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In his annual report to the Secre
tary of Commerce E. I,. Jones, super
intendent of the U. S. Coast and Ge
odetic Survey, devotes considerable
apace to Alaska, from which the fol
lowing is taken:
An important difference between
Alaska waters and those of the con
tinental United States is that scarce
ly enough work has been done to
let us know just how much must be
done to complete the charts. The
development of the country has far
| outstripped the progress of surveys,
not only because of the few vessels
and parties engaged in the work but
because of the great length of coast
over which the various activities are
scattered and the intricate system of
channels for so much of its extent.
In order to appreciate the need
ot rapidly extending the surveys of
these waters, it should be clearly un
! derstood that Alaska’s only connec
, tion with the rest of the world is by
I the water routes
The government railroad now be
ing built and the other existing lines
Bre not trunk lines in so far us con
nection with the continental United
States and Canada are concerned. The i
trunk line is the waterway from vari
es ports in Alaska to Seatil- ami
other west coast points. The Alaska
'■'ads and locsf steam hoat iir.es are
i feeders only. The industrial, which
include chiefly mining of gold and
; copper on an immense scale and of
various other minerals to a less ex
: tent, fisheries, especially salmon can
j ning, but also supplying halibut and
| other fish to the market, agriculture
I and grazing, now of minor Importance j
f but developing, are scattered every-i
where, and connection witrf prfi»
| cipal ports is by boat. The' princi
l Pal towns are on good harbors' suit
! ably located with' reference to the
steamer routes and the more import-!
ant mines and canneries, and any
town that loses any of these advant
ages soon declines in importance. fn
praatically all cases the canneries
and mines along the shores are visit
ed directly by steamers. The value
of water-borne commerce during the
past year was $110,368,178.
The amount of these natural re
sources ripe for exploitation has been
! so great and the prize they offered
! so tempting that transportation could ;
! not wait for the government to make \
1 th«> wa\ to tliem secure. It has gone \
ahead, finding its own path to each •
j new field, suffering great losses in so •
I doing, but content to suffer them be- :j
I cause the returns were so immensely \
\ greater.
The Coast and Geodetic Survey, j
which in this field should have been ■
the pioneer showing the \jay for com- >
i rnerce to reach each new enterprise, :j
has, instead been following impotent- :•
I ly behind, charting the dangers less •:
j from data obtained by its own surveys
; than from reports of vessels which j:
[ have been wrecked upon them,
i It is high time that such a state of T
j affairs be corrected, yet it will now
| take years before the surveys can
I reach a point where they can even
i meet the needs of present commerce.
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REP. WILLIAM S. VARE
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Representative William S. Vare of j
Philadelphia, who, with his brother,
was accused of complicity in the gun
men episode in the primary election
in the Quaker city.
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GERMAN SOLDIERS ARE
VICTIMS WAR DROPSY
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 4.—A new war dis
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