The Cordova daily times., 1915-10-05
HOW THE EAST LOVES US.

From the Atlantic to the eastern base of the Rocky noun tains settlers helped themselves they advanced to every teng they could find in the then wilderness The most they paid for tn richest lands was 25o per acenst enough for the and the making out o the deeds
 Some three more ago some crank startd the idea that nasmuch the government owned the public domain it in reality belonged all the people and if it anywhere taned special like lead zine coal or iron de- posits whole people should the deposits The idea seemed good the the far east who knew nothing of the frontier the harshps incident its settlement and redemption and they caused law to be passed to secure themselves their of the undiscovered or undeveoped wealth.
 H was tried for years and its unprodcuveness and it's manifest injustice caused congress repeal the law without dissenting vote
 But few years ago the thought revived in the east though the interval between the repeal of the old law and the resurrection old thought the west and mostly the deserts the had supplied the to the east to enable it to make available its many and grow rch ls ved thought took strong hold eastern cupdty and the then President TheoroTe Roosevelt selected personal friend Clifford Pnchot to west out the land and see what he could find and appropriate By the way 1t IS under stood that Mr. Pncho for his personal use draws large revenues from coal mines in Pennsylvania which originally cost his ancestors only $25O per acre
 the meantime because of the partial subduing of eect city to mans use power had become valuable So had timber lands had oil lands had iron and coal lands
 Thus when Mr. Pinchot west, what he did was in effect deliver ultmaum to the men ot the deser Wc set o words, about this:
 Ou great and benefcient government lows the men ct Alaska almost much it does the ovable S III MN it wants all to prosper and so opens " oe CT ms domain to vou only in mind that if you discover any for css any stroama that will oal "', ny coal or iron mines or oil lands must disturb them for they are on the public domain they may become valuable after while and all the people the east have interest in them and must realize their pro of profits that may come from them"
 Then he sent out small army of his friends govern ent salaries that the greedy of the west and north should appropriate anything in which his bene oen friends in had their pro rata interest In ts way about oned of the state of Idaho placed under tmber reserve including the that water might be created In the Utah oil and coal and timber lands were In Alaska had begun to make some coal available for the people, but the went m that they were monoposs and the government immediately sat down upon them and for six years past the general ubc here has, with ample coal at its doors been forced to buy coal from Japan and British Columbia
 But it is idle nvegh against the mingled cupdty and sdv of the educated idiots who long range feel it duty
 rob the west Alaska though they know about the real conditions than they know of the God they pray for blessings from they continue to pray to Good and to prey upon the pioneers.