GETTING THK GOLD OUT OF THE GRAVEL IN SUMMER: NOME 



in a fourth, of railroads in still another. 

 The care of black bear is in one depart- 

 ment and brown bear in another. 



3. There can be no satisfactory ad- 

 ministration of land laws nor any other 

 laws at a distance of 5,000 miles from the 

 point of action. Much less is this possi- 

 ble where the two sections of the country 

 are separated by an ocean, and the land 

 calling for attention is closed to the world 

 one-half of the year. The eye that sees 

 the need should be near the voice that 

 gives the order. 



4. Alaska's opening and improvement 

 should be treated as one problem. Each 

 step in such an administration should be 

 part of a plan, not an isolated act. We 

 should have a unified and consecutive 

 program, based on immediate knowledge 

 governing this work. Each line of activ- 

 ity within the Territory should be corre- 

 lated with all other activities. The open- 

 ing of lands and the building of railroads 

 or wagon roads, for instance, should be 

 part of one scheme. 



5. Alaska should be developed so far 



as possible out of her own revenues and 

 resources. She should have a Federal 

 budget of her own. Her revenues and 

 expenditures should be presented to Con- 

 gress on a single sheet. The funds raised 

 from her lands and fisheries, her furs, 

 her forests, and her mines should be used 

 for the construction of her roads, rail- 

 roads, telegraph and telephone lines, or 

 for any other purpose which would make 

 her resources more quickly available to 

 the world. 



ALASKA IS ALREADY SELF-SUPPORTING 



I believe it could be shown that Alaska 

 is self-supporting today, or, what is more 

 to the point, that by proper taxes and 

 charges imposed upon those who are de- 

 riving large return from their enterprise 

 in the Territory, such revenue could be 

 derived as would support a large policy 

 of expansion and improvement. In short, 

 I would construct the administrative ma- 

 chinery that would most surely lead to a 

 prompt and continuous development of 

 Alaska as a part of the United States 



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