The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-26
ALASKA AND ITS RELATION TO
 AMERICAN TRADE AND INDUSTRY

bulletin just issued by the United States Department
 of Commerce there is lengthy report Alaska and Relation to American Trade and Industry" Among other things shows $4000000 output of the products of the territory 1914 that of the previous year. The report contains much of local interest that is with repubshed for the information of readers:
 Merchandise and treasure to the of $665OOOOO moved between Alaska and the United States in 194 crease of $4OOOOOO 1913. Our shipments Alaska last year, according to the bureaus of foreign and domestic commerce, aggregated $22500000 including approximately $4OOOOO worth of manufactures $6200000 worth of food stus and $2OOOOO worth of gold silver and miscellaneous materials including foreign merchandise valued $5OOOOO As market for products Alaska having population of only 65000 is of equal importance China with popua ton of 336 O00OO0
 Alaskas great purchasing power is natural coroary of it's enormous mainly god copper, fishery pro duets, and hitherto deveoped beds of coal and other min erals In the period since 867 Alaska given to the world $25OO00OO0 worth of gold, $8300000O of fish, $65 OOO00O worth of seal and other aquatic skins worth of copper nearly $50000O worth of whale warus and hs Os S2OOOO worth ot silver and whaebone coal gypsum marble, tin and vegetables in sufficient bring her total output to than $5O0000000 This result has been achieved with population and inadequate system railway and other transportation facilities. With the era o government construction recently announced by the department of the interior the development Alaska will be greatly accelerated and that territory which already yields as much gold as California; which produces half the world and which includes domain large our area east of the Mississippi and acreage tiage several times that of those sections of Norway Sweden Russia similar latitude With lOOOOO sOuls be expected attain an greater degree of industrial commrca importance
 Alaska's commercial relations chiefly with the United States Shipments to the United States last year valued at OOOOOO Canned salmon $18000000; Alaskan gold $14 6OOOOO Canadian gold $35O00OO; Alaskan copper $500 OOO fresh salmon $75OOO seal and other fur $6OO and miscellaneous fish and fish products 25OOOO were the largest factors Our purchase of fish and fish products from Alaska last year toaed $2000O0OO five times as much as imports of this class from Norway. Of salmon alone we bought from Alaska 2OOOOOOOO pounds in 1914 or an of pounds per capita.
 'Trade with Alaska has doubled in ten years Our ship mens of merchandise to Alaska increased from $ 23 in 1904 to $2 61O86O in 914 while receipts of mercandsn from Alaska have grown from $O64 92 to 85832 Re cepts of foreign gold from Alaska fell value from m l9o4 to in 1914 while those of domestic gold from $909O957 $4598237 in 1914 or double the sum of
 2OOOOO paid by this country Russia 1867 for the terri tory in question:
 1.-The value of imports into Alaska from foreign conn tries last year 669 99 which $396 900 worth entered from Canada $464l9 from Russia in Asa and $19675 from Australia and Tasmania Domestic exports from Alaska to foreign countries otaed in 1914 $OO531 of which $967 6O went to Canada and $28 7O1 to Russia in Asia ,,