The Cordova daily times., 1919-05-19
ALASKA GIVEN "
 PUBLICITY .. BY BUREAU

The AldSkd fuDllclJy Bureau IuTH- ishes the following information in it's monthly bulletin, just received: k,
 The Alaska Sulphur Company, a Chicago concern, has started opera tions on its property on Akun island, one of the largest of the Aleutian group and lying about forty miles west of Unalaska and Dutch Harbor. The sulphur deposits to be developed are situated near Lost Harbor which is open all the year. Fourteen differ ent drifts have been made and it is estimated that the sulphur now. in sight amounts to 56O,OO0 tons. The de- posits are of unknown depth and the ore goes 50 per cent sulphur The ore is soft, chalky substance and can De easily handled with pick and shovel although steam shovel will be used It is very heavy, weighing from 55 to 60 pounds per cubic foot. The com pany owns 400 acres of land, and a tramway two miles long will be re- quired to transport the ore from the mine to tidewater. A refinery will be built at the harbor this year and the product will be ready for marketing when it is loaded on the steamer for shipment south. The mine is expected to operate the year round and will employ from 80 to 100 men. The Akun property is said to be the only sul- phur mine on the Paciflc cast regions of the continent.
 To Experiment With Fish Hatcheries
 The recent legislature made an ap- propriation of $S0,0O0 for the purpose of experimenting in fish hatcheries with the view of perpetuating the stock of salmon ill Alaskan waters. It is expected that work in that line Will begin within the next three months.
 Hail, Hail, the Gangs All Here!
 For the past months every steamer from Seattle to Alaska has been sold out both in freight and passenger ac- commodations for weeks before sail ing and the same conditions still pre- vail. The result is that Alaska IS herself again and all lines and branch es of business are taking on new He In addition to the cannery contingent hundreds of old timers who went out hoI goodby forever, as they then asserted, are back to remain and many mofe1 are coming. Indications at present are that the northland will this year re- gain much of the population it lost during the two previous years and 1t is certain many who are now return ing will carefully consider the matter before again giving up their homes in Alaska for the uncertainty of what IS known as "the outside"
 In the Shadow of Mt. Mckinley
 A letter to this bureau from the chamber of commerce of McGrath' Alaska, a thriving little community which nestlets within the shadow or Mt. McKinley's majestic peak, says dredge now in operation on Candle creek is demonstrating that great placer wealth exists there in addition to great bodies of gold, silver, and copper ore the latter carrying as high as $12O to the ton. A number of homesteads in the McGrath vicinity have been taken up and all kinds or crops are being cultivated success fully and with profit, garden truck being grown and matured to perfec- tion. Like many other outlying dis tricts in Alaska roads are the dying need of that locality. There are sev- eral canneries and other fishing indus- tries in that part of the territory and prosperity and contentment stalk hand in hand
 Congress Is MemoraIzed
 According to action taken by the late territorial legislature the congress or the UulLou oLdJCS VIII bC e1ohCo " appropriate $4O0,OOO for the purpose of assisting Alaska in the great work of developing her vast resources, principally mining and agriculture, the two great industries which go toward securing population that will be permanent, and at the same time prosperous and wealth producing. Mill lions of acres of waving grain and cat tie on thousand hills are not only possibilities but probabilities or Alaska in the not distant future.
 Alaska's Great Wealth of eeals
 That Alaska's seals are not dimin. ishing in number is attested by the fact that only few days ago gov ernment launch carrying large crew of men arrived in Alaska and proceed- cd to the Pribilon islands in Bering sea where 3O,O0O male seals will be