The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-17
NOON REPORTS NO PR0CRESS'
 FROM HIS TRIP

| SEWARD, Jan. 17.-4"The people of Alaska must get together in an ef- | fort to make congress understand that | they are mere peons under the pres ent system of conservation" states John Noon, of Seward, representative of the Pioneers of Alaska, who has | just returned from trip to Washing | ton, D, C., in the interests of the ter ritory, in a letter from Seattle, to which point he returned ten days ago. AS an example of the indifference of government officials toward Alaska, | found ostmaster-General Burleson more interested in big game, than in l improving the mail service from Sew ard to the westward. When tried to | talk about our mail difficulties, MT. Burleson wanted to talk about moose and caribou. He finally referred me to the fourth assistant postmaster 1 general who passed me on down the | line until after two days I reached the bottom without being able to get any thing out of the postal department" | MT. Noon states that he was passed from the postal department to the shipping board, from which he was also unable to obtain any results.
 "Mr Saint, a member of the board, 1 ok 1oc 1yo than I did that I was unable to tell him anything" he stated.
 q believe that an industrial agent should be maintained in Washington, D. C., by the people of Alaska, to de- vote his entire time to informing the people at the capital of Alaska s needs. The ignorance of the eastern people in regard to Alaska is simply appalling. Most of them thought l team.
 "I was urged to stay in Washington and present the needs of Alaska to the various senators and congressman as they arrived, but it was impossible for me to remain. I believe that such a man as I have mentionel could do much toward advertising Alaska where it would do the most good"
 MT. Noon also interviewed Secre- tary Payne, Joseph Tumulty, secre- tary to President Wilson and many others, and remained in Washington until after the election. One of the propositions he urged upon Secretary Payne was the opening of the shores of Resurrection bay so that fishing sites might be rented. This Mir. Payne refused to do, according to MT. Noon, unless he could show MT Payne that he had a company ready to develop the proposition.
 T talked Alaska everywhere I could" MT. Noon continued, "I found men of influence everywhere greatly | interested in Alaska. After a long talk with Joseph Hartman, of the Hartman Nationar Bank of Seward, he told me that if the people of Alas ka would get their ideas together and present them to him in concrete form he would do everything he could to help them.
 Tn fact I found people all over the l east greatly interested and when they 1 found they could get first hand infor- nation from prospector who had gone through all the experiences of which they had read they were more ! than willing to believe Mir Humility, was very friendly to Alaska I found. He told me that I was the first man who had ever gone to Washington who represented the settlers and pros- pector's side of the question.
 'I advocated the reclamation of 50,- | 900 acres of land in Alaska by the government clearing the land and giv- ing it to the settled. The system of conservation now in force whereby our timber, oil and pulp lands are tied 1 NP "AA@ AASNSA POpuIehIS IhC COullIl y They had that system in Canada and six million Canadians came to the United States. To take up a home stead now we must clear ten acres of land, This requires that man with a family must have at least $3,500 in or der to get started. Most men with that much saved will use it in some other way. Broke men are the ones who settle country. I know some thing of the development of new coun- tries for have been in Arizona and Washington when they were just be- ginning to grow. came to Washing ton in 1862 and have seen the changes that took place there. Taking all the resources of Alaska together, the poor man has no chance at all. It