Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-08
ALASKA INTERESTS AT THE NATIONAL
 CAPITAL. WASH.

Another unconfirmed and untrue report that has reached the Dele gates office from Alaska is to the effect that the Copper River & Northwestern Railway is to close down in September for the winter. By reason of curtailed shipment at the Kennecott copper mines, and because of the low price for the ore, the railroad was closed down last January Is, for three months. It may be found necessary to suspend operations on the railroad on De- cember 1st, next, for several months but there is no intention of earlier inactivity, according to authorita- tive sources.
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 The Department of Justice is one of the five departments of the gov ernment whose appropriations re- ceived an extra cut of 10 per cent, which means curtailment of $881 ,000 for this fiscal year. This condition has brought an inquiry from Alaska as to whether the re- port was correct that each employee in the department would have to take an average furlough of about 60 days without pay. The Attor- ney General states that it is hoped and expected that such a drastic cut in salaries will be avoided, as there lis considerable prospect of diScharging our duties during the fiscal year without i'm arin g the service by application of the administrative furlough." He fur ther says that i've cannot relax in the enforcement of the criminal laws and malefactors must be brot to justice" While it has been de- creed that the Federal judges in Alaska are subject to 10 per cent reduction in salary it is not expect ed that other officials will be af- fected. But putting into effect va rlous economies, the Attorney Gen. eral said, the department will be able to transfer $45O,OOO to other appropriations badly needing mon ey, thus leaving an apparent de- flcit of $431 ,252. With such a de- ficit," he said, Eff the application of the administrative furlough is to be avoided administrative econo- mics must be rigidly enforced Careful and prudent administra- tlon on the part of the United States attorneys, marshals and clerks of courts will result in sav- ing considerable part of this sum from the allotments for their trav- cling and miscellaneous expenses and it will be possible to avoid the remainder of the apparent deficit by not filling vacancies when they arise, unless absolutely necessary and by starting all new appointees at the minimum of their respective grades" District attorneys were requested to give especial attention to the savings produced by care in not summoning witnesses until they are actually needed, and of- flclals charged with the duty of se- lectlng and summoning jurymen can effect savings, he said, by care III avoiding the selection of those ineligible of subject to release from jury service.
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 The Delegate has been interest ed in securing for some residents of the Third division certain informa- ton regarding mineral patents in Alaska, with the result that a let ter has just been received from Commissioner c. c. Moore, of the General Land Office, in which he states: "The records of this office nave been examined and you are advised that 1,250 patents have been issued up to and including July 31, 1882, for mining claims in Alaska. This office is unable to advise you of the number of claims embraced in these patents as this data is not compiled and to do so would require considerable am ount of work, all of the time since your request was received having been required to obtain the num- Der of patents However, 50 pa tents of Alaskan mining claims were examined and it was found that an average of three claims were embraced in each of these pa to,,fc opJ +I;c fr,,ro will voroIo 1,1 ',