THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enrry as second cla«s mail matter, under the Act of March 8, 18<9 j
Hub of Alaska — Where Rails and Rivers Meet
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Now that it appears to be rea
sonably certain that the coal min
ers of the country are determined
to suspend operations Oh the first of
April, it is not surprising to find
federal commissions and courts in a
mood to start investigations of con
ditions which should have been in
vestigated long ago as a matter of
common justice to the men who
have been driven to the extremity of
striking in order to obtain recogni
tion of their rights. The News does
not believe in strikes of the sort
contemplated, but that appears to be
the only effective way of dealing
with such a situation as thas arisen
in the coal mining industry.
Governor Bone does not miss the
mark very far when he predicts
that Alaska coal will find its way
to the Seattle market within three
months. Bur he shows that he is not
familiar with conditions when he in
timates that the coal will come from
the Matanuska field. The exporta
tions. if any. will be made from the
Nenana field, which contains the
largest coal deposits in the world,
now in process of successful devel
opment by private enterprise.
If President Harding wants to
know what will happen to Alaska
if the leasing of the Government
railroad is permitted, as threatened j
by the attitude of Secretary of the
Interior Fail, he has but to investi
gate that section of the Territory
tributary to the privately-owned
Copper River & Northwestern Rail
road. He will find that there has
been no development there, other
than that which has been directed
by the railroad interests, in spite of
the fact that the railroad traverses
a region rich in minerals. Scores
of promising properties have been
located and partially developed and
there would have been many pro
ducing mines in operation years ago
but for the unyielding attitude of
the railroad interests, the apparent
object of which is to obtain posses
sion of every prospect of merit in
that entire region.
Every oldtimer knows the history
of prospecting in the Copper River
district, and it is that knowledge
which warns Alaskans against the
proposal to turn Alaska over to any
man with power to defeat the ob
ject for which’ the peoples’ railroad
was constructed. It would be unfair
to Alaska to hand the railroad over
I to private interests at this time. It
‘would not be giving the Territory
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VOTE FOR
JAMES L. GALEN
FOR
Delegate to Congress
IN
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
APRIL 25th, 1922
The ‘‘New Bill*' now pending before Congress, was drawn by
Secretary Fall who is attempting to force it* passage, and is re
ceiving the support of Governor Bone and Delegate Sutherland.
In the third section of the “New Bill” is a provision that, upon
its completion, tf*e Secretary of the Interior may lease the Gov
ernment railway, nrilh Government steamers connecting therewith,
to private interests. Secretary Fall has declared that if given this
power he will exercise it. This provision menaces every industry of
Interior Alaska. It gives absolute control of the coal and quartz
mines tributary to the Railway to the “private interests” who may
operate it. The vast coal fields of the Interior are valuable only if
the coal can be landed cheaply at the market. Those who control
the transportation completely control the mines. The owners of the
mines are entirely at their mercy. The same is true of all smelt
ing ores, both gold and copper. Such a provision affords an op
portunity to defeat every purpose for which Congress spent the
$56,000,000.00 the railway has already cost. ...
You have the option to return to Congress the present delegate,
who is giving this measure his active support, or Mr. Galen, who
is openly opposing it.
“WATCH THIS SPACE FOR FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
OF WHAT MR. GALEN'S CANDIDACY MEANS TO ALASKA”
a chance to make good, after these
many years of hardship and waiting, j
It would amount, in effect, to the'
confiscation of the rights of those j
who have pioneered the way to ■
real development, just as the rights
of prospectors have been confiscat
ed in the Copper River region.
The News does not believe that
President Harding is the sort of;
man who would knowingly permit
the establishment of a dangerous
one-man rule in Alaska and he has
given the assurance that he will
defer action until he has visited the
Territory. But he is a busy man
and there is much that must of
necessity be left to others of his
official household. And there is the
danger also, that Congress and not:
the President, will formulate the'
final Alaska policy. In any case, it
is a matter that should receive the
serious consideration of Alaskans
The News does not want to be
critical, but there is a bit of incon
sistency in the effort that is being
made to restore the army pay of
the head of the Alaskan Engineer
ing Commission while plans are un
der way for a genera] reduction of
wages among lesser commission em
pl ryes.
Charles E. Bergman, local con-;
tractor and builder, returned to
N'enana on Sunday from a business
trip to Anchorage and Seward. In
the f >rmer town he concluded ar-1
rangements for opening a branch
of the Williams Undertaking Parlors
in Xenana: and at Seward he pur
chased a carload of lumber and ar
ranged for further shipments as
needed.
Ernest Porter, of the A. E. C.
timekeeping department, came down
fr^m Fairbanks on Sunday.
Joe P,asmussen, of Anchorage, ar
rived on the last train from the
• coast. He expects to leave for Cir
cle Hot Springs within a few days
to seek relief from rheumatism.
LOCAL TRAIN SCHEDULE
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Alaskan Engineairing Commission
Trains leave and arrive Xenana as
1 follows:
2:00 p. m., Sunday and Wednesday
for Healy. McKinley Park. Tal
keetna, Wasiila, Anchorage and
Seward. Arrives Xenana 11:50 a.
m.. Sunday and Thursday.
■2:00 p. m.. Sunday, Wednesday and
Saturday for Healy, McKinley
Park. Arrives Xenana 11:50 a. m
Sunday. Monday and Thursday,
j 2 :G0 p. m., Sunday and Thursday
for Dunbar, Fairbanks, Chatanika.
Arrives Xenana 12:10 p. m.. Sun
I day and Wednesdav.
C. C. Held
(Suicttior to R. S. McDonald)
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