10 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, WcJiiMJiy, Aatist 27, 1 93t
Pretty Northwest Indian Girl Wants
Chance To Be Homesteader in Alaska
BY A. ROBERT SMITH
I Mail Tribune Washington
Correspondent
Washington A beautiful
Pacific Northwest Indian girl
stepped into my office in the
National Press Building the
other day, homesick to read
- x
pers and to
talk about
possibly going
XI ilt0 Alaska to
t - Vt,, ufw, 9 ' helo tame the
wilderness and
' swell the pop
ulation a bit.
She got, in
fact, down
right starry-eyed as she ram
bled on about driving up the
Alaska highway to homestead
in the new 49th state.
"My friends all laugh at me
when I talk about homestead
lng in Alaska," she said, "but
I'm sure I could do it. And it
would be lots of fnun and ex
citement." Being of a practical turn of
mind, I asked how she ex
pected to get there. Being just
as practical, she explained
U 'if
A.
Robt Smith
that not too long ago she got
a good sized bundle of cash
from Uncle Sam and had
bought a new auto with it.
She is one-eighth Nez Perce
Indian, a native of Idaho, and
was eligible for payment when
the government flooded out
the Indian fishery at Celilo
Falls on the Columbia river
with The Dalles dam reser
voir. Uncle Sam's tax collec
tors were trying to get their
hands on some of this Indian
money $25 million roughly
but the young lady said
with her check was a slip
which' instructed her not to
report it on her income taxes.
Where did she get the idea
she could homestead in Alas
ka? She had called Sen. Frank
Church (D-Ida.), a great boost
er of Alaska, who told her she
could get 40 acres but she
would have to improve it,
work it, build a house, put her
roots down.
That's when her friends
starred laughing.
"But I love to fish," said
she. "And I can hunt. I'll bet
I can shoot a gun straighter
than most men. And I know
State Highway
Commission Opens
Bids on 19 Projects
Salem-(UPD-Bids on 19 proj
ect totaling $6,200,000 were
. opened by the State Highway
Commission here Tuesday.
The projects and apparent
low bidders by counties in
cluded: Baker: Cartwright Construc
tion Company, Durkee, $20,
700 for a rock production pro
ject on the Dooley Mountain
section of the Baker-Unity
highway.
Clackamas: Inland Con
struction Company, Milwau
kie, $59,085 for construction
of Shipley Bridge on Market
Road No. 12.
Curry: Peter Kiewit Sons'
Company, Vancouver, $406,
580 for grading and paving
on the Hunter Creek-Buena
Vista wayside section of the
Coast highway.
Curry: Tom Lillebo, Reeds
port, $171,363 for construct
ing Hunter Creek bridge on
the Oregon Coast highway.
Elkton Job
Douglas: M. J. Brassfield
and J. M. Purcell Construction
Company, Salem, $536,279 for
grading and paving the Elk-ton-Smith
Bridge section of
the Elkton-Sutherlin highway.
Douglas: Thornton and Bell,
Roseurgb, $125,863 for a struc
ture, grading and paving on
the O'Shea Creek section of
the Tiller-Trail highway.
Lane: Inland Construction
Company, Milwaukie, $96,558
for McKenzie River overflow
bridges on the Harrisburg-Eu-gene
road.
Linn: Roy L. Houck and
Sons, Salem, $739,796 for
grading on Belts road-Lane
county line section of the Pa
cific highway.
Linn: James F. Turner, Cor
vallis, $40,334 for the Willow,
McDowell and Oak Creek
bridges.
Linn: James F. Turner, $51,
267 for the Bates Park bridge
over the South Santiam river
on McDowell creek county
road.
To Pave Highway
Multnomah: Rodgers Con
struction Company, Portland,
$1,699,492 for paving the Sun-dial-Multnomah
Falls section
of the Columbia River highway.
Union: Itschner Construc
tion Company. Molalla. $172,-
238 for stone base and oiling
on the Ukiah-Hilgard highway.
Washington: Warren North
west, Inc., Portland, $290,489
for grading and paving the
North Plains interchange sec
tion of the Sunset highway.
Washington and Yamhill:
Fred H. Slate- and E. C. Hall,
Portland, $497,258 for grading
and paving the Middleton-
Yamhill county line section of
Pacific Highway west.
WHAT'LL IT BE TONIGHT?
New York -UP&- Something
fishy is going on in the Bronx.
Monday night the sanitation
department was called out to
haul away a 300-pound shark
left on a street by persons un
known. Tuesday night the
cleanup boys were called out
again, this time to haul away
an eight-foot porpoise found
hanging from a lamppost 30
feet above the sidewalk.
how to trap. I've skinned ani
mals and I know what to do
with the pelts.
"I have a friend who had
two .girls friends who went to
Alaska, but they came back
because they couldn't find
jobs. But I'd get along allright
because I know how to do a
lot of things to keep going
even if I didn't find a job. We
had good fishing grounds in
the Northwest, and I'm sure
they have them in Alaska,
too."
This girl didn't look rough
and ready, but she sounded
convincingly capable. She was
willing to try to carve a home
'out of the unsettled vastness
of the northern frontier.
"My friends say there
wouldn't even be electric
lights out where I could
homestead. But I told them,
"There's nothing wrong with
an oil lamp. We used them a
lot back in Lewiston when I
was growing up, and we got
along fine. Why do some peo
ple think they can't do with
out the best of everything?"
A British correspondent
who visited Alaska" recently,
writes in the current issue of
the New Republic magazine
that the idea that this is the
last frontier is "purely roman
tic." Like Siberia, interior
Australia and central Africa,
Alaska is "not waiting for the
courage of men with a future
to make out of nothing but
their manhood. That indeed
has been tried and has made
only a small impression on
these places. What is needed
is the financial initiative, the
splendid and reliable checks
of the large corporations and
governments, the skill of the
graduates of mining schools
and men who can build roads.
Their work must be half com
plete before this country can
fill the gaps with a large pop
ulation." These observations didn't
discourage my Indian visitor
one bit.
"The trouble is he doesn't
see what a beautiful place
Alaska is in which to work
and live," she commented. "I
love the outdoors and I'd be
willing to work hard."
Loading her down with
newspapers, I told her that
whatever else Alaska may
need, she has the spirit that
has helped make the North
west great and will make
Alaska a great new state.
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