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Prospectors
F armers
Trappers
T our ists
The Nenana district offers oppor
tunities for prospecting, farming, and
trapping that are unequaled in any
other section of Alaska.
Gold placers of known value, close
to Nenana, are producing annually sub
stantial amounts, and there are scores
of streams within the district on which
little or no prospecting has been done.
These streams, until a short time ago
almost. inaccessible, are now easily
reached by means of the new Govern
ment Railroad, and undoubtedly soon
will be the scene of much mining ac
tivity.
Farming in the Nenana district has
the advantage of a growing season fully
ten days longer than that of any other
section of Interior Alaska. There is
much desirable land in the district open
to homesteaders, and marketing possi
bilities are being expanded steadily.
Fur-bearing animals of the Nenana
and adjacent districts are noted for the
fine quality of their fur, and trappers
annually bring large numbers of pelts
to Nenana and receive for them higher
prices than are obtained for the average
furs of other districts.
Game of all kinds abounds in the
Nenana district, there are scores of
trout streams easy of access, and the
scenic wonders of the district are un
surpassed. Hie district is the natural
gateway to Mt. McKinley National
Park, and close to Nenana may be
viewed the largest coal ledges in the
world.
Detailed information regarding the
resources and possibilities of the Ne
nana district may be obtained from the
Nenana
Commercial
Club
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SECRETARY PAYNE
PUIS DEPARTMENT
ON NEW SCHEDULE
John Barton Payne, secretary ot
the interior, has gone over to Wal'
Street! The giant trusts—the colos
sal financial optopi—have got him
clutched in their tentacles, and
through him they are sucking the
nation dry of its very lifeblood!
Through him, these greedy and per
nicious corporations are acquiring
millions of acres of public land
which is the rightful heritage of all
the pe-e-e-pul! As a nation we arc
being robbed of our birthrights
Harrumph!
That is what you are going ta
hear in a few weeks—if the propa
gandists can put it over, writes J
J. Underwood to the Seattle Times,
which he represents at the national
capital. They haven’t discovered it
yet, but Secretary Payne is issuing
patents to public land with a reck
less disregard of what the dema
gogues will have to say about him
Likewise, he is leasing oil lands or
liberal terms.
It all began about two month;
ago, when a man dropped in from
Colorado to inquire about a pateid
to a coal land claim which had beer
pending for the short term of four
teen years. He had some vague
hopes of getting possession at some
remote date in the future of thi;
property, on which he had expended
hundreds of thousands of dollars
He didn't really expect he would gel
this patent right away, but he
thought Judge Payne might give i1
a sort of boost along, so that hi;
standing would be a little bettei
When the new administration come'
in next March. He nearly died o1
heart failure when Judge Payne
signed the patent next day.
Cleaning Out Archives.
The secretary went a great (lea
farther than that. He issued ar
order that all matters in regard tc
public lands that had been pending
for more than sixty days be brought
to his desk for disposition. There
was a great cleaning out of the
archives. Many of the claimants, tc
be sure, had died of old age since
making their applications, but pat
ents were issued to their heirs. Since
that time the general land office ha;
been up on its toes, and daily hear
ings have been the first order of
business. A lot of patents have
been issued, some of these having
been pending for nearly two decades.
I know of some that have been
pending still longer than that, but
the claimants haven’t yet found out
what kind of a man Secretary Payne
is.
But Judge Payne isn't going to
get through without a iot of trou
ble. He has run foul of the for
estry service, whose officials are the
world’s champion putters-off. The
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friction, if such it be, arose over an
Oregon case in which a man who
| had settled on forty acres of land
; near a forest reserve twelve years
ago wanted a patent to his farm.
It was not within the forest re
serve, but forestry officials thought
that some day or other they might
like to include it within th<’ reserve.
A hearing was called, at whieh Judge
Payne presided, and the forestry de
partment was represented.
I>=Uy and More Delay.
The secretary ordered the patent
to issue. The forestry department
lawyer requested time to file a brief.
He was given a month to do so.
The brief was not forthcoming.
Judge Payne called him up and gave
him another two weeks. The day
before the time expired, a bill was
introduced to include this settler’s
land within the forest reserve and
Secretary Payne was asked to with
hold patent pending the legislation.
He refused, and the patent issued.
The secretary thought that the home
seekers have some rights.
But don’t get the idea that Sec
retary Payne opposes national for
ests and parks and out-of-doors
places. He doesn't, but he believes
that farm land, and mineral land
and all other kinds of land should
(be developed.
Judge Payne is a man of decision.
At ground and lofty deciding, he is
about the best little decider that has
ever been in Washington. For two
years past a bunch of miners at
N'enana, Alaska, have been mining
coal, which under their permit can
be sold only to the Government.
Knowing the Government’s leisurely
manner of doing things, they wrote
asking permission to sell part of
this coal to the public. There were
no long hearings about it, no briefs
were filed, and there were no legal
arguments. Judge Payne wrote a
short order and then telegraphed
the miners to go ahead and sell coal
to anybody who wanted to buy it—
he would forward the official order
,by mail.
Doesn’t Always Wait.
And he doesn’t always wait for
people to ask him to do things.
Newspaper publishers have been in
Washington lately on a newsprint
supply investigation. There is some
pulpwood in Alaska outside the for
est reserves, which comes under the
jurisdiction of the interior depart
ment. Judge Payne wrote the presi
dent of the American Newspaper
Publishers’ association, asking if they
wanted any of this pulpwood or if
he could assist them in any way.
Judge Payne would be a good man
to have on a commission or board
or something of that kind—if the
rest of the members be either dead
or asleep. All they would have to
do would be to come to long enough
to vote. Judge Payne would make
all the decisions. He is the anti
thesis of the usual department man.
The usual procedure for department
j reasons why whatever they have to
j do should not be done. They believe
that a department never should put
| oft' until tomorrow what it can just
as well put off till next year. But
Judge Payne is not a putter-off.
Deciding right off the bat and
[putting the stop to eloquence and
1 garrulity are about the best things
| he does. There is no chance for
j anybody to get away with endless
[palaver when Judge Payne is the
[listener. He makes people come to
the point—quick.
One Experience.
I had one experience with him in
connection with the mineral land
leasing law. The departmental plan
was to fix the royalties at 50 per
'cent on oil wells, and then if nobody
took a lease the first year, to reduce
it to 45 per cent the next year, and
so On. This would have resulted in
a subversion of the law., No oil
wells would have been drilled on
government land for the next twenty
years. It made no difference to me
personally, as I do not own a fliv
ver, but there is a very serious j
shortage of petroleum. I spent a
good many hours looking up the
rate? of leasing privately-owned land
in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Wyo
ming and other states. I was going
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OFFICE AT THE TERMINAL.
| to make a protest. I had so many
^statistics that my head rattled when
jl walked. I was framed to make
the argument of my life and to talk
all day if necessary. I had proceed
ed about thirty words beyond the
/‘Good morning, Mr. Secretary,”
, stage, when he looked at me with a
cold eye and said:
“Just what is it you want me.to
Ido?”
“I want you to fix the royalties
in the oil regulations or, a basis that
people will operate under them. No
body can take a lease with the roy
alties—”
“All light. Leave me those pa
pers. I’ll get out some oil regula
tions. and if they don’t suit you,
come back and tell me what’s wrong
with ’em.”
I withered toward the door. I
didn’t even have a chance to tell him
that I don’t own any oil wells per
sonally. I expected that about a
year hence the regulations would is
sue. To my utter amazement I re
ceived a copy of them four days
later. The regulations were more
liberal than anybody could have an
ticipated, and they were short, terse
and to the point. There could be
no misunderstanding about what
they meant. A large number of oil
leases have already been entered
into, and wells are' being dug.
One of the banes of governmental I
business transactions is the fact that
every departmental official — with
few exceptions—has a mortal fear
of criticism. They take no action
that can be criticised. Whenever it
is possible the decision is passed to
somebody else, so that in case of
criticism their own skirts will be
clear. This results in lack of deci
sions in many important matters.
Everlasting postponement is the re
sult.
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| Miners and Prospectors! |
| NOTICE OF CHANGE OF REC0R0IN6 PRECINCTS (
1 According to a recently issued Court Order by |
i Judge Chas. E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re* §
| cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon- §
| nifield and Totatlanika Districts. I
| Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be |
| enabled by this change to do their recording and |
| transact other business at Nenana, which is within I
| easy reach of their mining activities. |
| NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB. |
§ J. R. Bowen, President. R. J. Diven, Secretary. I
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