The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-12

| A laka- ukOD IS seen as un6 Only IlnF of land joining the two halves of tht world. Alaska Yukon thus is the only posisble all-land medium of inter-hem
 isphere migration and commercial ant military traffic.
 Alaska Yukon with its 800, 00( square miles is equal in area to six. teen Englands. Were it to sustain the desnity of population of central Asiat.
 c nations, Alaska Yukon would have 1000 people to the square mile. But, reduce it to only three persons to the square mile, and, exclusive of the thousands of miles of sea banks, this Northland will sustain milionos.
 ''This Alaska Y ukon, with its spare handful of pinoeers, not exceeding 60 GOO souls, has had nine-tenths of the active force of today here not more han decade. yet has produced the splendid returns in wealth touching a billion dollars.
 'tFhis modest .advance corps has gained far more than the immediate pecuniary returns which line their pockets, and the greater gain is the knowledge of the riches in store. This is invaluable especially to those who believe in being early in a virgin country in order to get advantage ol it's rgowth. The discovery period. al- though no more than begun, has pro- gressed far enough to reveal to the Northener, and to official scientific agents of the two govermets, that this is land of prodigious resources.
 "Here are minerals equal in extent and value to those of several Colara- does and Montanas; coal fields as ex- cellent, more numerous and over far greater area than those of Pennsyl- vania; timber limits, including pulp wood areas, covering nine-tenths of the domain: deep sea fisheries of l25, = 900 square miles, exceeding those of Nwe England and Nova Scotia; great est salmon streams in the world, with d product in the very partially devel- ored condition today bringing returns equaling annually the output of many of the worlds best gold camps; seal eries. whaleries and fur domains of princely revenues; root crop, berry crop and cereal belt athwart the land !: rivres of water power on thousand high divides: calm winters of electric al vigor, cold hut collaborating ana free from humidity or blizzard fea- tires of great lake or praire regions; 1; and, suifusing all, the midnight sun. forcing vegetation at tremendous pace withouta.re W rest, making of the whole a vernal and flower strewn empire, free from scorch, as equable in sum- mer as California in winter, a haley Ion laud-- the, American continents future summer tos..ist mecca"
 Seattle, Sept. l0.-In the settlement today in the superior court of the Causten grubstake suit against Bar nett, it is stipulated that the partner ship be terminated and the injunc- tions against the Gold Bar Lumber Company and the scandinavian Amer ican Bank, as co-defendants, be vacat- ed. The amount of settlement in the case is not to govern the matter.
 Seattle. Sept. 11.-Judge Silas Reid lett on the Portland today for Valdez tu look after the trials of the sixty Japanese poachers captured by the revenue cutter Bear some weeks ago. Before leaving in an interview con cerning conditions in Alaska Judge Reid said he would instruct the grand juries in his judicial district to probe to the bottom the reiterated charges ma, that there had -been gross fral d in he recent Alaska election for Del egate and that the assertions freely made that Manager Heney of the Gug- geuheinI railroad at .Cordova had vot- ed by the wholesale the railroad lab 'orers regar.Ilesss of naturalization o, legal residence should be ferrited to the bottom. Tie Judge spoke very strongly concerning recently publish ed criticisms made of judicial acts in his district. II, said 1T don't propose to hvae anyone writing books criticis- ing any performance of the duties i1- cum bant upon m Alaska judge. Ap- pOintees of mine must remember that criticism of their official acts is criti- cism of me.' Asked in regard to fu- ture appointments, the Judge said that with the exception of one office. all his future appointments would pro- bablv be confined to bona fled resi- dents of Alaska. w. T. Beeks and wife of Oklahoma accompany the Judge on the Portland. On arrival at Valdez, Mr. Beeks will be appoint ed to succeed Lyons as United States Comm issioner at that point. Judge Reid, after finishing the probe Of the election cases at Valdez, will leave for Fairbanks where he will convene grand jury. Inspector Sayworth of Vacouver also accompanies the arty, going north to act as intrerpreter for the Japanese fishermen at the roach'