The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
Reception Last Night in His Honor Developed into an Interesting
 Meeting.
RESOURCES REVIEWED
Governor Following Speak
 CTS Said He Wants to Meet AIaskans and Get Ideas.

Since becoming Governor of Alas ka 1 feel just as important as I felt when mining in the Klondike. I want you to feel the same way to- wards me At all times I want to meet Alaskans and get their ideas. My sincere aim and ambition is to be Governor for all of the Terri tory and not Governor of any set of individuals. I want to assist every individual in the Territory"
 So declared Gov Thomas Riggs. Jr., at the conclusion of his talk at l the smoker and reception given in his honor last evening by the people l of Gastineau Channel in Elks' Hall. There were not cough seats to go around. During the proceedings an election bulletin was read showing 1 Sulzer and the Democratic legisla- tive ticket to be ahead and there was hearty applause. In conclusion three hearty cheers were given for 1 the new Governor.
 George Forrest was master of cere
 monies and introduced as speakers 1 familiar with their subjects, Judge Royal A. Gunnison, Federal Food Ad
 ministrator of Alaska; John Rust l gard, of the Territorial Defense Coun | cil, J. A. Hellenthal, Charles D. Gar field and Ed. c. Russell
 | The speakers covered a wide range of subjects generally and spoke speci ! fically upon the fishing industry They were all agreed that too much i conservation had been strangling in dustries in Alaska, and that if Con gross would allow the people of the Territory to develop and utilize their
 resources, and give the people pow CT, they would at the same time
 properly conserve them.
 1 It was shown that fishing had led 1 to the creation of wealth and settle
 ment in many countries for ages, and Judge Gunnison gave a graphic pic i ture of the untold riches of Alaska l fisheries waiting to be developed. 1 MT Rustgard spoke about the waste of water power, of forests rotting and misapplied conservation. He said enough explosives could be manu- factured in Alaska by use of streams now running to waste to supply the United States and their Allies.
 Attorney J. A. Hellenthal said that i it was generally conceded that a con siderable flock of American aero planes if now thrown on the German lines would win the war. He said Alaska contained lots of the best | spruce with which to make aero were removed Alaskans would get it out so it could be used by the Gov ernment.
 The speaker paid his respects to Clifford Pinchot for an impractical conservationist, whose theory had proved to be retroactive, and said that the greatest conservationist was the naked savage in the jungles of Africa. who allowed the wild things to grow. and that was where Gif- the proposed leasing system ment making the people vassals of bureau cratic landlords similar to the feud- al system; that resources were placed on the earth to be utilized and that in order to get them developed the incentive for rewarding the discov- erers must remain, the same as it had held in developing all parts of the United States. He said by limit ing individual holdings and making. them work the coal and oil, etc, mon- opolization would be avoided
 Mir. Garfield gave an interesting talk of the efforts of the Southeast ern Alaska Fish and Game Club in experimenting for securing practical results for the successful propagation of salmon. It was the theory of the club, based upon some good results obtained, that most of the hatcheries were failures because the fry turned loose were not able to protect them selves from natural enemies, while if the eggs were placed in the streams and allowed to hatch out in natural surroundings, the fry could