The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-15
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1921
THE DARK SHADOW REAPPEARs

In the Seattle Post Intcgcnccr of Scptcm- Der 27th an article by Norman IIapgood ap- pears entitled Cabinet Chiefs Endanger Pol icv of Conservation" A synopsis of Mr. Hap goods article is as follows: Everybody get ready to hop on Secretary Fall, Secretary Dcnby and possibly President Harding, for it is evident that they intend to abandon or at least to modify the conservation policy of the government with regard 10 Alaska That he is framing a typical Hearst scare is shown by the following quotation from his article:
 Whenever there is a fight between special interests on one side and the general welfare on the other, the special interests have the inside track unless the bright light of day can beat on the tranSaction.'
 We can therefore be prepared to see Don QuiNotc Hearst armed with hundred Scand al breeding newspapers, followed by Sancho Pinchot mounted on the shoulders of Rosinmtc Gavis, ~ayng vaIicntIy forth to attack the WndmiII Special Interests in Alaska. The conservation program in Alaska was directed to three things-forcsts, coal and oi
 Why not he fair enough to look the situ- alton over as it is for minute The forests of Alaska contain spruce, hcmlock and lit tIo yellow cedar. Except for mine timbcrs, heavy framing timbcrs and as a basis for pa ror. these forests are worthless. During the past twenty years eighty dollars worth of out side lumber has been imported into Alaska to each dollars worth exported from Alaska. If thc Alaskan timber was suitable for Alaskan uses. would the people of Alaska have spent twenty million dollars for outside fir in the past twenty years! For building purposes, Alaska spruce and hcmock make good fram- ing tmbcrs II sminks to such an extent as to be worse than useless for other purposes.
 We are not informed as to the pulp business. The only mill eyer established in the terri tory died aftcd two months operation at Spocl River near Kechikm. We do not know whether its early demise was caused by high labor costs, excessive transportation cost or burdcnsomc regulations under the forestry bureau. We dc know that the Ocean Fall ra per mill, situated few miles distant in Can adian territory has been running successfully md profitabIy for many years and that the news print paper used in Alaska and in most of the papers of the Pacific states comes from this plant.
 The second subject of regulation is coal. The government has chased as coal bearing. some hundreds of square miles of Alaska. All of this is designated as Ignite, useful for home consumption only, except about ninety square miles m the Matanuska field and about thirty square miles in the Boring River field. These two fields had wonderful showing of bitm- inOuS and scmi-anthricitc on the surface. The government, after waiting several years for private capital to develop these fields under its leasing system decided to spend a number of millions of dollars for the ostensibIc pur- pose of supplying the ships of the American navy with coal. A million and a half dollars were also spent in developing the coal. The latest report shows that this expenditure has resulted in the blocking out of three hundred thousand tons of coal Less than years run at a thousand tons a day. In the Bcrng river field, the Boring River Coal Company has expended half million dollars in the at tempt to get enough coal to supply the Cop per River Northwestern Railway and adiac- ent copper mines Their operations have been unsuccessful and the work suspended And