THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enzry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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REAL HELP.
Senator Dan Sutherland, Republi
can nominee for delegate to Con
gress, has suggested a way in which
the development of Alaska can be
speeded tremendously, and The
News would like to see Alaskans in
all sections of the Territory follow
up the suggestion with a campaign
of vigorous action—i-not because the
idea is Mr. Sutherland’s, but be
cause it points the way to a better
ment of conditions, to a revival of
interest in the Northland and to a
speedy return of the thousands of
oldtimers who have left the Terri
tory during the past several years.
In an address delivered at An
chorage recently, Mr. Sutherland ex
pressed confidence in the future of
Alaska as an oil producer and sug
gested that the Government might
see fit to take part in the develop
ment of Northern oil fields, just as
it is doing in the development of'
coal ledges in the Matanuska field, j
Drilling for oil is an expensive■
proposition. Many thousands of dol
lar's must first be invested in an
“oil rig,” and the cost of operating
the rig means an outlay of an addi
tional large sum. And in this coun
try there is the additional cost of
transportation—a considerable item
in itself.
The cost is so great, in fact, that
it is doubtful if small capital will
be able to demonstrate the extent of
oil deposits in the Territory. Small
capital cannot alford to prospect in
a region of unproved value, and it
may take a long time to induce capi
tal to take the initiative under ex
isting regulations.
The only assurance of quick and
successful development lies in Gov
ernment prospecting. The Govern
ment needs oil more than coal, and
the cost of drilling for oil is not so
great as that involved in the devel
opment of a coal mine.
Alaska has a number of promis
ing regions in which oil seepages
have been observed, but the dis
tances between these regions are so
great that the development of a well
in one region will not materially
benefit the others, although it might
have the effect of stimulating inter
est in a general way. Of what
benefit will it be to Interior Alaska,
for instance, if wells are brought in
over in the coast region, at Coal Bay
and Yakataga and Cook inlet? It
would bring development closer to
us, but it would not prove anything
in our particular district or lessen
the difficulty of securing capital to
carry on prospecting, particularly so
long as the Government retains a
controlling interest in oil lands.
The Government has conducted in
vestigations of oil regions, through
the geological survey, and has re
ported favorably on at least one
field, the Yakataga, which, however,
is cut off by glaciers. The Govern
ment also has ascertained that the
Katalla field and the oil formations
of Cool: inlet, so far as investigated,
are cut off more or less by intru
sions of igneous rock. But, beyond
that, the Government knows no more
than do the hundreds of Alaskans
v;ho ha /e filed on so-called oil land
within the' past few months; and
nothing: is being done by the Gov
ernment to help prove the value of
the land from which it plans to col
lect royalties after the oil has been
found by private energy.
When questioned recently about
Alaska oil, Alfred H. Brooks smiled
cheerfully and said folks could find
out more about oil in Alaska by
boring than he could tell them—that
it would take work and money to
determine the value of the various
fields.
Such an attitude would be excus
able were the oil lands open to
entry without restrictions of any
sort and if oil were not so much in
demand for Government use. But,
under the circumstances, we believe
it is up to the Government to help
prove the value of the Alaska fields,
the development of which will en
rich the federal treasury, relieve the
oil shortage and speed the develop
ment of Alaska as nothing else can.
TOO MUCH REGULATION.
Results in the way of publicity
are already becominjr evident from
the recent visit of the members of
the President’s cabinet to Alaska,
says a recent issue of the Juneau
Empire. The statements of Secre
tary Payne regarding the Territory
and some of its needs are especially
receiving wide attention.
The New York Times, quoting Mr.
Payne as saying: “There are too
many things ‘reserved.’ One almost
thinks of ‘verboten’ in Germany.
Conservation in the States is most
; desirable, but what Alaska needs is
’ more men and women and less gov
j ernmental regulations,” comments as
follows:
i “Never was a truer work spoken
i of that region of unbounded re
' sources and potentialities. From the
| best motives Alaska has been over
i conserved and contricted. Her de
j velopment has been fettered lest
! somebody should get rich in the
! process. Not thus did the great
! states of the West grow up. They
: almost paid a bounty on energy. A
| free field and free play, and let the
; pioneer become a ‘plutocrat’ if he
i could. Alaska has been for years
i the most beruled, belawed, beregu
! lated of countries. Wealth immense,
i . •
j population scanty, development ar
j rested or straggling. Such is the
j result of fanatical ‘conservation.’
j Wasn’t it Drysdale, in ‘Tom Brown
at Oxford,’ who explained, when
I caught, in a vinous moment, burying
the college plate, that he was ‘pro
viding for posterity’?”
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I VAST FIELDS OF ICE SLOUCH
OFF FACE COLUMBIA GLACIER
When the launch N. & S. made
the trip to Port Wells recently from
Valdez, the vessel was compelled to
run far out toward the Naked is
lands to escape the va"bt ice fields
which had been thrown off from Co
lumbia glacier, it is supposed by
the recent earthquake shock. Some
of the bergs were as large as small
islands, the crew declared.
Columbia glacier is one of the
largest bodies of ice in that vicinity,
being many miles wide and several
hundred feet high, dropping its ice
directly into the sea.
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VOTE FOR
GEORGE B, GRIGSRY
Democratic Candidate for
Delegate to Congress
ROCK some SYSTEM
REDUCES HIND COST
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The final stage in perfecting the
rock sorting system of the Alaska
Juneau Gold Mining company has
now been practically reached with
the installation of the system for
the disposition of the waste rock,
says the Juneau Empire.
Heretofore this waste rock has
been loaded into hand-propelled ore
cars and dumped on the big waste
dump below the mill. As many as
twenty men have been employed in
the work of disposing of the rock.
For the past several months work
men have been building a long tram
way running from the big mill to
the tailing pond on Gastineau chan
nel. Rock bins have also been
erected and a big tramming engine
installed, and within the past few
days this system of disposing of the
waste rock has been in operation.
The sorting system briefly is that
the rock from the crusher runs over
bents where workmen pick out the
quartz as it passes along and put it
on a conveyor, allowing the waste
or slate to keep on going. The belt
carries it out of the mill, where it
is dumped from a trestle on the side
hill. The waste rock goes on an in
clined plane dumping into a con
crete ore bin. From the ore bin it
is taken by means of ore chutes end
automatic loaders to the cars.
The rock train is handled by a
big hoisting engine, operated by
electricity. This is a two-drum en
gine formerly used for hoisting men
and ore in the Mexican mine. Most
of the work is done by the engine
with counterbalance, the train of
leaded cars turning the engine over
and pulling the empties up the in
clined tramway. The electric power
is used only to get the train in mo
I tion and on its way on the down
! grade.
I The train at the present time con
i sistr of two sets of ears, one of
( wYch is down at the end of the line
j while the other is being loaded,
j There are eight three and a half
■ ton cars in all. They are of the
j side dump type, automatically dump
j ing as they pass over a tipple. The
* waste rock goes in Gastineau chan*
j nel.
' Two more cars are to be added
to each train and the rock will, from
now on, flow steadily from the
transmission belts to the rock bins
and from the bins to the waste
dump in and near the channel.
It is planned that with the waste
] rock to be dumped into the channel
a breakwater will be built as a shel
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FOR SALE or rent—Pianos
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will extend for quite a distance into
the channel and answer the purpose
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Yukon, at Nenana.
Davis, at Melozi, 10:30 a. m. up
bound.
Kestrel, up Tolovana, 1:45 a. m ,
15th.
Herman, down Kotlik, 8 p. m.,
13th, last report.
Alaska, up Egbert, 3 a. m., 15th.
Louise, at Gibbon; leaves prob
ably Friday night.
Tanana, up Gibbon for Nenana,
7 a. m.. 15th.
Reliance, up Tanana for Nenana,
f 7 a. m., 15th.
Jacobs, at Gibbon.
Washburn, at Holy Cross, enroute
1 to Dikeman, 14th.
Seattle No. 3, up Holy Cross, 1:30
p. m., 13th, last report.
Flying Cloud, at Chena.
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Nenana Igloo No. 17
MEETS AT UNION HALL
FIRST MONDAY OF MONTH
AT 8:00 P. M.
Visiting Members Always
Welcome.
frank Rourke, Martin Nath,
Secretary. President.
Department of the Interior
Alaikan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
chase tickets before entering trains.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is in
the employment office, on the ground
floor of the General Office Building,
Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
at North Xenana.
Tickets will be on sale at ny
time during office hours, and can be
purchased in sufficient time before
the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave
the foot of A street on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 8 a. m.
The following change of schedule
! between Nortn Nenana and Fair
banks is effective June 1, subject to
change without notice:
Leave Fairbanks at 8:00 a. m.;
arrive North Nenana, 12:30 p. m.
Leave North Nenana, 2:00 p. m.;
arrive Fairbanks, 6:30 p. m.
A ferry will be run between Ne
nana and North Nenana to connect
with Fairbanks trains. Passengers
f-*r Fairbanks should purchase tick
ets in Nenana before crossing the
ferry.
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L 0. 0. M.
MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
Fourth Monday of Month
At 8:00 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER, ALF EKELAND,
Secretary Dictator.