The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-12-29
THE TRUTH ABOUT ANCHORAGE

HE Ikl Ill AbOOI ANOuOhAOL
 The Gateway has no reason to question its speclaI correspondent at Anchorage regarding the gigantic shake-up" which is now occurring there. It is only strange that this eruption has not been caused before Re- ports made weekly and monthly have shown great num- bes of men employed in every department with the eX- ception of the great department mining For instance not so many weeks ago 275 employed in opera ting clerical etc. departments and only 1l5 men in min ing" Great heavens the government is not paying eX- elusive attention to building townste with magnificent buildings that would do credit city twenty years from now but those in power Anchorage seemingly have had this metropolis in their minds and the real purpose to reach the coal fields has been not only secondly import ance but fifhy or sixthy Make town" has been the cry of those at Anchorage who they may be- IWen W seven hundred and fifteen has been the ration of inn Dortance But the government appropriations have been for the building of a railroad the coal fields and the Op enng of the coal fields But somebody at Anchorage has practically said ito H. with the government we are gO- ing to build city," And what have they? Nothing-a place beside stream that frozen up five of the seven months of the year and possibly more But that does not matter the money has easy and perhaps gone easier to build city-yes municipal skating rink etc Should there be an investigation? By all means YES. Get to the bottom of who is the boss the government or one or two men, Seward did not ask for big cty-'just give us the railroad to the coal field but like they have said to
  Seward and everybody else, we the great AMS" We who are these people-the l ANS? You bet-Iet us have an investigation no ukewarn affair but real hon est simon pure probe Then we will all know who the ANS are and what great power they must hold over the people of the United States. Another thng-whO has given the word to retrench and get down rock base Somebody who has shaken the very fear in the great
 ANS Let us get down all the facts and then perhaps we will all know who is defyng the powers doing as they please building hopeless cities to be vacated at one strong blow; building everything but what is requested in the ap propriations Seward will welcome an investigation, in fact assist in every way possible to help in the probe Sew ard has been sdetacked with couple of locomotives, few flat and box cars and couple of anticipated coaches and only working fund as it were. But money has been appropriated for more extensive work than all this anti quated stuff and why-has it not into the right sources? Seward has absolutely no selfish motive being interested only in the opening of the coal fields and the establishment of connections by rail between this open port and the coal fields All of this will benefit not only Alaska but the Pacific Coast But somebody has put the cold hard veto on all this Who is he or they? Seward is not only asking this question but all people are making inquiries Shake-up is good-rattle the bones and find out who says "to H. with everything but us"