The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-10
WHO ARE THE "BONEHEADs?"


 the Mining Congress Journal published by the American Min ing Congress Washington D. o. makes the following com ment the situation here which has just been investigates
 Te country large is ettng considerably because of the confusion the of national affairs at Wash
 gton which have special relation to the present war cond tons The of the naton however fully apprec the fact that the nation graphing with unusual prob em and problems of magnitude before contemplated It therefore expects there will be much hesitation, and that perhaps bunders may be made The country IS prepared and paate such may be made consequences with patience and to stand by the ad and condone all mistakes made in Ocondons and without ample time for careful examination of all the The country not well prepared to overlook blum de long continued and premedtaed and for which there can be possible intelligent Just at this time the of the United States shipping hundred of coal weekly by rail- from the Atlantic to the Pacific seaboard dis of three thousand miles of railroad haul at o $S59 transportation order that its Pacific coast naval requirements may be for At time when there is general feeling of because of the belief that the rail roads of the country will be unable to deliver coal from the the great industrial of the great ceners of the east at time when the demands of allies in the great demanding coal rapidly than the rail roads able to deliver the seaboard for transporaon at
 time when there threatened be great congestion of rail road traffic because of the extraordinary movement of food products in order supply people and meet the needs of the aes this amount of transportation service being used by the nation in order supply the Pacific coast quremnt of the government when upon the Pacific coast the territory o Alaska mountains of coal of both high and low grade which not being mined because the of the United States will not permit to be mined under able conditions At the time of the enactment of the Alaskan coal leasing b freely predicted that coal mining could be carried under its conditions Notwithstanding this fact those having the matter in charge worked the best part of year, devsng form of restrictive than the law itself The law has been effect nearly three We
 understand that there has been but effort to operate under it's conditions and that resulted in aure and that the govern ment has taken the ease and undertaking account It also IS understood that the administration proposing undertake the opening of tract twelve the Matanuska coal field because prac cal coal has been found willing undertake operations
 under the provisions made by the During recent months responsible parties have been in Washington begging of the department to amend the lease make it possible to induce capital to undertake coal mining enterprise in Alaska The lease has been amended not by making liberal but by making it restrictive In the present crisis the silly effort of the administration officials who with wise dmeanor prate about the conservation of Alaskan coal than mdicuous is crime is costing the nation the basis of one billion five hundred thousand dollars anna freight charges is taking coal from the industrial ceners where it's lack will be keenly felt and is directly contributing to of the greatest dangers which immediately facing the tOn future issue of the Mining Congress Journal will name of the boneheads who responsible for the tying Alaska coal and who still persist in the nane policy even in the fact of the present emergency
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