The daily Alaskan., 1907-07-30

in Alaska, From one end of the ter rttory to the other gold is found The past production which yielded it's hun. dreds of millioos, is but a bagateIo compared with what the future will be. New discoveries are reported almost every week and the districts that have been in operation for years, are but scratched oyer. Asimple illus tration along these lines will suffice .tha Guggenheims are this year spend millions putting in machinery in the Klondyke district which IS one of the very oldest in the north and their faith iu its riches can be taken as a fairly good criterion that the district is not yet worked out.
 This nomadic mining "C2longl" pratss of two industries, and only two. which Alaska has-mining and fishing. What benefit does Alaska get from its fishing industries, pray? Through con nivauco aa5 fraud congressional piracy Is maintained which provides chat pittance of four cents @ case is paid the territory for tho privilege or allowing its streams to be stripped of fish. Each season corporations send crews of hungry, diseased Chinese fish erman to Alaska. They bring with them the rice and tea they eat, and when the seasons catch Is finished they go away. And this is one of the "only two" industries the "Colonel" has en- cOuntered in Alaska,
 Nor has the fishing industry been left immune from the hungry maw Of those who would have Alaska congroll- ed by federal troops. Lobby after lobby has been sent to Washington in the interests of those who control the fishing rights and they have sought to have removed the four cents @ case royalty the territory is receiving, This attempt Co rob Alaska of her income from the fisheries, which revenue, by the way, is used to build roads into the interior, doubtless was viewed by "Col- onel" Sutherland as 8 proposition which would be acted on likewise as a Good business man would under siml- lar circumstances"
 i've can raise just about enough green things to give us Q few things three months in a year." Iu this state ment "Coloner' Sutherland surposscs himself The latest report of Prof. 6. . C. Georgoson, special agent for the Ag- rtculmraI department at Washington, shows that in the garden of Judge Frank E. Howard, at Coldioot, sixty miles north of the Arctic circle, rhubarb lg inches long; cabbage weighing eight noro5s and turrips which wefgbgd six teen pounds were grown. Taken aJ random from reports which appear in . the same publication, and which cover
 every section Of Alaska are letters writ- ten irom growers of garden truck who tell of the wonderful success they hal
 with radishes, lettuce, turnips, beans. cucumbers, beets, parsnips and cabbage ali placed iu the ground 8 few weeks later than those planted in the south and all of which mltured and were
 served in ample season. Here tn Skag- way and in other places potatoes are grown that will average more than five hundred bushels to the acre; at Ram
 part station, which for the sake of com parisou, we will say is as far north as northern Sweden, good barley, oats and
 winter rye are raised. At the Copper l Center station Of the agricultural de
 partmeut more than 8AOOO worth of hay
 was sold last year, all of which was
 raised on the station farm. An order 1 issued by the War department on the
 tenth Of the present month directs chat 1 TO more canned vegetables be shipped
 to the Alaska Posts for the reason that all the vegetables required can be raised by them here. There ig no bet ter grass anywhere than in Alaska,
 Horses that are allowed to forage for
 themselves all winter in the interior