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Shall the stationary miners, canners, lumbermen and 

 railroad builders of Alaska be fed on game? 



The editor of the Valdez "Miner" contends that miners 

 should and must have game. He says that it should be 

 "legal to sell same twenty miles away (from Valdez) in 

 a mining camp." 



This is characteristically a miner's view of game — that 

 it is a commercial necessity to the miner anywhere twenty 

 miles from tidewater. 



Now, this implied dependence of the miner upon wild 

 game for food, and his consequent ability to work, leads 

 straight to the logical conclusion that without game meat 

 the miner could not mine, and that the interior mines would 

 close because they could not be worked ! In other words, if 

 the Valdez Miner is right, the disappearance of game north 

 of Latitude 62 will mean at least the partial collapse of the 

 mining industry ! ! 



Now, of all the hardy miners of Alaska, is there one real 

 miner who will have the hardihood to say that he sincerely 

 believes that when Alaskan game totally disappears, mining 

 also will cease, because of the lack of food to sustain the 

 miners ? 



The idea is preposterous. 



At this very moment wild game meat is not half so much 

 a necessity to the miners of Alaska as it is to the very poor 

 of New York City. 



THE SULZER BILL. 



On May 11, 1917, Mr. Charles A. Sulzer, then seated as 

 delegate from Alaska in the House of Representatives of 

 the Sixty-fifth Congress, but afterward unseated, intro- 

 duced a bill (H. R. 4374), "to regulate the killing and sale 

 of game animals in Northern Alaska, etc." Its purpose 

 was to legalize the sale of game north of Latitude 62 all 



