Alaska and the Panama canal . except for the conservation and reser-vation policy of the United States Government in tying upthe natural resources of Alaska, there would doubtless beseveral thousand prosperous people at the present time in thistown. At one period the population of Seward numberedsome 2,000, today it is about 700. The Alaska Northern Rail-way, constructed northward from Seward for nearly 100 miles,has been practically confiscated by the United States because itcould not pay the annual Government tax of $100 per railroads in Alaska should pay the Government $100 permile
Alaska and the Panama canal . except for the conservation and reser-vation policy of the United States Government in tying upthe natural resources of Alaska, there would doubtless beseveral thousand prosperous people at the present time in thistown. At one period the population of Seward numberedsome 2,000, today it is about 700. The Alaska Northern Rail-way, constructed northward from Seward for nearly 100 miles,has been practically confiscated by the United States because itcould not pay the annual Government tax of $100 per railroads in Alaska should pay the Government $100 permile per year for the privilege of opening up new country isone of the strangest of the many puzzles presented by Ameri-can statesmanship. One hundred and seventy-five miles southwest of Sewardwe came to the great island of Kodiak, which I described in thechapter on Alaskan farming. Dutch Harbor is on UnalaskaIsland, at the passage between the Pacific Ocean and BeringSea. It is a well-protected harbor, where the weather is never. UNALASKA ISLAND. 102 ALASKA
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