The Alaska daily empire., 1916-01-01

in pulp mills that will be constructed to harvest the timber. waiting on the mountain sides for the cutting. They are not in a hurry but they are coming. The region from Sitka 10 Cape ChaCon will be a dairy coun- try, which will compare favorably with the west coast of Oregon and Washington. The timber is no hard CT to clear thGn il w2S there and the warm winds. that wait the mistS Of the Pacific over the lands. will keep the grasses growing. It will be as green as the Isle of Erin and like Denmark, will be one of the finest pastures for cattle in the world. Denmark is right on around the world level with Southeastern Alaska. It lies between latitude ii!ty-fivc 10 fif;y-3 ven and onc-half degrees North. and the southern point of Prince Of Wales Island is in about fifty-four degrees and forty miuteS North latitude Denmark con- sistS of a peninsula and outlying islands and the whole area is a little less than ten thousand square miles. while the total including the islands is but 14.S4S square miles. IL is a low lying country and was covered with forest and. in the northern , part. a moss grown tundra. until it was cleared and cultivated or pre- , pared for pasture land. The west , coast is drift sand for 200 miles along the shore. Today it supports nearly two and one-half millions of people. and has more cattle and horS. eS to the acre than any other coun. try in the world. It differs from southeastern Alaska in that it has , no elevation greater than $50 feet . above the sea, but there gre probab , ly nearly as many equare miles below that elevation between Mount Saint Elias and Portland Canal and oi much the same climate and natural conditions. Any such population is of course, not to be expected, but with the people employed in the : forests and in the mines, of which Denmark has practically none, but in which our country is rich, there is nothing to prevent 100000 people living in this part of the Territory of Alaska. The census of 193O will see 50.000 people in this part ot the Territory.
 The whole country is natural grass land, wherever the forest is kept from crushing it out. Where the trees are cut away, in the clearings about the towns. the growth is as strong and vigorous as can be found in any dairy region of the United States. Look right in the town of Juneau at the masses of rich grasses wherever they can get a fOothold. Twenty-Five years ago the whole hillside was as rough and unpromising a tract of forest as any thing from Skagway to Ketchikan Go out and see the dairy cows that furnish the milk for the town.
 Mines and fisheries bring people to the land. They dig out the gold and catch the fish, then go away and there is left the buildings only which fall into decay, when the mine that supported them or the fishery that caused their construc tion Is gone. but the people who live on the land stay through all the centuries. and build cities that re main for ages. Nevada was a min ing country the Comstock lode poured millions into circulation. Il was one of the most wonderful mines in the world. Californla's placers poured stream of golder metal into the lap of trade; bu where are the mines now and wha Is producing the wealth of that state todayl It is the farming land, ant 1t will continue through all time.
 When the gold rush to California was streaming across the Grea American desert, Brigham Young and his followers were in the valley O Great Salt Lake. Brigham was tho Mormon prophet, and the greates forecast he ever made was when ht said to his followers: "The Gen tiles are going to the mines, we wil cultivate the land. sell them the pro ducts to live upon and get rich Today the Mormons are a power 1T the financial world and they be came so from land that was con sidered desert only. when frs they drove their oxAeams there iron Nauvoo.