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HAL B. SELBY
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
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“Naturally, I was pleased with the
•esults so tar, after five years of hard
work. It seemed that complete success
lad settled over the Alaska Central,
ind that it was headed straight for
he Tanana valley in a clear field.
Substantial progress was made for the
lext two years.
“But the panic of 1907, coming
suddenly out of a clear sky, the most
mdden and acute of any in the his
ory of the United States and Canada,
:aused the failure of the Sovereign
3ank of Canada with its twenty-three
jranches, and brought down with it
he failure of Frost and Osborne and
heir Chicago & Milwaukee Electric
•ailroad as well as their Alaska Cen
ral. Both roads were reorganized by
he trustees of the defunct Sovereign
)ank, the Alaska Central being chang
ed into a new company named the Al
lska Northern.
“In 1909 the Alaska Northern had
t standard guage track completed to
mile 71, north of Seward, with ten
niles of additional grading partially
inished, ties on hand for 50 miles,
ind rails for ten miles ahead of the
track. The survey was made all the
way to the Tanana river, 412 miles.
But the railroad was at a standstill.
It had to be refinanced.
“That was the status in January,
1909, when I began negotiations with
G. \Y. Perkins, then vice-president of
J. P. Morgan & Co., on a proposal to
back me in a new company to take
over the Alaska Northern and com
plete it to the Tanana river. He came
to Alaska that summer, investigated
the railroad and field, had a traffic
expert go along the route for data as
to possible tonnage, and told me he
regarded it as a good investment.
“But after he had returned to New
York he informed me that the Gug
eenheim Brothers, who were equally
interested with the Morgans in the
Copper River & Northwestern rail
road and the Kennecott mine, had re
fused their consent for the Morgans
to finance the extension of the Alaska
Northern because they regarded the
Tanana valley as 'their territory.’
“ ‘\Ve will not allow the Alaska
Northern to build into the Tanana val
ley,’ were the exact words he used in
my last interview with him. Others
were present at that interview, so I
had corroborative proof, by men Nat
ionally prominent. He afterward ad
mitted publicly that he did serve that
notice in precisely those words, and
undertook to justify their stand as a
business necessity in protecting the
Copper River & Northwestern rail
road.
“I then began a campaign to have
the Government build a railroad from
the coast to the interior of Alaska on
the ground that the Government was
the only power in America strong
enough to finance and build it in face
of the Morgan-Guggenheim opposition.
“Walter Fisher, Secretary of the
Interior, came to Alaska in 1911, fol
lowing the Ballinger-Pinchot contro
versy, to find a solution for Alaska’s
problems. He examined the routes
from Valdez, from Cordova and from
Seward. In his annual report for that
year he officially recommended that
the Government buy the Alaska Nor
thern and complete it to the Yukon
river. President Taft sent a special
message to Congress in February,
1912, asking an authorization for $35,
000,000 to carry Secretary Fisher’s
recommendations into effect.
“But at this juncture the Morgan
Guggenheini influences got in their
work by attaching to the Alaska Ter
ritorial Act a rider creating ‘The
Alaska Railroad Commission’, and ap^
propriating $25,000 for its expenses.
The duty of this commission as pro
vided in the rider was to go to Alas
ka, examine routes for a Government
railroad from the coast to the inter
ior of Alaska, and report back their
I findings and recommendations to the
: next Congress. The real purpose, as
afterward disclosed, was to undo Sec
retary Fisher’s recommendation in
favor of the Seward-Susitna route,
and swing it to the Cordova-Copper
River route. That Commission, ap
| pointed by President Taft, was made
up of Maj. J. J. Morrow of the Army,
Lieut. Cox of the Navy, Alfred Brooks
of the Interior Department, and J. J.
Ingersoll, who had been for 25 years
employed by Morgan-owned railroads.
“They spent the summer of 1912 in
■ Alaska, attended every step of the
way by Falcon Joslin of Seattle, rep
resenting the Morgans. In January,
1913, after returning to Washington,
they published their report, which
showed a prepondenance of resources
along the Seward-Susitna route, but
! they closed it with a recommendation
that the Government build a railroad
from Chitina on the Copper River &
: Northwestern through the Copper riv
I er calley to Fairbanks. They set up
as their sole reason that the Chitina
Copper river route was the shortest
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to Fairbanks—as it the purpose in
spending jnany millions of dollars to
build such a railroad was to reach one
small town, and nothing more. Their
report mentioned no resources of any
kind between Chitina and Fairbanks.
‘‘At the special session of Congress
held in the spring and summer of 1913
called by President Wilson, two Al
aska railroad bills were introduced,
and were considered in extensive hear
ings before the House and the Senate
Committees on Territories.
"One of them, backed by the Mor
gan-Guggenheim people under lead
ership of Falcon Joslin of Seattle and
representatives of the Alaska Bureau
of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce,
provided in effect for continuing the
Alaska Railroad Commission, which
had already committed itself to the
Chitina-Fairbanks route, and clothed
that Commission with full authority to
locate and build a Government rail
road or railroads in Alaska. No au
thority was given in it to the Presi
dent.
“The other, supported by Delegate
Wickersham and myself, centered in
the President alone unrestricted pow
er, and made it his duty, to locate
and build a railroad or railroads in
Alaska, ‘not exceeding 1,000 miles,’
from an open harbor or harbors on
the Pacific coast to the Tanana river,
or to the Yukon, through such agent
or agents as he might appoint.
“Both bills carried authorization
for $35,000,000 as the cost of the
work.
“Delegate Kickersham favored the
Valdez-Copper river route, and I the
Seward-Susitna route, but both of us
recognized the frame-up hidden in the
bill to continue the Alaska Railroad
Commission, and in our common pur
pose to defeat that frame-up we join
ed efforts in placing the whole duty
and responsibility in the hands of the
President.
“In my statement before the Senate
Committee on Territories in May,
1913, but more particularly in my
statement before the House Committee
in July of that year, I went exhaus
tively into the whole subject. It was a
critical situation that could be met
only by a desperate fight, asking and
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Time Table in Effect May 7, 1923
Through Service Seward to Fairbank
Train Leaves Seward Mondays am
Thursdays, at 8:00 a. m.
Arrive Northbound Leav
__Seward 8:00ar
1:45pm Anchorage 2:15pr
8:10pm *Curry 7:30ar
5:00pm Nenana 5:15pr
8:48pm Happy 9:15pr
9:45pm Fairbanks -
Trains leave Fairbanks Southboun
Tuesdays and Fridays
Arrive Southbound Leav
_ Fairbanks 7:00ai
7:32 am Happy 8:00ai
11:20am Nenana ll:35ai
9:10pm ■"Curry 7:30ai
1:35pm Anchorage 2:05pi
7:50pm Seward -
♦Train ties up at Curry over nigh
Equipment wull consist of buffe'
observation, day coach, smoker an
baggage car. This schedule will giv
patrons of the road an opportunity <
pass through the Broad Pass and N<
nana canyon district in the day tim
Trains both north and southboun
stop over night at Curry, where exce
lent hotel facilities are available f(
the public.
River steamers leave Nenana evei
Wednesday at 10:00 a. m. for poin
down river to Holy Cross, and coi
necting with gas launch at latter poii
for St. Michael. Arrive Nenana evei
Monday or Tuesday.
giving no quarters. So I took the lid
off. At successive hearings that extend
ed at intervals from May to August,
before both committees, I exposed and
proved what was being attempted. I
gave full particulars of the notice that
had been served upon me by G. W.
Perkins. The opposition did not try
to refute my statements. They could
not. I fortified them with official doc
uments and other proof as I went
along.
“The result was that the bill Wick
ersham and I supported was reported
favorably by the Senate Committee,
9 to 2, and by the House Committee,
15 to 2. It passed the Senate by 30
majority, and the House by 187 . ma
jority, during the regular session of
1913-14, without a single word in it
which the Morgan-Guggenheim work
| ers had strived for, after extensive and
heated debates in which my testimony
before the Committees was quoted
page after page.
“It authorized an expenditure of
$35,000,000 for railroads in Alaska ‘not
in excess of 1000 miles,’ to be located
and built by the President, and was
approved by the President March 12,
1914.
(Continued in Tuesday’s Paper)
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