ALASKA GIVEN
PUBLICITY
BY BUREAU
The Alaska Publicity Bureau furn
ishes the following information in its
monthly bulletin, just received:
The Alaska Sulphur Company, a
Chicago concern, has started ,-opera
tions on its property on Akun island,
one of the largest of the Aleutian
group and lying about forty miles
west of Unalaska and Dutch Harbor.
The sulphur deposits to be developed
are situated near Lost Harbor which
is open all the year. Fourteen differ
ent drifts have been made and it is
estimated that the sulphur now in
sight amounts to 560,000 tons. The de
posits are of unknown depth and the
ore goes 50 per cent sulphur.The ore is
soft, chalky substance and can be
easily handled with pick and shovel
although steam shovel will be used.
It is very heavy, weighing from 55 to
60 pounds per cubic foot. The com
pany owns 400 acres ot land, ana a
tramway two miles long will be re
quired to transport the ore from the
mine to tidewater. A refinery will be
built at the harbor this year and the
product will be ready for marketing
when it is loaded on the steamer for
shipment south. The mine is expected
to operate the year round and will
employ from 80 to 100 men. The Akun
property is said to be the only sul
phur mine on the Pacific oast regions
of the continent.
To Experiment With Fish Hatcheries
The recent legislature made an ap
propriation of $80,000 for the purpose
of experimenting in fish hatcheries
with the view of perpetuating the
stock of salmon in Alaskan waters. It
is expected that work in that line will
begin within the next three months.
Hail, Hall, the Gang’s All Here!
For the past months every steamer
from Seattle to Alaska has been sold
out both in freight and passenger ac
commodations for weeks before sail
ing and the same conditions still pre
vail. The result is that Alaska is
herself again and all lines and branch
es of business are taking on new life.
In addition to the cannery contingent,
hundreds of old timers who went out
side last year, having bid Alaska
goodby forever, as they then asserted,
are back to remain and many mow
are coming. Indications at present are
that the northland will this year re
gain much of the population it lost
during the two previous years and it
is certain many who are now return
ing will carefully consider the matter
before again giving up their homes in
Alaska for the uncertainty of what is
known as “the outside.”
In the Shadow of Mt. McKinley
A leter to this bureau from the
chamber of commerce of McGrath,
Alaska, a thriving little community
which nestlets within the shadow of
Mt. McKinley’s majestic peak, says a
dredge now in operation on Candle
creek is demonstrating that great
placer wealth exists there in addition
to great bodies of gold, silver, and
copper ore, the latter carrying as high
as $120 to the ton. A number of
homesteads in the McGrath vicinity
have been taken up and all kinds of
crops are being cultivated success
fully and with profit, garden truck
being grown and matured to perfec
tion. Like many other outlying dis
tricts in Alaska roads are the dying
need of that locality. There are sev
eral canneries and other fishing indus
tries in that part of the territory and
prosperity and contentment stalk
hand in hand.
,, Congress Is Memoralized
According to action taken by the
late territorial legislature the congress
of the United States will be asked to
appropriate $400,000 for the purpose
of assisting Alaska in the great work
of developing her vast resources,
principally mining and agriculture,
the two great industries which go
toward securing a population that will
be permanent, and at the same time
prosperous and wealth producing. Mil
lions of acres of waving grain and Cat
tle on a thousand hills are not only
possibilities but probabilities of
Alaska in the not distant future.
Alaska’s Great Wealth of Seale
That Alaska's seals are not dimin
ishing in number is attested by the
fact that only a few days ago a gov
ernment launch carrying a large crew
[ of men arrived in Alaska and proceed
I ed to the Priblloff islands in Bering
• aea where 80,000 male seals will be
slaughtered “for the good of the
order." And just here a short descrip
tion of the sealing industry in Alaska
under government control is oppor
tune:
The surplus males can be selected
for slaughter, as are domestic animal^
and the taking of thousands of them
each year can be safely done withou
impairing in the slighest decree thi
birth rate.
“Under the old leasing system
which lasted for 40 years until termln
ated by congress in 1910, young mal<
seals to the number of 2,320,000 wen
taken by the lessees, who paid ai
annual rental and royalty on eacl
skin. The skins were salted and ship
ped to London and there sold at pub
11c auction. After being dressed anc
dyed by a secret process, 70 to 80 pei
cent of the skins were imported intc
the United States and made Into gar
ments for the use of our people. Bui
all this is now ancient history. Gone
is the leasing Bystem with Its attend
ant objectionable features; gone is
the shipping of Alaska skins to Lon
don; gone are the dressing and dye
ing of such skins in London.
When the business history of Amer
ica is written, one of the most note
worthy achievemnts recorded of the
20th century will be the part played
in 1914 by the department of com
merce, acting through and in behali
of the bureau of fisheries, in upsetting
the unbroken practice of upward of
two generations and decreeing that
government-owned fur seal skins
should no longer be sent abroad at
increased expense and sold for the
benefit of foreign merchants, but
should be sold at home for the im
mediate benefit of American mer
chants and American trade. This de
cision, made at a time when the fur
market was in a depressed condition,
required strong administrative con
victions, and was not only justified by
the pecuniary results of the initial
sales, but has been more than war
ranted by the impetus given to the
whole American fur trade, by making
America the great fur seal market of
the world and by the establishment
in America of a plant where raw seal
skins may be dressed and dyed, thus
putting an end to complete depend
ence on Europe which Americans
heretofore have had for every pre
pared seal skin used in making gar
ments. The effects of this new dis
pensation have been strikingly exhib
ited in the past year, following the
resumption of comercial sealing, by
greately increased revenues to the
government, increased trade and dim
ir.oshed cost to the public of the most
serviceable of all aquatic furs. A log
ical outcome of this would be the
adoption of the Alaskan seal as the
rational fur, a consummation that the
bureau of fisheries is endeavoring to
bring about.
To Young Men of America
If you are not subject to cold feet;
if you do not become weary while
making the grade; if you are not
afraid to take a chance, come to
Alaska. If you have a few thousand
lollars with which to start something
after your arival, so much the better.
This is a country of mighty possibili
ties. It offers unrivaled opportunities
for mineral prospectors, fishermen,
those seeking homes for purpose of
agriculture, stock raising, hunting,
trapping any many other pursuits. It
Is America’s last frontier. Are you
game to take a chance on it? Don’t
come expecting to find gold nuggets
growing on trees or full larders witn
out exertion on your part. There are
many positions here but employers
are leary about contracting labor by
mail. Those who apply in person are
Ihe ones who secure the positions. It
is proverbial of Alaska that a deserv
ing person, man or woman, can in
variably secure honest employment at
good wages here. Don’t come if you
arfe quitters.
Special Election June 3.
Owing to the death of Delegate
elect to Congress Charles A. Sulzer,
a special election will be held on June
3 to fill the position. The late Mr.
Sulzer had the respect and esteem of
all regardles of party and his death
was a serious blow to Alaska.
“Alaska Has Changed"
The Rochester, N. Y., Chronicle
says: "Of a truth it is a far cry to
the days, not so many years past, how
ever, when it was literally true that
There is no law of God or man runs
north of ’53.’ Those were rough
crude times, and the law of the gun
and the strong arm prevailed. Now
things are different. Alaska is a civ
ilized country, and it has a bureau of
publicity. From this we learn that
this region of the supposedly frozen
north is one of the most delightful
places on earth. It is assorted that
Alaska Is dotted with churches and
schools; her children are the most
health and vigorous in the world, and
that land may be secured in chunks
of 160 acres by a residence of four
teen months and the payment of $1.25
an acre. For several years we have
received reports of certain elements
of wealth which which Alaska is fav
ored, but the real publicity ‘stunt’ is
just nicely under way. After all U
said and done, it would appear that
the "folly” of Seward was ope of the
wisest actions ever taken by this
United Staes. Making all alowanoM
for press agent hyperbole, there d
good mason to believe that Alaska
has great possibilites, and that our
last frontier is likely to become not
able in the future.”
Mines and Mills Working Full Time
The several big gold quartz mining
industries of Alaska are now in a
much more prosperous condition than
at any time since the United States
took a hand in making the world safe
for democracy more than two years
ago. During the greater part of 1917
anc! all of 1918 the mines and mills
worked from half to two-thirds of
their capacities but now they are all
operating full time and the world’s
supply of gold will be materially in
creased in consequence.
No Stenographers Are Needed
At present the demand for steno
graphers in Alaska is inadequate to
the supply and those engaged in that
profession who have positons where
they are should not leave them to
come north. Verbum sat etc.
School Teachers Are Mostly Engaged
It is now rather late in the season
for those desiring to teach school in
Alaska to apply for positons for the
coming school term as the majority
of the positions have already been
filled. As a rule the teachers em
ployed in the Alaska schools are the
very best that can be procured from
the states and as a result the schools
of this country are up to date and
compare very favorably with those of
the most progressive localities else
where.
Watchful Waiting.
The Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion has well based hopes that the
special term of congress soon to con
vene will vote the desired appropria
tion for continuing the work of push
ing to completion the government
railroad now under way from Seward
to the Tanana valley. In the mean
time, however, It will not be advisable
for laborers to flock to the westward
until congress comes across.
Is Very Extensively Circulated
The Monthly Bulletin of the Alaska
Bureau of Publicity now has a mailing
list comprising all the members of
both houses of congress, the commer
cial bodies and all the newspapers of
the United States. Write for further
Information on any and all subjects
pertaining to Alaska.
The best and quickest route to Fair
banks and Interior points. Burgdss
£arstens Auto Line, Chltlna, Alaska.
The best and quickest route to Fair
banks and interior points. Burgess
Karstens Auto Line, Chitina, Alaska.
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