The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-02-15
P|NCHOT|sM IN ALASKA
DENIES USE RESOURCES
LUMBER AND FUEL SHIPPED IN
POLICY DIScOuRAGES
CAPITAL.

THE Alaskan Empire, published al
Juneau, and some other papers in the
northern territory, voice some con-
Germ over the fact that few applicants
for leases covering coal lands have
been received, and the Post -Intelli-
gencer, of Seattle, in one of it's usual
dignified editorials refers to the sub
ject at some length. The Seattle pa
copper approximately $40,OOO,0OO this
year, there is demand for Alaska
shelters, and goes on to show the
government has made mistake as to
the proper procedure to adopt for the
encouragement of coal leases, it
should remedy the difficulty without
delay" says the Seattle Railway and
Marine News.
Lumber Shipped From Seattle.
This brings up an interesting point,
interesting as the fact that the Clifford
Pinchot forest reserves, containing ~
billion feet of marketable lumber are
not being fully utilized for the furnish
ing of lumber for the great railroad
system the government is building
through the Chugach forest reserve,
but quite to the contrary, lumber to
the value of over $1.000,O00 has been
shipped from the United States to
Alaska during the year just ended, and
this total does not include doors, SASH
blinds, furniture and all other manu-
features of lumber.
Returning to the question Of the
coal situation in Alaska, the largest
users of fuel are steamships, mines
railroads and river boats, and all of
these companies now and for some
time past have been using California
oil for fuel. At such time as coal
mining operator can arrange to deliver
a ton of coal at tdewater ports at. the
rate to equal rate for ton of coal, in
barrels of oil, then some change might
be expected to take place in the stu
alton.
Can't Utilize Resources.
ut all reverts to the question of
Alaska's resources withdrawn from
development, brought about by Pin
chot, and the present situation must
exist until such time as the United
States government admits the error
of the past in full and makes it posi-
BILE for the only parties interested in
utilizing those natural resources, to
acquire same on a safe, sane and
sound business policy.
There is nothing the matter with
Alaska. It's future is assured, but it
must always be remembered that those
who were ruthlessly and unfairly
prohibited from enjoying to the slight
est degree certain natural resources of
that country are now able to produce
other resources and to prosecute their
work in the most successful manner
through the aid of California oil, and
today California oil holds the key to
the industrial situation in the splen-
did territory of the north.
All Due to Pinchotism.
california oil is going to help make
total of commerce for 1917 even ex-
ceeding that of 1916. There is no get
ting away from the cold fact that nc
citizen, group of citizens or corpora
ton would attempt to open any Alas.
ka coal field on big scale, when sc
per cent of the users of fuel are going
to stand by California oil.
at is worthy of careful thought. Fal
be it for us to utter the old cry I told
you So but every tank ship loaded
with oil moving to Alaska and every
shipload of lumber. and many Of then
will move in the years to come, will b.
proof positive of the truth of ever,
statement made In the anti-conserva
ton press to the effect that Pincho
~and his followers made the most la
mentable blunder and the country suf
fers in consequence"
IT told you last Sabbath, children,