Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-14
DRAGGING A MILESTONE
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actionary service by increase in salary equivalent to professional mans yearly income while at the time sashng appropriations for urgent and necessary proJ affecting not the question of wages for workers so much as they affected all business workers included We refer to the mandate of the Howell committee Tn throwing 260 into what would have been breadne in the Sates but for the fact that many of them were rontersmen instead of carpetbaggers and turned to na i ture for sustenance and shelter.
 When he says that the Territory and communities have been sorey taxed to relieve hunger and distress he again rears up fgment of imagination.
 Set over against this claim of Territorial aims IS his action in withdrawing his name from school warrants drawn legally by the auditor whereby banks unable to pay salaries and by his obstructive tactics Tn his con tro of 80 per cent of Territorial appropriations created situation almost equal to that of Chicago
 When he says that the present policy of the govern ment in controlling fisheries and wild life is adequate and satisfactory he is confronted with the Juneau Empires expose of the machnatons of John HozwOrh effort to sfle the development of the pulp industry by making
 bear reserve of Admiralty and Chichagof Islands Again he faces the appeal to Washington by the trappers and frontersmen to rights to trap fur after the organ ization which he heartily approves had denied them the right to secure food and clothing from nature Again he faces documentary evidence of appeal filed with the President in 1884, asking that beaver and marten be made available to those facing unemp On that appeal and threat to expose what amounted to scandal in the Game Commission, it backed down and in September scnded it's rule barring the trapper from the field.
 Before is bulletin issued by the U. S. Geological Survey and circulated by Ernest Walker Sawyer dealing with mining opportunities in the Kanshna Mr. Sawyer, whose brother is skilled mining engineer and therefore capable of advising him. states these cardinal facts CD That there immense deposits of this mineral of com mercal vaue ( that there is big market for 1t at S650 per 100 pounds (3 that coal for smetng may be had at S350 per ton the Alaska Railroad against SIP coal being used by China which exports 10000 tons to the U s. annually with Europe supplying l5 per cent From his window, he see the wonder mine-the Alaska Juneau-whose stock has climbed while national securities ubed yet he says mining does not offer any thing He the worker bees of the hive developing Willow Creek to bonanza camp old placer camps pro ducng consistently and finds being made; the F. E Co., of Fairbanks announcing the development of $40O in commercial placer while extracting $55O00 per month with dredges; under date of March 14 bulletin issued by the U S. Geological Survey Valdez Creek placer says: . The Valdez Creek district has been or less productive since 1903 and large
 testing of less accessible ground is warranted the future of the district appears to depend mainly on ex pansion of placer operations The bulletin dealing with | quartz possibilities is too long to be quoted) II He does not consider mining promising yet two men with pick and shovel develop s60,00O in placers in one in region of 100 square miles of auriferous graves.
 It has often been asked why the western Alaska com mnltles aid not employ the methods of the od ana the big cities in securing population and development this through intensive advertising campaign embodymg facts to the advantages for of large and small means to succeed m Alaska
 It is just such obstructive tactics employed by the Governor that have taken the heart out of the many and all but nulified the pioneer spirit.
 I And while Governor Parks is misrepresenting and raducing Alaska, the Interior Department is paying $5O00 per year to travel the length and breadth of the land armed with official data and exercising his ta ents to attract settlers to Alaska
 It would be interesting to the Governor to read the history of the pioneers who settled and buded his brth placeDenver. If nothing else, he would gain correct perspective of the distinction between of courage and action stormng the ramparts of deser prairie and the Rockies armed with and gun and the fabby element to whom he caters The streets of his great city perpe