicament 1 had to
travel all night before reaching Chls
ana, thirty miles from the scene of
the accident.
| " ‘It Is hard to kill a Dutchman.’ ”
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KATAELA COAL NOT
GIVEN FAIR TEST
The Seattle Post Intelligencer con
tains a write-up of our former towns
man, J. B. Howard, who has returned
to the Spirit City from a trip to Cali
fornia and will shortly sail /for the
north. Among other things it says:
Mr. Howard, like other citizens of
Cordova feels that the Bering river
coal did not get a fair test by the
navy. "The test was no test at all,"
he said. “Seven tons of the coal that
was used was fine when it was taken
from the mine. The other 100 tons
was a mixture of shale and rock from
a cave-ln that was hurriedly shoveled
j into sacks. Then the sacks were al
lowed to get and freeze solid, it being
necesary to blast them apart to handle
them. When the coal was resacked
it contained a mixture of snow and
gravel. To cap the climax it was
dumped off on the beach and the tide
covered it several times before it was
used. It is wonder that It burned at
all.”
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SENATOR JONES IS
COMING TO ALASKA
A Washington correspondent has the
following in reference to a mighty
good friend of this territory:
“I want to make a trip through
Alaska, too, if I can,” said Senator
Jones in discussing his plans for the
summer. “Alaska is practically a part
of Washington, at least that is the
I regard It, and I want to get all the
first-hand Information I can to aid
me in legislation for its welfare and
development."
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Kinney has a corner on Coffee.
What we mean Is CGFFBB, not the
wishy-wlshy kind yeu have been
buying and nicknamed ceffee. One
can of Dwight Edwards will convince
from the purposes, to-wit: the geneggl
development of Alaska, for which they
were appropriated by Congress
“3rd In our opinion the proposed
purchase of the Copper River and
Northwestern Raitroad is being urged,
as we are Informed, by private inter
ests for personal gain and not for the
purposes of developing the territory,
and, therefore, the proposed purchase
should not even be considered unless
it previously had been shown that if
that railroad had no existence the
route from which It runs naturally be
the best and most feasible route for
the development of the territory.
“4th. We are further informed and
believe that the present route runs
In part over glaciers which are con
stantly moving and that the expense
j of operating a railroad and of shifting
and changing the track will be en
ormous, and, furthermore, that the
route is not the best adapted for open
ing up the farming, mining and general
resources of the territory, hut is In
many respects Inferior, to other routes
which are now under consideration.
SEATTLE COMMERCIAL CLUB,
“By ROBERT 8 BOYNS.
Its President.”
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Representative Thos. Holland, of
Chltina, has Introduced a bill in the
House providing for "the construction
of roads, trails and bridges in the
Third division, and making appropria
tions therefor out of the monies de
rived from the Chugach National re
serve fund, which provides:
“For the construction and repair of
a road and trail from the town of Mc
Carthy, Alaska, to the junction of the
Nizina trail with the Shushanna trail,
and from the junction of the Nizina
and Shushnnnu trails to the town of
Chisana, Alaska, a distance of ninety
miles, more or less, running in a north
erly direction from McCarthy, the sum
of $15,000.”
"For the construction and repair of
a road and trail from Strelna, Alaska,
along the so-called Hubbard & Elliott
trail, in a northerly direction not to
exceed thirty miles, to a point on the
easterly slope of the Kotsiua river, at
and near what is known and called the
Kotsina Camp on the Bi.jtUerly slope
or base of Iron Mountain, the sum or
$15,000.
“The expenditure of said monies,
and the construction and repair of said
roads, trails and bridges, as the case
may be. shall be vested in and shall
be under the supervision of the gov
ernor of Alaska, and he shall have full
supervision and control of the loca
tion, construction and repair there
of."
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Some cooking at the Windsor grill
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EAWRENCE BARRETT a mild
Havana smoke at all dealers.
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The Big Show, Wednesday even
ing, March 31.
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Preen shipments or corn on the cob
at Kinney’s.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
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