The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1911-09-04
Nature t las Bestowed
Rich Blessings on Valley

How long viii it S' last: for it Is sure to come
an end later Thus it happens
that placer dggings never even tend to de-
velop other resources for the reason that the ex-
haustion OF the placer gold leaves it just where
the discoverer of the paCers found it. Not with
a quartz camp. for the reason that quartz in its
very nature gives permanenCy to the camp and the
results OF the promise of permanency will be far
reaching indeed. With permanent quartz industry
in the Tanana there will be assured a permanent
local market for all kinds of farm products that
thrive upon the rich i'll of this great and beauti-
full valley. and behold. new industry springs up
and becomes permanent. Thus farming becomes
more permanent than the quartz mines. for
when farming becomes established it will remain
though all other industries should eventually
die of exhaustion. As it has been thoroughly dem
onstrated that farm products can be abundantly
produced from the rich soil Of the Tanana Valley.
and that there millions of acres Of such soil.
it requires no stretch of the Imagination to
splendid future for thousands of farmers in the
Tanana Valley. if the farming industry be given
the backing of permanent quartz industry. Not
only will the quartz mines open up splendid and
permanent farming industry. but. it will certainly
bring a railroad. and perhaps two or three from
the coast II the Tanana Valley. and fares and
fares and freights in the states. and such reduction
in transportation. and the cheapening of all farm
products produced at home. including beef hogs.
and sheep. which can be and will be raised
cheaply here as in the states. Thus it will be
brought about that the cost of mining will be
ieSsened TO such extent that lower grade
hundreds of thousands of acres of low grade
gravcls that will all be worked when the cost of
mining is reduced to one-haf of the present cost.
and the cost will be reduced more than One-half
by railroads. farming and stock raising. And
stated above. the permanent quartz mines. will
bring the railroads. the farms. and together they
will put hundreds OF dredges work our low
grade grayes, The quartz mines will open the coal
fields and give to the farmer and miner and bust
nessman coal 50 per ten, ana the coal at the coal
mines will send electric power to al points il the
Tanana Valley Al 500 per horsepower per
mum. All modern convenionces will follow, and
Fairbanks will grow to be a city of 100000 and
Will be RAILROAD center as we'll as the point of
distribution 20 all parts of Interior Alaska. The
Wholesale houses will be located Fairbanks.
and the Seattle spirit will be transferred from
Seattle to Fairbanks. We will have only the
best public schools. but colleges and scminarieS.
We will educate children in all of the and
sciences right here at home and the ambition
and vigOr of our population under those prosper
Gus and permanent conditions will make in
situations good, that in the course of time the
old world will send her children here for inspiration
and instruction in music, painting and all the fine
arts. II can be truly said that nature has be
slowed its richest blessings the Tanana Valley
Rich quartz in abundance: the largest coal deposits
in the world the greatest collaborating gravel de-
posits in the world, and last but greatest of all
millions of acres of rich aluvial soil that will
bordering a great river whose steamboats, con
meet with the ships Of the
Verify the future of the Tanana Valley offers
the very best, and shall and will attract the very
best.