Douglas Island news., 1921-01-21
NOT WANTED

bur. seal and salmon with lavish haud bu. until .b. construction of the Alaskan IaTro.J .r received nothing in return Con- tauus immense deposits of mgh-grodc ,,aL Alaska was yet compelled to import ifs n. from Washington aud Australia be- cau,, tuc Federal Government fearing r.p.u.iou or .hc process through which thc nation lost i- timber auJ mineral wealth. krpt aI or AasNas publicly owned natural resource, under 'ocS and key for loW.ecu years. Ta, locNug-up held back Alaska s developments it was bitterly and justly rc- scented br n. Aas,ws. yet it accomplished it's puuos. Au-laS resources are today urmp.u,I. mwuopoIzcd and available I,r wise. Ul..f.hicJ development
 s..r. puuod Island seal hcrd for instance Cu.uatcl aud msupervisca r.s n.r JvuJ.cJ from two million head to barr.r hundred thousand in thirty wears For five years 1t has been locked mn. now i. exceeds two hundred thousand and Is sHu rowing Salmon. ou the cou- t~r.. administered loosely and what Alas Ear- would .alI EbcmIly. is threatening Co iou in. buffalo aud the passenger pigeon urlcs, early uI drastic measures are taken to rteuat. fisheries and Go increase the number of m.chcrics.
 The ueN. Congress win again have be- for. u thc Curry bH creating am Alaskan development. board to have complete charge of Alaskan resources Nobody in thc Far Wcs. wants ,o hold back Alaskan growth; everybody realizes that thc division of au- thorr amm. twenty different bureaus of fr. or six governmental departments whose busy heads arc five thousand miles from Alaska i>uo, thcpropcr system of ad- miu.>-uuou. te. i, is questionable whether that provision of thc Curry bi,l limiting membership oa tac board to actual rcsi- dents 0t Alaska Is entirely wise and Wsti- tcd
 Local mon arc prone to forget the iu- u amt a-r pu.N ou present needs. The t.n.or, of acres O. mproductvc barren stump lands round thc Great Lakes, m the -ouH uJ in .lc Far West are cIoQuu, witnesses ,o m. folly of blind local mtcr r,. t..t sacrifices tnc wealth of Jhc mex, generation for today profit. Alaska mus. anI should mr. resident board bu. two o.tu. frommhor- should be selected from residents O. t.e States proper that the Iu- trr. may b. -alc-urled- Sunset for Fcb- wwr.
 Auu.H artm-cd by a spirit of good win and a wrong understanding of thc ms- tnr. political ud otherwise. thc Sunset Naezm. for February takes exception ro that clause m Ihe Curry biI limiting thc membership ou ,ho proposed development hoard .o bona fIc A'askms
 ]. suggest, that two of the five mem bers of inc board be from thc States and cite, t.e instance, of thc seal herds of the Pnmol~ that were almost wiped out be- lore tlc government took jurisdiction over thc islands. II also cites the ease of the Alaskan salmon fisheries which it claims through liberal administration have been G.u'cted md threaten to disappear aIto- eel.r Sunset says that "local men are prone to forget tbc future and act only on prcscu. needs"
 In rs two illustrations Sunset chose mviscIy. The seal fisheries of the Pub- uofs were never visited by Alaskan boats. The seals were slaughtered by pclagic seal CTS who came from the south The salmon fshcric, would hardly be touched as yet if u were left to Alaskaus The destruction of salmon in Alaska is directly traced to