The Nome nugget., 1902-02-05

aS you are tOGs Y. were COmp!alniDP CI the inclene1cy of wind and weather in the barbarous northern regions and were speaking of the long winters and short summers on inhosptable shores. The old monks have left Us minute chronicles how with persevering patience they succeeded after many vain attempts to .aclimatc one plant CT fruit tree after another in the garuen, surrounding tb%ir meaasteries. To these old pio,,s pioneers can be traced nearly every f. uit tree or garden plant under cultivation today in %,orlhern Europe. A picture painted <, B. l00O of the Baltic Seu Is true of the i}ering -ea oI today. It slow> ice bound barren shores, dSkeless and uncontrolled rir- CT, which in the summer tre>hetS were overtioMing vast districts: the drawings of pe tat bogs and >waa'ps fit our tundra: . cos stliac of sanddunes and an occas- iunal ,imberbelt. Of tI'ackless forests. around large end shallow lagoons where skin clad inhabitants were roaming, living principally by hunting and fish ing, at times grubbing on acorns t nd roots without knowledge or thoughts of till ng the soil: how like 1t all is to the condlli@Gs rrevallirg around the Bpting Sea today. Go to the Baltic Sea today aud you will iiud that,a short thousand years of Christianity have changed all it's shoros into a garden of the world wherein grows the c'eanes5 civilization on earth. Travel around these shores and visit the many large cities only short distances -npart like St. Petersburg. Rig&, Koenigsberg. Dan,zg. Stettin. LueOeck. Kiel. Copenhagen, Stockholm and many others mhicl,are all seats of learning hand Ike home of large industr es. Ev- cry acre of land you have travelled over is under highest cultivation. By human efforts, i. Q. by creating perfect drainage for the melting snow in the -spring, thereby barring the land more quickly and and giving the sun $ heat a chance to penetrate into the | soil. the summer seasons have been heightened. There is, practically, never any spring in the wilderness wlere the slowly thawing snow and ice and the cold creating evaporation Of undralned waters relard the sea sons that it always seems as If we are jumping. out of winter directly into il late coming summer.
 What it has taken a,lthousand years to accomplish prior to tl!e nihe, eenth century, our own quickening civiliza- tion will accomplish ill less than d ceu- i lury. The ma0 who fifty years ago would have predicted the present culti' vation of the west would have heer called visionary. Ocean traffic build: big cities, railread create great coun' tries. The ratio of progress Is forever increasing. Obstacle-, climatic and otherwise, are stead lv mo.e easil! overcome by the growing human in genuity. No one can fo etell today what our engineers fifty years from today n.ev be able to do. If Macau'aS had made hi, New Zealander a1 Alaskan his vision would have been trner. The star of the empire has started to travel 0 the north. .an nd thouai Il we are but ltL.e aware of it. we ,are making world s history here in AlaHks today. When the xhOle world shal
 be civilized, Ala ska will be it's. cescer ardhweare laying now corner stone of the future.
 From Boring straits to the southern' most reaches of the South American continent is abuut the same distance as it is to all the Old World centers o activities. Here in days to come the nan of affairs who wishes to be within the quickest reach of every uart of the earth will have tt live. It is mans nature tn prefe, to travel by lan,, and the grea, trade route vii follow the course o
 least water transportation. Trans continental railrua Is were the achieve
 ment of the n neteenih century: tht twentieth century will bring the .m er continental railroads. Our railroa' magnates of today will be like pygmie
 alongside of ihe uen who shall bui!t and u,anaYe the worlds belt road iron
 B ,en"s Ayresrto Cape town.
 The savage plunders values, th' civilized man crt ates them, and $ civil
 ization is great according to the per manent values it creates. All the golt
 produced hy the soil of Alaska todd.
 and SO hastily taken out of the conntr.
 will be within a few short years re
 turned 10 us with manifold interest Capital is longheaded, and will .alway
 go to the growing eenters for permanen ; investments. Our. own confidence Il our future is half the battle. Th' , American self confidence, strengthened by the civil war, caused the quick ant | I,,-,,nooloo+ol h <,f tho V'nitof