SEWARD DAH.Y GATEWAY
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PAYING TRIBUTE TO ANCHORAGE
Seward is paying tribute to Anchor
age at the rate of $500 per month. For
the past several years patients from
Seward desiring surgical operations
have been compelled to go to Anchor
age, and bills aggregating from $300
to $500 have been paid by these pa
tients. According to figures furnished
the Gateway $500 is a small estimate
of the amount paid by our citizens.
Many readers will say, “what’s the
odds; the money is paid by the pa
tient.” But such is not the case. Ev
ery dollar paid into the Anchorage hos
pital comes from the local merchants,
citizens and professional men. It is
money made here that should go into
the arteries of trade, and which is ir
retrievably lost when taken out of the
city for any purpose whatsoever.
And not only do our local doctors
lose this money, but the money spent
for groceries, hotel bills, and other
expenses during the convalescence
period. The town has a good physi
cian but no operating surgeon.
And following hospital bills are
the large sums spent on undertaking
bills where the operation is unsuccess
ful.
We believe a little thought will show
our citizens that they cannot afford to
be without a hospital. Not for the
money lost, but for the security of
our citizens.
SEATTLE'S CESSPOOLL
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Once again the administration of
Mayor Ed Brown of Seattle is in the
unenviable light of publicity, following
a grand jury repoxt' on the rotten con
ditions existing in the Puget Sound
metropolis. Seattle fyas has had
the name of being the most immoral
and lawless city on the west coast. De
spite frequent complaints by the law
abiding element, conditions have be
come worse since Mayor Brown's in
cumbency until it is a stench in the
nostrils.of the home-owner and family
man.
A number of attempts have been
made to clean up the city, but the law
less outnumber the righteous and the
just, and the slippery mayor has main
tained his hold on the fleshpots and
has become so firmly entrenched he
cannot be shaken loose.
From the council to the police de
partment vice has run rampant, with
booze, gambling and vice flourishing
wide open.
Seattle cannot afford to bolster its
ill reputation at the expense of de
cency. It cannot afford to allow graft
day it is one of the most expensive
day it is one of th emost expensive
cities in the world to own property in,
as its moneys are dissipated with a
calm disregard for the rights of the
, taxpayer."
Work On American Rubber
Project In Liberia Begins
CLEARING GROUND IN ORDER TO
PLANT 100,000,000 RUBBER
TREES IN AFRICA
AKRON, O., Dec. 10. (£>)—Clearing
away of the Liberian jungle prepara
tory to the planting of 1,000,000 acres
af rich African soil with 100,000,000
rubber trees has been begun by forc
es marshalled from the end of the
earth by Harvey S. Firestone, presi
dent of the Firestone Tires and Rub
ber Company.
By January 1, 240 representatives
of the Akron company will be in Li
beria, pushing forward the project
•which Mr. Firestone said will be
supplying between 25 and 33 per Cent
of the world’s crude rubber within
the next decade.
The leasing transactions already
are completed with the Liberian gov
ernment. The Construction of Whar
fage facilities begun at Monrovia, the
Liberian capital, and the planting af
the first 50,000 acres is under way.
This first planting will be com
pleted within the next six months
and a quota of at least the same j
size will be completed in the six i
months following. '
t The Liberian acquisition and de- j
velopment by the American company j
is certain to bring down rubber pric- j
es which have bounded upwards in
the last several months, in Mr. Fire
stone's opinion.
“Planters the world over have had
the feeling thalt America has only
been bluffing in its rubber projects,"
Mr. Firestone said. ‘"It has appear
ed to them that the United States
manufacturers have not been willing
to invest money with a return no
nearer than five or six years. They
believe they have noted an American
desire to cash In on investments at
once and that therefore the Ameri
cans are not Inclined to make any
thorough developments. This atti
tude is rapidly changing now as our
work goes forward in Liberia.”
Following the entry of the Fire
stone forces into the little African
republic, the company’s head an
nounced that 35,000 acres had been
acquired in Tobasco on the isthmus
of Tehuantepec in Mexico and that
rubber already was being extracted
from trees planted there by other
interests several years ago.
In addition to these enterprises,
Mr. Firestone capped his world-wide
rubber quest with the announcement
that he was seriously considering
entering the Amazon basin in South
America where millions of acres of
rubber lands are undeveloped.
Three concessions have been ob
tained by the Firestone company
from the Liberian government. The
first was the lease of 2,000 acres of
land, previously held and partly de
veloped by British planters. Twelve
hundred acres of this land, nov/
planted in rubber trees, is produc
ing rubber and is to be a nursery
and experiment basis for the larger
American project.
The second lease, which is the mil
lion-acre acquisition, gives the Amer
ican company not only the right to
plant and produce rubber on that
acreage, but gives it all other rights,
such as mineral, sub-soil and timber
rights. The timber rights are given
the company, tax-free.
A third grant by the Liberian gov
ernment gives the company the right
to construct its own lines of commu
nication within and without the plan
tation for its private use, without tax
ation.
In addition to the planting, care
taking, and collecting of rubber, the
Firestone company is improving the
harbor at Monrovia, the seat of Li
berian government. Prom the har
bor, roads will be constructed to ra
diate into the hinterlands. In the
entire area of the country, which is
43,000 square miles—almost exactly
that of the state of Ohio—there are
i hut 100 miles of passable highway.
This mileage is segregated and un
connected.
Hospitals also will be built and la
borers’ huts will be constructed for
the housing of the natives who are
ot be brought from their pagan vil
lages into the modern sanitary areas
of American-built townss.
Provision is being made for the
importation of foodstuffs to replace
the local production that will be
!o*i > ** rs.tvt-0 ot-if cultivat
ing their own farms and go to work
on the rubber plantation.
Several thousand of these laborers
will shortly be at work for the Am
erican concern, employment being
made on the basis of one man to
every two acres. Thus, if 50,000
acres are planted within the next
six months as is contemplated, 25,000
natives will be employed for that
tract.
The plalntation developed consists
of several operations in its crop as
pect alone. First, the ground must
be cleared of the jungle. The brush
is heaped high and is burned in sec
tions covering several hundred acres,
over which the fires rage for a week
or more. Following the burning, the
area is staked off, one stake for each
rubber tree. Holes are drilled after
each stake is pulled, and either seeds
are planted or young trees are set
out.
It will cost $100 an acre to pre
pare the ground and to plant the
trees, Mr. Firestone estimates.
It requires five years for the rub
ber trees to reach the stage at which
they should first be tapped for rub
ber sap. The trees usually live to
be 100 years old, furnishing rubber
thruout this period.
For several years, the shipping fa
cilities at present provided to Liber
ia will be sufficient, Mr. Firestone be
lieves. Ships now ply regularly
coastwise from London and other
European ports to Monrovia and from
New Orleans and New York to Li
beria.
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