The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-06
William SuIzsr Discusses Alaska
 
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 SEATTLE. June 2S.--Another big copper producer will be added to Al. askas already long list within two weeks William Sulzer former gov. ernor of New York. arrived in Che city yesterday and will leave soon for Ketchikan. Alaska. where he will op- en the property owned largely by the Sulzer family. about forty miles from Ketchikan. He is registered at the Rainier-Grand.
 Within two weeks the property will be shipping 1000 tons of ore per month and perhaps a great deal more, The mine has produced Sl250,00O. of which S632O00 was expended in Sc. attle for supplies and equipment.
 Under the supervision of Charles ! Sulzer a brother of the former New York governor. forty men win be put to work as soon as preparations can be made. The Suizer mine was clos ed down last September, when copper dropped to 2 cents a pound. At the present price of copper the ore yields on average profit of S2O ton. sul. ger will take with him big consign. ment of supplies.
 As a Congressman from the State of New York. Sulzer caused to be en- acted moro Alaska legislation than any other member of the House. Be- sides laying the foundation for the construction of Che government rail- road by bringing about the passage of the bil that created the Alaska Railroad Commission Congressman Sulzer put through the Alaska dele. gate bill. the Alaska revenue bill un- der which an federal moneys collect. ed in the Territory are re-expended in the Territory instead of going inc to the government treasury; the Ter ritorial government bill the Alaska road bin. the fishing bnl, the mining bll and many other measures. He ai' so took a hand in Che formation of the Alaska code.
 Sulzer. who has made many trips Go ail parts of Alaska. is strongly Of the opinion that the. cheapest and the best thing for the government to do is to divide Alaska into three parts two states and d territory. and he pre- diets ahat this win be done within tiie next twenty years He says that aere is less similarity between the needs and wants of the people of the Southeastern and Northwestern part of Alaska than there is between Ari- zona and and Maine He says South eastern Alaska should bo called the state of Seward. Southwestern AL aska the state of Sumner, and an the country north of the Yukon. where the temperature is excessively cold in winter. should remain the Territory of Alaska Under this plan, he be- lieves, the people would be able to de- velop the country themselves without help from the federal governmente and that the development. of the lat. ent material resources would greatly benefit the people of the whole North west country
 While the Alaska railroad will not benefit either the tin mines at Nome. or the copper mines of Southeastern Alaska, in which the former New York governor is interested. he be- lieves tkat it win prove Of great bene- fit to tic country as whole not on- ly in developing the resources contig- uous to 1t. but to advertising other parts Of the country
 Alaska Needs Capital
 What Alaska needs worse than anything else" he said "is capital There are half a dozen good little cop. per mines in the region where we op. crate but the men owning them need air compressors and other machinery. Mining copper by hand drilling is too costly"
 Except to remark that the fight against Tammany in New York will be continued and that unless Boss Charles F Murphy takes a back seat in Democratic affairs, the state will go Republican. Sulzer refused to talk politics. In regard to the war he said that every patriotic American should stand by the President
 He wanted to talk about Seattle and Alaska, both of which he says have