The daily Alaskan., 1907-07-30

INV aAAAr lakN hAaseA sAAR "a " 70 t.h N Itect the Treadwen property, but he re- gently received an order not to again send iu the troops unless he receives orders from Washington. The result of such a policy, leading possibly to dan 1 ger oI destruction of the mining proper ty, will be that fl the owners cannot get 1 protection they will attempt to Protec. their property themselves; blOodshed will follow and we will have a state of anarchy,
 Unions have been organized at Nome and Fairbanks and there is 8 general feeling of unrest through the district. One result of this agitation has been to cut down the gold output st Fairbanks to less than haliot what 1t was last year. The TreadwelI company has suspended payment of dividends, and it is ques- 5lon, if the labor troubles continue whether the Treadwell company will continue to operate.
 Muat Dig For Gold
 People who imagine that Alaska is 8 place where all one has 10 do to get gold is to start out with a basket and pick up the nuggets are very much mis- taken. Mining IS just as serious 6 busi- :. ness there as is railroadlng or farming in the states. As 8 matter Of fact, there are only a few placer mines in the dis trict and what few there are, are To. csted in the interior and at NOmo. The Treadwell mine and practically all the mines of Alaska, which furnish the gold supply from that district, are lOw-grade ore mines. The ore at the Tleadwell mine runs about 1925 to the ton, but there are immense quantities Of it. You see it is 8 question of labor and modern machinery to get results.
 There Is some agitation among the aon-property holders for a territorial form of government in Alaska. Such a thing would be 8 serious blow to Alas ka's development, for the most of the population in the district is made up of miners and fishermen who are in Alaska one year and thousands of miles from there the next. T5 would mean that local government would become more unstable than it now is, for it would give the lawless element an Opportun- . ity to get in their work,
 "The mine owuer5 do not want any thing but what is reasonably right. They simply ask protection in their pro- perty rights, an opportunity to operate their mines, an even-handed admins l tratiou of justice by judges who are picked because of special fitness, aud an attempt on the part of Washington to deal with the Alaskan situation as 8 good business man would under similar |cjrcumsJancss.'
 
 Alaska should be poIiced by troops and placed under Military control. These troops should be used to QueIl mobs and to prevent Indian uprisings"
 Jn the records of all Alaska, The Alaskan challenges the "CoIOneI" to cite and prove one single instance 1 where there has been mob violence. 1 Not since 1878 has there been any trouble with the Indians. In that verr there was a slight dissatisfaction displayed by a few of them near sitka, but 30 insignificant was the affair, that but a few can now recall what ! it was occssioned over. The Indians ! of Alaska are the most tracCable on l the globe. Never have they been ! given rations from the government and they scorn to become wards of Wash ingtou.
 Msrtinets of the "Colonew Suther- land stripe certainly would welcome the advent of government by military officials, who, through vanity of the pomp of warlIke display, might be in duced to permit mining buccaneers to obtain the riches of Alaskas' mines from behind stOcksdes. guarded by federal troops and worked by coOlie labor. But such day will never dawn. No where in the world will a better citizenship been countered than lin Alaska and no where would such despotism as "COlonep' Sutherland would saddle upon us be resisted with 8 l more united manhood,
 The Trsadwell mine management did | have some trouble with a few of their smpIOyes over 8 boarding house squabble, but that hss been settled long .--s-tfr-r. r,r, rrT