Seward daily gateway., 1932-05-21


 cattle out, and cattle guards Whare the fences come. What chance did a man have outrunnin' a shoat or or a revenuer in ployed ground and climin thru that wire, not counting jumping a 10-rail fence or gitting tangled up in cattleguard.
 The fust time they run a train into Chikepin Crossroads all the folks for miles round came down to see the thing. When it come aroarin into the depot some of the younguns stampeded into the swamps and they aint found em yit. My gran d m mmy was so skeered she was prostitute for three weeks. Ligs Scoggins stood twixt the track chawin tobacco and Watchin the train snortin down to- ards him. When it come point blank of ketching him he lit out up the track. When the train train stopped we ask Lige why he didn't got off the track. Nav, said Lige, if I'd got into that plowed ground it'd ketched me shore
 This Valdez man seems afeared that he aint protected and wants the navy and army to come up and help him. As I take it this tote road he is hollerin about runs up to Fairbanks. Whynt he not try to patch it up with Fairbanks, keep out of their territory and split up the business? He'd ought to know that if they have a good tote road to come over and they is as turf as he makes out how's he goin to keep em out of Valdez until the navy arrives.
 I asked fraternal brother who built the tote road. He said the gov'ment. I asked him what start ed the row. He said the man usin the tote road begin chargin less for hauling than the man who's runn- ing the railroad. What happened then? The railroader told him he'd halter rustic his own business and not expect the railroad to help him. We'll, I said, why don't the tote road man call road day as we uSter do down in the Ozarks, make every man bring along some kind of tool and keep the road going and spite the railroader? Damfno, he says.
 Now let's git this thing right I says. The gov'ment built the rail- road, then it built the tote road. They don't expect to git anything back for the tote road but want something for riding on the rail- road. If people don't ride on the railroad because the tote road is cheeper how in hell they goin to keep the railroad running when everybody who pays for it is kicking because there ain't enough money in the gov'ment's pocket to run things.
 This Valdez man says if the rail- roader knew the toteroader like he does he'd known the toteroader was a square shooter and only wanted to build up the town. Whats per sonal character to do with it? One man wants to get something out of his railroad d to keep from the stockholders telling him to quit and tother wants to make some money by using a part of the railroads business at cut rates.
 Now they are hollering for the soldiers. Before this thing gifts too far they'd better ask China how their town looked after the soldiers got through with it.
 l come to Alaska to get away from railroads, toteroads and men wearin uniforms some with stars. If this is the way things are turn ing out I'm going to Mexico.
 Now, mister editor, want you to fix this up by making the spelling read right. AS I said before, I don't know nothing like the Val dez man but feel better after writing this.
 Don't sine my name just say
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