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Notice of Forfeiture.
To Frank E. Leo: You are
hereby notified that there has
been expended during the year
1911 in labor on these certain
quartz claims, known as the Gla
cier No. 1 and No. 2, and the Kit
ty, lying, being and situated in
the VaJdez mining district, in the
recording precinct of Valdea-, in
the District of Alaska, the sum of
three hundred dollars, lawful
money of the United States, tha
amount required by law to hold
*aid claims for the year, follow
ing the performance of the an
nual labor; thut said expenditure
for labor, as aforesaid, was made
by James C. C.awley, a co-owner
of said claims. And unless with
in ninoty days after the comple
tion of the publication of this no
tice, to-wit: within ninety days
after the second (2nd) of April,
1912, you contribute your por
tion of the expenses of tho afore
sa'd annual labor for said year,
or ypur interest in said quartz
claims will he forfeited and be
come the property of the under
sigred, who is your co-owner.
JAMES C. GAWLEV.
Date first pub. Jan. 2, 1912.
Date last pub. April 2, 1912.
Notloe of Forfeiture.
..To Blarney Stevens: "You arc
hereliy notified that there lias
bee/i expended during the year
J SMI in labor 011 those certain
quartz claims known as the "I.ast
Chance," the "Last Chance No..
1." an<d the "Last Chance No. 2,"
situate, lying and being on Shoup
bay near the entrance thereof, in
the VaJdez recording precinct.
Territory of Alaska, the sum of
three hundred dollars ($H00.00),
lawful money of the United 8tatos,
the amount required by law to
hold said claims for the year fol
lowing the performance of the
annual labor; that said expendi
ture for labor, as aforesaid, was
made by Wm. Koch and Alex.
Nelson, the co-owners of said
claims. And unless within ninety
(00) days after the completion
of the publication of this notice,
lo-wit: within ninety (00) days
after the 10th day of April, 1012,
you contribute your portion of the
oxpcn«o« of the aforesaid annual
labor for said year, your intorest
In said quartz claim* will be for
feited and beoome the property of
the undersigned, who are your oo
ownfcrs.
ALEX. NELBON.
WM. KOCH.
Date first pub. Jan. H, 1912.
Date last pub. April II, 1912.
BEOBGE BALDWIN
ON CONSERVATION
By I ho treaty session »> F 1807
Lhe inhabilanls c»f Alaska were
guaranteed all the rights of
\inerican citizens. Nearly a gen
eration ago the mining laws of
the United States were extended
!o Alaska; over thirteen years ago
laws were passed by congress
providing for an extension of I he
homestead laws to the territory.
Eleven years ago the coal land
laws of lln* United Slates wen*
extended to Alaska. For over
thirty-live years after Alaska
came under I he Stars and Stripes
not a whisper was lieard against
the idea thai Alaskans were to re
ceive I he same ,jnsl and generous
treatment from I lie general gov
ernment as had been accorded
pioneers from the days of Daniel
Itoone. Suddenly I here arose a
school of polilieul econoinjsls
Ihi«I found dial everything'done
in I lie pasl had been wrong ; thai
our statesmen bail been fools or
knaves, or both; that our pioneers
had been vandals and thieves. A
campaign was started that for
venom ami deliberate lying has
never been eipialed in the history
of the country.
Alaska, being without a vote,
was made the target for all these
theorizing cranks. Kvery scheme
tin- mind of a political faddist!
conld conceive was proposed for
Alaska.
The present inhabitants and
their rights were lo be disregard-I
ed, the resources of Alaska man- j
aged as an estate, the government
debt was to In* li«|nidated, super-I
animated employes of the govern-'
ment pensioned, and a mere trillej
of seventy or eighty thousand dol- i
lars paid to every man, woman!
and child in the United Stales, all!
onl of the resources of that on-1
fortunate territory.
A few of these fanatics actn-|
ally believed in the practicability
of such preposterous ideas-_ideas
thai make the dreams of John I,aw
or Uoloncl Mulberry Sellers seem
lame and pallry.
111 my itpliii<>11 it is a con>pli
1111' 111 In rail people Willi SUfll
iili'as driveling idiots. Ilnl per
haps they wi'i'i1 11<>I all so illiiit ir:
<ome or lliein. like Hampton's
.Mnuaxiuc, wvre probably paving
I In* way for nmost roiis swindles,
gelling 1111• ii* dupes inlo Ihe liali
il of thinking in 1»ivr figures. ami
when I In1 crash came their a id inis
<*«1111«I rmisolc themselves thai
their share of Alaska lool would
soon come along ami make Ih*• ir
loss look 1 iko thirty cents.
The real leaders of this move
ment, while perfectly willing and
anxious lhal I lie people should he
duped by crazy communists, were
playing for what was to them a
higher slake. While advocating
the rule of tin* people, initiative,
referendum, recall, etc., their goal
was that all the lai^l and resour
ces of the government should be
placed in the hamls of bureau
crats of their own selection in
Washington, who ira't'hority would
be far above stale and territorial
legislatures, and Tor practical
purposes above the power of con
gress itself- These bureaucrats
were to exercise despotic control,
depriving the people of their land
ed heritage nnd placing on their
necks the iron collar of serfdom.
Human nature does not change
and this system will inevitably
produce, as it has produced in
other countries, a horde of tyran
nical, overbearing, dictatorial,
corrupt bureaucrats, and a race
of cringing, fawning slaves, de
pendent for the very necessities
of life upon the whiin or caprice
of appointive officials wtiose pow
er no court is authorized to curb,
and this hideous system comes to
us labeled reform.
For six years, al. the behest of
these doctrinaires, a porlion of
our laws has been suspended. One
of the resources of our territory,
upon the development of which
depend the progress and prosper
ity of many industries, in abso
lutely locked up.
When it coines to a proposition
to lie up the chorus of these the
orists rings true and clear; hut
when It comes to suggest some
reasonable, sensible plan of un
locking, all the parrots in the
world could not make a more dis
cordant uproar.
Six years may not soom very
long to soma fortunate possessor
r»f Inherited wealth riding a hobby
for his own glorification, but to
those of us less fortunate, who
must mtoke provision for old age,
md for those dependent on us, it
is a much more serious matter.
When the high priest of con
servation, the prince of shadow
[lancers, recently visited Alaska
Lo gloat over his handiwork of
pmpty houses, deserted villages,
iying towns, arrested develop
ment, bankrupt pioneers, and the
blasted hopes of sturdy, self-re
liant American citizens, it is a
striking comment on the law
ubiding character of our people
that he came hack at all.
It is lime lo ask ourselves I lie
question: Has I he policy pur
sued by Ihe government of the
United Slates in Ihe development
i»f our western terrilory been a
mistake? I, for one, emphatical
ly deny that it has. Within two
generations a vast wilderness has
been subdued and populated by
(he freesl and most intelligent
people on the face of. (he earth,
among whom the tilings that
nfake life worlh living are more
widely distributed thanjiniong any
oilier of the sons of men. There
■uny have been some incidental
errors, but in Ihe main the policy
has been sound, statesmanlike,
ami honesl. Resides these errors
the creation of vast forest re
serves was such an act of monu
mental folly that 'tliey pale into
insignificance by comparison.
We have in this world examples ■
of people who carry into practice
the theories of the doctrinaire
conserval ionisl.
In equatorial Africa live one
11111111rei| and sixty million grad
iiiile 1*11 hiopiau conserval ionisls.
Tliejr resources are the same as
when imperial ('.arthagc was
around hulust under the iron heel
of Ihe Roman republic. Their re
sources are as unimpaired as
when C.acsar rode at Ihe head oT
his conquering legions. They
haven't a sclioolhouse. a church,
or a printing press. Their moun
tains have not been denuded by
pulp plants. Their trees have not
been ruthlessly slaughtered to he I
manufacl ured info hahy-'grand
pianos. A tomtom made of the
skin of a monkey stretched over
the ribs of a defunct giralTe fur
nishes all Ihe music necessary to
soothe Ihe savage breast. The
hoa-constrielors still chase the
baboons through Ihe hushes thai
the smoke of smellers has nol
been allowed lo kill.
i iif.se people ijv»» in «»m* errand
forest reserve, I lie guardians •»r
which are mil a horde of lax-eat
ing forest rangers. tint industri
ous • Ini izeus «»I" I lie .jungle, who
an* >«*lI'-1***1 isiIII In piek lip every
i■ ii>1*11 iiia cliili ami Kill a snake
l"« • i • break fasl.
Their nullrilmlinns In eixiliz
alinn ami progress. have been
llnisi' I win blessings, slaM-ry ami
eauriahalism.
hill they an* conserving their
I'l'smircrv. r.aili and every mu»
• if these Senegambian gentlemen
is <*iiI it l«*«I In receive. from Clif
ford's correspondence school I he
degree nf "|)nrtni* nf t'.nnserva
;tiinn."
As Iovits nf arl travel halfway
armiml I In* world In Inok al a
li(*aulifill paiiitink or statue, it
seems as though Mr. Pinchnt
should hie himself In Africa and
fxti7.«* upon that scene of commun
ism, cannibalism and conserva
tion fnr I.he remainder nf his
days.
We as practical men know I hat
I he mere possession nf undevel
oped resources does nol make a
nation rich or ils people prosper
ous, (hat only those nations that
use the resources placed within
I heir reach by a beneficent Provi
dence progress and cnntribule In
I In* well-beiiiK of humanity.
This lock-up, lie-up, hollle-up
communistic policy has gone far
■enough.
This nation lias been made
great and prosperous by the in
itiative and enterprise of the in
dividual.
The tremendous risk to health,
limb, life, and capital incidental
In the development of a country
like Alaska made it the least
promising field for cnmmuuislic
experiments.
We are all Americans; all one
people. The laws under which the
stales have progressed, judging
them by their fruits, are good
laws anil wise laws. We emphat
ically protest against Alaska's be
ing turned into an experimental
station for dreamers, theorists
and faddists that live thousands
of miles away.
Alaska demands the same right
of untrammeled development that
has boen accordod every other
territory of the United Wales pio
neered by Americans.
New Zealand now has over 2,
070 miles of railway. Electri
fication rtf certain acctlons is now
under contemplation.
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Notice of Forfolturo.
To William M. Conley: You
arc hereby noli Hod that there has
been expended during the year
1911 in labor on these certain
quart/ claims, known an tho Alas
ka Hollo, Jackpot and Snowflake,
lyiiiK, being and si.uated in the
Valdoz mining district, in tho re
cording precinct of Valdez, in the
District of Alaska, the sum of
three hundred dollars, lawful
money of the United States, tho
amount required by law In hold
said claims for the year, follow
ing the performance of tho an
nual labor; that said expenditure
for labor, as aforesaid, was made
by J. W. Litlio. And unless with
in ninety do s after the comple
tion of tho publication of this no
Lice, to-wit: within ninety days
after tho 24th day of April,
1912, you contribute your portion
if the expenses of the aforesnid
Annual labor for said year, or
four interest in said quarts
claims will be forfeited and be
come the property of the under
lined, who Is your co-owner.
J. W. LITTLE.
Fiist pub. Jan. 24, 1912.
Last pub. April 25, 1912,