The Cordova daily times., 1919-12-27
BIG TRAVEL TO ALASKA IS
 PREDICTED FOR NEXT SPRING

The Alaska Publicity Bureau in it's Bi-Monthly Bulletin publishes the fol- lowing information:
 Spring Rush Indicated
 For more than twenty years, the trend of travel has been from Alaska to the outside This winter the order is reversed and even now there is a heavier passenger traffic from the outside to Alaska than the other way and present indications point to the largest movement northward next spring than has been witnessed since the boom days several years ago. There is a reason for this condition and it lies in the fact that Alaska is coming back and is coming strong. Thousands of Alaskans have gone out side within the past three years and they have not found the smooth sled ding they hoped for. The flowery beds of ease they expected to find there proved mythical. Valiently they have endeavored to turn deaf ears to the call of the north but that call has been so insistent that many are heed ing it and that accounts for the pre- sent increase in northbound travel. All the oldtimers know just what they can do in Alaska and just what Alas ka will do for them. They know that the same efforts expended here will yield larger and more satisfactory re- turns than if expended in the states and besides, the lure of the north is in their systems and they just natur- ally yearn to get back. Not only are the old-time Alaskans returning but at no time within nearly score of years have so many new people been inter- Farmers, mechanics, laborers,' profes- sional men and women, stenographers and school teachers of both sexes, clerks and bookkeepers by the hun dreds, nurses, hOusekeepers, cooks in fact, representatives of all callings and avocations in life-are crowdine the mails with letters requesting in. formation concerning Alaska And Alaska can and will provide for many of them. She has the resources and population is her greatest need
 AIaska's Greatest Asset
 While famed throughout the world as a country of opportunities in a great many lines. Alaska's greatest claim to fame is based on her fisher ies and fish resources. The fishing industry of the Territory has grown year by year until the value of her annual expectations has reached the enormous sum of fifty million dollars and, except for salmon. this industry is yet in it's infancy Of the upward of three hundred and fifty million dollars that has been added to the wealth of the nation within the past twenty years by Alaska's fish, nine- tenths of that amount has been pro- duce' by the salmon industry alone. And yet the easy money and the quick money is made by the halibut fishermen. Only the day before this was written halibut fishing boat operated on the cooperative plan re- turned to Juneau after being out four days and when the catch was sold the share of each man was $500. Halibut abound generally in Alaskan waters and but small capital is necessary to engage in halibut fish ing. The herring industry is anoth- CT most alluring one and bids fair to almost outrival that of salmon in the near future. The waters of and con- tiguous to Resurrection Bay, close to tile thriving town of Seward, are pro- nounced by experts and those who have closely investigated that field tc offer unequalled inducements to those who may contemplate engaging in herring fishing. Hon. John Noon, of Seward, member of the third and fourth Territoriay legislatures, is an authority on the advantages and pos abilities of the fishing industries salmon, halibut. herring and cod-of the Resurrection Bay country and communication with him will elicit valuable information for those inter- ested. With all her mineral wealth, the fact remains that fish are Alas ka's greatest and most valuable as- set
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