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The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-30

VOTES WILL BE COUNTED EACH TUESDAY and the results
the following day. Votes
contestant o another after being cast.
The will be counted each week box placed in
the GazetteNews office where ballots be at any
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-30

Grady Coleman and his father ar
rived here Monday. making the trip
from Moultrie, Ga, in their Ford
car, and are spending the week with
G. C. Odum and other relatives.
They will leave next week for the
interior on a camping trip, and hope
to enjoy some good shooting.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Olds of Michi-
gan, have recently located in an apart
ment at the winter home of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. G. Wells, on the corner OF
Earl street and Peninsula drive. Mr..
and Mrs. Odds were here two years
ago and spent the winter at the home
of c. b. Poor
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-30
TOURISTS BIBLE CLASS.
SEABREEZE AVE. CHURCH

This class meets at 10 a. m. every
Sunday in the East Annex of the
church.
After the regular lesson tomorrow,
the class will be addressed by DR..
Charles Frederick Goss, Of Cincin-
natl
All are cordially invited to come.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-30

Miss Ella Warren, of Chicago. ILL.,,
has taken rooms at the Poor home.
Miss Warren is greatly interested in
birds and has discovered a new
species since her arrival
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-30

Il delightful snap and zcst to the
meeting in conclusion. and the en-
tire company thanked Mrs Esch and
the president. Mrs. +. j. RanSlow, for
setting the ball in motion
The slogan of the Tourist church
is. "Mide-fellowship' The new pas
tor, Rev. Elmer Willis Serl, has
awakened much interest in the serv-
large. Sunday school begins at 10
o'clock Sunday morning. All resi-
dents and tourists on the peninsula
are invited
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-30

Miss Bell Brown, of Philadelphia,
Pa, is guest at the pleasant home of
Dir. and Mrs. Messenger on the north
east corner of Earl street and North
Halifax avenue. where she will spend
the month Miss Brown is much de-
lighted with Seabreeze when the sun
shines
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-30

Mrs. Frank Meyers, of Atlanta, Ga,
who regularly spends part of the win
ter in Seabree2e, is now in Jackson
Vile, visiting her daughter, Mrs. Col
lier, en- route to Scabrceze to join Il
party of friends ut the Dixie Lodge,
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-30

II you see it in the Daily News 1t is
pretty apt to be just that way.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01
FREDERICK w. BRADLEY

Frederic w. Bradley, since 1900 consulting engineer of the TreadwelI mines and for the last several years president of the operating company, Is one of the big figures connected with mining in the Juneau district. In addition to being president of the he is president of the Alaska-Juneau company, and one of its principal owners. He organ. ized the owning corporation.
 MT. Bradley Is 53 years of age, and native of Nevada county, Cal. He Is a graduate of the University of California, taking the mining course there. Later, he established a fund for the University for the purpose of making loans to students In the School of Mines with which 10 pay for their education there. He began min- ing in California in 1890, and later became associated with the famous Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine in Idaho as consulting engineer. He was made consulting engineer of the Treadwell mine in 1900, and has heen interested in Alaska since that time. He owns and is interested in many mines all the way between Alaska and Mexico. -a
 Mir. Bradley was married in 1901 and Is the father of four sons. I Mir. Bradley is one of the great mining men of the country. He noI
 only Is a master of his profession ir detail, but, with mind fashioned foz big things. he is an organizer and dc veloper. .# EHt.E ..Hz# 7
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ekA0WAY, ALAskA

OKAGWAY is the natural headquar. N ters for tourists and sightseeers.
 No spot on the Pacific Coast of. fers a more profitable or interesting place for you to spend either a short or long vacation. on account of the miscellaneous places that may be wis. ited with such little outlay of money and time. The reasonable cost of living 1t another feature. You will be surprised when you see for yourself.
 Here is also the Gateway to the Golden Interior" richer than the i'm. agination can paint, greater in maJes- ty and beauty than the far.famed Switzerland, and unsurpassed in Iov. Illness of nature. This little town contains 1000 people, and is pictur. esquely located in . valley which Is the terminus of the White Pass q Youkon Railway. It is surrounded by lofty mountains, tremendous Eiac. isrS. numerous beautiful waterfalls, and such scenery as should prrove . magnet to attract men and women from afA1.
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and soon old Travers went insane. Real pioneers now were breaking in- to the field that most people consid- cred an impossible one. H. D. Clark, | at Skagway, c. H. Anyway, at Haines, Pete Lundeen, at Eagle, Young and William McPherson, at Seward, Knud- son at Mendenhall, and others, each established an experimental station and ran 1t without government aid,
 and succeeded. Yet they were not
 the first who tried, for in 1881, fur
 trader, Dickinson, planted at Haines,
 and harvested results. Col. Sol Rip
 insky had little poultry farm at
 Haines in the early sos; there were
 gardens about Juneau, and one enter
 prising truck farmer, being asked to
 send vegetables to an exhibit in the
 States, objected, on the ground that
 others would come and raise produce
 and spoil his business.
 The summer of 1897 the Agricultur-
 al Department woke up to the fact
 that there were in this northwest,
 belonging to the government, areas
 equal to two or three of the countries
 of Europe. in same latitude and under
 similar climatic conditions, and that
 in those same countries there were
 some ten or twelve millions of peo-
 pie living on similar lands. There
 came to be a demand for unoccupied
 lands, when an Indian reservation
 was thrown open the line of appli. cants stood for days at the land of.
 flee waiting for chance to home stead. Why not do something with this Alaskan countryf So the sum- mer of 1897 two agents of the Blu reau of Agriculture travelled along : the coast of Alaska and reported re- suits. In 1898. special agent was appointed to conduct investigations in the district and demonstrate the , feasibility of the lands for settlement < Then another branch of the govern ]. ment at once withdrew about forty F million acres of the most accessible f lands from occupation, and adopted [ l. policy opposed to that of the Agricul tural Department. One of the super ]. visors in answer to inquiries as tt d the possibility of securing land in thu r reserve made the answer. ''What for !. There is no soil in Southeastern Al e aslta." g r. l. But time brings changes in al y things and the attitude toward SC,
 clement changed. A special agon 3 travelled along the Southern coast e and his capable report showed al d area of ten thousand square mile IT of grass lands on the Southern an d Southwestern part. The special q Ie ent in charge for AIaska after traye rS he over tAo district made an ct
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to Alaska. The start has been made and the next census will show . val. uation into the tens of millions.
 The population of Alaska was about S4.OO0 in 1910. The report of the Blu. reau of Fisheries for 1913 shows nearly 10000 men employed in the fisheries. Of these about 5000 are natives and white residents of Alas ka. and about 5000 more reside here part of the time. Over 10000 are brought from the States each year and are taken back each fall. bring ing with them their provision and equipment and when they go away they leave not the price of a plug of tobacco in the land for all the mil lions they take away. If citizens of Alaska were employed. and they were living on small farms along the coast, 1t would mean almost the doubling of the population and with employ. ment for every man. The families
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mate that there were one hundred thousand square miles of area that was adapted to some form of agricul. ture. Stations were established oV. CT the district. and they demonstrate ed that all kinds of harvy vegetables grow exceedingly we'll. and that grains will ripen. and that 1t is . na- tural grass country. They raised cat tie. sheep and hogs. The native wild strawberry has been hybridized with the cultivated varieties, they
 have brought wheats from the steppes of Russia and barley from Finland
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01

On Strawberry Point are there farms recently taken. and at this place are acres of wild strawberries.
 There is an unlimited quantity of fertilizer immediately at hand in the sea-weed and kclp beds of the coast. Hogs thrive on the shellfish of the beaches. There Is a ready market near at hand for every pound of beef. butter. veal, pork. and mutton. The prices have the advantage of the cut ting out of the wholesale dealers prof its in the States. and also the freight on the steamers up the coast.
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lands was hooted at, and Sheldon Jackson was censured by grand jury at Juneau for wasting the gov ernment money on an impossibility. Time has demonstrated the feasibil- ity of the reindeer project, and time Is fast wiping out the fallacy that farming cannot be done in Alaska. It is destined to be a land of home steaders, most of them with but from will be thousands in number.
 To go back to the beginning of the attempts to produce vegetables and grains in this country is to go to what is almost ancient history. In 1790, at Kodiak, there were gardens with sev- eral varieties of vegetables success fully being cultivated. and there were some fowls and animals in the set clement. About 1910, Campbell, a Yankee sailor from the fur trader O'Keen's ship, was teaching English in the schools at Kodiak, and he re- cords in his account of the place that a Russian a few miles from the post kept them supplied with butter and milk from a small dairy. Petrol, in his report on the census of 1880, says that potatoes had been raised in the district for more than so years. When the occupation of Sitka was accom-. plished the first thing that was done, after the Qualifications and buildings were constructed, was to clear land for the kitchen gardens. When the land was transferred to the United States in 1867, the agent for the Rus. sian government, MT. Buynitzky. in c note relating to the transfer, spec ially mentions the tracts of meadow and garden lands belonging to Rus sian residents and stipulates that the title to them be confirmed. This wal promised, and unfuliilled and 1t wal forty years before the United Statei even confirmed the title to the Greel church, while the titles of the indi Viduals lapsed for want of confirma tIon and for want of a means Q transfer by proper record. The pol fey seemed to be to prevent the oc cupation of the land by actual sci tiers if 1t was possible to do so. an' general orders issued by the Wa Department during the military occu patton stated that settlement on tn land Is unwarranted by law and mil tary force may bo used to remove an settlers.
 It was more than thirty year before the homestead laws wer extended over the Territory, an when they were 1t provided only fc homesteading on surveyed lands an there were none of these at that tim ia thO District. Nearly ten more yeAl
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01
MRS. HARRIET (. PvLLEN

Mrs. Harriet s. Pullen is one of the best known hotel proprietoFs in the North. The Pullen House, of Skagway, with its beautiful grounds, It's home dairy and chicken yards, and homelike atmosphere is known of all who came to the North. .s
 Mrs. Pullen Is a Skagway pioneer. She came to Skagway in 1897 with her family of young children. She engaged in packing on the Skagway trail. Later she added . modest ho tel to her interests. still later che leased and then purchased the hand some residence of the late Capt. VII liam Moore, locator of the skagwa, townsite. She has added to thii building and built others until sh, has . group of buildings facing . park like enclosure. It Is one of the mos delightful places in Alaska to spen, . vacation. s
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for employment will be at hand in the forests, the fisheries: and the mines, for every man, while he has his home on his own land. This will be the land of the small farmer, in- dustrious, self-reliant, and independ- ent, the best class of citizens that form a nations strength.
 Southeastern Alaska by virtue of it's situation is likely to attract farm CTS who will make small homesteads. It is nearest to the States and the transportation to that part Is mater ially less than to the more remote portions. The amount of land in any one place Is not great but the aggre- gate of the tracts available Is con- siderable. Small rivers run into the inland passages and on these river bottoms are areas of varying amount which are valuable both for grazing and for gardening. To many of these places men have come during the past year. From Duke Island near Dixson's entrance, to the mouth of Glacier Bay on Icy Straits. there are claims being taken. One hun dred and sixty acres only are allow ed inside the forest reserves, while
 320 acres are allowed to be entered
 in other localities. The soils of the
 southeastern part are composed of a
 glacial debris which has been en.
 riched by leaf mold. On the areas at
 the terminals of the glaciers in some
 places the timber has not encroach
 ed, the grass Is found In considerable
 tracts. The best soil, however, fl
 covered with dense growth of forest and costs from $76 to &160 per acre
 to clear. Drainage Is one of the chie
 problems in this land of heavy preci [ pitatlon, and must be solved in ordei ] successfully to produce crops upor I the rich, black, mucky soil. Grasi !, crops are hard to cure and silage vii , likely be necessary in most cases. Al . through this part there are men pick
 ing out tracts and making settle ,. ment
 b One of the drawbacks to settlemen @ is the law that on the waterfront fol ' ty rods must intervene betwee > claims. This makes 1t difficult e make roads for there is the unowpe ]. strip that must be worked across, l. prevents settlers living closely {, y gether. thus making communities fc s mutual association, and 1t also leave e an improvlsed tract, untaxed, an k. which is . harbor for wild animal ,t and pests which annoy the settler Id on both sides. The market is gene
 ally good. Every town of the coa
 takes more beef and mutton than .. half dozen farms could produce, a1 b butter and cheese arc continually | A ing imDoetod fro1 tAo Dlaasa
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money. then went back to the States and spent it. are again coming back North. and what is more, they are coming to stay. It is like the west of thirty years ago when those of the East came out. got disgusted, went back to Gods Country" as they termed 1t. then in a year or so came back to the Pacific coast and found that 1t was the Garden Spot of the World. The same story is in Alaska
 today. People are coming to find 1t one of the choice places of the world. A land where the grass grows where ever the forest is prevented pushing 1t out of existence. where the wild
 berries are in boundless abundance, where the forests are full of game and the waters teem with the choic- est fish. Already are the people of the State of Washington finding that vegetables of the North excel those of their own state and are importing
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01
THE SANITARY GROCERY

"One of the best places in Juneau at which to trade is the Sanitary Gro cery." Z
 That statement will be made un. hestitatingly by many Juneau house wives, and others who patronize Sroc- cry stores, because they know by ex. Derience. They act upon their be- lief, too, and give the greater part, If not all of their patronage to the Sanitary Grocery. .
 The stock carried by this store ts second to none in completeness aAd in quality of merchandise. None but the we'll established standard lines are carried, lines which GunnaT Blomgren knows win live up to the personal guarantee which he implies as being given with each order.
 The proprietor of this excellent ee. tablIshment 10 Gunnar Biomarop, an experienced and capable Eto lceryniaD who has followed thA, Ilino o1 trAAo Bog yoaRo.
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Alaskan turnips and other of the toothsome products that grow better here than in other attitudes. They are learning that homes and home steads are to be had here that are just as attractive as in any other of the lands under our flag. SO the tide of immigration has turned
 north to settle on the soil, and from this day on Alaska is to be a land
 where agriculture is to take its place alongside the industries of mining and fishing, and the small farmers of this country will form one of the wealthiest communities of its kind,
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01
Horticulture In Alaska tf

elapsed before the right to home stead unsurveyed lands was granted. In 1897 a Surveyor General was ap- yet to be more than ten years before a section of land was surveyed for settlement. In Oregon. in three years after 1t became a Territory. the Dona- tion Land Claims were being taken
 on surveyed land, and in the eastern
 part of the State the survey posts were so old that they rotted and blew
 away in dust before the settlers came. while in Alaska 1t was more than for
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01

The attitude of the government to- ward settlement has changed. In- stead of ordering the soldiers to re- move settlers by force if necessary, there have been surveys made, after nearly fifty years of delay, in the val leys of the Susitna, and of the Tan. ana, and in the forest reserves, after approval by the Forest Supervisor, the land will be surveyed by the gov ernment. This removes a big obsta- cle. for. to to make a survey means a cost of from one hundred to five hun dred dollars if made by the applicant.
 The result is that more homesteads
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01

There are many places where small colonies can find homes. estab- fish a post office and have . com munity center. There are areas on the Tyee Sahnka. on Excursion In- let. in the Chilkat River Valley. on the shores of Icy Strait, at Eagle Riv- CT. the Taku river. the valleys back of Frederick Sound near Petersburg. there are tracts near Wrangell. about Sitka. among the islands adjacent to ketchikan and in many other places.
 One island of about 100 square miles in extent has been leased from the Forestry Service under a grazing permit by two men. They have 50 or 60 head of fine blooded hogs al- ready on the ground and are expect ing to place cattle on the pasture lands. Here the snow seldom falls more than a few inches deep and lies on the ground but a day or so at a time.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01

could have the small farms as they do in Norway. and to the tops of the mountains in summer the cattle could
 be taken, as they are to the noun tain farms of Norway and Switzer- land. Above the timber line grows the same sweet herbs that have made the cheese of Switzerland famous the world over. Then. when a railway is built in Alaska. people from the district will do the work and the mon- ey will inure to the benefit of this country and build up its interests and not be. as when the Copper River & Northwestern railway was built, taken
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01

to furnish a seed adapted to the eli mate.
 Individuals have not been idle in the development of this branch of in- dustry. The Fairbanks market is al most entirely furnished with local DO tatoes. Diaries are to be found from the Southeastern end of the Pan handle of Alaska to Nome and veget- ables of the finest in the whole Unit ed States are grown from the Arctic Circle to the southernmost limits of the land. This year shipments of sheep and cattle have been made to the islands of the westward to stock
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01
By c. [. Andrews

cluding Rhode Island Reds. White Wyandottes. Buff and White Orping tons. Minorcas. and many other oi the very best stock obtainable. From the reindeer ranges of the North and West the surplus meat is being used In local towns and is each year ship ped to Seattle and sold in that mar. ket in limited quantities. From the original 1900 imported from Siberia the herds have increased to over TO-. 900. and will soon be a considerable addition to the food stocks of the western United States.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01

ty years before a base line was es- tablished.
 But in spite of the obstacles. and notwithstanding that the surveys of a farm cost more than the price of a cash payment for a pre-emption in the west during the latter half of the nineteenth century, by the open ing of the new century here and there in Alaska men began to take home steads. At Sitka. old Michael Tray CTS. a discharged soldier, tried years ago to get a farm on Japoaski island. The Naval Commandant held it as a Naval Reserve busted him by force,
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01

and combination harvesters. It Is
 the region for the small farmer. and
 for him who combines his farming with fishing or with mining, or for estry. Had it been adapted to the development of large areas as a spec ulation 1t would have been exploited long ago. The inquiry has been how can one get a big tract of land, and how can he make it pay? Neither question could be successfully an swered and so agriculture Jagged and was considered the last thing for which the land could be used. Even the grazing of reindeer on the up
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01
GRICULTURE in Alaska 1,

4 GRICULTURE in Alaska is not A new. Some will even yet tell you
 that there is no such a thing and will never be. Some who have spent years in the country will say: How can your raise anything when the ground is frozen?" But agriculture in Alaska has been more or less suc- cessfully practiced for more than 100 years. and is now just at its begin. ming as an industry.
 This is not a region for bonanza farms where big landowners can get rich by running nocks of gang blows
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away from the country to build up other communities. Then will cities build up in the North, as they have in the north of Europe, Kristiania, and Stockholm, and Petrograd, and Alas kans will be proud of their land.
 A new era has dawned upon Al aska. The sourdougs of the ninety seven trail, who came North and made
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have been taken in the last two years than were taken in all the previous history of the country covering over forty-five years under United States occupation. In the census report of 1900 there Is no valuation of farms and agricultural property. In the re- port for 1910 1t appears for the first time in the public records relating
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farms and for several years beef from
 Kodiak and other of these Iislands
 has been sold in Valdez, and other towns. For some years consignments of poultry for breeding purposes have been made to the valleys of the in- terior of the country and this year over 220 fowls went in one shipment and comprised the best breeds, in.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01

Tho Empire has the iareest circu. lation in Alaska. If you want to rcAcA Alaaka reaAars, aAvestiss h M.