Delegate Sutherland
Renders Accounting
to Electors of Alaska
Washington. March 2, [022.
To the Electors of Alaska:
fly reason of the impossibility of my
visiting remote sections of the Terri
tory prior to the primary election, f
herewith present briefly to the electors
of Alaska a report of my work during
the year I have served the Territory in
Congress.
Upon this record I ask to be renomi
nated as the Republican candidate for
Delegate to Congress at the election in
November of the present year.
1 have introduced and Congress has
passed the following bills:
a. K. 3842. A bill to provide for ag
ricultural entries on coal lands in
Alaska.
Hi R. 6262. A bill to add certain
lands to Mount McKinley national
park, Alaska.
H. R. £>252. A bill to provide for the
retention by the Government of the
property in Seward, Alaska, known as
the Alaska Northern railway office
buildiug. and its use for court purposes.
H. R. 3116. An act. validating home
stead entry of Mike Campbell for cer
tain public land in Alaska
I have also introduced and obtained
passage through the House of the fol
lowing bills:
H. R. 8400. A bill to authorise the
occupation and use of certain lands in
Alaska by Ketchikan Post No. 3,
American Ijegion, and for other pur
poses.
H: J. SL 24S. Joint resolution au
tnorizing the Secretary of the rntenor
to donate and grant certain buildings
in Alaska to the Woman’s Home Mis
sionary Society of the Methodist, [.ipis
copal Church.
To the passage of the following bills
' have given my best effort
The bill authorizing the appropria
tion for the Alaska railroad, intro
duced by M r. Curry.
The Federal highway act, whereby
Alaska will receive almost one million
dollars for roads in and adjacent to na
tional forests, within the next two
years.
Tariff.
The House bill passed to the Senate
with a provision for a duty of 14 cents
per pound on pickled herring. B’or
this tariff i worked consistently before
the ways and means committee of the
House, and appeared before the Senate
committee on finance in advocacy of its
retention in the bill. This I consider
2. very important legislative measure
for Alaska.
I bave taken up with the transconti
nental railroad lines the matter of a
reduction in rates on refrigerated
pickled fish, and although a small re
duction has been made, I am hopeful of
a greater reduction.
If Alaska pickled herring can be
placed in the Eastern market at a price
equal to or a little loss than the Eu
ropean product it will mean the expan
sion of an industry that should be one
of the greatest and most permanent in
ahe Territory, and one which should
draw permanent population to our
coast.
ijuiy uu naiumi
T appeared before the Senate com
mittee on finance and asked that a duty
of 2c per pound be placed on ioreign
halibut and also filed a brief on this
subject.
The major part of the halibut caught
in the Pacific by Canadian vesseb
comes to the American market duty
free. Canada fixes a duty of 1 cent per
pound and 7 per cent ad valorem on
halibut.
I have also asked for a duty on crab
meat and on the following mineral and
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metal produc's: Quicksilver, chrome
iron, and platinum metals.
Improved Mail Service.
The Administration has taken a
splendid interest in the improvement
of this service and has granted every
reasonable request that has been made
for beneficial changes, and I have been
able, by cooperation with Secretary
Fall, Governor i$one and the Depart
mental Board to secure a greatly im
proved service to all points on the
Alaskan coast, from Ketchikan to Dutch
Harbor, and a greatly enlarged service
for tunny of the trail routes of the In
terior. Many of the mail contracts
have not been awarded at this date,
but I can assure tiie people of the In
terior that the delay is by reasoti of
close study by the I’ostofliee Depart
ment of conditions in remote sections
of Alaska with a view to improving the
service.
Fisheries.
At the opening of the lirst session of
this Congress T introduced a bill for 1
the regulation of the Alaska salmon
fisheries.
In October last many representatives
of the cannery interests appeared be
fore the Secretary of Commerce and
the committee on merchant marine and
fisheries and urged the enactment of a
iaw which was essentially a grant to
the water areas now occupied for trap
fishing. This measure 1 am opposing
l to the best of my ability and hope to
obtain from Congress a provision re
stricting and limiting the operation of
fish traps. If it were not for this pend
ing fishery legislation I would be in
the Territory today. As long as the
cannery lobbv is here in Washington
and actively at work, I feel that I must
remain.
iransportauon..
The vital requirement for increase of
industry in Alaska is reduced freight
rates. The Seattle-Alaska transporta
tion companies are holding up the
Alaskan shipper for the old war time
freight tariff. The wages of seamen
have been reduced about 50 per cent,
the cost of repair material and supplies
has been reduced over 15 per cent, and
the two companies are receiving a gra
tuity of over $100,000 per year from the
PostoHice Department, and still they
refuse to lower the rates.
Freight rates on all the water routes
of the United States, except to Alaska,
have been reduced from 25 to 50- per
cent. In fact, Alaska is the only spot
on the globe to which ocean freight
rates have not been materially reduced
since the close of the war,
I have appealed to the United States
Shipping Board for an investigation of
Alaska freight rates.
Dan Sutherland*
Delegate from Alaska.
Ed Gibbs was a Friday arrival, and
left this morning for Yankee’creek.
5£arry H. Knox was a Thursday ar
rival from Anchorage.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To John Neimi, E. Oksanen, John
Heino, Matt Besola, Matt Kivinen,
John Turtenain, Henry Kleimola,
August Belkola, vour heirs, ex
eeutors, administrators, and as
signs'
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that we, the undersigned, have
done and caused to be performed labor
to the value of one hundred dollars
($100.00) vearlv, for each of the vears
1915. 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921,
upon placer mining claim known as
and called Neimi Association, situated
or> Spruce creek, a tributary of lnnoko
river, lnnoko mining and recording
precinct. Territory of Alaska, in order
to hold the said claim under the pro
visions of Section 2324, and amend
ments thereto, of. the revised statutes
of the United States of America, con
cerning annual labor upon mining
claims.
And if within ninety (90) days after
the publication of this notice you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion of
said expenditures, as well as the costs
of recording the same and the costs of
this advertisement, .your interest in
said claim will become the property of
the undersigned, your co-owners, who
have made the required expenditures
under the terms of said section 2324,
and amendments thereto, of the re
vised statutes of the United States of
America.
?H. J. Vinal,
W. A. Vinae.
Date of first publication, Feb. 4. 1922.
Date of last publication, May 0, 1922.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Jerry Ford, your neirs. executors
and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that 1. the undersigned, your
co owner, have expended for labor and
improvements the sum of not less than
one hundred dollars ($100) yearly for
the years 1920 and 1921 upon your in
terests in the I’ack Mule Association
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placer mining claim, situated on Otter
creek, a tributary of fditarod river, in
the Otter mining and recording pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions of
Section 211114 of the revised statutes of
the United States and the amendments
thereto concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said mining claim for
the period ending July 1, 1921,
And if within the period of ninety
days after the publication of this no
tice you fail or refuse to contribute
your proportion of said expenditures,
as well as the costs of recording the
same and the expenses of this adver
tisement, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed. your co-owner, who has made
the required expenditures under the
terms of said Section 21124 of the re
vised statutes of the United States.
Dan S. McDonell,
Co owuer.
Date of first publication. April 8, 1922.
! Date of last publication, July 8, 1921.
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Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
1NN0K0 LUMBER CO.
BLACKBURN & ELDR1DGE
Provisions Notions Furnishings
Indian Mitts, Moccasins and Snowshoes
Furs Bought and Sold White Fish and Dog Feed
DogHarness Collars Sled Lashings Tank Heaters
A. HIGGINS
Tacotna
DIRECT SERVICE
Seattle to Kuskokwim River
Via Inside Passage
M. S. “ANVIL”
M. V.“RUBY”
1st Trip, leaving Seattle
2nd Trip, leaving Seattle
;ird Trip, leaving Seattle
1st Trip, leaving Seattle
2nd Trip, leaving Seattle
;!rd Trip, leaving Seattle
5th i r
25th June
2*'th August
1 st ay
17th June
10th August
Provided sufficient inducement is offered we will make the above schedule,
and hope to have the full support of all the people on the river.
For Rates and Accommodations apply to
Kuskokwim Fishing* & Transportation Co.
7 Colman Dock Seattle, Wash."