Seward daily gateway., 1927-03-24
THE NEIGHBORLY SPIRIT

THE NEIGHBORLY SPIRIT
 The Anchorage Times of March 12 has this to say about the disaster which befe the salmon hatchery near Seward consider bennum The experiment of producing hatchery the several hatchees have been in operation and has worth while There is su the belief that the Legislature remaining plants the
 In other worlds the Times advises the Legislature not rebuild the hatchery because it would cost oney and not to operate it because it would cost money Of course the Times has in view the question of economy in Territorial expenditures. Let's see 1t IS consistent Tn its position.
 The delegation from the Third division have asked the Legislature for about $60000 the of $5O00 of which will obgate the Treasury to eventually expend $2OO0O0 and every dollar of it for the immediate benefit of Anchorage and nothing else The remaining $1O0OO for aplane landing eds asked under the plea that it had been granted at the last session of the Legislature but there at that time arplanes in Anchorage it was diverted to road and trail work. We know what went with some s 0O0 of that trail mOney-t wasted
 Tn advising Territorial economies one should be eau tious in the of the smoke Sometimes there IS rift that permits of scrutiny of the strategy lying bel hind. If anyone wishes to through the Times smoke he only has to consider few facts that sand out glarngly.
 The $5OO0O appropriation mentioned is for the An chorage Matanuska automobile road This route paral les the Alaska Railroad and traverses country which IS for the most part served by of communication as far there is any demand, which is principally in the farming district extending ten miles north of An chorage and which is served by the Eagle river road which has loop some IA miles long, aording pleasure drive for automoblists Beyond this point northward any need of the adjacent country is served by the rail road To extend this road from where the route would debouch upon the Ekutna river into Matanusk would entail crossing it, the Knk and Matanuska rivers and their changing gravel bars. It would only serve as pleasure road The Matanuska farmers have of communication by railroad and whatever other roads they require lie within that district north of the Matanus ka rver where there many unfinished pieces of road way that the Alaska Road Commission is endeavorng to consolidate.
 The Times first states fact that it has yet to be shown that the aatchery) experiment has been worth whe It should be prepared to present figures to sub stantiate it's postion which it does not do Thus but the expert prepared to say whether artificial hatch ing of salmon is not The question is too in tricate for the layman to grasp.
 But laying aside the question of the merits demer it's of the hatchery why is the Times socitous lest the Territory should decide to rebuild the hatchery? Why has not exercised this evidence for Legislative economy before It would appear to the observer that it's present attitude is actuated by selshness and egotism in the belief that the Third division is bounded by Turnagain Arm on the south and Ship creek on the north.
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