The Alaska daily empire., 1916-02-08
STROLLER WHITE SAYS JUNEAU IS
 GROWING FAST


 During the period which elapsed between the first and second times visited Juneau" remarked D. J. White, ! the Yukon editor now visiting our city there was scarcely any change in the appearance of the town al- though the period mentioned was leight years. the date or the first wis., l. it being early in April of 1898, and the second In May of 1906. On both occasions the town stopped only a few blocks north Of the present office of The Empire beyond which in the uncut and practically untrodden the wild fox dug his hole unscared and tho rank thistle. had there been such vegetation. would have nodded in the wind. The thistle may still be absent but l notice the wind is still on the job.
 But sometime during the past ten years Juneau has emerged from the cocoon in which she was reposlng on the occasion of my last visit and the evidence indicates that the emerg. ing period was not very long ago. At any rate your town now has the ear marks of % busy metropolis. Your town has built up in more respects than one-up in appearance and up the hll and apparently it's expansion is yet only in the incipient stage.
 Passes Experimental Stage.
 "From what ] cnn see here and from what ] know of Juneau by care fnl reading or your excellent daily papers for the past several years, ] am convinced that your town has passed the experimental stage and that henceforth her growth and de- velopment will be not only steady but rapid. The God-given natural re- sources are such that one cannot even contemplate the magnitude to which their development will attain or the wealth which such development will add to the worlds assets.
 And right here wish to hand a bouquet to the Daily Empire which has not only kept pace with. but out stripped the town in It's rapid upward and onward movement. Juneau be- ing three days nearer my town In Yukon, Whitehorse, than Seattle. the best latest and most reliable news of the world and especially of the Euro pean trouble we receive Is that con- tained in the Daily Empire.
 We Thank You.
 "Of course. we receive daily war bulletins but nothing in such detail as We read two days later in The Elm Dire. In the language of the immor- tai Rip V. Winkle May The Empire live long unt prosper"
 Mr. White. who is also American consul in Whitehorse, has lived in the Yukon for the past sixteen years but enjoys an occasional visit to what he terms "The soil of my fathers He says some men are born great and others are born in Ohio and he eX- ults in the fact that he belongs tc Che latter class He is here enjoy. ing tho sou'ing of our sou wind which is quite a change for him. it having been from IS to 61 dee ees below ze- TO at Whitehorse for two weeks prev ious to his departure for the coast on Thursday of last week
 Mir. White says Whitehorse will be the best town in the north the coming summer owing to the operations which will be carried on in a number of cop per mines in his vicinity He also tells of number of antimony claims few miles back from Robinson, a station twenty miles south of White horse on the White Pass railroad. which will be working within the next sixty days The price of antimony which was less than five cents per pound when the war started. is now forty-fve cents.
 Mir. White expects to leave for his home within @ few days, probably on Saturday.