The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-28


 Ketchikan yesterday on the Jefferson and left this morning for the Sulzer mine on the west coast.
 Mir. Sulzer is one congress man who is truly friend of Alaska. In all Of his public utterance whenever an opportunity permits, he sound the praises of the nortbland. He was in Ketchikan before there was any First City in Alaska and is proud to describe himself as sourdough. He has been all over this district and understands the needs of Alaska as we'll as any man here.
 As owner of the famous Sulzer mine he has shown himself friend to labor and his miners and workers are treated not only like human beings but like fellow beings and every safee uard is installed for the protection of their lives and every decent reasonable com fort allowed them.
 Mir. Sulzer will be in this district for several weeks, not only in the interests of his mine, but to renew acquaintances and meet his hundreds of friends and enjoy some of the health ful Alaska sunshine, air and rains.
 The Seattle Time quotes him in a recent issue as saying the Exposition will result in more good to the North ern district than ten years of persist- ent advertising and will be the great est factor conceivable in educating the people of the United States to the value of resources of the great empire now in process of development.
 The Exposition is winner. Any man on earth who can see the fair, see what Alaska can produce in the way of agricultural products and see what high standards have been set ip all branches of the exhibits from the North, will have his mind forever dispossessed of the idea that Alaska is a land of snow and ice.
 Seattle and the Northwest have won the everlasting gratitude of all Alas kans by holding this fair. It vii be instrumental in teaching everybody what have so long said, that Alaska is only on the threshold of its agri- cultural, timber and mineral develop ment. Why, the Panama and the White River Valleys are the most fertile valleys in the whole world. l said that years ago and people laughed at me. When say it now they will not laugh at me for the evidence is right in the Alaska Building at the fair and in the Mines Building"
 Congressman Sulzer is one of the original Alaska "roosters. says the Times. He talked a wonderful future for it. They laughed at him then, he had been there and he knew what he vas talking about. "Oh, yes" he said today. "They used to say 1 was crazy when I would tell them that the North was capable of supporting and feed ing population up in the millions, They do not laugh now, Never in the history of the district have the eyes of capital, big capital, heen centered on Alaska as now. I tell you that dis trict is just today beginning its real growth"
 The New York congressman says that business and industrial conditions all over the country are improving rapidly and tha at there is no reason on earth why the present era of prosper ity should not last for an indefinite time. Mir. Sulzer brides himself that he was one of the first men to talk of hol ling a Pacific Coast Exposition, but says that his chance suggestion that one be held never led him to believe that fair of the magnitude of the present one would result. He has visited every exposition held since the Centennial, but says that the A. Y.-P. E. for tastefulness and quality is far ahead of them all.