Iditarod pioneer., 1910-10-30
CONSERVATION vs. PRESERVATION

From where we sit It begins to look though this conservation business getting somewhere the rego1 of the Adams Apple Our old friend Cliff Pinchot who has expressed desire to tie up all the undeveoped re of the country for the seventeenth generation lowing the burial of the Big Stick handed juicy lime the other day at the session of the American Mining Con gress at Los Angeles where after brief considerations the congress jumped upon him and his ieutenans with nous feet and declared his extremesm sham and airy sif1age.
 Cliff down there with long line of talk about leasing government mineral lands on royalty basis and other theories designed to the virgin wealth of the nation from the rapacous greed of graspng corporations He thought forest reservations should be extended and waterfalls heged about sing their hymns of power into the vista of dawning years.
 The representatives of the mining industry in conven- ton assembled gazed while in and then in concerted and concentrated voice shouted Rausmem Beat it Gif Make noise like tyre and roll away Mosey back to Teddy and tell him he talks like conservation coffee cooler On your way Pin-Show, tired of all this foldero- want to see something doing'
 And then those miners got together and talked the thing and said to themselves and other that they thought Pnchot and Col Roosevelt and Jones and Glavs had smoke in their urrets and that they considered it about time that theorists stopped putting up high hur- dles in the path of practical progress.
 They declared that the minerals should belong to the various states in which they found subject to the general laws in regard to ocation They declared that it is high time something be done open up the lands Alaska and that Washington should get the hunch and allow Alaska to develop without much interference Then they gave three cheers for dear old Vassar banded.
 Clifford Pnchot has been called the millionaire theorist
 
 interior lie first got action on this conservation idea and after he got going wel he cost the government good many millions putting the idea into executon although the people of the United States have had opportunity of saying whether they cared for the proposition CT not When he first thought of it. he whispered it to Teddy and that asue statesman and pressagent gamed with great glee.
 Since Cliff first got that little pee-vee in his chapeau things have been happening all the country to the great derment of large sections and especially Alaska Millions ot words have been written about the coal land proposition and millions will be written because Pin chot had the matter baed up that will take years untangle it.
 And gentle reader, want to say right here that not for this conservation song and dance here in Alaskawe would like to another piece the boards entitled The Song of the Rail- Conservation simply that natural wealth shall be tied up that the big naughty corporations can't get it, anybody else Then alter the conservation paddock is put every thing in sight they will wait few generations and give the key somebody and tell him to go to it. It's nice little game, but we want none of it. Conservation to the national government makes beautiful theory doesn't agree with our preservation, therefore forninst it.
 As everyone knows transportation is the most vital need of Aaska ranscends every other important fea- ture of future development As everyone knows further II he give 1t the proper thought there will be nothing done III regard to extending transportation lines until provision be made permitting proposed railroads to get the coal necessary to move their freight And not only it say to move tonnage but if it be such great this territory why nO in the of sense give us chance to sell of it to the Outside world pocket the proceeds.
 Strictly speaking the coal question is the main issue in southeastern Alaska but it also becomes vital issue the interior when it becomes apparent that will have no railroad until the coal question is settled
 We know that the Morganhems trying to get their hooks into Alaska and everything in sight. That is whlt all the holler is about and they would be monumen tai muts if they didn't try to grab that wealth. We also know that will take large aggregaons of capital to ac- compsh much in the way of building railroads in this country in fact we believe it impossible otherwise
 Such being the and its pipe that such is the case we say-let the corporations have it. Let them go