The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-02

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 He then lived a life that he now often in retrospeCtiOn looks back upon as of sacred memory. He lived with out the knowledge of the "root of all evil" the love of money, and perchance with his camp pitched square over the pay streak" Without this germ in his system he gathered armloads of native copper nuggets from the crop pings of a bonanza for his arrowheads, knives and weights for his tent flaps, taking ample time to "Fletcherize" his smoked fish, and with never a thought of beating 1t" to the nearest record ing office to file on the ground.
 But how often has he told us with what a suddenness and shock to his peace of mind came the rush of Nine ty-Eighters with their sled loads of white mans grub" shouting and singing, intoxicated with the lure of gold and the juice of corn or rye. These men dealt, with few excep- tions, generously and kindly with the Natives, often paying them literally for their services, and frequently aban- doning their caches and giving them outright to the Natives.
 Here we have the reason for the Ma tive's lack of appreciation of the value of money. His first training and exam pie was a lesson in extravaganza, and to this day most all Natives of the interior scorn any amount of money less than 25c, or twobits as it is us- ually termed here.
 Thus came the inevitable introduc- tion of the white man into Alaska, to take, and to develop the rich natural resources of the country, as God in- tended for the highest good of man. kind. But shall we forget this kindly inoffensive race, who did not resent our coming, but on the other hand greatly assisted us in many ways with the knowledge they possessed of the country, which was worth more to us just at that time than all the money congress could have appropriated had the congress been so disposed?
 Now we possess the land" True we have accomplished much ourselves, but the Natives of Alaska helped us at time when we most needed help.
 We came with our boats, bringing modern equipment for rapidly subdu- ing the untamed wilderness, but we could not lay our steel rails until the dog teams and birch -anoes landed the men to blaze the way and survey the route We could not build our mill ion dollar steel bridge spanning the Copper river, the most wonderful achievement of engineering on the famous "Iron Trair' to the copper mines, until Chief Goodlataw and oth- CT Copper River Indians, who knew the Abercrombie rapids from infancy, ferried the men and their tools scores and scores of times to and from their working base, safely around the ice bergs floating down from Miles glacier.
 When the Copper Kings" had com pleted their river steamers at Chitina, and knew how to navigate the waters of the Copper river from Chitina to Copper Center, Goodlataw, Doctor Bill um, and other seasoned Copper River Indians stood on the bow and piloted the boats safely through the proper channels to their destination.
 Now, we have found the gold and the copper, the fish and the furs, and are using them to fight our battles for democracy against autocracy, but in doing this shall we forget that this transformation of things imperils the existence of many Alaskan Natives who in no small way assisted us in our great achievement? We are very busy mining our ore, canning our