The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19
WONDERS Of ALASKA

ANNAAAdA AdOIN oOl ICO OI Al IlAIOO
 By Frank c. Carpenter
 Beginning Sunday January The AgeHerald will publish series letters the Alaska people, They picture great territory be by the railroad budng and will the latest information about that in Congress during the coming session. The letters Frank Carpenter who has the of the year ing the material and visiting accessible of the territory
 Mr. Carpenter went to Alaska shortly after the breaking the last spring He sailed from through and southwestern parts of the country and visited the ne which all od is longer than the distance around the world He valley and travelled several thousand miles the Yukon its bu tares From the mouth of the Yukon he went St. Michael and the seward pennsu and rom there crossed erng sea to the eutan islands the great archipelago that extends from continent regions of the Arctic
 large part Carpenters trip was devoted the lands to be opened by the railway building It will be almost 800 miles long, will open richest of the farming lands of Alaska It will tan the great coal of the valley Seward on Prince William sound with the 5000 miles of navgabe waters which fur nished by the Yukon and it's tributaries The to be Fairbanks the heart of central Alaska city which Mr. Carpenter has visited, and which will be described
 During his trip Mr. Carpenter pennsula which to be traveed by the railroad His travels there grass height waist Mr. Carpenter says the peninsula is half the size of Indiana and that will day farms.
 Further that of his journey Mr. Carpenter age the going the end of the rail road construction There Mr. Carpenter met the officials of the road commission and about with the description will show the work as it is going
 In other parts of the tour Mr. Carpenter visited the private railroads that have been built in the territory including s2OOOOOo0 Copper River n owned by the Guggneims describe the sons from them as to Uncle Sams experiment in ownership
 Many of Mr. Carpenters letters will makers investors and who looking for places worlds He will the which teader He will describe the gold fortune making and with of the deposits of which producing dollars of the pector and the investor
 He will also tell about the fishing yielded hundreds of millions of dollars and it's beginning connection he will show that Alaska furnishing the fresh fish used the United States The fish upon they and cars until they reach our breakfast tables.
 Mr. Carpenter will describe which make Alaska daily con saugherng the deer for such YOU infor nation about the fur farming industry This growing that the the female clerks women peWre yet be their fox f Among the most interesting of Mr. relating to the people of Alaska showing how the land of Arctic the midnight along Yukon and who have their by their Are
 The from $5O to $500 and the eatabes sky
 Mr. Captenter will introduce the Alaska which, when the railroads finished playground of the you volcanoes whose ashes have prkled the word glaciers extent those of the He will scribe the that cothe the @ and the icecad winters where the to ID degrees below He will the big caribou winch about n herds of 10000 the mighty black The dlse and its wild birds numbered by millions world through these letters opened For this work there few better fitted than 30 writing about it for the American people He of his scrptions known a admirers said: ead ing Carpenter is seeing the world"