THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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MONDAY, AUGUST 38, 1919
SEWARD AND CHAIRMAN MEARS
The announcement in the Gateway
last Saturday that Frederick W.
Mears had been appointed chairman
of the Alaskan engineering commis
sion, also chief engineer, has caused
several to write letters to the editor
of the Gateway asking for the future
policy of the Gateway towards the
Alaskan engineering commission.
One letter especially asks perti
nent questions as follows:
“Editor of Gateway: Undoubtedly
the Gateway has had much to do
with the ‘retirement’ of Edes as chair
man of the A. E. C. Now Mears has
been named Ede’s successor. The
Gateway kept hammering at Edes for
his inefficiency. Mears has no use for
Seward, so what is the Gateway going
to do about that former member of
the A. E. C., now reappointed? Also
is W. A. Ryan coming north to take
any position with the A. E. C.?”
The editor will answer the last
question first, that about Mr. Ryan.
Like others, not only in Seward, but
along the entire system of the govern
ment railroad, the editor trusts that
Mr. Ryan is not going to be foisted
on to the people in any position, but
cannot say positively as to the proba
bility of his name being added to *he
A. E. C. payroll. The editor does
not see where there is any question
see where there is any position for
him. unless like Edes, who has been
named a consulting engineer, it is ne
cessary to “take care of him” by the
department of the interior.
As to the policy of the Gateway to
wards Chairman Mears, it all depends
upon what Chairman Mears does re
garding the construction of the gov
ernment railroad in Alaska and espe
cially the Seward division. If the
Seward division is allowed to be a
“fifthly” proposition, any man who is
chairman of the A. E. C., Mears or
anyone else will be hauled up to make
an accounting.
TO _ _ J _ __ _ i _ __1 _ . i 1 J /"I _ 1 _
UUL U11C 1IIUBI IClllClliUCl UlclL \ UIVJ”
nr] Mears has been Outside; he has
heard the criticisms and the pun
about the government’s railroad joke
in Alaska; he has been in the army
service in France, where a man must
make good or he is disposed of; he
has been in Washington and knows
the tone of the thought of the con
gressmen and senators regarding a
certain $35,000,000 appropriation for
a railroad in Alaska; he perhaps
knows that after five years the rail
road is still no where, as to original
plans, and he also knows that the
navy wants coal from the Matanuska
coal fields, delivered on tide water
where it can be had at any time.o!
the year, winter or summer.
Also remember that Colonel Mears
was the man of the A. E. C., who was
interviewed several years ago at An
chorage by a delegation from Sewarc
regarding work on the Seward divi
sion.
Colonel Mears at that time told the
Seward committee that he had noth
ing whasoever to do with the Sewarc
division, that the Seward division al
ways received the appropriations
asked for but that Edes and R. J
Weir were responsible for the con
struction work.
Well, we do know that the Anchor
age division was completed and fron
a railroad point of view is a gooc
piece of construction. Colonel Mears
was the man who had that work done
This shows that Colonel Mears car
accomplish things in Alaska, the same
as he did in France.
Colonel Mears, as chairman of th<
Alaskan engineering commission
knows that the trouble back in Wash
ington over the appropriation has
been the non-construction of the Sew
ard division from tidewater to con
n*ct with the Anchorage division
which taps the coal fields; and the
poor showing made over the entire
government railroad project from
Seward to the interior.
Colonel Mears possibly comes north
with instructions of a nature which
mean “complete the railroad when
the appropriation is available; open
that part of Alaska which has slid
back for the past five years on ac
count of the government’s attitude;
do the job quickly, efficiently and
economically.”
If Colonel Mears comes north, a
bigger man than when he went Out
side; if Colonel Mears starts things
for active construction work, the
same as has suddenly been shown on
the Seward division during the past
few weeks, well and good. If Colonel
Mears will construct the railroad, or
that portion yet uncompleted, and
put it in shape for an operating de
partment to handle, there will be no
better friend and booster than the
Gateway. The government railroad
is a business proposition to be han
dled as a business enterprise and not
by whimsical persons with whimsical
moods.—Seward Gateway.
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