The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-06
sULZER TALKS ON ALASKA TO
 NEW WORKERS

4N tue lttoL AuoAA a ANhANA HUH AbANADA Gov William Sulzer, of New York in which was enclosed the copy Of a speech which he had delivered. at the dinner of the "Pioneers of Alaska, 9 held at the Manhattan Hotel, New York City, Monday night, Nov. l5.
 Gov. Sulzer took strong ground for full Territorial government" for Al. aska. in addition to giving the people of New York graphic description of Alaska.
 Gov. Sulzer's speech follows
 My friends, Alaska Is Q marvellous land. It Is a great country. It would make 470 states the size of Rhode Isl. and. It has the greatest gold, and Iron, and copper. and lead. and coal. and tin deposits In North America. Alaska has 599.446 square miles of territory-more than 3S3,645.440 acres of land-and the greatest fishing wo, ters in all the world. teeming with the best food fish on earth.
 Alaska is over twice tho size of the German empire; fourteen times the size of the state of New York, and has more copper known today than Michigan and Arizona combined. It Is one-fifth the size of the entire United States; has paid for itself ten times over in money actually col lected In Alaska and deposited in the federal treasury. Alaska was pur- chased from Russia for S7,20000 less than two cents an acre, and has pro- duced in gold and silver alone more than forty times what it cost-the cheapest bargain in land in the an- nals of time
 Alaska has @ known coal-bearing area larger than all the rest of the coal-bearlng area of the United States. Alaska has the greatest cattle and sheep ranges in the north. and agri- cultural possibilities beyond the imag- nation of the finite mind--a mighty empire is Alaska that welcomes hero ic men.
 "Take the map of Alaska. Look at it. If you place this map. of Alaska, in actual area on the map of the United States. one part of Alaska will be In the Atlanu cocean opposite Charleston; another part of Alaska will be in the Pacific ocean opposite San Francisco: another part of AL aslIa will be in the Gulf of Mexico south of New Orleans; and another part of Alaska will be In Canada. north of the Great Lakes. People have no conception of the vastness of AL aska. and there has been disseminate ed throughout the country for several years in the past more transformation regarding Alaska and It's resources, and It's people, than about any other matter of public moment in the his tory of our country.
 Let us examine this map of Alas ka. Here is the part of it called Southeastern Alaska; this part Of 1t is called Southwestern Alaska; and this part of it is called Northern AL aska These divisions mark the nat ural divisions of Alaska. Nature made them so. Congress cannot change them lt a straight line from Cape Chacan. in Southeastern Alaska, to Point Barrow. in Northwestern Alas ka. is about 5000 miles In a straight line from Cuba to Greenland Is less than 5000 miles. and there Is nearly as much difference in the climatic conditions in Alaska on the Pacific coast as there is between Cuba and Greenland on the Atlantic cost. The climate on our Atlantic coast is gov. erned to some extent by the gulf stream. The climate on the Alaska coast Is governed almost entirely by the wonderful Japan current and that inexplicable current Is much greater than the gulf stream
 Southeastern Alaska has mild climate. The summers are cool. The winters are warm. The mean temper ature at Sitka is the same as the mean temperature at Washington. D. C. Southwestern Alaska has climate similar to the climate of Southern Canada. North of the Yukon river Co the Arctic ocean Alaska has cold climate in winter, and hot climate during the short summer months.
 Southeastern Alaska is composed largely of beautiful islands It is a mineral and Q fishing country, rich now, and destined to become more SO. Some of these islands in Southeastern Alaska are heavily timbered with val uable pine. spruce hemlock, and red and yellow cedar.
 The timber resources of these isl- ands in Southeastern Alaska are in- valuable. and thus far they have nev- CT known the sound of the woodman's axe. They are virgin forests.
 "The fishing industries in South eastern Alaska are becoming the greatest in the world According to government reports. there are over thirty different kinds of food fishes, and only recently the United States Fish Commission found the habitat of these fish on the great banks off the coast of Alaska-the home of the cod and the salmon, and the halibut, and the herring, and the mackarel This part of Alaska will furnish for years and years to come enough food fish to supply the wants of the people of the United States.
 Southeastern Alaska will never be an agricultural country. because 1t is too mountainous. It has no valleys and no rivers, but 1t has an ideal eli mate. and it is going to be the sports mans. and the poor mans. and the sick mans paradise It 1t is a saying up there that When the tide is out the table is set because no man need go hungry in Southeastern Alaska. He can live. without work. on the products of the sea.
 Southwestern Alaska. from the in ternational boundary line to the Aleu tian islands, Is a wonderful country and quite different from Southeastern Alaska. This part of Alaska Is ricl in mineral wealth; incomparable fir it's possibilities for cattle and agricul ture, and part of 1t Is well timberet and exceedingly fertile. There arc great valleys in this part of Alaska the Copper river valley, the Susitnl valley, the Yetna valley the Tanani valley the valley of the KuskOlrwim