The Nenana daily news., 1919-01-27
ANCHORAGE ASKS GOVERNMENT AID
 FOR R R FEEDERS

L of the proposal that Congress should entrust to the Alaskan Engineering commission funds for the building of trails and wagon roads as feeders for the government railroad. The Anchorage Chamber does not ask that any moneys which usually have been expended by either the Federal Road Commission or the Territorial Road commission should be diverted to the Engineering commission. The Chambers plan is to obtain the appropriation of special and addi- tional funds, which it argues, can be handled by experienced railroad men more effectively than by any body else when the desired end IS the creation and promotion of bus mess for the government railroad
 The Chambers action in the mat ter is in the form of resolutions, which have been mailed to Secre- tary of the Interior Franklin K Lane, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, senators and representatives ies of cities in states on the Pa cific coast, and of all places in Alaska In view of the fact that the government railroad with it's proposed tributary trails and wagon roads will benefit, directly or in directly, all parts of the territory the commercial organization in every other Alaskan city is expected to endorse the request of the Anchor age Chamber for trail and wagon road funds for the federal trans portation system.
 Text of Resolutions
 The resolutions of the Anchorage Chamber follow:
 "To Congress of the United States, and to the departments of the interior and of war:
 ''The petition of the Anchorage 1 Chamber of Commerce and the people of the Cook Inlet country respectfully shows:
 q. That the country along the line and tributary to the govern ment railroad in Alaska is rich in gold and other minerals, coal and building material, which, on account of the want of roads, cannot be sue. cessfully mined.
 "2. That there are more than 300 homesteads located in the coun try through which. the government railroad runs and on which the settlers have proved the fertility of the soil and the practicability ot producing crops of vegetables ant grains; that during the last two years large crops of potatoes, cab bages, rutabagas and other vege tables, together with oats, barley and wheat have been successful, raised but were of no value becaus, there was no means of getting then to the railroad and to mraket. Stuff cient potatoes were raised in thu valley of the Matanuska river alone to supply all the towns along thu Alaska coast if there had been road and ships.
 g. That both the miners ant homesteaders are becoming dis couraged and are leaving the coun try
 Approve Secretary Lanes Repor
 A. That we heartily approve Secretary Lanes report of Decem Der 14, 1918, favoring Alaska's de velopment, and urge it's considera tion and adoption by the congress
 "5. That Alaska is entitled t' the consideration of her industria needs.
 During the past she has beer treated by congress and the govern ment like an ill-favored step-child She has been denied adequate aid to navigation and especially light on her coast. She has been denie, the enjoyment of her own reven ues; her industries have been re fused encouragement. Not onl. that, but they have been smotherec