The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-25

.rous climate and lack of home comforts" and 10 state ConCisely. with the precision and brevity of a government departmental bulletin, some few of the reasons why Fair banks is a desirable city in which to take mp a residence IL is published by the Fairbanks Commercial club for the benefit of those who. Contemplat-
 r, garding the district and what it l has 10 offer AIaska's Golden H art
 Fairbanks has been fittingly styled
 "Alaska's Golden Heart and the
 aptness of the appellation is appar
 ent when the city's geographical To- cation is noted and il is remembered 1 that the surrounding district has ] produced nearly one-third of all the ] gold taken from Alaska since 1SS5. ] Therefore is Fairbanks likely 10 be 1 looked upon as the land Cf OppOr- tunity" by those seeking indeptnd- 1 ence by a quicker route than is map i ped out further back of the last
 frontier. And to many it has been,
 and vet is vertically a land not only of promise but of fulfilment. many hundreds having returned to former l homes, after few years of labor 1 with sufficient of this worlds goods l 10 suffice for lifetime of com.
 fort. while none but the shiftless or unusually unfortunate have been l forced to leave with less than they ] brought.
 1 II has never been. however. nor is ! it yet, the purpose of any represen- l tative Fairbanks commercial body to
 this district. for it is realized that 1 there are certain material obstacles
 to be overcome before the Panama
 valley can afford employment to the 1 thousands that it is surely destined ] to support when it's natural resour- ces have attained more advanced stage of development At present ! the labor field is cirCumscribed. and ! the professional man, store or office 1 clerk, or ordinary day laborer would ] be wise to defer trying his fortune ] here for a year or two. there being l fa n such. To the mining man, however, i the Fairbanks district for years has l been, and promises to remain. the | kldOrado of Alaska In the infancy l cf it's development into a quartz | camp the future greatness of Fair 1 banks can only be surmised. as l could that of Johannesburg before | British capital split wide it's golden Rand. Suffice it at this time that
 the creeks that have already produc-
 ed fifty millions in placer gold are i cut by dyke. nearly thirty miles | in length, that. in the opinion of
 many experts is as heavily mineral 1 iZed as is the famous South African
 reef and that little more than two years of grubstake prospecting has
 developed three paying mines and
 half a hundred prospects that give 1 evidence of becoming such.
 Opportunity for Investment.
 Scattered along this reef, which
 appears to be uniform in it's rich ness, are many properties the devel-
 opment of which is retarded only by 1 lack of capital. and in no part of
 the world today is there a better op- l portunity afforded to the man will
 ing to invest few thousands with
 an almost certain promise of sub
 stantial profit. The owners of these
 claims are willing that the man
 who will furnish the capital to
 open up their ground shall profit
 with them in their discoveries and
 labor, and interests in their claims.
 or outright requirement, are obtain |
 make certain big margin of profit
 over the price of purchase.
 The prospector is. equally with the investor, welcome to the district
 and it is without hesitancy that he
 is advised to try his fortune here
 His field is wide one much of it
 virgin, and no part of it without
 potential possibilities.
 Famous Placer Mines.
 But alluring as is the promise of
 extensive quartz development in the
 camp it at the present time is sub-
 ordinate in importance to the placer
 operations which will undoubtedly
 be continued on a very extensive