The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-02

in solving the meat question for this | country. They multiply rapidly, about i 50 per cent of the females bearing twins every year, and there is a very low death-rate among the young. The meat is delicious-as good and as tender as beef-and their hides can be used for many purposes.
 With the completion of the new rail road any able-bodied, enterprising man will be able to get into the interior of this vast rich empire at little ex- pense. Hundreds of prospectors are already laying plans for the summer of 1918, many of them having a great de- sire to work the Broad Pass section for copper and gold That the other industries of which have spoken will be entered into on a tremendous scale there can be little doubt.
 The climate, while severe at times, Is not dissgreeable as a rule. The warm Japanese current affects a great part of the coast line. and the weather is seldom unpleasant AS for the in- terior, of course. 1t gets cold there, but 1t is dry, invigorating cold. not so unpleasant as the climate of Chi eago in tho winter time. People dress for the weather, and real suffering from bad colds" is unknown. never saw happier, more vibrant men and women. and certainly never saw moro healthy. rosy-cheeked children than found in the interior of Alaska. ! The Alaskan delegate to tho house of representatives Is Charles August 1 Sulzer, brother of former Governor | Sulzor. He was born in New Jersey, but ho has lived for fifteen years In | Alaska on Prince Of Wales Island. He 1 was in business in Elizabeth. R. J, | and first went to Alaska to look after some mining properties.
 ''If you have never been thero you ! can not understand the irresistible fascination of that wonderland" he re- marked to a Washington representa- tive of the New York Telegraph. Tt possessed me from the time arrived, and have been there ever since"
 Continuing. he said:
 Yes, am vitally concerned in every thing pertaining to Alaska. What I want to do in congress is to advance the interests of the territory in every possible way. I want Alaska under stood. For there are two absurd ideas that generally prevail about that coun- try. One is that 1t is a land of ice bergs, snow fields-the frozen land of the polar bear. That Is true of only a portion of Alaska. There is a great part of it rich in agricultural lands and green with splendid forests. The other idea is that Alaska is an Fl Dorado, where a man has only to go and pick up or grab something be- longing to the other fellow.
 Now the conditions of living and working in the territory of Alaska are governed by the same general laws of life that obtain in any other land, and there is no reason, outside of fertile why Alaska should be f misunderstood. ,
 One seldom thinks of tennis flannels , and roses in connection with Alaska, but just get this picture of MT. Sul- gers home there:
 "Flowers? You'll find them every place, even growing-a ring of yellow blossoms-around the base of a snow capped peak. At my home in Sulzer we have the prettiest kind of a gar den. The village is pretty, anyway, with fine trees of cedar, hemlock, all l from few inches to if teen feet in diameter. I am sorry Mrs. Sulzer is not here to tell you about her flower garden, which is her constant , delight and pride. It is chiefly of per ( hardier flowers that come along every season with abundant bloom, poppies, foxgloves, roses! The { roses are unusually lovely and bloom from early in August until nearly Christmas time, The only annual to which Mrs. Sulzer is addicted is the sweet pea. We always plant those and have a gorgeous display of them when they blossom"