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Brisbane Sees
Advantages of
North Count.
Famous Columnist Call the
World's Attention to
Alaska's Gold. Fish
and Furs.
Washington, Feb. 15—
Washington was made
distinctly Alaskan mind
ed today following pub
lication on the front
page of the Washing
ton Herald of a remark
able tribute to the Ter
ritory of Alaska.
The editorial tribute
was written by Arthur
Brisbane, the world’s
highest paid editorial
writer in his famous
column, “Today,” whi
ch is read bv millions.
Brisbane's Comment
“The Daily Alaska Em
pire contrasts Ceylon with
our Alaskan Empire,” Bris
bane wrote.
“Ceylon’s 25,332 square
miles of Territory support
5,000,000 people, export
$65,000,000 in goods, chief
ly tea, rubber and spices.
Alaska,with 600,000 square
miles of Territory, more
than twenty times the area
of Ceylon, with 60.000 peo
ple, a little more than one
per cent of Ceylon’s popu
lation, exports about sixty
million dollars worth of
fish, gold and furs.
“Many a great fortune
will be made in Alaska by
those willing to live more
than three blocks from a
drug store or moving pic
ture theatre.”
Mr. Brisbane also stress
ed the opportunities ot fur
farming as one of Alaska’s
potential industries.
Aid to Dimond
Delegate Anthony J. Dim
ond said that he intends to
use the Brisbane editorial
when he makes his plea be
fore the Senate Appropria
tions Committee, in the
near future, for additional
Alaskan mail funds.
Following is a reprint of
the editorial, published in
The Empire, January 24th,
to which Mr. Brisbane re
fers:
ALASKA vs. CEYLON
Emd Ilurja. who has been
writing in The Empire so
enter tainingly of the Phil
ippine inaugural and his
visits to foreign lands cn
route, points out in a recent
article that the island of
Ceylon with an area of but
25,332 square miles sup
ports a population of more
than 5,000,000 people and
has an annual export trade
of around $65,000,000, rep
resented mostly in tea, rub
ber and spices.
Interesting contrast is the
Territory of Alaska with
an area of 600,000 square
miles, a population of aro
und 60.000, with an aver
age export trade running
between fifty and sixty mil
lion dollars annually, with
fish, good furs as the prim
ary products. When 60.000
persons in the Territory of
Alaska can produce nearly
as much for export as can
five million on the Isle of
ueyion, tne vast possiom
ties for building the popu
lation of Alaska stand out
in glaring array. The great
untapped resources of the
northland particularly min
eral wealth, coupled with
the potential future of lum
ber pulp fur farming, gen
eral agriculture to a lesser
degree, and the constant
fish harvest from the sea,
can support millions where
but scattered thousands live
today.
The drive must ever be
for population and ultim
ate statehood. Given peo
ple of the right metal, and
the Territory of Alaska can
become the richest state in
the Union. *
The above article is re
printed from the Alaska
Daily Empire of Juneau.
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