The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
WONDERS of ALASKA
Sunday Age-Herald to Begin
Remarkable Series of Articles
By Frank G. Carpenter

Beginning Sunday January The AgeIIerad will
publish These letters will describe
the it today the of its rapid development by
soon be opened up by the new railroad Uncle building
and will the latest information about region that will be discussed
Congress during the coming session. The letters will be written by
Frank Carpenter who has spent the most of the past gather
visiting every accessible part the territory
Mr. Carpenter went to Alaska shortly after the breaking up of the ice
last spring He sailed from island to island through the southeastern
e which, all told is than the distance around the world He
crossed the Alaska the White Pass railway into the Yukon
taries From the mouth the Yukon he went St Michael and the
Seward peninsula and from there crossed Boring to the ean
islands, the archipelago that extends from continent almost
to Asia He has also gathered material about the Ekmo and the icy
regions of the Arctic ocean
opened by the railway That road building
of the richest of the farming lands Alaska will the coal
mines of the Maannka valley and will connect Seward Prince
William sound with the 5000 miles of navigabe waters which fur
nshed by the Yukon its tributaries The terminus of the road
to be at Fairbanks the heart of central Alaska city which Mr.
Carpenter has visited and which will be described
During his trip Mr. Carpenter went from Seward the Kena
peninsula which to be aversed by the railroad His travels there
we're largely on foot and on part of the way being through
grass OF the height OF mans waist Mr. Carpenter the peninsula
half the size of Indiana and that it will day be covered with
farms
part journey Carpenter Anchor
the entand the the rail
road on Iurnaga Anchorage now the headquarters of the rail
road construction There Mr. Carpenter met the officials of the rail-
road commission and went about with the engineers and His
description will show the work as it is now going on
In other parts of the Mr. Carpenter visited the private
railroads that been built in the territory, including
2ooooo Copper River line owned by the Guggenlems He will
describe the and operation OF these roads, and draw les
from them Uncle Sans
ownership
Many Mr. Carpenters letters will be of interest money Makers
investors and who looking for places settle and for
He will
and show the advantages and disadvantages which
He will describe the gold Of
fortune making, and present. connected with them
the great copper deposits of which producing millions
of dollars and the coal lands that open
pector and the investor
He will also tell fishing industry Welded
OF millions OF dollars
connection he will show that furnishing
the fresh fish used the United States The fish
they from the carried storage ships
and until they reach breakfast tables.
Carpenter will describe the industry which
promises make Alaska daily con-
sumption He has visited the reindeer herds them
aughng the deer for such shipment He will give you nfor
about the fur farming industry This growing that
day when the female department stores and
typewre be wearing their Alaska
Among the most interesting of Mr. Carpenters be those
relating to the people OF Aaka showing how they live
the land Of Arctic winters and the midnight along Yukon
the valleys Of its tributaries little settlements inhabited by
their
surroundings The
from $O to 49, 90 and the prices
Mr. Carpenter will also introduce the of
Alaska which, when
try the playground of the United States show YOU
volcanoes whose ashes prnked the glaciers which
extent those of the Hmaavas He
scribe the that cohe the gorgeous veee
taon embracing of flowers many vare
ties and the cead where down
to 70 degrees below He will the game Alaska
caribou which about herds of 10000
the black
disc and its wild birds numbered by millions short new
world and through these letters
this there better
ter For than 80 he travelling the globe and
writing about for the American noducon
for the of his plain simple graphic de-
scrpons are known all As Of his admirers has sad
Carpenter seeing the world.''