Valdez daily prospector., 1912-01-13
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
 PETITIONS FOR DYKE
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mcnt service and as the property of the. federal government in Valdez was greater than the amount required to permanently protect the whole town, the ap- prOpriaiiOn should be made. He moved that resolutions urging the appropriation be drafted and sent to the members of congress-.
 Mr. Temple believed copies of the resolution should be printed and sent tO every member of con gresS and also to other commer- .cial organizations. He thought we should enlist the support of all our friends. He considered it the duty of every citizen to write some friend in the states, especially congressmen, to bring all pos sible pressure on congress in or der that the appropriation. be made.
 The resolutions following were then read and adopted.
 MT. Smith moved that the chair appoint a committee of three, of which the chairman be one, to see that the resolutions were print ed and mailed to the war depart ment and members of congress, as well as the chambers of com nlcrce in Seattle and other coast cities. The chairman named Mcssrs Stamm and .McChcsncy to the committee. The meeting was then adjourned. The resolution follows:
 That, whereas. the Town of Valdez. together with the Rcscr- walton addition, has real prop criy, including buildings, of the value of more than one million dollars (i i,000,000l; and Whereas, Said town has suf- fcrcd in the past, by reason of the floods from the glacier, situ- ated five (5) miles back of said town; and
 Whereas, It is estimated by lcOmDrtcnt engineers of the war department of the United States, that said water from said glacier, can be permanently controlled, and said town protected by an ex- ipcndlturc of scvcnty-iivr thou sand dollars (S75,O00); and Whereas, Under the provisions Of the laws of congress, appli- cable to Alaska, said town is pro- hIbItcd from contracting or in curing any indebtedness; and Whereas, Said town cannot raise said sum of money from it's resources, over and above it's ncc- cssary expenditures; and Whereas, Said town has in the past, and in different years, rX- pended an aggregate of more than scvcnty-iivr thousand (S15. .OOO) dollars for the protection of said town: that said expenditure. and the improvements made there from, was necessarily of d tenn pOrary character, to meet the i'm mediate and passing cxigency, and of little permanent value, but an swcrrd for the temporary saving of property; and
 Whereas, The government of the United States is the owner of more than one hundred t thousand dollars ($i0O,O0O) worth of prop erty in said town, to-wit: The court house and jail, cable office and cable lines, road commission, warehouses and postofricc build ing, which property has in the past, been protected and saved from loss and destruction by the citizens of Valdez, although build ings were washed away within five hundred (500) feet of said gov ernment property; now, therefore, be it
 Resolved, By the Chamber of COmemrce of Valdez, Alaska, that congress be pctitioned to appro- priate seventy-hve thousand 1875, 5,000) dollars, to be expended under the supcrintendency of some competent engineer of tho war department, to construct a permanent dyke around said town, and that said appropriation be made available at once, in order that work may be completed be- fore the high waters of the com ing summer.