SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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MAGIC LURE OF CHASE
Every sportsman can sympathize
with the miner who came to Seattle
recently from- the Cassiar district in
British Columbia and confessed he
found the mining of gold not nearly
so exciting as the search for it.
.Prospecting, iiKe minting, cans ior
a special type of mentality. A “sure
thing guy” never succeeds at either
He sees no fun in tracking endless
miles over rough country in search
of game. Whipping a stream for
trout bores him. Mushing into the
•wilderness seeking gold that may or
may not be present in a district as
hig as a European nation appeals to
him as a foolish waste of time and ef
fort.
When he craves venison, ho goes
to a restaurant or importunes a
friend who finds pleasure in hunting.
He wants his mountain trout served
to him on a plate, crisply cooked
and calling for no effort other than
rhythmatic lifting and lowering of
fork and knife.
But, to -the man who seeks the
gold, to the hunter who pursues the
buck, to the fisherman who whips the
stream, the accomplishment of the
objective is only incidental. To them,
it is the quest, the lure of the hunt,
the magic of the chase.
Such men broke through the Alle
ghenies and opened the West to set
tlement. Such men carried the ban
ner of civilization to the Pacific
Coast. Such men, if afforded oppor
tunity,, will ojSen up Alaska, paving
the way for the homesteader, the bus
iness man and the industrialist.
It’s a great life—that of the pros
pector, the hunter and .the fisherman
—if you don’t weaken!—.Seattle Daily
Times. >
VOICES PROTEST
ON UNFAIR TAX
ALASKA LAWS
CANADIAN PROSPECTOR AND Ml.
NER IN ALASKA HOPES THAT
CANADIANS WILL RECIPROCATE
In a recent issue of the Dawson
Weekly, under the head of ^Commu
nications,” the following letter was
published:
Is This Fair?
To all Canadians and Also American
Citizens Residing in the Yukon Ter
ritory, Canada.
I wish to bring to your notice the
unfair tax the Alaska Game Commis
sion or the United States Govern
ment has put upon the Canadian mi
ner and prospector operating in In
terior Alaska.
Almost every Yukoner and Alaskan
knows, that to go out and prospect in
the wilds of interior Alaska that the
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the rifle or he couldn’t prospect, and
also the miner operating in these out
of tihe way places has to depend on
his rifle to make both ends meet.
Now, Canadians, take notice of what
you are going to run up against if
you figure on crossing the line into
Alaska to prospect or mine. You have
three chances. First, leave your rifle
in Canada; second, pay qne hundred
dollars’ license a year and bring
your rifle along and kill your meat
in open season; third, declare your
intentions to become a United States
citizen, which is a very easy and in
expensive thing to do, as you have
only about a thousand miles to mush
to get to the nearest clerk of the
court, and a prospector generally has
lots of money and time to spare to
do these little things.
I wish to say a few words on each
of these chances that I have already
mentioned. First. In leaving your
rifle in Canada, you are not breaking
the law, but to carry it over the line
you are, even if you are carrying it
only for protection, and everyone
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< . • I
knows jhat; to go into the wilderness
of Alaska without a rifle would 'be
micide on account of so many wolves
and bears, and I can state a case
wherea man had to kill a moose
in self-defense and had to go miles
to get ihelp to take the meat to town
so that it would not go to waste.
This man would not have killed that
moose and put up a job on himself
just for the sake of killing it.
I was told that no objection would
be raised to my carrying a rifle for
protection, but I couldn’t shoot any
thing; that would be breaking the
law. A person might just as well
carry a stick and go back to the time
Adam was on earth.
What chance would a man (have
with a bear? Here’s a little incident
that happened to a prospector only
last summer: He went to bed and
left the door of his cabin open. Dur
ing the night he heard a noise and
woke up with a start and saw a huge
bear standing in the door. He hap
pened to have his rifle at hand and
shot him and he fell into the cabin.
Now what would have happened if
this man had no rifle to defend him
self with? Yet it’s against the law
for an alien to have a rifle in his
possession.
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Now for the second chance, which
is the tax of one hundred dollars for
a license each year for an alien
prospector and miner to carry, a rifle
to kill his meat with. I ask, is this
a just and fair tax to the Canadian
prospector and miner operating in Al
aska? Where, I ask the Alaska Game
Commission, can you find a prospec
tor and an individual miner away in
the interior of the Alaskan wilder
ness that can afford to pay a tax of
$100 for a rifle to kill his meat with?
Why, I again ask the Alaska Game
Commission, was such an unreason
able tax put upon the Canadian pros
pector’s rifle? Was it to drive him
out of the country? He surely can’t
prospect without it, and he can’t
afford to; pay such an unreasonable
tax of $10, $15 or $20, or this never
would have been written, and every
body wrould have been satisfied. The
prospectors made Alaska and they
were not. all American citizens.
Now I will comment a little on the
third and, last chance and that is of
declaring ryour, intentions to become
a citizen of the United States, which
allows you almost the same hunting
privileges as a citizen. To do this,
of course, you have to go before the
cierK or tne courr. it mignt .iook a
very easy thing to do to some people,
but they don’t think of the man that
is out in the hills prospecting and
trying to, find new diggings all the
time, a $nan that works for wages
only long enough to buy a little out
fit and strike back out into the hills
again. What chance has he to go to
a court house a thousand miles
away? How can (he afford to go that
far on nothing? I know of several
that have wanted their papers for
several years, but conditions were too
'hard to allow them to make an ex
pensive trip like that one would be
to get them. Why can’t the court
meet the prospective citizen half way,
and hold court in certain precincts
each year so that they could get these
papers. Th court has the whole of
the United States treasury behind it,
duc me prospector nas omy nimseu.
In conclusion, I wish to ask Amer
ican citizens now residing dn Yukon
Territory, Canada, 'how they would
feel to have such an unreasonable tax
put upo ntheir hunting privileges in
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the Yukon Territory, Canada? At
present I think they have .the same
hunting privileges as a Canadian citi
zen. I only hope that if this tax
continues in Alaska, that the Cana
lian Government will reciprocate with
a duplicate tax on American citizens
now residing in the Yukon Territory.
It would only be fair at that.
Canadians, once more I ask you to
take notice. You think you have the
same privileges in Alaska as the
American citizen has in the Yukon
Territory. YOU HAVE NOT. That
is all BUNK. You have ^he same
privileges as any other alien. No
more or no less. I consider myself
a Canadian and was under that same
impression, tout have found out dif
ferent. Signde:
A CANADIAN PROSPECTOR AND.
MINER IN ALASKA.
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