The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-24
WOMEN CONTINUE
 TO PRAISE ALASKA

sources on account of its granting the right of franchise to women. The following is from the New Orleans Item:
 Another star has been added to the suffrage flag. The first bill passed by the legislature of Alaska at it's ses' sion gave full suffrage to women; and the vote in both houses was unani- nous. Every star on the suffrage flag is beautiful, but this newest one is big as well as bright. Few persons who have not visited Alaska have any idea of it's size and natural resources. Lena Morrow Lewis. who has just visited it. writes in the current issue of The Progressive Woman;
 ITO readers who live along the At lantic coast, it seems long way from Boston to San Francisco, and the chunk of land up in the corner to the northward. known as Alaska, appears to be but step away. But one can send a letter from San Francisco to Berlin Germany, and one to Fairbanks, Alaska, on the same day, and get an answer back from Berlin before one is received from Fairbanks.
 Has Vast Food Supply.
 Distances are deceiving, but not more so than is the geographical To- cation as regards the climate, pro- ducts and resources of Alaska. It hardly seems credible to one who has always thought of this far-off north country as the land of snow and ice bergs, that, if Alaska were cut off from the rest of the world, she has within her own borders sufficient re- sources to feed her people.
 "Tens of thousands of caribou roam over her hills and valleys, The moose and bear are plentiful, while the duck and the curley and the ptarmigan are rivaled in their abundance by the fish of the sea.
 Gardens Are Luxuriant.
 But native foods are not limited to animal life. Almost every kind oi small garden stuff grows very luxur iantly. Blackberries and raspberries grow profusely along the southern coast. and through the interior, not very many miles from Arctic circle are great stretches of blueberTies One cannot speak of patch of blue berries nor even field of berries, fol one may 'mush' (Alaska language fol 'walkO for hundreds of miles through 2 the interior and pick blueberries every step of the way.
 While on our way from Fairbanks to Panama, as we stopped at little village to get wood for the steamer one of the men went ashore and pulled : few turnips from the garden nearby . They were so large that was curious enough to measure one of them, and : the circumference was 25 inches. My next thought was to taste it and sec if it was pithy and tough, but to my surprise l found it remarkably sweet , and tender. And what is true of the . turnip is the same of all other summer vegetables and garden stuff, so far as size and flavor are concerned.
 Is a Land of Flowers. Wild flowers grow in great profus ion and variety, while many of the cul , tivated kinds are most gorgeous il their coloring. have never seen more beautiful pansy beds anywhere in tho United States than in Fairbanks, Alas ka. Even strawberries have mastered that Arctic climate, and arter Eiucl care gardeners have been able to pu } limited supply on the market. Wher they are selling at 75 cents a dozen only the very well-to-do can afford to eat them. Wheat grows six fec tall in the Panama valley
 Alaska is more than twice as large as any State in the union. Texas itsel having only 265, ,7SO square miles, ant Alaska 59OS44. It is more than eigh times as large as all New England. | is more than 12 times the size of New York state. It is about one-sixth tho size of the whole United States. It is almost two-thirds the aggregated size of all the enfranchised states, which cover S9O,255 square miles. It is larg CT than Great Britain, France, Ger many, Denmark, the Netherlands ant Greece put together.
 Great Resources.
 Alaska has great timber resources Its chief industries at present are min ing, and the seal and salmon fisheries