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Entered as secona^eiaes matter Au
jipt 29th> 1923, at the postoffice at
FOkotna, Alaska, under the Act of
Mitch 3V 1879.
Takotua. Alaska, August 30. 1930.
iVXNTS UNCLE SAM TO
SELL ALASKA RAILROAD
(Chicago Tribune;)
A committee of senators has been
anointed to investigate the ^Govern
ment railroad in -Alaska. The rail
road was authorized in tne Wilson
idroinistration, and since then has
’ost the American taxpayers dose, tc
180.000. 000. It has lost close to a
million dollars a year since its com
pletion, and that figure,- it is said,
takes no account of the depreciation
inrroadbed ana efuipment-.>Meanwhfle
the white population of Alaska has
beien decreasing. There are less than
30;000 whites in the entire Territory
and less than- 8,000 ‘in' the1 region
served by the railroad.- ■
We think it is well that the sen
ators- make the trip*to Alaska, even
chbugh- it is at the taxpayers' ex
pense. The tradition has grown up
ini this country- that the purchase of
Alaska was' one of the-historic bar
gains, comparable to the purchase of
Manhattan for a string of beads and
ofi Louisiana for $27,000,000. Today
the territory bought >< as, Louisiana
supports a population -of 20,000,000
and its we alt his estimated at $60,
900.000. 000. Manhattan real estate is
prpbably the most valuable in the
world- and its population is 60 times
that of Alaska.1- Alaska, on the con
trary, has cost the United States
treasury some- $206;QOO,QQO since the
pip-chase.
A visit to--the* Territory may make
dry statistics live in the minds of the
senators. It may lead them to-see
that the only means of reducing the
costs of the Territory to the Amer
ican taxpayers is to dispose of- the
Government railroad, for the; - best
prjce obtainable. Once the railroad
isiin private hands, the drain on* the
treasury will cease and the railroad’s
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j Fly in comfort to all points in'
j Alaska in oar four-passenger
i cabin plane* Large -baggage -
I compartment separate from the’
i cabin. Equipment for prater ;
landings.
ji
!. Sight-seeing trips- any time,
♦5.0® per passenger.
For Bates to Alaska Points
SEE
FS..CK H. Spencei? r
Thkotna, Alaska
; usefulness in developing the Terri
tory will be augmented.
No one doubts that there is in
Alaska a great reserve of timber.'
minerals and water- power. Many of
the resources may not be. needed for
generations to come, hut certainly
they will not be used to enrich man
kind until the control of the bureau
I cracy is removed. The sale of the
j railroad will be the first step toward
i the realization of the possibilities of'
the Territory.
ALASKA IS LUCKY TO BE FAR
AWAY. SAYS CAPT. LATHROP
(Anchorage. Times.)
Alaska is fortunate just now in"
j being far removed from the. States,
1 in the opinion of Captain A. E. Lath
i rop, who returned to Fairbanks a few I
j days ago fro ma visit ti’.theftStates. j
i he says, are in a rather-:pad way at;
•j present, with iu> promise of imanedi-!
ate improvement,:..and while Alaska
must eventually feci the5*'effects of
; the general depression to sopie ex
; tent, the Tesritor*. is too far away
and the resources too varied, in his
opinion, to permit of any serious
slowing down in business here.
Many explanations of the depres- j
sion ..are being qffered in the States,
says Captain Lathrop. Too much j
speculation, overproduction, deereas-j
ing foreign trade- in some lines, too
fast a pacetbese and others are being
given as contributing causes of the
condition in which the country finds
itself. And no wthere are some who j
i are ready to hold the new tariff law;
responsible for inailibty of prospper
ity to stage an immediate eomeback.1
Opinion on the new schedules, as was
indicated by the vote in Congress, is
fairly evenly divided throughout the
country, many believing the new t
rates will be helpful, while others de- '
clare they will make conditions worse, j
Conditions are much worse in the I
East than they are on the Pacific
coast, the Captajfl says, but the de
pression is gradUtlly growing West,
the Northwestern section being the
last to feel the slowing down of busi- j
ness.. In addition- to causing much t
unemployment, the depression also is
bringing about a downward revision
bringing about a downward revision f
bringing about a downward revision!
of wages as well as lowered prices i
generally.
The railroads of the country are|
feeling the- depression very keenly, i
says Captain, Lathrop. Not only has j
these been a general slowing up of |
their business due to general condi- i
tions, but they also are being hard
hit by diversion, of freight and pas
senger traffic to water carriers ply
ing the canal route, and by the* in
creasing popularity of auto stages
and airplanes. Thirty-two passenger!
planes are no> wbeing operated on j
regular schedules along the coast, and
the low fares charged are proving
very attractive ® travelers, with the
result that the [planes are carrying
full loads in all Erections.
CONDITIONS B^D ON OUTSIDE,
DECLARES MRS. B. J. BOYD
Mrs. B. J. Boyd, former Takotnan,
now residing- near Longview, Wash.,
• speaking of conditions ®n the Out
i side, writes as fallows:
“Times are terrible, despite Hoov
er's program for prosperity. Just
met a man from San Francisco; bread
line there eight Woeks long, - four
abreast. Seattle also has a long line
jcvery day. Things are reported much
worse :n t.be Ea*t
“Tacoma started an immense power
project and let contracts with thfe>un
derstanding thyt Tacoma residents
were to be preferred and union wages
paid. ' So many rushed in from <2ali
£omia and other near States that ithe
contractors soon cut wages, and the
anion is gettin gout an injuncton to
; stop all; Wo*k, vhch wll throw thou
sands on fche city to be fed.
“The mills here have cut out all
night work; and hundreds in- . thjs
small place.are bWgry.”.
OLD-TIME FIGHTERS PUT
UP BETTER EXHIBITIONS
Discussions of the latest prize-fight,
fiasco, in which the German .Schmel
ling won the technical world’s cham
pionship over Sharkey on a foul, have
renewed speculation as. to, how John
L. Sullivan and other battlers of old
would have stacked up against our
modern pugs.
No one can tall, of course, but when
it is remembered, for instance, that
Sullivan and Kilrain fought seventy-,
five rounds with bare knuckles in the
last championship bout under London
prize ring rules, the stamina, of those
oldtimers. cannot be discounted. That,
was in 1889, since which .time gloves
have been used, and no championship
bout has gone longer, than twenty-six
rounds under the new ru!“s Under
the old London bare-knueu'.e rules a.
round did not end until one of the
fighters was on the ground. Then,:
after only 30 seconds rest, they went
at i tagain.
As Jack Dempsey recently pointed j
out, while Sullivan was defeated by;
Corbett, using large gloves, Sullivan, j
went to his grave the undefeated
hare knuckle champion.
Considering the, unsatisfactory ter-,
mination of many recent champion
ship bouts, it is strange that the box-!
ing game has held its customers as,!
well as it has. But if promoters and]
fighters do not soon begin to stage !J
better exhibitions than have been
witnessed, during the past few years, I
it will not be surprising if the fans.;
get tired of being' humbugged. There
is no doubt that the oldtimers put on
much better shows for "a fraction of,
the present-day prices.—Er.
NE WGAME REGULATIONS
LOWERS LIMIT FOR MARTEN...
The .Secretary of Agriculture has!
nrescribed ten martens as the bag,,
limit. for trappers during the open!
season specified fqr these fur bearers
in Alaska. 1
This is an amendment to the game .
regulations which became effective on
July 1, and became egective on .Au
gust 1, 1930.
The. Bureau of Biological:-Survey,
also' calls attention to the require-1
ment.that before marten can be.sold, :,
shipped out of the Territory or other- j
wise disposed of, the ymust be sealed'
with a seal prescribed by the Alaska j
Game Commission within 90 days j
after the close of the season in which j,
they are taken..
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING. -
About one-third of the people « yt
Canada.live in their own homes...
A new anaesthetic, twice as power
ful as cocaine, end only one-tenth, as
McGrath
Fresh Fruits
Candies!
Tobaccos
(Pipes
Cigarettes]
‘ Soft Drinks]
Cigarette Holders
poisonous, has been reported recently
by chemists of the. University of Wis
Jonsinw,
The ayerage American family sub
scribes- for .two- newspapers, and the
total circuUtio nofall . newspapers
reaches abciut 45,000$ 00 copies.
Skyscraper elevators are .beng de
sgned to be double-decked, so as to
take on and let off passengers on two
loors at the same. tme.
One of the largest and deepest
veils in the country supplies water
for Sparks, N.ev. .It is 590 feet deep,
and can supply 5,B00JW)ft gallons of'
water a day, pumped, by a 400-horse
power motor.
Undersea motion! pictures can be *
made by a new water.-tght camera, ,
which carries 400 feet of film*
' Erank J. Guskey.
Notary Public,:
McGrath, Alaska -
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Takotna Fool Hall
Fresh Fruits
Tobaccos
Apples
Gandies Soft Drinks ;
Cigars Gigarets
Oranges
Charlie O’Halloran
Propp.
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m> Trader r
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