Valdez daily prospector., 1912-07-16
PROGRESS AND POVERTY.

ore at Teikhell again fOrcibly eX- emplifles the absolute need of good transportation facilities be- tween tide water and the interior. Ore of the duality found at Tcik- hell cannot be treated on the ground as the ores of Valdez bay To extract it's values one must have recourse to shelter, the nearest place for the treatment of orc of that character being Ia coma.
 The TrikhcIl camp is tributary lu Valdez, but without Ihe gov crnmcnt road being in good con- ion for hauling freight il would h" useless tn attempt the dcvcl- npmcni of the property lo ship ping basis. II iS fortunate, in- deed. for Valdez. that delegate WickcrSham' 2i-pagr letter to thr Secretary of War protesting against any further appropria- lions being made for the build- ing and maintenance of @ovcrn- mrnl roads in Alaska, was pass ed Ky unhecdcd. otherwise this promising trade would have been but another vision to look for ward to.
 Valdez must of necessity place much dependence upon this great artery of travel between the shore line of Prince William Sound and inc great undevclOped interior country. We cannot live upon each other, but rather our future growth and prosperity must de- pend upon the opening up of our latent resources. There was d lime when ihis city controlled the trade of the copper belt and the great placer country beyond, but that day is passed; it's trade has followed later and more modern commercial highways.
 Valdez nOw..iS and has been for the past two years in period of transition. ItS old trade has, in a large degree. sought other ')uT lIfN 'I1lfI lStS have not yet reached the point of fruiiiOn. If brhOOvcs us tO be continually reaching out for new fields of enterprise and new sources of venture in that our trade may justify the building up of city here. For this reason every citizen having the welfare of tn" community at heart should watch with jealous care that none of inc opportunities which right fully belong to us are taken away either by our Own sense of sc- curity or the design of otehrs.
 Probably inc hardest blow at the industrial growth of Valdez since the failure of the Home Railway project has been the blow aimed al the Road Commission, over the chad of the city of Val dcz, by our delegate tO Congress, James Wickcrsham, in his lcng- fhy letter protesting against any further appropriations for road building in Alaska, not only from inc point of view of the money spent directly here in carrying on these great projects, but as well from a deeper and far more i'm portant and lasting point of view that of the expansion of our trade Co the surrounding coun- try, made possible only through a system of highways which will permit of it's development.
 . To cast q vote for James Wick crsham at the coming election is 10 pcrpetuatc his fight against the commission; it is to eventually drive the commission tO a more congcnial community, if not to put an end to their enterprises. II means q falling or in our bu5i- ness, q depreciation in our prop crly values and general disin- fcRration Of our community. If this community feels they can prosper without tlc headquarters of Inc Road Commission being hero; without the scat of govern mcni; without Fort Liscum and without the Signal Corps head quarters, then they will be jus flied in maintaining James Wick ersham as our representative in Washington, but, upon the other