The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-08-11

A.E. C. pay roll. The Editor does n"t sec where there k any position i" him. unless like Edos, who has ben uanod q consulting engineer jt is n"' %, au, to "yke care of ain hy ih' p,nartmcrt o' the Interior.
 As to .hc policy oi the Gateway to- wards Chairman MearS, it all depends upon what Chairman Mcars does r" ganlinc the construction of the gov. rmm,n, raihoad in Alaska and cSpcr. .Hv Inc Seward division. Ii the Sew arf division is allowed to be "flIth rr" rropos.tioa, any man who is Chai'- nan ,r tho \. F.. C., Mcars or anyone ,s, vii, bc hauled to make an a"- counting.
 Bg, one aust remember that Co,. urars has been outside; Inc has hear'' ,ac criticism and the puns about the govnrnmcut'~ railroad joke in Alasl2; he la> bc.u in the army service i2 France. whore man must make gocd or he is disposed Of; he has been .a Wash.ug,oa and knows the tone of r'c thourht cs the Corgrossmen and S"1- a,ors regarding certain $&5,OOO,oo0 anpurHation for a railroad in Ala la. ln porha"s knows that after t"r years the ajroad k still no where, nS Co original plans and h. rtso kno' $ that the navy wants coal rom the M"' tauassa coal fields, delivered on tic water whcrc it can be had a. any tn of the year wiutcr or summer.
 Also remember that Col. Mears W; tho man of the A, F. C., who was :, '. tcrvicwcd several years ago at An. rhoragc by delegation from Seward regarding work on the Seward Divis' ion.
 Col. Moars at that timo told tie Seward committee that he had noth- inc whatsoever 10 do with the Seward division. that tho Seward division a.-
 ways received the appropriations aS'.- oi for but that Edes and R. J. Wc'r were rcsponsihlo for tho construction work.
 Well. we do know that the Anchor age division wa, completed and iron a railroad point of view, is a gocl rioco Of construction. Col McarS was tho man who had that work done. This shows that Col Wears can accomplish things in Alaska. the same as he dii in France.
 Col. Mcars. as Chairman of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, knows that the trouble back in Wasn ircton over tho appropriation has boc0 tfc uou-construction of the Seward division from tide water to connect with the Anchorage division which taps the coal fields; and the poo, showing made over the entire govern mcnc railroad project, Seward to th" interior
 Col Ncars possibly comes north with instructions of nature whIcr means complete the railroad, when the appropriation is available: open that part O. Alaska which has slide back for the rast five years on a. count of the governments attitude; do .hc iob quickly efficiently and cconom- ically."
 If Col McarS comes north, a biz" gcr man than when he went outside if Coi. Mcars starts things for active construction work, the same as has suddenly been shown on the Seward division during the past two weeks, well and good. If Col, McarS will con- st,uct thc railroad, or that portion yet uncompletcd and rut it in shape foH an oncrS.iug department to handle, there will be no better friend and booster than the Gateway. The gov ernmcnt railroad is a business propoSi- tion to be handled as a business enter pris and not by whimsical persons with ip,cical moods