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Show every mfle of their road. The government officials offi-cials call that a license. Next they have to pay dockage fee of 10 cents per ton on every ton of freight they handle either in or out of Alaska. Then the restrictions imposed by the forestry for-estry bureau of the United States department of agriculture has made it more economical for them to import their ties and building lumber from Washington and Oregon than to try to deal with the holdups of the forestry bureau, and as stated before, the coal they burn they import from foreign countries and pay duty on it, while there is no end of coal close to their tracks. One of the plans of the Alaska coal mines was to sell coal to the Grand Trunk Pacific railroad rail-road and a contract for delivery was entered into. Now the .conditions have been reversed and the Canadian road expects to soon be selling coal to the ships of the United States navy in the Pacific and to the steamers that ply between Washington and Oregon and Alaska. Nearly every largo enterprise in Alaska that needs fuel is now burning California oil. We do not see why Alaska's delegate in con- gress does not enlist a few of the great journals of the east to enlighten eastern people and make clear to them the shameful -treatment which the men of Alaska are receiving from the federal government. The plan seemed to have been copied from England's destruction of the factories fac-tories in Ireland. ABUSED ALASKA. We made mention yesterday of some of the . - troubles that beset men who try to build railroads rail-roads in Alaska. But we did not state them all. Tkjoee who have built roads there afe obliged to pay to the government $100 per annum for. Li |