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ANNUAL MESSAGE OF
GOVERNOR SCOTT C. BONE
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embraces a domain as large as the
average state. Often a sufferer must
endure a trying journey for days to
gain relief. Agents of the Red Cross
who made recent surveys and admin
istered to the afflicted, found distress
in many localities and an urgent need
of additional hospitals and nurses.
4 The steamship Boxer, of the Bureau
of Education, which has just com
pleted its second cruise to Point Bar
row, carrying supplies to the schools
and hospitals, is proving most serv
iceable, but its annual visit to remote
ports does not reach or touch the
needs of many regions. But for the
missions on the Yukon and Kusko
Kwim and on Kodiak and the Aleu
tian Islands, the situation would be
all the more acute and distressing. In
Southeastern Alaska at intervals a
contract dentist of the Bureau of Ed
ucation visits Indian communities to
render needed service and public
health officers attached to the Coast
Guard Service likewise treat the sick
and perform surgical operations. A
Ketchikan physician on such a mis
sion removed the tonsils of a score
of native children in one day, assist
ed by a government nurse.
Coordination Lacking
Unlike the Indians the Eskimos
have shown no desire for the ballot
or disposition to qualify for citizen
ship. They are docile and contented
with their lot, but an aapprehension
is sometimes voiced that they, too,
under designing leadership, may ulti
mately become a factor in Territorial
‘'politics.
While the government is doing
much for the natives, both Indians
and Eskimos, its work lacks coordi
nation and should, in greater meas
ure, be centralized in Alaska to pro
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W. D. Coppemoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEE
Curtis R. Morford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108-Seward, Alaska
J. W. Edmunds, Oph. D
and Dr. ETHEL A. K. EDMUNDS
DOCTORS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
AND GRADUATE OPTOMETRISTS
Eyes Examined, Glasses Con-ectly Fit
^ ted. Optical office, Fraser-Paterson
Co. Telephone Main 2174.
Second at University St. Seattle, Wn.
20 Successful Years in Seattle
Dr. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
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Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
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Real Estate and Insurance
Business Phone Adams 152
Residence Phone, Madison 58
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Arcade Building
ir Phone Adams 121 Seward, Alaska
Ray & David
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Seward and Anchorage
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mote efficiency. Under the existing
system of education and care of
the naatives is directed largely from
outside of Alaska, and long range
administration is never satisfactory.
Cases of destitution among the
whites are quickly relieved through
Territorial agencies, but delay is
the rule in similar cases among the
natives. Often in an emergency the
Territory extends aid, although lit
erally the use of its relief funds
is confined to the white population.
The sending of dependent native
children to institutions outside of
the Territory for training at govern
ment expense is of doubtful wisdom.
Experience teaches that they fare
better in the mission schools, al
though, as a rule, these are inde
quately equipped. The need of a
large training school on Alaska for
the native youtn has long been mani
fest, and additional hospital facili
ties are most urgent. To promote
the efficiency of the native schools
closer supervision is necessary, with
the directing head located in Alaska.
The administration of the Territorial
public school system for white chil
dren affords a model worthy of gov
ernmental emulation.
Thriving Communities.
Although the population of the
Territory as a whole has shown
scant growth, if not an actual de
crease, since the census of 1920,
communities along the Southeastern
and Southwestern coasts, on the
steamship routes, are making nota
ble progress. Development is marked
at Ketchikan, which has had an ex
ceptionally prosperous year, and, in
substantial degree, this is true of
Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Sitka,
Cordova, Seward and Kodiak. Thanks
to improved transportation service—
the best in the history of Alaska,
with regular and frequent sailings—
these communities have been brot
into closer touch and their common
interests conserved. Anchorage, at
the head of Cook Inlet, the con
struction base of the government
railroad project, was temporarily af
fected in some measure by the com
pletion of the work and the transfer
from a construction to an operating
basis, but it is the center of a coun
try of promising mineral and agri
cultural resources and is readily re
adjusting itself to the changed sit
uation. Fairbanks, the northern ter
minus of the railroad, has been stim
ulated by mining activties, with the
access of new capital, and its future
seems assured. All the towns named
shared in the increasing tourist
travel. Nome, in the far north, a
closed port in the Winter season,
is profiting by renewed mining oper
ations which are of benefit to the
GERHARD JOHNSEN
Mason and Plasterer
Phone Adams 60 Box 1423
entire Seward peninsula.
The vast stretch of country con
tiguous to the interior waterway,
the Yukon, from Tanana to St.
Michael, shows the least immediate
promise. It is an unpeopled coun
try, with abandoned mining camps
bearing pathetic evidence of affluent
days now gone, and steamers that
once plied up and down the river
beached at St. Michael and long out
of commission. But for the boat
service from Nenana to Holy Cross,
provided by The Alaska Railroad,
this Yukon country would be wholly
cut off from settled Alaska and
the outside world. Few prospectors
are in the hills and periodical ru
mors of placer strikes in this re
mote region have failed of realiza
tion.
The Official Roster
The government of Alaska, Fed
eral and Territorial, gives employ
ment to 3,227 persons, or approxi
mately one-ninth of the white popu
lation. This includes all officials,
the employees of The Alaska Rail
road, approximately 1,000 in number,
and the rosters of the bureaus. Of
the aggregate the Territorial gov
ernment, conducted with the utmost
simplicity and economy, numbers on
ly 259. Over nine-tenths of those
on the combined official payrolls
are bonafide Alaskans, long identi- I
fied with the Territory and interest
ed in its upbuilding.
Administration is necessarily ex
pensive because of distances and
the great area covered. Closer co
operation between the various bu
reaus charged with duties in the
Territory is attained year after year
and gradually the administration of
affairs is being centralized in Alas
ka.
Exports and Imports.
During the fiscal year ended June
30, 1924, total shipments of merchan
dise to the United States amounted
to $53,821,239.00, an, increase over the
preceding fiscal year of $S36,964.00.
The value of gold and silver ship
ped during the fiscal year ended June
30, 1924, amounted to $0,183,241.00 or
a decrease of $1,313,336.00, making a
total net decrease in shipments of all
products of $476,372.00.
The increase in merchandise ship
ments is represented primarily in the
canned salmon industry. Other min
or industries such as frozen fish, shell
fish, fish oil, furs, marble, etc., re
mained about the same as the preced
ing fiscal year.
The value of canned salmon ship
ped from the Territory during the
past fiscal year, $31,173,975.00, is
greater than all other products of
Alaska put together, including gold
and silver. The value of fish and
fish products together, $36,852,075.00,
constituted over 61 per cent of the
shipments from the Territory.
Total imports into Alaska from the
United States for the 11 months end
ing May 31, 1924, amounted to $28,
125,128.00, an increase over the cor
responding period ending May 31,
1923, of $4,034,565.
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The Alaska Railroad
The Governor expresses renewed
confidence in the ultimate success of
the Alaska Railroad which has
already demonstrated great useful
ness in opening up the interior of
Alaska. Its operating revenues for
the fiscal year were $907,173.88, as
compared with $758,031.38 for the
preceding year, denoting an increase
of $149,142.50. This increase, while
not terge, points to a more stable
condition, economically, in the so
called railroad belt of the Territory.
The gross expenses of the railroad
operation for the fiscal year were
$2,608,587.47 and of the River steam
ers $119,025.26, making a total out
lay of $2,727,612.73.
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