SEE ALASKA
Alaska has ’never had'
ter" than 7o rrrer Governc r
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VVi 11 i aim 0 u 1 ze r of a e w Yo r k, hi ms el f an old
says in a recent article which appeared in
an eastern paper: . ... .
Nine-tenths of the people of our country have no conception ox
the wonders, the vastness, and the grandeur of Alaska. Just 31?'
ualize' this: Alaska is one fifth the size of the United otates. Eu
the map of Alaska over the map of the United States and Alaska will
extend 500 miles east of Cape Hatteras, five hundred miles south of
New Orleans, five hundred miles north of St.Paul and five hundred
miles west of San Erancisco. • ■ .
' Alaska is a land of magnificent distances, .tew people realise
To illustrate what I say - the distance from Hanana, Cuba, to Etah,
Greenland, is about 2,963 miles. The distance from Cape Chacon, in
Southeastern Alaska, to Point Barrow, in Northern Alaska, is 3,241
miles, and* there is more difference in the climate of Alaska than ex
ists on the Atlantic coast. How few people know this? It speaks for
itself.
There are really three Alaskas - Southeastern, Southwestern and
Northern Alaska - all empires in themselves, and each different in
climate,' vegetation and natural resources. The Japan Current, five
times greater than the Gulf Stream,'washes the* shores of Alaska, and
exercises greater influence on its climate than the Gulf stream dees
on our climate, and the climate of Western Europe.
Americans should see Alaska first - before they go abroad. There
is more to see, more to learn in Alaska than in any other part of the
earth. Alaska is the wonderland of the world. I have seen much of
Alaska - and know. Last summer I was through the Copper River Valley,
The White River Valley, the Chisana Valley, the Tanana Valley, the
Yukon Galley and the Chandlar Valley - all great valleys, rich beyond
the dreams of avarice in mineral wealth, agricultural possibilities
and material resources. These valleys must now be opened to the
people. Transportaticn will do it. The railroad must be extended.
j. snail ao my pari 10 inis accomplisnireni. According 10 govenmieru
reports, these valleys can feed and support a population of ten mill
ions of people. With transportation, and greater developement, these
sections of Alaska will undoubtedly become the richest gold and cop
per districts in the world and will furnish sustenance and industry
to millions of hardy people. They will be cattle people and agricul
turists, who will supply foodstuffs to the people living in the large
cities of the world. Wheat, oats and barley can be grown in these
great valleys tc greater ad mintage than anywhere else in the world,
to say nothing of hardy vegetables, like potatoes, turnips, rutaba
gas, carrots, onions, cabbages, celery and cauliflower. This on ac
count of the soil and climatic conditions.
You say that I am an Alaskan enthusiast - and so I am; but the
things I said about Alaska a quarter of a century ago are true today,
and every one of my predictions now will come true in the next quar
ter of a century.
Alaska cost the United States less than two cents an acre. It has
yielded in-real money since its purchase more than two billions of
dollars. Alaska was the cheapest piece of real estate ever bought
in all the recorded annals of time.*
Years ago 1 said Alaska was God’s country, and the wonderland of
the world. For health, for climate, for scenery, and material re
sources, it is the greatest land on the face of the globe.
See it.1 See it, and you will agree with me; and become, as I
became, an Alaska booster.
-- Stroller’s Weekly.
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