The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 9, 1914, Page 16

THE STAR—SATU Canada Would Welcome Uncle dsSeee sdSCCeEe sSSeee Sam’s New York-Alaska Line’ By HARRY ASHTON ' ! THE HEART OF PROBL THE SOURDOUGH a me igLLIAM E.S? J By Robert W. Service There where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon, ' RIA, B.C. May %—Sir There where the sullen sun-dogs glare in the snow Let us get down to business about existence and value of Alaska coa vicTo . y e 9 : Richard McBride, prime minister of bright, bitter noon, Alaska: They furnished an “awful example a ' rongly ir or And the glacier-glutted streams sweep down at t It Ie a great country-—one of the| of the abuses of which our land laws 4 this province, is strongly in fave 4 bs £ u p down at the Widstas Or dbrinolend te botenge to lase copebie. The aera: ptt of the United States government clarion call ot June p Mirai Sisaen af i aie we , owned railroads in Alaska finding ** * * & few mines of immense value|and t en 4| What is the problem? Just th ¥ AN all-land route to the United There where the livid tundras keep their tryst with t BY6 been quired by 5 wertul eg MarDIY of t me To utilize this great national States. the tranquil snows; oe ae tet dh ry } ee sven 8 Way that its at - we ut of an enorme ¢ Wh jal interests in power over our na wealth shall minister to the t present railroads cross the There where the silences are spawned, and the light four hb ot the f hasn't | ural resource comfort dh ‘ ; Bouthern Canadian border from amfort and happiness of the ; either side and one would never of hell-fire glows even been explored! The rest of it Grabbers Helped many who own It instead of q know he was in another country Into the bow! of the midnight sky, violet, amber and MaRS Dee scratcted for minera If notorious grabbers and exploit-| merely enriching the few who le here oe ene 7 pear hax any one touched its incaleu- | ers had not become very busy in the would otherwise possess them q nd here come A ovinee ¢ le water power nor invaded ite|far North, the American people cives of It ‘Canad: hich ts on Alaska as peor selves re on the vx nme et BE ott dog primeval forests, Ite agricultura its cordially ond ay arse There where the rapids churn and roar, and the ice- pomnl bilitte nleeping, almost a “Let's have running across the floes, bellowing, run; “ oe ly a8 those of the Mississippt valley When the region waa in un Alaska border, too Where the, tortured, twisted rivers of blood rush to - ye , D 2 : disputed possession of the Indian And at it ee re n ro A KOV the setting sun— and the buffalo. Only its seal rook 9 ern pwned railroad, what of it 5 ‘ f ¥ Peontn 8 oat pone tebe abel I've packed my kit and I'm going, boys, ere another erles and fisheries have Failroads itself and has built more day is done. ei ih aaies tideg % Miles of gover: rail . ‘ x iT vot y e Foads than the | States has A nile : Public Property Fet dreamed of building I knew it would call, or soon or late. as it calls the Not an acre of coal haw yet slip Ralls to New York whirring wings; mpg ir a gp a eb i * Owing to the recent railroad ac It's the olden lure, it’s the golden lure, it’s the lure of Giavia. & Plachot sad aisaderh % aged oe Srryenietge nce he foe the timeless things, ing” press, and the luck of having a , “ag eerie” thi -Atman an | And tonight, oh, God of the trails untrod, how it Fisher to replace a Ballinger is dary and transcontinental stee whines in my heart-strings! x Rie (A gr aw al) are ry j Now if the Alaskan railroads to be ee * & ads cade tite to gasa wabli 3 aaener vecle Gam were to be ox I'm sick to death of your well-groomed gods, your property. One man who has figured a fended to the boundary, and the ; : ee irerscetar ihe make-believe and your show; out the number of patents actuall ¢ial government or private interests I long for a whiff of bacon and beans, a snug shake- Lege tite a ae oe oe jotned the boundary with one of the down in the snow; 2 that the nation bas parted with only Moat. convenient Canadian trans A trail to break, and a life at stake, and another bout one-balf of 1 per cent of this gre 4 @ontinental roads (all of which are ry : che Seoeted up with the principal with the foe region, so that it «till retains 99% Points in the Unit.d States) why ire ce ar eee per cent. And Alaska ix twice the Suith: iin é m size of Texas, more than bh thelof the bureau of fisheries tn With the raw-ribbed Wild that abhors all life, the nize of the whole United States Be-| Alaska. This bureau also bas Wild that would crush and rend, tween the Mixsiasipp! and the Pa-| supervision of the enforcement of Alaska would have an all-rai! outlet to New York, New Orleans, Chi @r any old place on the American continent I have clinched and closed with the naked North, I ce Alsskate Hinery pe law relating to fur bearing ant Geach cbout this Idea of is to me have teveune. te Gety and defeats It was in 1726 that Peter the | —— and what he sald was necessarily Shoulder to shoulder we have fought it out—yet the Great raised himself from bis death unofficial Wild must win in the end. bed to write a command to Vitan||! tepmen Linset Wm. C. Nelson “The 100th anniversary of | S86 'S -6 Hering, the Dane, to explore the land! as between — th: United at fi : which lay across the Pacific from A typical Alaska scene. Inset i. f-9n e I have flouted the Wid. I have followed its lure, Siberia, It was in 1741 that Bering! a portrait of ch Pete” (Pierre fearless, familiar, alon finally accomplistied the mission d), discove: of the great By all that the battle means and makes I claim that The Russians owned Alaska for 126 i mine. He sold it for $400 mting of the land for mine own; years, then sold {t to us for e A ae Sidew SRR seven aa Sir Richard M. ide, " a yi ‘ 000, In the interval they had done ren in poverty. he mine pours ue, cen aoe Yet the Wild must win, and a day will come when Hiiths with % cuient to fab ane kunt.| millions into the pockets of Lord Migeeple. This province poo ei | Below a diagram of an optional I shall be overthrown. to establish a missions and | M Rothschild and Ogden Mills. larly enjoys an intimate posi- | route connecting Alaskan with ** * # * butld the towns of Sitka and Wran- onogram ie CURRENT ot tion with your country—Alaska | Canadian railroads. Then when as wolf-dogs fight we've fought, the lean before we discovered that it had| RICH CENTRAL PLATEAU | © States aw“ = ‘ aan ! wolf-land and I; much value. The revelation came | a e Bel he ae eg dite Bsr yes : velopment of Alaska.” with the Klondike rush, in 1897 he ska is in Canada’s Neighbor Of cates Oranler Molthe Gree Fought and bled till the snows are red under the esbyitite’ date trois tans te? Central Plateau, of which’ the reeling sky; 2 to say, everything which now inter Tanana Valley offers the larg- Even as lean wolf-dog goes down will I go down este the public. A few of the big LINSET & NELSON est opportunities for farming. and die. gold mines go back of that, and two The € egaronne ge te (Co c y % or three of the towns square miles of tillable land, the Copyright by Edward Stern & Co, Inc.) aS Geaorniine Copper river drainage $000 “Alaska is as much our neighbor | not intend to preseribe a policy for ‘@ny part of the United States.) the American government to pur fe also a great and rich terri sue in Alaska, but he does potnt whose good features we know OUt some appealing possibilities of appreciate. And when your | Co-operation. ry recognizes its importance We owe the present prominence pyr pd veriatlang ho be, the construction of railroads, | of Alaska to the operations of the 102 Occident 000 square miles on the sout! might be very much worth while USE LOTS OF LARD } Guggenheims, and to the well. Occidental Av. coast, including the southeast- emplating ¢xtenston of them pci - STATES LAND OFFICES IN ALASKA grounded fear that unless something in Basement Pacific Block. ern and southwestern projec- & point where they could meet) Lard compounds. pounds, Alaska is one custom district, Division No. 1—©. B. Walker, register, Juneau; Frank A. Boyle, || ¥# done this treasure-house of the || Cor. Vester Way and Occidental. tone. ian rails. It is not so very | $26,898; lard, & with the first port of entry at!l ceiver, Juneat: 3 x ! ‘Tirepublic would become the con- hed now from Canadian steel to| $80,407; mutton, 684,880 Ketchikan and the second one at ta and there are very feasible | $81.50: bacon, 1,021,509 . Juneau. Fairbanks was made a/ to close that gap. We/ $241,407; bam, 1,112,041 pounds,) port of entry In 1913. There are ing of his government) can't | $231,636. Sounds big and expen. subports at Sulzer, Wrangel, Skag-| this ourselves—we have our| sive, doesn't itg This is just a way, Nome, St. Michael, Cordova, | full at this time. But it! wee bit of what Seattle sold Alaska | Unalaska, Eagle, Forty Mile and the logical thing for the de- last year. Fairbanks. Division No. 2—John Sundback (clerk of couft) exofficto re Penge, province of the money pow-| Oot eee BU IPES. Rte | Onions! Let's see, what can we ceiver, Nome; E, E. Jordon, ex-officio register, Nome, > | Say about the dear old stomach Division No. 3—Included in Division No. 1. | Ina way, the Guggenhetms did the | gladdening, tear starting vegetable? Division No. 4—-Angus McBride (clerk of court) ex-officio regis country ® gqod service when they) | The best thing we can say about L. T. Erwin, ex-officio register, Fairbanks gatered ‘into their contract with| SEATTLE, WASH it 1# that 11,023 bushels went to |Clarence Cunningham. 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