Valdez daily prospector., 1912-08-07
JAMES WlCkERSHAM AND OUR
 BREAD AND BUTTER.


 ROW waging, insofar as Valdez is concerned, is one of bread and butter; nay, it is more; to this community il is a struggle for it's very existence.
 Valdez has come to the turning of the road. It is up to us 10 say whether we wish to retain the scat of government; whether we can afford to vote the removal of the road commission from our midst; whether wc wish to keep the head quarters of the cable and trlc- graph service here. Ii is for us to decide whether Fort Liscum is of any value iu the business inter- c>lS of the city, and, finally whrlh- CT we would deem il of advantage ln ourselves to have the mail and slagc lines again make their coast terminus here instead of Cordova.
 A systematic and organized at tempt is now being carried on in Washington with a view of hav-
 
 moved from Valdez to Cordova.
 With that end in view estimates have been made of the cost of building a two-wire telegraph line from Willow creek to Chitina. The Copper River and Northwestern railroad having signifled their willingness lO the War depart mcnt to turn over their polhs and wires, along their railway, from Chitina tO COrdOva to the govern ment, without cost and under such operating terms as is usually giv- on by inc railroads tO the tele- graph companies.
 Captain Lc NOirc, '. S. A., com- manding the cablcShip Burnside, has been ordered to rcsoprt cs- fimateS of inc cost of extending he heavy cable. from the point of Junction with lie trunk cahl' line, near Ihr west end of llinch- inbrnok island io CnrdOva.
 Delegate James Wickrrshan has introduced q bill in congress and is work ing hard for it's pass age. apprnpriating SI0O,000 for a public building in Cord0va, of Suf- iirirnI size io accOmmodal" Inc court and ils attaches, the clerks, marShalS. district attorneys. GUS tom house. cable headquarters and road commission, together with a modern jail. Docs anyone in Valdez believe that C0rdnva needs hundred thousand dollar building of such dimensions for inc local uSr of inc community? Docs James Wickcrsham enter iain any such belief? Valdez has heretofore and is now getting alung quite well with a Sf0,00O building.
 With the abandonment of Val drZ hy tn" road commission and Inc signal corps. Will follow Fort I.i~clruI and ilS troops. Tn" gov crnmrnI road from Willow crock io Valdez will as well bc allowed to return io a slate of nature.
 Several days since the Prospcc- tor published an editorial in which it contcnded that Delegate James Wickcrsham and the Guggen- helms had made their peace and would hcnccforth work in har- mOny.
 Tn this issue we publish the appointment of Henry Roden, act i've law partner of James Wick crsham, in Fairbanks and the Idilarod, as agent of the Yukon Gold Company, Guggcnhcim corporation, thus bearing out the prospector's assertion that there has been a coming together of these heretofore considered ire concilablc forces.
 If the position maintained by the Prospcctor is not true, can anyone tell us why Wickcrsham' 8 law firm should have been chosen to represent the Yukon Gold com pany? Can anyone give valid reason why Judge Wickcrsham should introduce in congress a bill appropriating Si00,000 for a government building in Cordova, after the several departments in