The Nome nugget., 1920-11-20
Voice of the Alaska Press
FLAX A ROSE"

NouItIi II Stu- t' NtS HOW these Outside poll, ,.cians and grafters ale ready @ .ake (. arge of Alss.-a and make it "Gl, sson lak Eose9" as Jaques Cppaud would state it?
 There they are in Seattle. meeting 25 strong in Gilmore's office, parceIinS out the political future and the offices of Alaska among themselves and mo- body there to see-just somebody tn tell of it at 5th drink time, after the gettogether meet. There's the Seattle Times advocating Seattle starting in on the get-rich- quick deal of Selling Alaska" to the Easterners-taking the Eastern easy money and delivering thereof anything the Fastener wants even the scenery" NeN, thing We know the Seattle Chamber of Com merce thru it's Alaska Bureau will be opening a mailorder house and selling Alaska scenery to the bedridden peo- pie of the East by mail And, in the years to come see if our prediction does not come true: Mt. Mckinley installed in Pioneer Square. Seattle"
 Seriously, however We are not in so much danger as you might think It trouble for the g1afters to get us thru Washington. In the meantime our AL aska -1,orn children are getting nearer mans estate every day. and what they get hold of first they will hold All is not graft advertising We are getting The following extract from a letter re- ceived by a Fairbanks husband from his wife Outside is clse in point 'The Los Angeles Sunday Times of March 14 has swell article on Alaska, on the front page of the paper from Washington, D. C., and when Los Angeles papers talk of. Alaska, you may judge the whole United Stntes is talking the same. The ar ticle states that Alaaka's coal would he used on the Pacific Coast as it is better than .he best Pennsylvania coal. and that they would stop shipping coal from Virginia to Alaska It also states that the Sugar Beet people ip- tend building factory at some town on the government railroad, and give all kinds of financial help to the set tiers. to promote the growth of the sugar beet, as those raised in Alaska carry the highest percentage of sugar. and the soil and climate conditions are perfect for the raising of said beets. It spoke of various other mat ters. of which you Fairbanks people have heard for years. but if the fac- tory is q possibility. :he thing to do is for Fairbanks to land" it. One cannot pick up paper from any where but it has Alaska, Alaska. AL aska, which. of course. is good. 'The article above referred to also spoke of the oil wells of Alaska, and said the one at Katalla, which was producing about fifty barrels a day was of a quality of oil that could not be surpas ssed anywhere in the oil coun- l tEies so far opened"
 The whole people of the Outside are milling around, all dressed up in profiteer clothes and no place to go. | Alaska has always had q get-rich-
 quick name, and any advertising we get now helps some in the right way.
 When Secretary Payne named Dr. AL
 fred Brooks to help them plan an ad-
 ver.ising campaign for Alaska. to sen1
 pecp!e here, he nam. man in whom fa' anks has coGtidence, and there's
 ! chance that the srafters will be
 older and balder than they are now be-
 Gore they inherit Alaska to the exclu-
 sion of real Alaskans. Fairbanks News Miner.