The Alaska daily empire., 1913-12-09
CANADIAN AUTHORITY
 CRITICISES OUR WAY
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| The Dawson News thinks the Amer ican way of handling mining stam-
 pedes and establishing new recording districts is crude, as compared with Canadas work in that line. It sug- gests that there should be change, and that one man should be put at the head of the whole matter.
 Commenting editorially upon the situation, the News says:
 The Chisana stampede has drawn attention to a number of deficiencies of the Alaskan mining laws. The most prominent and regrettable defect is that respecting the records, or more properly, the want of records, and absence of means of speedily pro viding the new districts with neces- sary official machinery and office equipment.
 While it is to be admitted the ter ritorial government of Alaska barely has been launched, and that the first legislature adjourned only little more than half a year ago, it is well that all suggestions and friendly criti- cism be offered now in order that the necessary corrections can be made at the earliest opportunity.
 Tt is true Alaska has gotten on for years with the semblance of mining regulations, and with no particularly defined code, and with a very lame system of recording, but the time has come for a more modern system, and | the innovations should be made as
 quickly as possible.
 l Tt is a we'll known fact that Record
 CT Morgan was appointed early last spring, before he departed from Daw-
 son, and when he left the Chisana for
 the coast this fall had not been sup
 piled with even ordinary blank books
 to be found in any peanut stand
 What few modest books he took in
 last spring for recording the then , known limited number of copper , claims of the district had to suffice . until exhausted, and then pocket . books and scrap paper were brought , into play. The whole season passed and the expected new books arrived it is understood, after Mir. Morgan left, and when the snow had begun tC . fall this autumn.
 The Alaskan government, had i
 been prepared to deal properly witt such matters, would have gotten { complete set of records to the record CT as quickly as his commission wa: delivered. While books and stationer! were not delivered by the government
 in this important matter, involving
 title, people from as far distant point: as New York and San Francisco haC rushed into the new diggings as earl! as July. Several thousand got in be
 fore the snow fell. And yet the gov ernment equipment came months af terward, while Juneau and Valdei were only ten days distant. ''It is not to be said that any particu lar government official in Alaska wa!
 to blame for the slow delivery of tn, books, because the territory's work il such matters does not seem well SC out or defined The duties do no seem plainly imposed upon any on, official. But it certainly does seen that the law is to blame, and is ser iously to be condemned. It should not be too much of an undertaking for Alaska to so systematize and cen i traliZe her recording scheme, so tha there be one responsible recording head for the whole territory, whose duty it will be to see that records are . properly supplied every recorder i'm
 mediately on appointment, and tC
 rush equipment to new camps as quickly as the average musher car
 stampede there"
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