The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1915-01-01

a paradise for the willing citizen who
is not afraid to work. There are vast
stretches of Alaska yet UNEMPLOYED,
but enough is known to insure the
statement that millions of happy PEG,
pie will some day make their homes
in Alaska. Great cities will be built
on our vast plains and mountain
slopes. The roar of wasted water
falls will give way to the grind OF
mills and factories. The millions of
fish taken from our waters annually
for foreign markets will be consumed
at home. The vast coal fields will
furnish heat to make Alaska warmer.
Our copper and gold mines will fur
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turtles to come and our forests will
supply the whole world with pulp and
lumber for many generations Juneau
is blessed with its share of all these
possibilities Notwithstanding the fact
that Hammond's Home and Office At
las of the World for 1915 distributed
by the Leslie-Judge Company of New
York has this to say:
Juneau, Capital of Alaska has a
considerable trade in furs and blank
cts and wooden mill"
We are now entering new era of
prosperity which is destined to con-
tinue in magnitude until all other gold
producing communities are eclipsed.
We have mountains of gold producing
quartz at our door Many well known
mining experts have said that mining
will be carried on one hundred years
hence in the Juneau gold belt on a
larger scale than can now be contem-
plated. Juneau now bears the dis
tinction of being the metropolis of Al
aska. 1t may not always be so, but
we will see our city advance with
other sections of Alaska, for it is the
key to Stewards Ice Chest" geograph-
ically, and our mines make our bust
ness more stable than conditions in
a factory town. The whole world is
seeking our products regardless OF
market conditions, which insures us
a permanent payroll.
A trip to Alaska along the inland
passage is inspiring. Nowhere in the
world has nature provided such lux
ury for the sightseer. A trip cover
ing more than 800 miles where the
waters are as smooth as the proverb-
ial millpond, dotted here and there
with small islands, protected from
the ocean swells by continuous
chain of larger islands reaching from
Cape Flattery in the South to Cape
Spencer in the North with hundreds
of beautiful bays and inlets; a sports
mans paradise. From every noun
tain slope beautiful streams are seen'
their waters glistening through the
wooded slopes, disappearing now ana
then, only to reappear at some turn
as the steamer proudly ploughs her
way onward at last losing themselves
in the ocean waters. These streams
are without exception teemlng Win
various species of trout, the larger
rivulets affording spawning grounds
for the myriads of salmon and otner
food fishes.
One is impressed with the beauties
of Taku and other glaciers along
the way which are fast receding'
with the snow-capped peaks, the oeau-
tiful shore lines and the extensive
forests, but very few have given
thought to what this will all De III
few years. Gastineau Channei
few years ago appeared just as ma
1estic. Today it has the appearance
OF an active commercial center. Moun-
tains are being torn asunder TO mahe
room for mills; extensive tunnels are
being driven to reach the gold iaden
ores. and the shore line Is oeing
broken with wharves and other de-
delopments. yet we have the outline
OF what nature provided In beauty.