ALASKA COM
BACK GOOD
AND STRONG
"Coming back? You can bet Alaska
Is coming back and coming strong.”
This was the' asertion made yester
day by E. J. White, dean of newspapei
men in Alaska and Yukon Territory
chief of the Alaska bureau of publicity
and speaker of the house of represen
tatives at the recent session of the ter
ritorial legislature, who is in Seattle
on a brief vacation. Continuing Mr.
White said:
“Why shouldn’t Alaska come back?
At least two-thirds of the 5,223 young
men she furnished for the war—more
than 16 per cent of her entire popula
tion—have already returned and are
again installed in the various positions
they filled previous to the European
tumult and the remaining one-third
will be back as soon as they are dis
charged. In no section, nook or corner
of Uncle Sam’s broad domain do the
fires of patriotism burn more brightly
than in Alaska, as have been proved,
not only by the enthusiastic manner in
which her young men hastened to en
list when war was first declared, but
by the liberality of the rank and file
of Alaskans in the matter of buying
bonds, engaging heart and soul in Red
Cross work and otherwise keeping the
home fires burning. In all four of the
bond campaigns every town and dis
trict in the territory went far over the
top and in none did they go farther
over or with more enthusiasm than in
the last one, which was almost
doubled.”
What Alaska Most Needs
Regarding the most urgent require
ments of Alaska, Mr. White said:
“The two things that will best serve
to rehabilitate Alaska are cheaper
transportation rates and a new crop of
prospectors and both are probabilities
of the near future. The recent legis
lature passed a bill carrying with it
an appropriation of $300,00 for the
Ttnonnco nf ono'hlincr t Vi o torritnrv tn
enter into the transportation business
on its own acount, which it is now
taking the preliminary steps for doing.
The transportation bill which was
passed by the legislature also embod
ied a memorial to congress asking that
the territory of Alaska be empowered
to issue bonds to the amount of five
million dollars with which to further
the plan for carrying on a general
transportation busines. Needless to
say the corporations now engaged in
the transportation business in Alaska
are somewhat inclined to look upon
the proposition of the territory to en
gage in the business as something of
a joke, but it is no joke with Alaskans
who, realizing that self-preservation
is the first law of nature, are very
much in earnest in their efforts to in
augurate some system which will re
sult in the lowering of freight rates
from Seattle to various Alaskan ports,
which rates for some time past have
been changed invaribly and raised al
most as regularly as have the calen
daric phases of the moon.
Cheaper Rates Needed
“The present crying need of Alaska,
next to cheaper freight and passenger
rates, is an army of prospectors to
penetrate her mineralized fields and
discover new mineral deposits, and
now that the war is over and the spirit
| of adventure runs rampant in the
young manhood of America it is confi
dently believed that spirit will prompt
thousands to come North and with the
everlasting throng it is to be expected
there will be many prospectors and
prospectors are the vanguard of perm
anent poplation and that Is Alaska’s
greatest need today. Systematic pros
pecting will result in bringing to Alas
ka a population that will stay there
twelve months of the year and that is
what makes for prosperity in any
country. Our broad expense of the
country west of the Mississippi which
was settled mostly after the Civil war
was not settled by a class of people
that went back to their former homes
ip the east every fall, after a corn
shuckin’ or hog-killin’. The present
trouble with Alaska is that too many
people imagine it to be fit for human
habitation only about five months of
the year and that they are entitled to
Carnegie medal. if they remain there
two weeks after November 1. All this
is undiluted bunk. There is nothing
spectacular about living in Alaska any
more than there is about living any
where except that the Lord provides
just a little more lavishly in Alaska
than elsewhere. Permanent popula
tion is needed to create markets for
her products and with a permanent
population millions of acres of waving
grain and cattle on a thousand hills
are not only possibilities but probab
ilities of the sweet by and by.
Concerning Fish
"At the present time,” continued Mr.
White, “the fishing business of Alaska
is her greatest and most prolific indus
try. Her output of fish and fish by
products last year were upward of $51,
000,000 and indications are that those
figures will be surpassed the present
year. The fishing industry of Alaska,
therefore, needs no boosting. It will
take care of itslef—as long as it lasts,
which at the present rate of fish de
pletion, will not be for many years,
and then will be heard the refrain:
‘Where will we go from here, boys;
where will we go from here?” That
refrain has already been heard in
Washington, Oregon and British Co
lumbia, but when it was sung there
was still Alaska to fall back on. But
the day is coming, and is not far dis
tan when Alaskan waters will be as
barren of salmon as is the Ottowat
amie river in Kansas, and Alaska
will be but little better off for having
once been richer in fish than any other
portion of the known world. Fully 90
per cent of the fishing business of
Alaska is carried on by nonresidents,
who bring their crews there in early
summer and taken them out in early
fall, paying them off at some point
one side the territory, and all Alaska
gets out of the whole thing Is the
credit of furnishing the fish and the
pittance she collects in taxes. jfTrue,
the tax on fish was raised by the late
legislature to the extent of 20 per cent
but in comparison with the porflts on
the business the tax is infinitesimal.
Incidental, the late legislature approp
riated the sum of f80,000 for the pur
pose of experimenting in fish hatcher
ies, a veritable gift to the outside
corporations and companies that are
becoming rich at the expense of
Alaska In that they are reaping all the
rewards incident to her greatest
asset.”
Praises Governor Riggs
Mr. White says that Alaskans with
out regard to politics or party have
implicit faith and confidence in Gov
ernor Thomas Riggs, Jr., who is de
picted as being both progressive and
constructive. “Governor Riggs,” said
Mr. White, “is fully alive to the re
quirements of the territory and is de
voting his every energy to its growth
and upbuilding. He is untiring in his
efforts and resourceful in ideas for
bringing about prosperity and in
serving the territory In an able and
efiicient manner.
“On the whole, the outlook for
Alaska is better at present than at any
time within the past several years,”
said Mr. White. "Hundreds of old
timers who were attracted to Seattle
and other outside points by war-time
wages are now returning North, con
tent to remain there. They agree
with the poet Service, where he says:
‘The strong life that never knows
harness,
The wilds where the caribou call,
The freedom, the freshness, the far
ness—
Oh, God, how I’m stuck on it all.’ ”
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