The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-08
The Seattle Expo sition
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this exposition to do the needed OK.
Along tho coast line where ehlrlkpf.
and Vancouver explored I'm. the inter
ests OF their respective nations. indus.
try has had a homo for nearly Il NM
xfa MT1S IRON s ,e 1fbs esns
commercial side. As carly as tsll
sli r,;, vas sending flo our, to the Cali
houses built Of lumber cut in Alaska
years ago, and the timbcrs or vcsse,s.
storm driven 70 the coast OF Mexico.
W T.ss from treqn Alaska forests and le
yards. Some OF the worlds greatest
cailneries are or the southeast coast
or the Territory, and the salmon
q the Alaska Packers Association arc
| tho largest III the world. There arc
homes IN her new cities that would
grace the residence streets OF any
grcssivc periodicals are proving to the
rest of tho nation That Alaska iasa
place of'otlcr things than ftirs, Ice aud
when Secretary seward purcl,ased
Alaska in 1867. there were those WHO
earnestly objected. Representative
W wash, OF Wisconsin, was partic-
H "s away ns'e 81 aaa :aspSssd the r Sst
or country which we did not need; that
nobody wanted. and as far as known,
was utterly worthless In revenue
Treasury OF the United states ;i..0oo.-
| 600. and the fur. fish and gold have
brought $3O0.000.000 with q popula-
tion OF 10000, not half OF whom are
States amounts to $5oO0o.o00 n year.
Since her purclIase. her fisheries iav.,
produced oyer .s15o.ooo.ooo, and are
now producing from sS.09o.ooo TO ,I0,-
100000 a year. With all this. her re-
sources are practically ,ndcvclopcd.
and the agricultural lands. lands that
arc as largo az all New England Penn
iuntouched. All these things the
Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition means
to show the people of the world
In tho eyes OF the world the Pacific
young-yet with tho pardonablc AFRO
Eance and unlimited ambition of youth,
that section has forged far ahead. Take
the Oregon country" itself, for en-
YOU In 1851 ,precipitated an exodus to-
ward the Northwest that has had
| little parallel In history. Thirty years
ago there were but ten huts In tho
Kane: now there are the comfortable
| homes OF over 100000 people there.
1 The Oregon River. navlgablc for 1000
miles. has had canal cut around the
Dalles passable. On the trail of the
4 bunch grass hunters" and their herds
| have come farmers and home makers,
who have turned the lands largely to
/ twenty sixth of tho. area of WASH
4 ington has been titled, and last year
more than $4,000, bushels of wheat
Ncre harvested there. The trail blazed
i by old John Mullan in pioneer days
became the route of the Union Pacific
Il into the Northwest. and soon the
\ Northern Pacific and Great Northern
followed TO help open up the coun-
TRY.
Because she and her sister States OF
the Pacific Northwest have made good,
washington Is eager to prove to the
Pacific islands. Washington knows.
as all the rest of the nation should
know. that bordering on the Pacific
are other nations than ours: that these
nations with over 90aoOo.noO people
are traders In tho markets OF In.
world. spending annually 1000. OOo. 600:
i and have hardly begun to do all they
mean to do. Already the commerce
OF this country with China has grown
apace. Up TO 1927. we had not done
S1o.oo0.0oo worth of trade with China
IN 1902 II went 60 s24 100000. and IL:
Mieh assat sso5s sSs aga n
4 TO Tho United. States. The Alaska
Yukon Pacific Exposition Is to show to
!. souutil NflleEiCd. 7SeutTHI ATneTlCa.4 ana
the Orient. especially. and to all tha
rest of the world in general. just what
the Pacific slope and the islands he
A yond can supply in answer to the de-
I ipands of all countries.
{ The people of the Hawaiian Islands
, and the Philippines. alive and alert
to their own opportunities since the
American invasion. are ready to take
part In the exposition and prove their
own progress In theirs own special
lines. Anxious to learn the many great.
: untried resources of their islands, thes.
people are ready to encourage imm;-
grafton, ready to be built up indus
trially and commercially. even as tho
rest of the nation has been built.
Alaska and the Pacific Islands await
, the worlds realization of their great
: resources. their unbounded wealth,
/ their adaptability to the agricultural.
!, mining. commercial and manufacture
Ing enterprises of the nation. This is
, the lesson that tho Alaska Yukon
Pacific Exposition has come 10 teach.
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