The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-22

Director of Publicity and Representative-eect E. White has been receiving great many inquiries pal ticularly from the East as the result of letter recently wrote to the Christian Science Monitor poston rbe letter is entitled opportunities i Alaska and the responses to it indicate that ther is a great deal Of interest in this Territory through out the country.
 As a result of the letter. MT. White has been re ouesteds tor write an article for New York maga zine setting forth more in detail the opportunitif for young men in Alaska. This he will do at once Mir Whites letter appeared in the Christian Sc ence Monitor of Januahy 1, and is as follows: To the Editor of the Christian Science Mon-
 itor:
 Now that the war is over, and hundreds of thousands of young are being dls- missed from military service. young men who, being mbued with the spirit of adventure, will not be content to return to their form CT prosac lives, few words of what AlasKa shas to offer them not out of place at ythis time
 Y Alaska is America's last fronter, and the department with which the writer is con- nected is already receiving many letters from soldiers and sailors about to be discharged from the service, and who are anxious to acquire information about this country, with the view of coming here to make thelr future homes
 While Alaska has hundreds of millions of acres available to settlers, the proposition looking to community settlements. which is now being worked out by the Reclamation Service of the Department ot the lntcrlof of the United States, is not feasible to this country, the as it will be in many of the States in which vast areas of swamp land which it is proposed to reclaim for az ricultural purposes and for homes for re- turned soldiers. The reason this system will not succeed in Alaska is that to make of agriculture there must be markets for the products, and the population of Alas ka is as yet too small to constitute such mar ket, and the distance to cities along the Pa cifc Coast is so great that Alaska products nchinn with competition with what those States pro- duce within their confines. Farming, therefore, in Alaska is not inducement to be held out to our returned soldiers and sailors.
 However, several thousand young be provided for here by our principal indus tries, which commercial, mining fishing and numbering, of which all but that of fish ing steady, twelve months in the year, and year in and year out. All of these in- idustries and have been operating on short labor ever since the United States tered the Also all of these industries are awaiting the return of those who left, as well as the arrival of new men, in or der that normal conditions may be resumed and the volume of business increased at the earliest possible date.
 It is conservative to state that 5000 young men be furnished with remunerative ployment in Alaska during the first four months of the new year. but it is not desired that they all come at once, in punches of several hundred. But by few arriving with every steamer from the south, they can be absorbed and provided for by the country without any congestion. Also, and as soon as normal prices obtain, Der of low-grade mining propositions which cannot be operated on account of the high cost, both of material and labor will again become active and at least another 5000 will be required.
 Again, the opportunities in Alaska for young men to get into business for themselves are many and varied, and the result is that the business industries of the Territory are constantly increasing and the scope for the employment of labor steadily broadening
 Alaska will welcome returned war heroes with open arms, and will put them in line to do something for themselves but they must not come here with the idea that gold nuggets can be pucked from trees. Robert