The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-25


Alaska being topic of the hour there i timely
terest story ted by William h Stewart Il tho
Worlds Work Of its wonderfully rapid develop
men The whole stretch OF the Tar northwest Ca
madam Wen American. repeating the wonder
stosy of California magical growth
Within year Alaska win be traverssd by rail-
mus the system northwestern Alaska. 10
already city of sec population The railroad tracks
tat to Nome furhest north Of all the world:
they are almost within arctic circle Nome has good
hotels daily banks electric lights teiegTspss
teephones-sn short complete enfnt Of civilization IL
is connected by cable with MlchaeIs and 6y tele
graph with Dawson SSagway.
When the railroads buls.ns and projected
completed II viii only need short northern spur from
Russas great siberian railroad 10 give
cation from New York Paris
Meantime. Dawson is the city to which All railroad
building leads Dawson has 1o population
cipal equipment includes improvements It's
assessment for taxation Is sIeaooo II ia
stsIng sSosos water-snpply plant
The Yukon river is open navigation from May "a
October and forty stern-"hee steamboats, ply between
Dawson and st. Mehaels. covering the 1sce miIes N
about ten days
Primarily the railroads built 10 tap
Alaska and the Canadian
yukon. But contrary old notions. there
agricultural ana forest wealth be developed ths
hudson Bay North Saskatchewan and Peace river
tricts Nearly thousand miles north OF the boundary
between Alaska and the Canadian northwest Ia the
ley of the Peace wheat barley aud
quantities limited only By number
rortherly rOer-proceSs min the
has been built vsrmluon The wheat which took
prize Centennial Exhibition 1876 at
Philadelphia. from the Peace river country. which
IS estimated TO contain than 100000 OF good
grain-growing soil.
The postal service OF this empire embryo is Won
der Man leave Paeinc daily. bringing
bags from Sitka Skagway Nome and other points by all
manner OF means-wagons. dog-seds etc Russian rein
carry over and
hills remarkable rSpidty. highest saaried
postal official in the world IN Alaska. lie paid
s25.ocs a year carrying the mail fortnghty 20
Yukon. providing his dogs and sleds for pur-
pose. Alaska has upward OF hundred postoicea
and mails collected and delivered regularly beyond
the arctic circle.
The fisheries Alaska rich beyond calculation Is
cod banks be.eved equal in wealth those
foundland More than half OF entire salmon product
is Alaskan last worth ss5oo ooocxactly
what paid Russia for the whole territory.
The winters Of Alaska less rigorous than those
OF Wyoming Montana, horses and cattle
ed there without fear of being frozen The cold intense
but there storms Except the Of Behrns
Sea all the hardy vegetables are grown with marked
success throughout Alaska the Canadian Yukon.
south of the arctic circle.
As a of Alaska's growth noted
total foreign trade all she bought and all sold
less than $1,000 in value, while the fiscal
ending June 90 last ii reached a total sSooisa
Americans and British settlers pushing steadily
north into this territory about equal numbers
and Mr.. Stewart that the entire Canadian
is already American than British
istrative system"
President Roosevelt speaking Seattle In May last
predicted that living would AlaAi.a
of the greatest OF the popuious OF
Union" 1t be that II viii become too great
populous for state. for It's area il
than that OF eighteen the present
Union including New York. Pennsylvania Virginia
diana, Louisiana and Lame To another cosnpsTi
son. Alaska includes territory than British
Isles. France Germany. Portugal Belgium afl put
together The of such imperial domain must
great indeed