SENATOR ALDRICH’S DECLAR
ATION OF CANDIDACY FOR
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
Entering tho primaries as a candi
date for Delegate to Congress on the
Republican ticket is done with a full
knowledge of the responsibilities.
Thirty-four years a.resident of Alas
ka, ten years a member, of the Alaska
Legislature, and eight years chair
man of the Finance Committee in the
Territorial. Legislature, has given me
a complete understanding of Alaska’s,
problems. .
The vexatious, technicalities of
long-distance bureaucratic govern
ment from our National Capital is di
rectly or indirectly responsible for
most of the problems of non-expan
sion.
Fourteen., years ago .fudge James
Wickersham, author ,of the Organic
Act, speaking,to a jpijnt: Session of the
Alaska Legislature, at Juneau, Alas
ka, stated in almost the. exact len
guage used by ,the..Supreme Court of.
the United States,when handing' down
the recent decision on taxation of the
fisheries of Alaska, namely, the right.
.impose a prohibitory tax if they
deemed it necessary to preserve, the
fishing industry.
This dual power, vested in the. Bu
reau_of Fisheries on the one side and
the Territory of Alaska on the other
side, is conflicting, and can be reme
died in but one way—control through
Statehood.
Alaska has 4,000 miles of salt
water frontage, and 30,000 miles of
Total investment in the Fisheries of Alaska up to and for the
year 1923 .....$G0,037,G77
Total number of people employed in the canning industry for
the year 1923 .... 25,250
Total investment in mining equipment in Alaska . $20,000,000
Total fur market for years 1922, 1923, 1924, and 1925 .. - $7,090,340
Tolal seal market for years 1922, 1923, 1924, and 1925 __ $2,536,540
Total assessed valuation in 18 incoporated towns . .. $21,283,127
Total Alaska, fund outside incorporated towns __ $208,553
Total bank deposits, 1924 . $10,000,000
Alaska commerce, 1925, aggregated .. $95,423,236
Outgoing shipments, including merchd se, gold and silver _ $62,223,725
Merchandise shipped into Alaska ..... $33,199,511
Balance of trade in our.favor..1925...... $29,024,224
For ten years the value of
•opper. mined has exceeded the value
of gold mined hy. seyenty (70) per
neat.
The total.gross revenue from the
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estuaries and tidelands, which alone
would sustain a state. This vast
amount of tidelands under State con- j
trol would solve the problem of the!
governed by the consent of the gov
erned. 3
W hat the people of Alaska want
most of all are facts and figures.
Ohio became a State with a popula
tion of 45,000; Nevada with a popula
tion of 42.000. The population of
Alaska under the last census (19201
was 55,036. This gives Alaska ap
proximately 10,000 more population
than Ohio, and 13,000 more popula
tion than Nevada, when statehood
was granted to them.
The following are some facts and
figures taken from the report of the ;
Forest Service, as of January 1, 1926:
Southeaslern Alaska Tongas National
Forest Report.
Board feet of lumber .... 80,000,000,000
Chugach National Forest Report.
Board feet of lumber (in
standing timber)_ 5,000,000,000
Total value of above, $100,000,000.
Every 1,000 feet of lumber cut
means $8 in wages.
Cutting 700,000,000 feet annually,
as permitted under F'orest rules,
would, at $8 per 1,000 feet, in wages
amount to $6,320,000.
In addition to the above F'orest re
sources we have available and unde
veloped hydro-electric power estimat
ed at 500,000 horsepower. This power
when developed and in use will fur
nish employment to 80,000 persons in
the manufacture of pulp and paper
alone. In other words, the timber of
Alaska is capable of supporting a
permanent population of 250,000.
mining industry to .192(1 has been
$552,000,000. The total gross revenue
from the fisheries during the last ten
years, only has.been $400,000,000, or a
grand total of $953,000,0000.
The natural revenues of Alaska, as
quoted above, create an income to the
residents and the governing body
which would ^.ake care of any two
states in the Union, much less Alas
ka. The Territory of Alaska does
now pay annually, for Territorial offi
cials $50,000. This arrangement is
working satisfactorily. This amount
would be applied to State government
in the event of Statehood. This sum
i? distributed as follows:
Treasurer, per annum__ $5,00(1
Attorney General . 5,000
Superintendent of Schools. 54)00
Highway Engineer . 4,000
Mining Inspector . 4,000
Federal Secretary of the Terri
tory .. 0,000
Governor’s office, clerical and
> Territorial Boards .. 19,000
Superintendent of iol’neers’
* Home . 2,00('
Total _ _ $50,000
Total annual revenue now collected
by the Federal Government which
would be applied to State Govern
ment:
From seal industry, 1923..' ..$491,770
Alaska fund outside incorpor
{ ated towns ,. 208,553
Grand total . $770,323
These ar eanual revenues to take
care of the State of Alaska now di
verted to the Federal treasury.
What Congress needs are facts- and
figures. What the people of Alaska
need is the elimination of a dual gov
ernment, and the inherited right to
J. H. McLEAN
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govern by the consent if the gov
erned.
If elected Delegate to Congress
from Alaska, my efforts will be di
rected toward the granting of State
hood, and my services in the future
will be, as they have been in the past,
ever for this Alaska, our adopted
home.
FR ANKA.T. ALDRICH.
(Paid AdvL)
The Tell-Tale Radio.
We will all be living in the pro
verbial “glass house’’ if the scientists
keep o ndiscovering new means of
checking us up. With dictographs
and truth serums and a new device
said tr> be capable of making moving
pictures of what goes on in a room,
without the knowledge of its occu -
pants, they are getting things down
pretty fine. 7
Besides tthe.se schemes for the in
vasion of privacy, of. which evil-doers
might be warned, Eredi M. Taylor, of
Kansas City, would probably caution
them to keep off the air—for the
radio proved to be his Undoing.
Some months after deserting a wife
in Illinois, Fred married a young so
ciety woman in the Missouri city, the
wedding being a swell affair, with the
ceremony performed by a bishop. To
make the occasion strictly up-to-date,
the proceedings were broadcasted
over the church radio.
Wife No. 1 happened to he listen
ing in at her Illinois home, and as
Fred had neglected the minor detail
of getting a divorce or changing his
name, his duplicity was exposed. The
deserted wife journeyed westward.
When the judge asked the two Mrs.
Taylors to suggest a suitable pums'i-,
ment for their joint spouse, they
agreed that five years would be. aboul
right, but his honor thought that two
years in Jeffer-on City would satisfy
the demands of the blind goddess,, and
so decreed.
There, Fred will have ample oppor
tunity to reflect on the workers of
science, particularly the radio.—Ex. !
There are twenty large fox ranches
in the Kodiak district, according to
the Seward Gateway, the. owners of
which are members of the Southwest
ern Alaska Blue Fox and Fur Farm
ers’ Association, which has its head
quarters in Kodiak. Four of these
islands have been consistent producers
of blue foxes for forty years. Five
others have been raising foxes for six
or seven years. Six of the ranches
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have been operating for a period of
from three to five years, and the last
five have been operating from one to
three years. The present production
of foxes from these islands, in the as
sociation, i3 slightly better than one
thousand pelts a year. The sale of
live foxes for breeders was more than
$20,000 last year. Approximately 800
tons of fox feeds are either purchased
direct or obtained through hired
labor each year. Of this feed 10 per
cent is cereal and meat scraps shipped
up from the States. An average of
$2,f>00 is expended annually by each
ranch for provisions and extra labor,
other than performed by the owners.
It is staled that all of th se ranches
should be on full production basis by
January, 1028, at which time it is es
timated the number of blue fox pelts
takeu from these island should not
he less than 4,000 annually. It is
stated that over 00 per cent of the
ranches in Southwestern Alaska are
in need of an equitable leasing law,
that the investments made upon the
islands may be secured to their re
spective owners. The industry is one
initiated by the residents of Alaska,
who have their homes on or near the
islands. Their entire future is tied up
in the enterprise, and th y should not
be overburdened with excessive taxes.
ORDElt AND NOTICE OF PRI
MARY ELECTION
To Be Held On
TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1926
In the Office of the United States
Commissioner at McGrath, Alaska,
Fourth Judicial Division.
Now on this day pursuant to Chap
ter 119, Session Laws of Alaska, ap
proved May 1919, ent iled “An Act
to provide for the holding of primary
elections in the Territory of Alaska,
to fix the manner and tune of holding
the same, to prescribe the qualifies
tions of candidates to be nominated
at such elections, and to designate the
manner of filing and authenticating
their candidacy, and for other pur
poses.” and in conformity therewith
It is hereby ordered that, for the
purpose of the primary election to be
held on April 27, 1926, all of the ter
ritory in the recording district known
as Mt. McKinley Recording District,
I outside of incorporated towns, is here
by divided into voting precincts, in
each of which a polling place is here
! by specified.
Said voting precincts are desciibed
| and bounded as follows:
Voting place at McGrath;
Voting place at Takotna;
Voting place at Medfra.
Notice is hereby given that a gen
eral election will be held on Tuesday,
April 27, 1926, for the purpose of
nominating candidates to the various
political parties for the following
offices, to-wit:
A Delegate to the House of Repre
sentatives from the Territory of
Alaska;
One Member of the Senate of the
Territory of Alaska;
Four Members of the House of Rep
resentatives of the Territory of
Alaska;
Two Road Commissioners for Road
District Number Four.
The said election will be held in the
voting precincts above named and at
the polling places^specified. The said
polling places will be open between
the hour- of eight o’clock a. m. and
seven i ! . k p. m. of said day.
D„ ; McGrath, Alaska, March
1st, iv2J.
W. T. VANDERPOOL,
U. S. Commissioner for the Mt.
McKinley Recording District,
Fourth Division, Territory of
A laska.
PROFESSIONAL
Mrs. Jean McLean
Notary Public
Tokotna, Alaska
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Front Street, Tokotna
Mrs. Fred Dubois - Prop,
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! ber of Ail Kinds
A Dredging or Mydraolicing
Proposition, Yankee Creek
About 7 miles long-, extending from No. 1 below discovery to
the mouth of the creek.
Pay located all along for a distance of about three miles from
upper end, and pretty well prospected and cross-cut.
Average depth of ground is from 7 to 20 feet. Top is all black
muck,that can be scraped freely. No rock bigger than one’s fist.
Ground will go from 15 cents to $1 per square foot of bedrock.
Ditch on the ground, 3 miles long, together with water rights.
Ground ii pretty well cleared. There is also a drain, 3 miles long.
Also a water right on Ready Bullion creek, from which water can
be brought to Yankee creek with a, ditch less than a mile long
(4,000 feet), with a pressure of 120 feet, being 1000 feet to the
work from the ditch.
After doing away with muck there will be from 4 to 6 feet of
dirt to handle.
Only about §11,000 has been taken out.
Prospecting work during the past winter has resulted in finding
values that run up to $1 per fequare foot of bedrock.
I will either sell the ground or give a lease on it. If the prospect
is satisfactory to the buyer, a cash payment will be expected.
For further information, terms, etc., call
telegraph me.
on ground, or write or
ED NOLLETTE,
Tokotna, Alaska.
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