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and the richest of the undeveloped public domains
 These unusual features, coupled with the con spicuOus part Alaska has taken for many years m the production of the worlds output of gold, and with the growing realization that Alaska has agri- cultural and grazing of vast extent, m addi- tion to gold silver, copper, lead and coal, and furs and fisheries have united tO awaken keen and widespread interest in Alaska, it's possibilities and opportunities.
 The purpose of this booklet, issued officially by the Seward Commercial Club, is to meet the de mands of that widespread interest by answering accurately and cOncSey the questions that naturally arise in the minds of people who never have been to Alaska but who wish to know of the opportunities it offers for farmers, stock growers, prospectors miners and business men,
 Alaska and Northwestern Europe Compared.
 The best idea of Alaskas possibilities may be had by comparison with the four countries of North western Europe-Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark-in the same attitudes, under identical conditions of climate. For convenience, they will be referred to as the four Scandinavian countries
 Alaska covers area of 566446 square miles, the four Scandinavian countries, 454,365 square miles.
 The Japan current moderates the climate of Southern Alaska exactly as the Gulf Stream mod crates the climate of the Scandinavian countries.
 In both, the winters are mild and damp on the coast, but colder and dryer in the interior, with long days, weather and luXuriance of plant growth in summer.
 Many millions of acres of spruce and hemlock cover the valleys and mountain sides of Alaska and of the Scandinavian countries alike.
 Tillable and Grazing Lands.
 The four Scandinavian countries together have 16O00 square miles under cultivation and 75,O00 miles in grazing The Department of Agriculture has classified 600O0 square miles in Alaska suit able for cultivation, mostly in the Susitna' the
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veloped; it is the only route from which feeders and branches may be projected to every productive part of Alaska.
 Importance of Matanuska Coal
 The Matanuska coal, which this route opens, IS the only coal on the entire Pacific slope which has measured up in every official test with the best coals of Pennsylvania and West Virginia 1t there- fore must bear the same relation to the commerce and the industries of Alaska, of the Pacific slope, and of the Pacific Ocean, that the cOals of Pennsyl, vania and West Virginia bear to the commerce and industries of Pennsylvania, of the Atlantic slope, and of the Atlantic Ocean.
 Why Seward Is the Terminus.
 The question is sometimes asked: "Why was the ocean terminus of the railroad established on Resur- rection Bay at Seward, and not at point on Knik or on Turnagain Arm?"
 The answer is simple: The barriers of nature in
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to be the Stockholm or Christiano of Alaska, and steamers will come and go daily, bringing every part of Alaska and all the principal ports ats on the Pacific together at Seward every day m tne veal tourists, attracted from every state in the Union and from every nation in Europe by the lneompar- ar able grandeur of lake and mountain scenery ana py the unsurpassed hunting and fishing throughout the Kenai Peninsula.
 Progress of Railroad Construction
 D., +l,o sumrner of 1917 the Government railroad is expected to be completed from Seward continu- ousy as far as the Matanuska river, and on up the Susitna Valley. Rapid progress in constructor IS being made.
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(The principal known mineral and mining districts are indicated In numbered circles. follows Port DICK district: 2 Sunrise district. gold; ,, Resurrection district copper Falls Creek district sold Latouehe district cop per Boring fields the Valdez district gold and copper B. amua district. gold and copper D. the Bonanza mining district by the Alaska Syndicate cop m TO- the Matanuska and Matanuska iroH sHd gold district: H. Willow Creek district gold; l2, Ientna district
 gold 3O Nulao fields S 32, and S3 Seward Pennula districts gold and silver Broad Pass district gold and cop per I6 Nenana coal fields; IT. Kanshna district God lS
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Trains will then be in operation from Seward di- rect through to the Matanuska and the Sustna valleys, and from that time forward interior Alaska can absorb many thousands of immigrants every year The railroad should be completed from Sew ard to tbe Panama river by the fall of 1918.
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Routes of the Government Railroads.

The main trunk of the Government railroad, ex- tending when completed 412 miles from Seward to the Panama river, with 38-mile branch to the Matanuska coal fields and 3S5-mile through the Kuskokwim valley, will unite the 4OOO miles of navigable rivers of the interior directly with the Pacific Ocean at Seward All the commerce of in- terior Alaska will then meet the commerce of the world with Alaska through the open port of Seward as the commercial center.
 Kenai Peninsula.
 En route from Seward to the Panama river the Government railroad will traverse the Kenai Penin- sula absorbing the present Alaska Northern, com peted for seventy-one miles, which the Government has bought to form part of it's main trunk line. The Kenai Peninsula, 1S,00O square miles in area, surpasses Switzerland in grandeur of scenery. It IS the hunters paradise for bear, moose, mountain sheep. grouse and ptarmigan. It is studded with gold and copper veins and its valleys and mountain slopes are green with dense forests and grasses.
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s E w A R D
Hs The Gateway to g5 ST A L A s K A Sf

The building of a system of Government-owned and Government operated railroads to open and pop ulate Alaska marks an epoch in the industrial hS:. tory of the United States 1t is the first protect or the kind which the Government Of the United States has undertaken. It is undertaken too, m the last
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With a reasonable passenger fare and a freight rate corresponding, which the Congressional debates on the Alaska Railroad Bill indicated would be adopted as an inducement to encourage rapid settle ment and development, the increase of population should be by leaps and bounds.
 The opportunities for proSpectors, for miners, Tor manufacturers, for stock growers and for farmers in the great new country thus being opened have never been surpassed in any part of the United States.
 How and Where to Get Located.
 For the gardener, the dairyman, or the poultry farmer, the valleys in the Kena Peninsula and the great valley of the Sustna offer locations to tens of thousands Much of the land most of 1t, in fact, has to be cleared of timber, but large profits are to be made from small tracts intensivey cultivated. Vegetables of every variety grow lux urianty in the long days of Alaska's summer.
 For the stock grower there are millions of acres of grass lands throughout the Kena Peninsula, in the valleys and on the mountain sides The red top and blue stem grasses here yield two to four tons per acre. Winter feeding is from four to hve months. 1t is within the literal truth to say that of the Kenai Pennsua's II ,52OO00 acres, 4,OOOOOO is suitable for grazing. 1t has been estimated by Montana stock growers that the kenai Peninsula alone could support 2000000 cattle. It's climate the year through is the best in Alaska.
 Similar conditions presented Tn the SuSltna Valley and on the mountain slopes that surround It, where hundreds of thousands of beef and dairy cattle can and will be grazed and wnter-fed.
 For the Miner and ProspectOr.
 Placer and gold quartz prospects and mines are numerous in all the country between Seward and the Kena river.
 The Kenai Peninsula has gold dredging grounds below Kenai Lake, where the gravels yield from 27 cents to $1.50 yard, estimated to total 2OOOOOOOO yards in distance of fifteen miles. Other dredging districts being developed near Sunrise and Hope
 The mountains of Kenai Peninsula streaked with gold quartz. The Moose Pass district in par ticuar forty miles north of Seward, has a we'll defined dike that has been traced for nine miles It is four to twelve feet thick and carries values of S200 to $4000 per ton. Large capital will be re- qured to develop it with mills of minimum ca pacity of 1000 tons day for economical operation, but on that scale the ore is there to make of the district another Juneau Leadvlle.
 Other we'll known gold quartz districts in the Kena Peninsula are south, east and north of kenal Lake, south of Sunrise south of Hope, and west of Resurrection Bay. They in the prospecting stage at present but inviting fields for mining capital.
 The Crow Creek district on Turnagain Arm, the Knk district on Knik river, the Willow Creek dis
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 trict recently discovered, all will be opened to ac- feasibility by the new Government railroad. They have scarcely been scratched.
 Thriving Towns to Be.
 The country between Seward and the Panama river within 100 miles of the route of the Govern men railroad needs 100000 prospecors for years to come to do the country justice, and they would leave minerals undiscovered for future generations. With all these resources of agriculture, grazing, and timber, of gold, copper and coal distributed over the whole of Alaska between the Yukon river and the Pacific Ocean, there will be many thriving towns along the line of the railroad and the banks of the connecting navgable rivers, such as Roosevelt Kenai Lake, Moose Pass, Girdwood on Turnagain Arm, Hope Sunrise, Anchorage, Mata- nuska Junction, the Matanuska coal towns, Willow Creek, the junction of the Kuskokwim branch rail- road Talkeetna, Broad Pass, the Nenana coal towns, Nenana, Fairbanks Hot Springs, Tolovana, Tanana, Rampant Ruby, Nulato, Kaltag, Russian Mission, Iditarod, Dykeman, Ophir, Georgetown and Me Grath.
 It is Stewards purpose to aid actively in the de- velopment of all of them, and to do it's full share in the work of bringing population by the scores of thousands from the overcrowded States and from Europe to these vast, unoccupied weath-stored re- gions.
 For further particulars write to
 THE SEWARD COMMERCIAL CLUB,
 Seward, Alaska.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-03-03
The School Survey Bill

The senate bill authorizing a school in
this has been reported by the committee 10
which it had been referred without recommendation.
We understand that it represented to the commit
that the survey unnecessary, that it pro
posed only to give job to That is
trely a MISREPRESENTATION. Though the bill carries
an appropriation $500. it is proposed that it
shall be used be expended only to pay the
penses and not the salary, of qualified expert
outsider most likely the national department
Of education who should conduct the survey.
Many other states have found it not only ad
visable but profitable~to have such surveys The
two more have been those of Vermont
and Ohio. The results in those states as in all
other states have been increased efficiency anG
creased expenses.
We think that every member of the legislature
who has given attention to public school system
must be that y is VIGOROUSLY wastefu,
absorbing more the money of the taxpayers than
any other item of expense in the government, Mnch
of the money is literally thrown away.
We accustomed to hear that we have re-
markably advanced and efficient school system
That is a pleasant patriotic fiction. Our system,
believe is better than it ten years ago
II is honey combed with weaknesses and defects.
survey will disclose them There is other
sure before legislature that promises much
school survey -.
If the Legislature will euact il. it will build it
self a monument for having done the per-
manently useful thing Arizona Legislature has
ever accomplished.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-03-03
The Enforcement of Prohibition

If the officials of other cities than Phoenix and
other counties than Maricopa would as conscen-
tously enforce the prohibition law as the chief oil
police of Phoenix and the sheriff are enforcing it,
we might not need any legislation in addition to the
prohibition constitutional amendment But anyone
vino knows human nature and has seen in the past
localities where prohibition did not prohibit knows
that many parts of Arizona the bare interdction
of the liquor traffic will not be enforced. In nine Of
the fourteen counties maiorties were cast against
the amendment. 1t is not therefore, suppol ted by
public sentiment in those counties In parts Of
those counties public sentiment overwhelming
iy adverse and in such communities unless the au-
thorities happen to be especially conscientious and
fearless as the sheriff of Cochse county is, the
amendment is likely be dead letter. 1t is
no use for gentlemen to say that traffic in liquor
having been made misdemeanor it may be
handled the regular way, all other INSIDE
rneanors are \ msdemeanor not really one
whatever the law may say about it, unless ma
Jority of the citizens of the neighborhood
cstly DESTROYS of treating it such.
In this county the authorities conscientious
" doing what a majority of the people of the
munity want done. We believe they would eff
fectualy enforce the prohibition Law if majority
Of the people were apathetic adverse, but as we
have said judging from the tendency OF officials
TO yield to the prevailing sentiment in some of the
counties many localities evasions of the law
will be winked at unless have supplemental
legislation compel the enforcement Of the law
In many parts of Kansas for years after that
state was nominally dry prohibition did not pro-
hibit Liquor sold freely in most of the larger
towns and many of the rural communities until
there were other laws passed to compel local Of
fcias to suppress the traffic get of office
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-03-03
j Arizona Republicans Editorial Page

listing transportation system. There would he no
adequate. When the service is uncertain or when
pass given point at intervals of fifteen
twenty thirty minutes invitation is extended
the jitney People would usually prefer to ride
in but when the jtney comes to their
relief they are moved by gratitude to patronze it
when it might happen and then that
they would have to wait for Il This spirit of
wait few minutes for the rescuins jitney
The president of the company owning the Tue
system, looking beneath the surface would
have found the real why the system was
running behind Instead of teaching the citizens %
ride. it had been educating them TO walk. Compare
lively few persons having TO walk less than mile
take People would rather walk wait
a street crossing and when has any distance
less than a mile to walk he generally reacn
his destination more quickly by walking.
On well regulated lines whose managem
makes bid for public patronage, people q rule
will walk than three fonr blocks But
the intervals between increase the distance
people will walk increases. When the interval is
increased thirty minutes OF j line. say
miles in length, the traffic picked up within half a
mile of central point lis not than five per
THUS the street railway system has taught the
public in the more densey populated residential
system ignore it Thus the iitney which operates
usually within central districts finds a practically
virgin and unoccuped field.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-03-03
Where the People :"
May Have Hearing
A STATEMENT BY DR.. WILLIAMS
To the Editor of The Republican.

To the Editor of The Republican.
Sir:
There appeared in Monday mornings
Republican, under the heading "All
Phoenix on Trial" an account of some
remarks | was supposed to have made
at Il talk at the Y NJ. c. A. on Sun
day But il is evident that | failed to
make my meaning clear. and in jus
tice to our police department will you
kindly allow me to correct some of the
statements attributed to me. No po-
liceman said to me that the police
were not supposed to do anything
about violations of the liquor law. |
have heard no such statement by any
one. | did not say anything at all in
criticism of the police
| stated that our police, and all other
police officials could only he as eff
Gent and honest as we citizens sus-.
tanned them in being: that if we citi
Zens do not support honest officials
who try to do their duty we shall
not be able to get good officials; that
if we citizens do not demand that
this trial of our city manager he
stopped and he be left free to attend
to our business for us, we cannot
expect that Phoenix can secure a
decent city manager again. 1t is
our citizenship which is on trial when
an honest city manager trying to do
his duty is held up by trivial charges
! by discharged employees, backed by
certain diseruntIcd and vicious Gle
+, ments of our city.
The incompetent, the dishonest, the
smooth. slippery officials do not get
| attacked. If we citizens desire good
| government we have got to actively
! back decent officials whether or not
we consider them absolutely perfect.
Very truly yours,
ALLEN H. WILLIAMS.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-03-03
FARM ADVISOR HERE
CONTINUED From Page One)

be as much to learn the problems of
all the irrigators, land their solu-
tons. and make himself clearing
house for useful information. and il
will be To instruct in particular cases
I think Mr.. Armstrong will get a
very good reception. for already,
many of the well known farmers
of the valley have told me that they
would get right back of him and
lend him all the support in their
mower.
This is very encouraging. and will
stimulate the farm doctor to his
best efforts
Saturday is the only day Arm
strong will spend in his office, All
other working DAYS he will pass upon
to stated number Of farms eacn
day in Ford ear that the trnver-
siiy has provided. As soon as the
schedule is made up. the Republican
will publish it for the benefit of the
Tanchcrs. i'
Armstrong is from California,
where he has been acting as farm
advisor for San Diego county for
the past year. The work there is
very similar to that which the Ari
IONA plan proposes Farm advisors
are under tho University, the only
Tlan of multitude that has proven
successful
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-03-03
MEXICO CITY GARRISON REFUSES
ATTACK FROM THREE FORCES

varado has been appointed governor of
Yucatan."
/ An El Paso dispatch stated that Vii
la, having failed to take ManZanillo and
meeting severe defeat there, has ADAM
doned his campaign on the west coast
and gone to assume personal command
of any movment that may be directed
against Tampico.
Fronteras is Taken
DOUGLAS, March General Gales
wired the Carr3nZa agency that the
town of Fronteras, thirty miles south
of here. has been captured.
The trenches OF the conventionalists
defending the town were bOmbarded
with shrapnel for three hours, Gales
stated and then an infantry charge
drove out the Villistas with a loss of
sixty men killed. The Carranzistas
claim to have captured many prisoners
and a quantity of arms and ammuni-
ton. Gales intends to pursue the con-
ventionalists to NacoZari.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-03-03
RAINY DAY WAS

funds should be wasted than the
ANTS but their attitude was one of
resentment at what they INTERPRETED
TO be spite work against the adj
iniDistration.
Inc Dil under consideration was q
house measure, similar to one which
mas had the approval of TIE senate.
one OF the Stapley bills for a conser-
Walton of the money of the tax paw
ers. Much of the merit of the bill
was cut oft last night in Tie process
of amendment.
No measures Of overshadowing i'm
portance were before either house
yesterday. To the occupants of tie
galleries the proceedings were lacking;
in interest. 1t is probable that this
will be a livelier day. with the DracL-
man prohibition bill and probably
some definite, final action il. the
senate on the public land bill
The Business of the Day
New bills were introduced in the
senate as follows:
By Mr.. Goldwatcr an act amend
ing paragraph 1889 of the code relat-
ing to the drawing of grand and trial
Jurors
By Mr. Drachman q relief bill in
favor of Mary Houston, teacher Of
Pima county, to secure payment to
her of $40 for teaching a school in
an unorgarized district which was to
be organized but. through some mis-
chance failed.
A bill was introduced by DR.. Bacon
proposing constitutional amendment,
providing for a bond issue of $4,000.
600 of which $2,OO0,000 is to be used
for state highways and si.0oo,0o TO-
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-03-03
The JItnev

Among the new causes of unrest in many parts
Of the country is the "jney" the motor vehicle in
which passengers transported from point
another for five cents In at least two places
the jney has been brought into court. In Los
Angeles proceeding begun compel the jt
ney busses pay licenses and to lie subjected to
certain regulation the streets they should
traverse. In Tucson injunction secured
against the jitneys but it quickly dissolved
The Injunction asked for by the president of
the company owning the street railway. He must
have had his nerve with him. to chaste and
delicate expression The president averred that the
ineys were the cause of a sharp falling off in the
receipts of the street system, matter in which
the general public can have no interest.
There is aspect of the jitney that has been
overlooked. Whatever else it may be it is ex
preston of dissatisfaction with the ex-
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-03-03
Our Latest Orders from Great Britain

There is apparently length 10 which Great
britain and France hesitate to SO to in frying the
patience of the United States government. Great
Britain had already done many things, each little
more fragrant than the preceding that would
have produced IA vigorous protest by any admins
uation we have ever had previous to the present
one. England would have risked of them ii
a vigorous protest had been expected and
likely to be followed by vigorous action OF all
countries earth the United States is the on.
with which hostilities would be fatal. A shutting
off of supplies armament and ammunition from
this country would have almost instantly par
syzng effect upon the allies.
But have dared protest; we have
merely whined and suspect that whining
has been for home consumption rather than for the
purpose of moving Britain mend her ways
Whenever a fresh outrage been committed
against American shipping have learned from
Washington that the administration is watching
the of events"
Now Informed that de-
prived of a privilege before denied neutral
nation, that of shipping goods not contraband
der any construction to OF the belligerents.
And still more brazenly. told that we can
receive merchandise from Germany. Our ships
may touch at German ports.
England viii graciously permit to trade with
other neutrals at least. until she suspects that
American supplies being through them to
Germany and then, in the of copper ship
to Italy and Holland last fall, that will he
stopped.
Can suppose that if Roosevelt pres-
dent the allies would have uttered such an
rageous and unprecedented international order?
peaceful attitude is provocative the very
thing all desire avoid The the
allies. which trusting to purpose to avoid
whatever sacrifice of national honor. may be
will bring about a conflict which would avoid
The effect upon commerce, of the earlier
strictions Great Britain had already laid upon
has been sharply felt. Now large section of the
world market has been closed TO and ma
expect soon that limitations will be laid upon our
with European neutra,s.
Our farmers have been elaed at the prospect
Of wheat prices We had commanding position.
week when the first of the allied
fleets in the Dardanelles announced there
drop in single day Of considerable figure.
Those successes are continuing and there is little
doubt that opening will be forced to the burst
ing granaries Of southern Russia which will supply
France and Great Britain with wheat Then
wheat market will be restricted to the small
trail countries of Europe until the allies have i'm
pudently told u.s. the is