The daily Alaskan., 1917-03-03

tra expense than the cost of the ticket, with the exception Of two lunches, one breakfast, one dinner and one nights berth, while the steamer is lying in port at Skag- wey. There is no more p&easurable and health-giYing trip or one as reasonable in cost anywhere in, the world.
 You are familiar with the de parure ftrom Seattle, Vancouver or Victoria and with the trip up the British Columbia coast, through Seymour Narrows, between YancouV CT Island and the mainland, the call at Alert Bay, on up through the placid waters of Granville Channel to Prince Rupert and across he boundary of Canada and Alaska to the first port in Alaska, yiz., Ketchikan. When "all clear is received from the U. s. Customs and Immigration people, we step ashore in Uncle Sam's territory and spend 8 few hours about the town which immediately strikes us by its situation between the hills and the sea. Ketchiksn has a popula- ton of about 250O and Is growing. It is the home port for a large fishing fleet, has a modern cannery on . big scale, an up-to7date lum- Der mill, wholesale warehouses and fine retail stores, 8 hank, hospitals, sch ocIs and churches of all denom- nations. a daily paper, roller skat- inE rink, and two moving picture houses. There are. two very fair hotels and restaurants. The town has good electric light and tele- phone systems and an excellent wat CT service. There are many fine modern homes and the town has an ever increasing appearance of prosperity and cleanliness.
 Continuing the voyage. north Wrangeu is reached in about six hours steaming. This is 8 small CT town than Ketchkian, but boats. bank, saEmill, fishing fleet, a far hotel, churches, schools and weekly paper. This Is the port of debarkatton for the interior of Northern British Columbia. A stern-wheel river steamer operated by the Budson's Bay Co.,, as well as power launches, runs up the Sti- kipe River to Telegraph Creek, reaching a district which is the mecca for big game hunters.
 After leaving Wrangel the steam CT shortly enters Wrangel Narrows, an unusually beautiful and wind ing charnel which takes about two hours to go through; then on north through a continuus panorama of mountains, glaciers and sea for eight hours to Takn Glacier where the steamer gets as close in as the Ice conditions will allow. Vast masses of ice are continually break ing off and crashing into the sea to float away and melt. Leaving Tasu We immediately enter Gastin- eau Channel and arrive at Juneau, the capital.
 The population of Juneau and vicinity is now over 11,O00. The mos' modern and largest gold quartz mining plants in the world are on Gastinaeu Channel. One mill now about completed is right in Juneau itself and is The production oE the very latest thought of mining engineering. Two other mills are within 10 and Is minutes respectively and treat between them each twenty-four hours about 14,- 900 tons of ore. One of these plants employs over 1900 men who have their own married and single mems quarters, club house, swim ming tank, bowling alley, theatre, &c., and here the steamer calls in the tourist season and a regular guide conducts passengers over the plant. Juneau has everything that a modern city has-first class ho- tels and restaurants, good roads and over one hundred automobiles. 4 regular ferry service brings 1t in constant touch with Treadwel, Douglas and Thane. The Masons, the Elks. the Oddfellows and the Arctic Brotherhood Orders have very active lodges here; the last naueI has a fine swimming tank and both it and the Elks Lodge have good dance floors. AS far as can be seen now there is a very great future for Juneau and district. Gasttneau Channel on a still clear night is something to remember, when tbe big mill plants stuck on