THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Xenana, Alaska,
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ALASKA—LAND OF PROMISE.
(By Frederic R. Coudert. i
That master diplomat and amiable
cynic of Napoleonic days, the Prince
of Talleyrand, was wont . to say,
"Beware of first impressions; they
are nearly always right.” Whether
in principle this be so or not, the
first impressions that the casual
wayfarer gets of Alaska are so
potent as to promise to be endur
ing. We are apt to smile at the
traveling foreigner who, after a sis
weeks' sojourn in the United States,
writes a book on the discovery of
America, and yet how few of us
ourselves have discovered America,
and how much even that passing
foreigner can tell us of our own
land! Surely the United States has
grown so greatly, not only physical
ly, but in its relative position in
the world, in these later years, that
we Americans really find it difficult
to adapt ourselves to the greatness
of our own land. In the world of
politics and of finance, the United
States has assumed, by reason
' I
recent events, so extraordinary a
situation that few of us can rea
lize its consequences and can rid
ourselves of the concepts of older
generations as to our supposed iso
lation.
If the ordinary man in the street
were questioned a; to whether Alas
ka were an island or whether it
was contiguous to the United States,
I opine that the large majority
would show complete ignorance on
the subject. We are said to be a
traveling people: yet, upon the East
ern seaboard, great numbers of
those belonging to the so-called in
telectual classes know Ititle or noth
ing of the Pacific coast and have
confined their travels to occasional
excursions over the Atlantic in
search of the scenery of Switzer
land and the antiquities and monu
ments of France, England, or Ger
many.
But what of Alaska, its land and
its people? To one who arrives
without having conned the books of
statistics regarding gold and fish
eries and fur-bearing animals, yet
whose ignorance has left his mind
open to original impressions, Alaska
appears a glorious land of sea and
mountains, of snowclad summits,
rising straight out from long, sun
lit arms of the Pacific ocean, touch
ing live glaciers and running along
precipitous cliffs. Alaska, in de
fault of good press agents, is surely
the land of the unknown and one
cannot resist feeling that one has
delayed too long seeing this gorge
ous country of sea and mountain.
Surely nowhere such effects of in
finite grandeur, of combination of
sea and crag and mountain, can be
found.
And then again, what of the peo
ple of this land, this last American
frontier? We can, indeed, never
forget the impression of hospitality,
amiability and energetic self-con
fidence everywhere to be found. The
older world of Europe is undergoing
a revolution in which the servility
of those who belonged to the so- i
called lower classes translates itself
into mere rudeness and incivility,
betraying the newness of their dem- i
oeracy; but among the people on j
this American frontier, democracy ’
is real because completely uncon
scious. Manners are good because
they flow from natural kindliness
and a sense that men are dependent
for position upon their real worth
as men rather than upon accidental
circumstances. It has been well said
that a new land attracts all that is
best as well as much that is worst. .
Alaska is young enough to have ob
tained the best, while old enough to j
have eliminated, in great measure,;
the worst. Its population, gathered
from all parts of the United States.;
made up of those whose energy and
ability were such that they dared j
cut those roots which attached them
to their old home and to begin life
anew, naturally possesses a breadth
of view and an originality not usu
ally to be found among the older
and more settled inhabitants of the
East.
Portland canal, that long, narrow;
glacial cut between the high moun- j
tains running along the border be- ;
tween the British dominions and :
Uncle Sams possessions, is now wit-'
nessing the formation of what prom
ises to be a great mining camp. The |
little towns of Stewart. B. C., and ;
Hyder, U. S., almost touching one
another, over the frontier, have be
come. during the summer, bee-hives
of activity. Old prospectors from
all about the West, lured by the 1
wonderful tale; of the Premier
mine; commercial people looking i
for new opportunity; travelers de
sirous of seeing the beginnings of
a mining industry, and occasional
adventurers or adventuresses of in
different repute, seeking to thrive
upon the weaknesses of those whose
daily task holds them under the
earth. are flocking together in these
little communities. Roads are be
ginning to be constructed where
nothing but devious mountain trails
existed, and soon the slow-going
pony and Mexican saddle will be i
superseded by the horse team and
.he Ford automobile. K> longer;
will the valuable ore of the Premhr
mine have to come over the mount;
tain in sacks, but perhaps by next
summer wagons or m r.crcar? will
bring it to tidewater and land it
upon a great dock soon to be con
structed. One is impressed with
the law and order and, on the
i
whole, the decency prevailing in!
these communities, and perhaps a
little bit disappointed that they seem
so different from those mining
camps of romance where the gun is
carried on the hip and personal
differences are settled in summary
fashion; yet one feels that the day
for that has gone by in Alaska and
that the men who are developing
this latest mining camp, and espe
cially the capable head of the Pre
mier mine, are serious, creative busi
ness men who regard mining as a
great industry to be carried on with
all the modern resources of science
and organized on the soundest basis
as to productivity and labor condi
tions. It is indeed a promising dis
trict and one in which investment
values, rather than speculative pros-1
pects, will, I believe, soon be the,
order of the day.
From what one sees of the in-!
i
dustries of this great land, its vast
fisheries, its fur markets, its endless
timber and its valuable ore, it is
evident that it is the great Ameri
can storehouse of the future; that
its chief need is an intelligent and
a unified administration. A little
knowledge of the workings of its
government, or rather governments,
j conveys the impression that the sys
tem of checks and balances has par
alyzed. rather than protected. Alas
ka, and that our public policy has
;been one rather of sterilization than
of conservation. The department
,of the interior, the department of
agriculture, the army, the navy, and
the territorial government combine
to create a bureaucratic svstem ad
mirably adapted to check activity
and hamper development. Intelli
gent thought for the morrow is not
incompatible with the development
I of present resources, and exclusion
of capital, by reason of onerous
regulation or inadequate protection,
(will not lead to healthy industrial
development or to attraction of a
population in some degree commen
surate with the resources of the
.territory. From what one sees of
the people of Alaska, one can easily
believe them now capable of attend
ing to their own affairs, not only
from the mere standpoint of law.
order and personal profit, but as
trustees for the generations of Am
ericans to come. They are too in
telligent. too interested in the fu
ture of the territory, too alive to j
the permanent self-interest of their i
own families settled in the land to
allow those resources to be waste-j
fully expended. On the other hand,
they have the capacity and know!-.
edge needed to develop them so that
the people of the whole United
States might profit much more large
ly from this great storehouse of
plenty.
The old Roman poet, Virgil, tells '
of how the homeless wanderers from
ancient Troy, finally landing in
Italy, could not resist the lure of
the land, its beautifully tinted sea
and snow-capped mountains, and so
settled thereon forever. Thus, in ,
similar fashion, the passing traveler
feels the lure of this land of Alas- :
ka. The impressions of beauty and
of power that are made upon him •
must be lasting and the spell cast :
over him by the mountains and the
sea and the charm of the highly
hospitable and home-loving people '
who inhabit it, is something not to
be forgotten.
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Kotlik, at St. Michael.
Relief, up Kokrines, 4:30 p. m..
12th.
Louise, up Birches S:3G a. m.
Washburn, down Marshall, 8 a.
m.. 12th.
; Seattle No. 3, up Marshall, 11 p.
m., 11th.
I .Reliance, up Koyukuk river, 8th.
Benchiey, at Koyukuk.
Davis, at Gibbon.
Kelly, at Hot Springs; leaves for
Gibbon, 9 a. m. today.
Tanana, at Chena.
Car! White, at Fairbanks.
Yukon, down Egbert. 8 p. m..
12th.
Jacobs, up Fort Yukon, 1:30 p.
m., 12th.
Casca, up Carmacks, 9 a. m., 12th.
Selkirk, up Stewart, 3:40 a. m.,
12th.
Dawson down Hootalinqua, 8:55
a. m., 12th.
Nasutlin, up Stewart River, 2:30
a. m., 12th.
Sibilla, at Dawson.
New Wisconsin Cream Cheese at
Fowler A Morris.
M. E. Bondixen, who returned to
Xenana this week from a trip into
the Totatlanika country, left for
Fairbanks this morning on the Vic
tory.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Sunday school will be held in
the old commissioner’s office build
ing, opposite the postoffice, Sunday
at 1 p. m.
The regular service will be held
at the same place at two o’clock.
Subject: “Substance.”
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