The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-15
CLUB ENDORSES
SUPERINTENDENT
FOR ROAD CHIEF
Members of Commercial Club Be-
lieve Packer Should Be Given
Charge.

of the Nenana Commercial club that
Superintendent of Construction w.
L. Packer should be placed in full
charge of the work of the Alaskan
Engineering commission in the Ne
mana division. This opinion was ex-
pressed yesterday, at regular meet
ing of the club, in the form of a
motion to recommend the appoint
ment of Mr.. Packer as head of the
division, and a committee was named
to take the matter up with the
Nenana Labor union with view to
forwarding a joint recommendation
to Chairman W. C. Edes. This ac-
ton met with the unanimous APP
prevail of the members present.
For the purpose of expediting ac-
ton, special meeting of the union
will be held tonight, following which
the matter will be taken up with
Mr.. Edes by wire Immediately.
Another matter of importance to
the town, which was discussed by
the club, was the assessment recently
levied by the townsite management
and further assessments, which are
to come later. Secretary Joseph,
who has been appointed to look into
the assessment question, submitted a
lengthy report, in which the district
ing system of assessing was COM
pared with the manner of assessing
in incorporated towns. Townsite
Manager F. S. Ryus was present and
explained that assessments were lev
led in accordance with regulations
formulated by the Land and Indus
trial department of the Alaskan En-
gineering commission.
The club decided to take the mat
ter of assessments up with Manager
Andrew Christensen, of the Land
and Industrial department, with a
view to having payments for i'm
provements extended over a longer
period of time than has been allowed
by the department. If this can be
done, it will relieve the burden of
property owners to very consider
able extent. -... 49,.
Two other matters of Importance
to the Interior country in general,
were taken up and the following
letters, prepared by Secretary H. B.
Joseph, were ordered sent to Dele
gate Sulzer with the request that he
us his influence toward securing
remedial action at Washington:
Nenana, Alaska, April Is, 1918
The Honorable Chas. A. Sulzer,
Delegate from Alaska, Washing
ton, D. C.
Dear Sir:-With reference to the
bill before congress regarding a
more liberal use of large game in
this territory, it is desired to call
your attention to he following facts:
First, last and all the time, the
only object we have in view is to
enable Alaskans to obtain their own
meat which is here in plenty, with
out calling on the States for beef,
during the continuation of the war.
"The claim that there is but about
five thousand caribou in the terri
tory, is so far removed from the
facts that it leaves US here. who
know better at first hand, almost
speechless with amazement that the
statement should be made.
"But when we come to answering
that statement, and making an asser-
ton as to the actual number of carl
bou in the territory, we find it very
hard to get anything like agreement
from the statements of men who have
hunted and prospected all over the
country. Simply for the reason
that caribou is so numerous that IS
is physical impossibility for these
men to estimate within thousands
of the true number.
eve can get many who would
be perfectly willing to make oath
that they have seen five thousand in
one herd. Some would make the
much larger, asserting that
certain herds have as many as twenty
thousand.
Counting the individual rangel