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STEAMSHIP CO.
SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
ROUTE SCHEDULE
Scheduled Scheduled
Vessel Lv. Seattle Ar. Seward
ALAMEDA _July 2S August 3
NORTHWESTERN August 4 August 11
ALASKA _Aug. 11th August 18th
ALAMEDA_v August 18 August 24
NORTHWESTERN Aug. 25 Sept. 1
ALASKA.. Sept. 1 Sept. S
Scheduled
So. fm Seward
August 5
August 11
August 18th
August 26
Sept. 1
Sept. 8
Ships in above schedule call at Ketchikan, ^ra°g ’th boun(j’
Cordova, Valdez, Latouche and Seward both north and cpa^on"
Alameda is scheduled to call at Anchorage each trip ( S
Alaska will not call at Anchorage until further notice. . t
NOTE—Freighter riel Rosa scheduled to sail from Seattle
10th, calling at Seward and Anchorage.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
Phone Mad. 149
Seward, Alaska
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SOW. RAILROAD
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myself among them, who said the
amount was insufficient. Congress
granted it with misgivings.
“That made a total of $56,000,000
plus several millions worth of Panama
equipment, for 467 miles of uncom
pleted main line from Seward to Fair
banks, a 38 mile branch to the Mata
nuska coal fields, a 45 mile narrow
guage tram from Fairbanks to Chata
nika, and a 6 mile spur to the Healy
coal district.
“In the fall of 1922 he made request
for yet another $3,800,000, after all
his repeated pledges. The gathering
storm broke at last. Congi’ess granted
only $1,200,000 to meet deficits in op
j eration and $600,000 remaining from
the last $4,000,000. Col. Mears was
; peremptorily removed in the spring
1 of 1923, and Col. James G. Steese of
the Corpse of Engineers of the Army
j was appoitned his successor.
“It is now well known that $15,000,
000 on top of the $56,000,000 spent will
be needed to complete the present
mileage oft the Alaska Railroad in
’ workable condition. There not only is
a great deal of new construction work
I yet to be done, but a large amount of
Col. Mears’ work has to be undone
and reconstructed. His inland termi
nal at .anchorage, built at a cost ot
millions of dollars, is one sample,
made so by the rapid silting up ol
Knik Arm and of Cook Inlet for 75
miles out. The Nenana Canyon loca
tion is another. The road there has to
‘ be relocated on the shelf above it
where the Alaska Central survey ran
“Again and again I undertook tc
have the leaks stopped by appealing
| to the Secretary of the Interior and tc
I Senators and Representatives, as well
| as to residents in towns along the rail
■ road. Repeatedly I pointed out to them
the damaging consequences to the
1 Alaska railroad when the blowup die
' come, as come it must, on that inevi
table day of awakening to the faci
that many millions—some put it at
high as $25,000,000,—had been reck
lessly and needlessly squandered, b\
bad management and otherwise, which
had better be put into feeders to min
ing and agricultural districts. I urgec
just as insistently that development
' work should be carried on simultane
ously with the building of the railroad
to make it useful, profitable and cred
itable after completion. But a combi
nation of mutual interests was evei
on guard to defend the saturnalia
Some of them were profiting by it
others were anxious that it should gc
. on as a discredit to ‘Government own
ership of railroads.’ With representa
tives of some of them in high officia:
station, they were too well intrenched
to dislodge at the time.
“That inevitable blow-up has come
What the consequences will be, nc
man can tell. But all friends of the
Alaska railroad and well-wishers ol
Alaska recognize that heroic treat
ment must be applied.
“It has been widely believed that the
mismanagement, excessive cost, and
lack of tonnage development, in con
nection with the building of the Alas
ka railroad have been due in large
part to secret and hostile* influences
that were bent on making it a ‘hor
rible example’ of Government owner
ship of railroads. I am among the
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number who have believed it for sev
eral years.
“Confirming that belief, I have late
ly come into possession, in an honor
able and legitimate way, of a verified
secret contract, dated March 10, 1922,
entered into between Col. Mears and
the Alaska Steamship Company, own
ed by the Morgan-Guggenheims. It
covers the subject of joint through
rates by steamer and railroad, but is
not in itself complete. It is a secret
contract on the side, which to be fully
understood has to be analyzed in con
nection with the regular tariff govern
ing through rates.
“One clause of this remarkable se
cret contract provides:
“ ‘It is understood that the Alas
ka Engineering Commission and the
(Alaska) Steamship Company, par
ties to the through rates, will treat
all division agreements as confiden
tial and promulgate the information
to interested employes only.’
"Briefly, this secret contract, tak
en in connection with another gener
| al tariff agreement of same date, is
I proof conclusive that Col. Mears was
working in secret agreement with the
Mdrgan-Guggenheim interests in the
management and policies that con
trolled the Alaska railroad, owned by
the people of the United States.
“I will comment no more here on
this remarkable secret document fur
ther than to say that it holds elements
of far reaching interest to the people
of the United States in the future. It
furnishes the key to many other relat
ed subjects in Alaskan affairs.
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“I have worked earnestly and indus
triously since construction was start
ed on the Alaska railroad to have it
apply a policy of development that
would provide traffic and bring people
in, opening new fields of opportuni
ties for the fast increasing population
of the United States and making of it
an agency of service and usefulness.
Secret and hostile influences have op
posed such policies constantly, and,
so far, effectively. But constructive
. development policies will prevail in
the end, when an open and honest de
termination takes hold, and the Alas
ka railroad will prove a wise and prof
itable investment to the people of the
United States.”
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