Seward daily gateway., 1930-09-06

town and more than 10 acres in the piece. The tax to be rated on the grade of the land I believe this provision very important.
 COAL
 The original promotion of the railroad was on the plan of hauling coal to Seward for shipfent by boat Twenty seven years effort by the different managers of the railroad has resulted in the shipment of only a few hundred tons to places outside of the railroad belt. The high cost of mining, transporta- tion, loading on ship, are deterrlng reasons. It would have been a good investment to HAUL AND LOAD THE COAL FREE, ON BOARD SHIP SEWARD, or at most the actual cost. If the price of efficiency equipment, like the recently pull chased snow plow, had been used to build a small coal Dunker here, to make loading aboard boat casy it would have been 3 thousand times better spent to encourage resource developments The answer given by each succeeding manage Iment to the request for bunkers, has been that the bunkers Wou!c be built when there was a demand shown for Alaska coal in coast towns In other words, built up A+he coal business and then we'll re- duce freight rates and Dulld the h,rnkers. This is directly contrary ,to modern business practice. 1T they had been built, and a cost +ransportation rate given, there IS no question but that a flourlshlng coal business would be esaDlsheo' at least along the Alaskan coast, stopping the present large lmpor- tation of the foreign product.
 REINDEER AND MUSKOXEN
 The most valuable result from a sinole effort ever shown in Alaska is +he reindeer industry. The Con- eressional appropriation to prlng tha original herd of reindeer here has brought great wealth to the Territory, and now the present ap- nronriation for muskoxen may pc inst as valuable in the future ! would suggest also trial ot the 1anlander's hardy milk goats. All of such endeavor to be under the supervision of the college.
 PROsPECTOR
 prospecting has declined in All aska for years. Many reasons might be given. I believe a valua- ble help. and stimulant, to hard rock prospecting and development would be to provide cheap trans nortation of ore, both to, and on the railroad. TO find the mineral leads is much easier than to deter mine their value and quantity There are hundrerds of out-crop- pings known to prospectors, any one of which might prove 9 valua- ble property, but because ot the expense of development work noth- ing is done with them. l suggest that the Territory and railroad combine to furnish transportation of ore from the prospect to either terminal of the railroad in this manner: The prospector to take out ore, sack it, and clear a tractor path from the ore to establish ed trail, or road, then to present. his assay certificate and applica- tion for transportation to the pro- per person in charge of this de- partment. To insure develop ment the haulage should be done ONLY when the ore was taken from either a shaft or drift, and not from float or surface stripping. During the following winter the department would get, and deliver lit to the terminal, charging fixed rate per ton, to be paid only from content of the ore, or to be lien against the prospect Haulage not to be undertaken if cost would be out of proportion to value of ore, determined from the assays. Road Commission tractors and tralers could be used for this work.
 I suggest the Alaska College be given sufficient money to build small commercial stamp mill, to handle ore from prospects. The College Assay department is all ready giving valuable help to the prospector.
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