The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1930, Page 4

"4 _bdil y Alaska Em pire JOHN7W TROY - - - FDITOR 'AND 'V’ANAGEE sided as Speaker, for THE DAILY ALASKA EMP]RE THURSDAY, FEB. 13, 1930. and Nineties when so many were ommged because the very able and brilliant Thomas B. Reed's answer |to the criticism of a Congress, over which he pre- appropriating one billion dol- Sunday by 1 excopt Published every evening e e sk Mot EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Btreets, Juneau, Alaska. thelis a billion dollar |lars during its two years, was simply that “this country.” Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class | matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $1.25 per month. postage paid, at the following rates: in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, advance, By mall, One year, %.00; owe month, in Aubs notify the Business Office in the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Bditorial and Business Offices, 374. of any Treadwell and | hrohably someone will boast that he had taken ibers will confer a favor if they will promptly | failure or irregularity | e § died with man has ju who had bragged about |running a foot rs “Billy the Kid"” and eat- ling a meal with Jesse James. Fifty years from now | ce {a drink with Scarfare Al Capone and ridden in same coach with Alexander Pantages. { the | | Greetings to Capt. Swenson and Miss Marion. ! {May their ddys in Alaska be happy and help to| MEMBER Or ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively use for republication ft or not otherw S local news num d \soo h the effect of the long period of anguish | entitled to the |they spen f all nows. dispatobes credited -to | hey spent in Arcic lce. | edited in this paper and also the They have a little more than two months in| XA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ALAS AN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION GOV. BONE WRITES ALASKA EDITORIAL. has commented upon the delivered in the fruitful The Empire that are being field on Alaska by former Commissioner of Educa- | tion Henderson Another former Alaska official who has been making a large section of California and writing authentic articles about it is former Gov. Scott C. Bone. The former Chief Executive of the Territory is Just as enthusiastically for the Northland as he was when Governor. The leading editorial in a recent fjssuc of the Atas written by former Gov. Bone, was devoted to this country. It bore the title: “Unknown Alaska,” vas as follows: | Americans ought to know the last of their frontiers. But few of them do. To the average American Alaska js an unknown, misunderstood domain. It exists in popular misconception a vast upheaval of ice and snow, a frozen land of polar bears and glaciers, unfit for human habitation, whereas it is a habitable Territory whose counter- part on a smaller scale is to be found in many parts of the continental Union Endless repetition, persistant iteration and reiteration, are required to proclaim the truth, and even then Alaska mythically abounds in the public mind. For years a campaign of education has been systemati- cally, if not always intelligently, conducted witout universally producing the desired en- lightening results. Alaska is almost as vaguely comprehended today, as erroneously conceived, as when it was called Icebergia, Polaria and names akin at the time of its purchase from Russia, sixty-three years ago. Yet in that momentus interim this still unknown land, laboring under the heavy handicaps of bureaucratic administration and long-range misrule, has yielded wealth in minerals, furs and fisheries in excess of a billion-and-a- half dollars Mocked at and derided when he con- summated one of the greatest bargains in history, in 1867, William Henry Seward, an American of vision, has been abundantly vindicated, but his countrymen, in pre- ponderant number, are slow, distressingly slow, in finding the facts out. Consider the size of this last of American frontiers — approximately one-fifth the di- mension of the United States and, com- prising 590,000 square miles of territory, virtually four times the size of this com- monwealth of California. Its cost to Uncle Sam, $7,200,000, amount- ed to less than two cents per acre. When in the annals of time has any other real estate transaction, based upon results, prov- ero News, speeches California | Alaska speeches throughout | :|able to extend its work to the Taku River trough {which to wage that primary Lampaign in Alaska. | i1t promises to be hot. The snow and to disappear early this year. ice ought Some Taku Details. (Prince Rupert Empire) Dr. Jos. T. Mandy, in his report to the Gov- jernment on the Taku mining areas, says in part The mouth of the Taku River is about 140 miles northwesterly of the Stikine River mouth. Tt empties into the head of Taku Inlet about 25 miles northeast of Juneau, Alaska, and about 320 miles Inorth of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The British Columbia-Alaskan boundary crosses the nv-; [er about 20 miles from its mouth, throwing the |important extent of the area in Canadian terri-| |tory east of the Alaska Panhandle. The area is |reached by direct and frequent steamship connec- tion from Prince Rupert or Vancouver to Juneau, | !and thence by launch and riverboat up the Taku | River. 1 It must be stressed that the Taku River area is totally unsurveyed geologically and no geological | | maps exist relative to the area. Unfortunately the Geological Survey of Canada has hitherto not been | The nearest work in which geological survey work has been carried out is in the Stikine River area,! lying about 140 miles southerly. In the B. C. Mir ister of Mines' annual report for the year 1923 is| the first recorded opinion relative to the mineral potentialities of the district. Now that the region | | has shown definite promise of important ore-bodies. |it is hoped the Geological Survey of Canada will 'take steps to systematically map the area, and jcorrelate its rock formations which those of the ! | southerly lying Stikine River area. i | The area is as yet unserved by roads or trails,| but it is very easily accessible by water route from seaboard. The nearest settlements are Atlin, about | 143 miles north of the mouth of the Taku River, and Juneau, Alaska, about 30 miles by water route | southwesterly An efficient transportation system has been inaugurated by the Taku River Transpor- tation and Trading Company. This was made necessary by the 1929 discoveries and the devlop- ment operations undertaken by the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company and the United Eastern | Mining Company in the vicinity of the Tulsequah | River, the most important tributary near the con- tact-margin zone. This transportation system em- anates from Juneau by launch to the mouth of the Taku River, and thence by river boat to the mouth | of the Tulsequah 'River. and tidal conditions over the Taku River bar, it is possible to make the journey from Juneau to the mouth of the Tulsequah River in one day. | | The situation of the area on the: westerly fringe ,of the interior plateau or dry belt excludes severe | {or abnormal climatic influences. To the west the | high altitudes and extensive ice-fields of the Coast\ Range assume the role of a watershed and obviate any excessive precipitation in the bordering region | to the eastward. Field observation indicates that rain and snow precipitation is moderate, consider- | ably less than in the coast area to the west and de- creases steadily to the east. The timbered areas |are comparatively free from underbrush. The win- ters are cold and dry, the summers moderately warm | and sunny. About the beginning of November, | slush-ice begins to form in. the Taku River, and | inavigation is impeded by about November 15th. | Towards the beginning of May the lowlands are reported to be free of snow and river navigation becomes possible again. ‘The topography of the country embodies gen- erally those topographic features which are common with other parts of the Pacific slope and the' eastern contact areas of the Coast Range batholith. | The terrain is, however, in general, not so rugged | the |Green, | officials led by from Lansing ) 3 1 products, Jleveland Inventor Plans to Circle Globe { | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red H T PROFESSIONAL ¥4————-_ ] lh-h*ne Wil Albreeht FPHYSIOTHERAPY Rev, Medical Gymnastics. 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 | ] £ Ty e | [ DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER DENTISTS 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. PHONE 56 Hours 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 176 Husted, Cleveland in- A. 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By Appointment PHONE 259 | troit officials came forward ‘today |*: in their version of a party held | here last November for state and; local officials as the result of the) testimony given before the House Judiciary Committee hearing in} Washington by Walter Liggett, a| writer, that liquor was served at| affair and danc performed | Robert. Simpson Opt. D. Graduate Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Orouna for the edification of Gov. Fred W. a former Mayor, and other at which a Judge was! also guest. { The Detroit officials said nothing | stronger than ice cream was served | and the entertainment was furnish- a boys' band of 40 pieces | - DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL | Optometrist-Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | Room 16, Valentine Bldg. | | 10:00 to 6:00. Evenings by Appointment. Phone 484 - bt & ‘Word came from Gov. 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SIDES, Secretary. —_— Co-Ordinate Boy- ies of Freemason ry Scottish Rite | Regular meetings - second Friday each month et 7:30 p. m. Socot- tish Rite Temple WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary. LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSZ Juneau Lodge No. 700. Meets every Monday aight, at 8 o’clock. JAMES CARLSON, Dictator. W. T. VALE, Secy, P. O. Box 82 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Mon- day of each month in g G Scottish Rite Temple, = beginning at 7:30 p. m. EVANS L. GRUBER, Master; CHARLES E. NAGHEL, Secretary. ORDER OF EASTERN STAR Second and Fourth Tuesda’ys of each month, at 8 o'clock, Scottish Rite Temple. LILY BURFORD, Worthy Matron; FANNY L. ROBINSON, Secretary. ENIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Council Chambers, Fifth Street JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. DOUGLAS AxRIE 117 F. O. E. Meets first and third &Monduys, 8 o'clock at Eagles Hall, Douglas. ARNE SHUDSHIFT, W. P. GUY SMITH, Secretarr. Vis- iting brothers welcome. WOMEN OF MOOSEHEART i LEGION, NO. 439 ‘Meets first and third Thurs- | days each month, 8 p. m, at | | Moose Hall. JOHANNA JEN- | JSEN Senior Regent; AGIIES | | GRIGG. Recorder. ! | : Y THE CASH BAZAAR Open Evenings Opposite U. S. Cable Office Pictures Pull § ”“""”’m dulu- n_fl-u!un.dlun s ’l'ohlpgnguth Flamy of cuts on hend K rom which you ma pick the cnes you {and rough as that of the Kitsault, Bear, and Sal- |among those to v:uy)yfrlhule to the | mon River Valleys, in the Alice Arm and Portland | €xposition, which will be along the Canal sections to the southward ilines of famous FEuropean trade The Taku River area east of the International |and sample fairs Boundary is well supplied with game. Moose fre- L T {quent the neighborhood of the Tulsequah River | Two M“"\‘"‘“’ "'f“““”‘“ |and the slough and bench areas northward along |01 votes for membership the Taku River towards Atlin. Geese frequent the |county board. They tossed slough areas and are reported to mest in these!®nd the Republican won. localities. The large slough area west of the con- L fluence of the Tulsequah River with the Taku River is an outstanding beaver region, featured by innumerable dams and colony houses. Black and brown bear are often seen along the river banks. + In the higher altitudes mountain goat abound. 4 ed so remunerative and enduringly profit- able? And this, too, in spite of inherited, not inherent, handicaps, unwisely perpet- uated, while Uncle Sam has been bestowing an unwise paternalism upon a rugged peo- ple engaged in hewing out their difficult destiny. Congress, ever tending, has been erous, in appropri building of operation a profitably ... Thefirststeptoward success in advertising is the choice of the proper medium. If ou decide upon special {'old:sotufiu&w. Mabry’s Cafe Regular Dinners - Short Orders i GET " GLuncl;esz i | For Yofi ggg(%vl‘gi lj P%;U{Anfli S | J. B. Burford & Co. II | | If you want superior | work call CAPITAL LAUNDRY Phone 355 polled on & a coin ! willing, but uncompre- generous, often over-gen- i (now incurring milion-dollar deficit annually) through a wilderness into the Interior to- ward the Arctics, and otherwise aiding to open Alaska to settlement and population; but to the hardy Alaskans themselves, pos- sessing the dauntless pioneer spirit—the Am- erican spirit—of their fore-fathers is due, in infintely greater measure, the progress | “Our door step is worn by HARRY MABRY | satisfled customers” Proprietor : luct duz will attract mum and be read your prospects. + JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY i FOR GOOD a Interest in North. H. R. SHEPARD of the Territory to date and the enormous wealth-producing dividends paid upon the far-sighted investment at the hands of Sec- retary Seward sixty-three years ago Unaided, the Territory itself is now en- deavoring to stimulate settlement and popu- lation through a colonization system, which should have Government suppor A modifi- cation of the selective immigration act, permitting Scandinavians to enter Alaska, would be a boon to. that last of our fron- tiers. They are adapted to such life and conditions, and might with wisdom and profit be granted homesteads on most lib- eral terms But objection is immediately raised that, if the Alaskan door were thus opened, some of these Scandinavians might cross the border and settle in the United States and exceed the established quota al- lotted to Norway and Sweden. Quite, pos- sible. It is easily conceivable. But would not the continental union be .the. gainer through such an overflow and desirable infiux? (Prince Rupert Empire.) In comparison with other parts of the Prov- ince, indications are that the affairs of Northern British Columbia will take a prominent part in the deliberations of the Legislature, now in session. The general drift of enterprise and industry is toward the North. Highway construction, the Peace River | outlet, the P. G, E., the expansion of power devel- opment and other matters having a bearing on the North, will have the attention of the Legislators. Honoring Pioneers in Exploration. (Christian Science Monitor.) The action of Congress and President Hoover in | raising Commander Richard E. Byrd to the rank | of Rear Admiral is more than a Nation's recogni- | tion of an individual accomplishment. It is symbolic of the esteem in which the United States holds the imoneers in exploration, a tribute to those whose research today lights the torch for the progress of tomorrow. California football post-season games.. They let the sun do the work. teamhs have a cinch in the | child. Now, time to think of their PREPARE FOR IT. them. Just be proud. SAVE /orTHEM AN EDUCATION is the birthright of every when they are young, is the future. Begin to save—for a few dollars each week will mean a lot in ten years, college education for them. It will pay for a And then you'll | Our trucks go any place any time. and a tank for crude oil save LT T T T OO & SON, Inc. | GENERAL INSURANCE | “Absolute Security” | Valentine Building | Cleaning and Pressmg | CALL 371 | Work called for and delivered | The Capital Cleaners | e A tank for Diesel Oil burner trouble. PHONE 149, NIGHT 5108 RELIABLE TRANSFER | {0 P i 0 N . | Try Our $1.00 Dinner | and 50c Merchants' Lunch 11 A Mto2P M ' ARCADE CAFE Morris Construction Company GENERAL CARPENTER WORK Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 HOTEL ZYNDA ELEVATOR SERVICE VICTOR Radios and Combination Radio-Phonographs RECORDS SHEET MUSIC JUNEAU MELODY 8. Z —(Dayton, Ohio, Journal.) 'YNDA, Prop. GROWING COST OF GOVERNMENT. DON'T NEGLECT THEIR FUTURE. It depemh on what you do at present—SAVE NOW! The B. M. Behrends Bank Phone 62 ADVERTISE your merchandise It does not seem long to some of us since a ter- rific roar went up from the masses when the cost of the United States reached $1,000,000,000 for a biennium—$500,000000 a year. New York State's Legislature will this year appropriate $311,198,750 for that State alone. Add to the cost of New York ‘State that of New York City and the Federal cost of forty years ago would seem like a comparatively modest sum. People,go faster and need more money now than in the me provincial Eighties As far as the wet and dry question is concerned, 1930 looks like the year of (the big wind.—(Indian- apolis News.) BURFORD’S CORNER TAXI SERVICE PHONE 314 Pign’ Whistle Candy The Idaho Borah seeani about as pestiferous to the Administration as the well-known corn borer —(Atlanta Constitution.) 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