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MORK BVSINKSS I.KSS POLITICS
It is predicted by many persons who are interested in and well Inform-1
ed about conditions in Alaska, the year nineteen twenty-two will witness
a Mr nicrease in all lines of business and in new development of the nat
ural resources' in all the territory. It is not to be a "boom" as in old
stamps* days of nineteen hundred, hut a general revival—a sign that the
indomitable Alaskan spirit, heavy laden these past few years with govern
mental neglect, fed up full with months of gloom, is once more beginning
to live, to awaken in such a manner that indicates new progress, bettor i
conditions for business and for the people who are pioneering Alaska. I
That Alaskan spirit, when fully aroused, being progressive, is uncon- j
uuerable. However, it is badly handicapped —it is lacking in organization, ,
business organization. This progressive business spirit means when or- '
ganlzed. an Increase in business—new development, better governmental j
conditions. Yet all depends entirely upon the sincere activity of the many
business organizations throughout the territory.
In every town and every camp in Alaska, there is a local commercial or- I
ganizatlon that attempts to supply facts and figures for its own betterment,
and in most instances It begins and ends without accomplishing its objec
tive Sometimes—it has happened as you well know, that when one busi
i.ess organization advanced a project for its own good— its nearest neigh
bor organization would immediately commence a "tight", and such dis
putes do not. as a rule, advance the business interests of either section I
In every state of the I'nion. In all the territories, other than Alaska, !
there Is a state or territorial Chamber of Commerce, its membership beii g
composed of the different commercial and business organizations within
the state or territory. ,
It Is a known fact that such central organizations have done much good,
otherwise they would not exist—they wilt always live, the progressive spir
it of the American business man knows full *iell that they are created for j
his beneflt and for the greater benefit of the entire country at large.
Therefore, the various Alaskan business organizations should unite un
der one central of mother organ.zation. In regular convention create a
business program of development for the purpose of advancing the Indus- 1
trial and commercial interests of the territory
Each community. every camp. iu«n wu a:i Jtvuu.™ ut
something to sell, some resource to develop. Active. Intelligent assistance
and cooperation are required to properly place such propositions before
those Interested. A territorial Chamber of Commerce will do those things
in such a manner— a central organization will supply facts and figures to
iiew prospective business contemplating locating within the territory.
A central business organization couid "pool" all the various require
ments and when placing these orders—lower transportation rates—it
would obtain better passenger service- for always, it would dominate fair
ly, the entire situation Today. Alaskans are paying freight on empty car
go space and the great overhead costs of three water transportation com
panies and several independent earners. Why such exists, is thaf Alaskans
do not get together in a central business organization for their protection.
The one reason why you do not get together Is because, in my opinion,
there has always been TOO Mt'CH POLITICS—there has always been the
ever present territorial wide cry of tae vendors of politics that "Elect ME
to office and I will reduce transportation ra'es lessen taxation—and bring
Into the territory new industries .uul needed capital for the development of
the vast natural resources"—GKT THIS—it is to your knowledge and
mine, that politicians, whomsoever they might have been and whomsoever
they might be—never have and never will reduce the high transportation
costs and high tax rates—the whole political system Is absolutely to the
contrary. Such is your job. Mr. Business Mun—only the various busfness
organizations, properly centralized, can accomplish this. The business men
should unite on a program of business development If low rates are to be
obtained.
Business methods should he applied in every department of govern
ment. both federal and territorial—under the proper kind of business lead
ership, antf such leadership the territorial Camber of Commerce will afford,
better conditions will be obtained—a better kind of government will come
to exist—business men who know will assist in guiding the affairs of the
territory In a business like manner.
The reason for this letter is, being an Alaskan, and wholly Interested
In its development, to suggest that you and other bus iiess men in your sec
tion of Alaska—thru your Chamber of Commerce, get together with the
other business organizations In Alaska and organize a territorial Chamber
of Commerce. Further suggest that your chamber request the Juneau, or
Ketchikan, or Cordova, or Seward Chamber of Commerce to issue a gener
al invitation to all commercial organizations within the territory, to ap
point representatives to meet in convention at as early a date as Is possi
ble previous to the next session of tho territorial legislature. Juneau is
the logical place for the central headquarters, as it is the capltol, the cen
ter o' federal and territorial commissions and bureaus.
Forget the politician -HEED your own business instinct—get togeth
er for your owu benefit—get together So that Alaska can be developed now
in jour time.
• • • • •
The above was written in a letter addressed to a business man of Skag
way and printed here to show the trend of thought which is now pervading
the minds of many Alaskans.
The writer U known to the Alaskan and we concur in many of the Ideas
advauced.
Of course the adoptoln of the plans put forward would not be a panac
ea of all the tils which Alaska is heir to, but the idea of concerted action Is
one that always holds Rood and we hope that more Alaskans will consider
this phase of the question and try and Ret together in a business way for
the.i own interests us well as for the Rood of the whole territory.
Well Known Man Says Trip
To Atlin Is Worth While
NOT IX THK WORLD CAN IT BE
RIYALMSD FOR TIIK MAJES
TIC GRAXDKl'R OF ITS MOUN
TAINS OK THE SYLVAN CHARM
OF ITS VALLEYS.
C. R. Orchard, the local agent of
the C. P. R. company, on his return
from Vancouver s'uted that the
company had reason to believe there
would be an unusually large excur
sion traffic to Atlin this year and
there is no reason to question this.
Atlin forms the logical finale to
northern summer outing because,
while memories of .'he famous Klon
dike still linger theXorth is the
Lund of Gold, and Atlin is so far
north that it is only thirty, miles
from the Yukon boundary.
And in Atlin the> tan see the gold
ill its natural sta'.s and watch it
grow. See the mijer sprinkling It
with a giant hose: lee him wash the
soil from its roots .3 the sluice box
es; see him dribhlr the golden dust
into a buckskin pol.e and express it
to the mint at Vartouver to be re
turtird In the shape of five dollar
gold pieces with which to pay for
the grub.
Atlin is proDaoiv me oniy piace on
the confluent where tourists can see
all the nudes of recovering gold
from the nlluvlal gravels going on
at the same time In the one Held.
Here they raji see the powerful
(•iant removing a mountain with a
stream of water; here they can see
sluice boxes operated by the deviat
ed running stream; here they can
see the Individual miner with his
rocker taking his day's pay in gold
as soon as he has tiarnftd It without
asking any boss for a c e^ue or ever
having to punch a time clock. All
this is very wonderful to the tour
ists. and those of them to whom one
of the principal motive* of the trip
is to seo placer mining In operation,
provide themselves with pretty bas
kets and dream of sauntering along
the banks of the purling streams and
picking up nuggetj until the bas
kets are tilled to the brim. After a
little experience they determine to
bring cans the next time, as some
of the nuggets are mighty small.
Notwithstanding this, that It takes
many mickles to make a muckle Is
as true In Atlin as elsewhere, but
enough of gold mickles were gather
ed by the Atlin miners last year to
amount to $130.000—more than
enough to tear the bottom «out of
tie fancy basket of any lady tour
ist.
Hut the trip to \tlin from Van
couver. as a trip, is one of tl.e finest
in the world and scarcely compar
able to any other, no matter In any
part of the world whatsoever That
is. for magnificently iodescribable
scenery.
You start on s even keel upon the
lakelike calmness lI an Inland sea.
Soon after the ship begins to roll
and toss and you are glad to take
hold of something. This only en
dures for a brief space while you
are crossing a place where the walls
of the Inland passage are broken
away and father Neptune takes up
bis boisterous sway: where the
breezes become blasts and the wave
lets angry billows. Rut In a short
time you are on an even keel again
and all that Is forgotten in the soft
and sylvan beauties of your sur
rou tidings.
Then comes a roaring river threat
ening to smash your bows, and your
eyes naturally rise from this to
climb the wooded banks of the tor
rent. ons stream; and from there
upward to mountains upon moun
tains, w en your it jughts still trav
el upward toward the Great Archi
tect of the Universe.
The last phase of the panorama
of this great Inland sea, emending
practical! north for over a thousand
miles, is what is known as Lynn
Canal, an estuary of the sea of
some hundreds of miles between
precipitous walls of dark but glis
tening rock. Smooth as a lake it
Is in summer tima, and the only
reason why It is leared by marin
ers at the time of winter storms is
that it Is too narrow In which to
manoeuvre one's vessel to cope with
the furious blasts.
At the head of this canal is Skag
way, which is the c.ily Alaska town
you see in your Journey to Atlln.
This was a town of from twenty to
thirty thousand Inhabitants at the
height of the Klondike boom, ana Is
knows in history as the place w>ier«
Soapy Smith, a confidence man no
torious In all the western states,
was shot and killed. It wa° a boom
ing town then, wht>re ship ami rail
met, and bound to be a great sea
port before morning.
Here you take the cars of the
White Pass & Yukon Ralrway, ad
vertised as one of the greatest scen
ic railways of the world, and when
you get back you may have the ex
perience of declaring that in this
case the adveri\sements are both
true and modest. It is a somewhat
marvellous railway, taking the place
of the dreaded White Pass trail, on
which, in the summer following the
great Klondike stampede, there lay
110 less than two thousand dead
horses.
But you see none of these (trim re
minders of the brief per.od when
nn avaricious spas.n of gold-hunt
ing seemed to obsess the whole
world Instead of that you are en
joying spasms of admiration over
the engineering sklM which conquer
ed the beetling summit of White
Pass. and in so sh^rt a time.
At Summit station you are again
in the same country, and in the
same province of British Columbia,
you first started f.'om. and so all
the way to Atlin. But you have
also one of the movt cracked-up ad
vantages of foreign travel also. In
the picturesque drf.ss and seductive
manners of the iLlians. their col
ored totems, their customs, and
even their language—all guaranteed
to be absolutely foreign and at the
same time nat.ve born, and not im
ported to meet the exigencies of
tourist travel.
After achieving the summit of
White Pass by the winding railway,
you pass through a barren country
in which no gold has been found be
cause people on foot have always
been in loo great « hurry, and far
below shines the ilacid surface of
l^ake Bennet. Along tills beautiful
piece of water tli« railway winds
(but on the level) until you reach
Carcross, where the cry is "All out
for Atlin." Here yjn take a steam
er again, and nasa through a suc
cession of lakes, ite first of which
was Christened th* Golden Gate
long before gold was discovered in
the country. ]t is a beautiful ride
through these always summer seas,
with always a vie*- of mountains
towering one abovj the other and
some of them still snowcapped.
Shut In so close by the mountain*
thene waters are unbroken by rip
ples and present a mirror-like sur
face, In their depths reflecting the
high, precipttative walls which so
glow w:th vivid coloring that the
scene reminds one of Bierstsdl'e
wonderful paintings of the Yellow
stone country.
At the head of Taku Arm yon
again take the railway. .1 three
mile portage to Lakt Atlin where
the pretty ferrvbokt you see in the
ricture ti-.s you across to Atlin
Oil >.
The d.seovc< ..f tho ,«t in d'e
:5in,-s was • i by iv - Jum-.ni
prospectors, who made good at Tor
tymile and Circle City diggings be
fore those of the Klondike were
struck It was the year after the
Klondike they went Into Atlin. and
made their discovety on Pine Creek
At I n Cltv was laid out in town lots,
and an attempt made to boom it: but
the discovery on Pine Creek wan
| gi\ miles inland, and there grow
I up the city which sow has a place
on the map as Discovery.
Pine Creek cuts deep and leaves
high banks at Plucovery. Among
1 the stampeders the first year were
two young sons of a California min
ing operator, accompanied by an old
time prospector from that slate The
latter p.tched his tent on this high
bank above the pioneer workings,
j A few mornings later, when he
smelt the coffee, he rose, lifted the
flap of the tent, yarned, and near
by saw one boy holding the gold pan
and the other sbovelllnto it.
■ "What you think you're doing?"
he asked.
I "Thought 'smighi 'swell practice
with the pan," replied the elder
I "Hum! Might 'sivell swarm a tree
to find gold." tht old prospector
growled.
Yet out of that very same bench
ground Mr. Macaulfe.v, now of Prince
Rupert, took a pretty fat poke that
summer. •
At that time all the • land from
Discovery up to the head of Surprise
Lake was like a p.mirle. and abso
lutely brilliant In coloring from the
mass of flowering vegetation At
lln Is great In flowers, one variety
succeeding the other all summer
through. And alsj in wild fruits
and berries of every kind, the Mack
and red currants especially being as
large and of much better flavor than
garden grown. Th * beautiful prair
ie laud 19 now all ditches and dumps,
every foot of It beiag sifted for the
precious dust it bears.
The first big nugget brought in
was by a man namej Wright, and be
gave his name to the creek where
he found it. Whight Creek Is still
being profitably worked today, as
are also Birch. Bculder and Otter
Creeks. Little ^tuby Creek—a
stream but a few .nches deep, and
named so for the pebbles over i
which It ripples, las been a good!
producer for the la»t ten years, and
to cap its record last season pro
duced a nugget weighting forty!
ounces. All the weeks from the
head of Spruce Creek to Surprise
l^ake are being p: ofitably worked,
or were last season, but it remains
a democratic mini! g camp, and the
total output is not swollen by the!
winnings of two or three great oper
ators.
Tourists will admire the softne«
of Atlln's summer climate and its
immense variety of flowers They
will also meet Joe Tollmire. one of
Atlin's leading pioneers, and may
see his trained moLse calf put thru
tts circus tricks. Bnt they must be
ware of the ingenuous persuasive
ness of Joe. for it .s currently con
ceded that he couli talk the crook
out of the hind leg of a spavined
horse.
The above art'c'e is taken from
the monthly period cal "Resources
which is edited atid published In
Prince Rupert by Weston J. Cov
nev.
Mr Ooyney was a pioneer news
paper rr>*n in Skagway a^d Dawson
In Skagway Mr. Coytie * w:t< pd
of the Alaskan for quite some ti'i
and afterwards was for a nnmler
of years with the Dawson News
While in Skagway Mr On' ne\
took an active part In the affairs of
the then booming town Espeo slh
was he active in the interests of t!;c
Chamber of Commerce.
This story, while not qnite accur
ate geographically, ks to some point?
is true on the whole and is a de
lightful description of a trip to At
lln.
l^ers 1* nor* Cat* in this serttor
of the co an try than ( h>r d.seassf
wit torether and for years I; was suf*
posed to be Incurable Doctor* proscribed
local remedies *nd by constantly failing
to cure with local treatment pror 'jgced
it Incurable. Catarrft Is a local dis-* •»
greatly Influenced by constitutional -en
dltlons and therefor# isq'Jires "onstiro
tlonal treatment. Hail's Catarrh M«<S
cin». manufactured by F J Chene* *
Co» Toledo. Ohio. Is a constitutional
remedy. Is taken Internally and act*
thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfa es
cf the System. One Hundred Dollars
ward is oflcred for niy ca«e that Hull's
Catarrh Medicine falis tc - ura. Send Cot
circulars and teetlnvm.-Js
F J. CHKNKT ft CO.. Toledo, Ohio,
Sold by rtn.ggists. .»c
Ball * Family Pills for constipation
Big Ganie Guide
Sportjiinrn wh«« arr Interest
ed In hummc M* eame In tl»e
Lower Yukon are In
Tiled to mil on m ! have
lived for ninny ymo In the At
lin ronntrj, ami ran cnnrnni^
linming parfir* fln* •o^lirirn!*.
1 have a eoo<I p«»*<♦*» tmaf
for linmtnc an«l fl«sMns. •
For information call or ad
dre^a
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