SENATOR JONES
GIVES ALASKA
GOOD BOOST
SEATTLE, Aug. 17 (by Associated
Press).—“Alaska must be set free and
the time has come to act along this
direction,” said Senator Wesley L.
Jones, speaking before the member’s
council of the chamber of commerce
at the Masonic club rooms. Senator
Jones urged that a liberal develop
ment policy be pursued by the nation
and referred to the liberality of the
government at the time it was opening
up the uninhabited west following the
civil war. In discussing the proposed
Alaska board, in which it is aimed to
center authority for the conduct of
the government business in Alaska
Senator Jones said that he liked the
idea but saw difficulties ahead of the
formation of the board and troubles
for it when it starts functioning.
Senator Jones expressed displeasure
at the lack of results from previous
efforts to get together on an Alaskan
development policy and stated that it
would be better for the board to be
organized and not do everything Just
right then not to organize and do noth
ing at all. Congress he said was more
in the mood to do something for Alas
ka today than ever before and he paid
tribute to the long continued efforts
of the Seattle chamber of commerce
under the direction of J. L. McPher
son, manager of the Alaska bureau, to
advance the interests of the territory,
and cited as proof of his assertion
that congress was better disposed
toward the territory than in the past
ana tnai me iciiuueu mi
connection with the government rail
road in Alaska was voted as soon as
the facts became known.
“Alaska is a sort of the state of
Washington and this state has a great
interest in its 560,000 square miles of j
territory,” said Senator Jones. “That
is a trade prospect and a section
which cannot get away from us for
Puget sound is the natural inlet and ,
outlet for Alaska. I consider myself
a senator from Alaska as well as from ;
Washington. I urged the building of
the Alaska railroad, although I know
tha>t it would not bring about every-,
thing that we had hoped for, but re-,
garded it as an essential necessity.
“The greater part of the 560,000
square miles of Alaska is still public
domain. We cannot expect a railroad |
to pay its own way and freight and
passenger service. Its importance lies
in the fact that it will make possible
the development of Alaska. We must
build feeders for this trunk line and j
enable people to get in and out of the
country more expeditiously and cheap- j
ly than today. Col. W. P. Richardson
has been a great friend of the terri
tory and has done much towards
building the trails and wagon roads in
the north.
“I am in favor of practicing econ
omy, but failure to spend money in de
veloping property and territory we
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the cost.
“We must not be stingy with Alaska.
It is a territory rich in mining, furs,
fishing and timber, but the great per
manent asset there is its agricultural
possibilities.
“Senator Jones said he regarded the
water power development measure as
beneficial legislation for Alaska in
that it would make possible the devel
opment of the wood pulp industry and
plants requiring much power, and said
the measure under proper adminis
tration should hasten the develop-j
ment of the territory as wrell as be1
a boon to the entire west.
“I trust that this measure for w^hich
I worked so actively wrill have' a wise,
careful and liberal administration. I
like the principle of the so-called
Alaska board measure and Alaska and
the state of Washington can do much
to make the principle of government
for Alaska successful if they will agree
on the major principles.”
“One objection to this board comes
from the departments which are inter
ested in the administration of the ter
ritory and one thing that hampers ef
fective government under our present
system is the jealousies and pulling
apart of various departments of the
government and each bureau seems to
resent any improvements offered by
another department.”
Col. W. P. Richardson, who went to
Alaska as a lieutenant twenty-three
years ago has spent the greater part of
his life in the territory representing
the government in a military way said
“Alaska suffered more than any sec
tion of the United States during the
war; Alaska furnished a larger quota
of its fine vigorous manhood than any
other section of the country. The gold
properties due to the war depreciated
in value. Conservation may be O. K.
for a developed country, but it should
not be applied to Alaska where liber
ality must be extended to the settler
and the investor. There must also be
a unification of departmental func
tions,” he said.
“Alaska, with the New England
states crying for coal as shown by the
report of governors of Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island,
New Hampshire and Vermont, can
supply enough fuel if the government
will allow the development of the coal
beds to supply enough for all Pacific
coast demands, and thereby assure the
cost of the full output of the eastern,
southern and middle west fields,”
states a letter sent out to the govern
ors of the six states by the Alaska
bureau of the Seattle chamber of com
merce.
The plea urging the prompt devel
opment of Alaska coal fields to halt
the drain upon eastern supplies which
are brought to the Pacific coast, to
fuel the Pacific fleet among other
things was made to Secretary of the
Interior John Barton Payne and Sec
retary of the Navy Josephus Daniels
when they were here recently on their
trip to and from Alaska.
The territory of Alaska has an al
most unlimited supply of coal. It is
undeveloped largely on account of con
servation regulations and other restric
tions.
New England states can well study
the Alaskan situation as the opening
of that territory would mean that not
only could its coal mines supply the
whole Pacific coast with a quality of
coal equal to that from the Atlantic
coast, thereby cutting off the steady
and expensive shipments from Nor
folk to the Pacific coast. Every ton
saved thus would be saved for the At
lantic states.
The dreadful situation in Alaska has
never been understood in the east.
Today, as a result of unwise laws, re
strictions and handicaps, Alaska is
tied up and its resources are not avail
able. Alaska is importing coal from
British Columbia when she should be
exporting coal. Yet Alaska, with the
New England states crying for coal,
could supply enough fuel for all of the
Pacific coast points and thereby as
sure to the Atlantic coast the full
output of its mines.
Mr. J. J. Underwood, assistant to
Secretary of the Interior Payne, leaves
this week for an extended visit in the
Orient. He will join the congressional
committee now there. Mr. Underwood,
who is an authority on Alaskan devel
opment. having published several
books on the territory, will study con
ditions in the Orient in relation to
legislation to come up at the next ses
sion of congress. He will also report
to the secretary such conditions as
may have relation to the development
of Alaskan and the northwest relation
to the Oriental trade. A new trans
pacific cable line will be one of the
matters considered by congress. Leg
islation having to do with Japanese
immigration will also come up.
Among other matters coming up for
consideration are statehood for the
Hawaiian islands, independence for
the Philippines, such legislation as is
necessary to carry out the Chinese
consortium, under which $250,000,000
is to be loaned to the Chinese gov
ernment by American and internation
al financiers for the development of
railroads in China, and which loan, it
is understood, is to oe me nrsi oi
many that will ultimately total about
$3,000,000,000.
With the arrival of the steamship
Santa Ana, Capt. H. Lundstrom of
the Alaska Steamship Company, in
Seattle Friday morning from Skagway
and way ports with a consignment of
246,000 feet of Alaska spruce and 100,
000 lath, shipping men learned that
more than 100 cars of the product of
the forests of Alaska had been re
ceived in Seattle aboard vessels of the
Alaska Steamship Company this year.,
The lumber and lath comes from the
Juneau Lumber Company mill in that
city. Officers of the Santa say the
spruce logs are towed a distance of
250 miles to Juneau.
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