The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-03-23
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Is a Country of Tremendous
 Resources.

still more countless millions of game
 birds iu the cover of her limi,leSs forests aud plains, the broad land Is life sus- tsiuiug from the Pacific to the Arctic ocean, from the great lakes ut Ihe head of th, Yukon to the Behring sea.
 Volumes could be written on the sub- feet ol .lc iuexhausible resources of the country, ana were man io d. justice Co the whole subject, some of the's,ories would sound like the congregations of a person suffering from an abuormally de- yeloped imagination.
 Principally ;he salmon cenueTies of Alaska produce at the present time more than co per cent. Of an the salmon camel u the whole world. and ,he inc dus,ry Is sul iu its infancy. With the rapid development of the salmon hatcheres aud @ more rational manage meut, the whole catch of the rest of the world will be equal ,o only a fraction of the annual outpu, oi Alaska.
 But salmon is not the only 6sh school ing 1u ,he Alaskan coast and iIs outly- ing b1uks The output of the herring fisheries, that were started ouly two or three years ago, has already reached a magnificent proportion and will in che near future be second to uoue iu tEe world, the tremendous berriug fisheries Of Norway no, excepted
 Evsp body has heard something Of the cod fisheries Of Newfoundland or ot D5gger banks of Loioddeu in Norway. But some day there will be reports from Alaskan cod tauks that will reduce these now famous fishing grounds to comparative iusiguiicauoe.
 Reports of vast schools Of mackerel, larger and richer than those caught iu Che Atlantic, are now coming in from the westward, and American enterprise will soon take advantage of this new field.
 Tue immensity of the Alaskan haiibut banks is aimos, beyond conception. Upon them 6shing schooner can be loaded iu a few hours. Only lack of rapid transit to the markets of the world has kep, the shipping ot halibut from being a great worldwide industry.
 Tue fame oi Alaska as game coun- ,ry is world wide. While the costly fur. bearing animals are now becoming scarce iu the more settled parts. there are still large areas where they abound. Tae deer ou lhe islands of the coast are s.tu plentiful, iu spite Of the enormous numbers killed every year, aud in the interior the caribou and moose are still common. Beurs of several varieties are very plentiful m wilder portions Of tue country. Bands of mountain goats range the higher uplauds. O fur ani- mals. thc fox, lynx, mar,en, beaver, o,- Ger, mink and many other species, are -tll caugt, each year in large numbers.
 Alorg the Alaskan coast the sea Is alive wi,h schools of ool'cau. bass, many vari,ies of cod, dace, trout founders and soles. The rivers and lakes of an c e country are full Of trout, ;he spo',iye crayliug; ,he voracious pike and deli- cious large whitefsh.
 Through the enactment of an eGec- tive game law, fur and fowl and meat and the iuvigoratIng sport of the chase win be saved for future generations.
 Alaska has limitless forests of red and yellow cedar, spruce, hemIock, birch, cottonwood and alder. Some of the trees grow Co a la'ge size and will scale on tbe average beteI than the timber in Che eastern forests In Alas ka IS the reserve supply for Ameri an lumbermen.
 What can Dc done in the line of iarm- ing has been treated in another arti le in this issue. The people Of the s ales will with wonder see proofs of what Alaska can produce at the Worlds Fair iu Si. Louis next summer. This couu- try can exhibit garden produce that is incomplraDle in growth and quality.
 Evidences ol mineral wealth are ob- servable everywhere throughout the country. Few Of Che splendid prospects have been exploited, though there are many paving mines Of gold and copper in various parts of the country, The millions that have been mined from lodes and piacers is as nothing com pared Co the certain outpu, Of the fu- ture. The time vDl come that Alaska will lead the world in producing copper and gold. This has been found m the far North. Beds Of iron are plentiful but receive DO atteuti n, coal abounds throughout the Co-k inlet country, while along the coast of the Peninsula Of Alaska coal oil has been discovered in a number of places. It Is a land of signal promise for mine investors, min CTS and prospectors.
 Kodiak, on the coast, is in the same latitude as Aberdeen, Scotland Low