The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-10-31
PROTECT US FROM OUR FRIENDS

Helpless Alaska, bigger than all out
doors, full of riches begging for people
to come and take them, short of labor
in every branch of development and
industry, camp where the rail birds
can live like princes without work,
needs no help from anybody but those
who should be it's friends, and from
them receives more senseless knocks
than intelligent boosts. This. time it
is Bishop Rowe who Yields the as
sassin's axe. According to the Anchor
age Times, Bishop Rowe busts into
print to say that d) the population
of the Interior is dwindling fast; (2)
terror is not promising; (3) it is a
question whether the railroads COM
pletion will help Interior Alaska in
population; (4 that Nenana has
bum townsite, subject to floods, etc;
60 the coal at Nenana is only good
after it has been treated; CO. that
in the Tanana district because the
Nenana mission failed to make money
experimenting with reindeer; CD that
there are no visible prospects for farm
ing in the Tanana section of the In
terror; (S) that farming to succeed
here must be conducted under glass;
III fn, f.rr
produce in Interior Alaska. Which is
nine separate counts in the bishops
indictment of the Interior, particularly
the Tanana section thereof, and not
one of which he could make stand
up" before an impartial jury, with the
two exceptions that the toWnsite OF
Nenana was poorly chosen and that
the Episcopal mission at Nenana did
not make money raising reindeer. He
NAV be right on both these counts, but
they do not apply to the Interiors
prosperity in any way.
When jobs are going begging, and
mine owners can not find men to mine
and the railroad has trouble to get all
the labor it needs, how can anyone
say that the labor outlook here is not
promising?
When Nenana and the railroad are
burning Nenana coal without treat
ing" and Fairbanks will take all that
is offered after this month, how can
Nenana coal be successfully con-
demned by one who knows nothing
about it and has not seen the mine
or coal?
How can a truthful man say that
there are no visible prospects for
farming in the Tanana section when
this section is adding farms to It's
list year after year until now it has
more than two thousand acres OF land
under cultivation here, 100 homesteads
nearly 25,00O market here of one
million dollars more per year than has
as yet been produced here, and 6
farming community in this immediate
vicinity which this year produced two
hundred acres of fine wheat and solo
it all, although there is no FIGURING
mill worthy of the name, and all othe1
farm produce in proportion?
How can a truthful man maintain
that farming here can only be con
Quoted under glass, when on the $500
acres of farm lands taken up and tn
1000 under cultivation, each farme
owns only about enough glass to pu
over his face in the box which vii
finally contain his earthly remains?
What manner of friend can he b
who with such an actual showing cor
fronting him, if he will only look an
listen, condemns without investigt
ton an industry of size which ha
grown from nothing in few years
and which with encouragement coul
go far?
It may be true that the Nenan
townsite is poorly situated, but whs
of it? What does that fact mean l
the life of the country? 1t is also tru
that the Episcopal game of whic
Bishop Rowe is head dealer is fadln
in this section until it can no longe