The Cordova daily times., 1920-06-25
'ALASKABUREAU ISSUES BOOKLET
 ON RESOURCES

the chamber of commerce has just issued a beautiful new booklet of 120 pages giving interesting facts and figures regarding the resources and opportunities of the territory of Alas ka. The facts were compiled and pre- pared by MT. J. l.. McPherson, man. ager of the bureau, whose wide &C., quaintance with and deep interest in Alaska and it's unbounded wealth make him the best known authority regarding that territory and it's re- sources and opportunities. The new booklet is handsomely printed and profusely illustrated with Alaskan views, and will prove of great value to the territory, through it's distribu- tion by the chamber of commerce. In the introduction a statement is made that ''the adoption of a broad con- structive policy that will make for the rational development of Alaska through peopling the country by men and women equipped to combat the trials and hardships of the northern frontier and such people attached to Alaska by home and business ties is the only foundation on which may be built a prosperous and progress sive Northland that will be a source of strength to the nation
 aAll the industrial possibilities of Alaska are set forth with tables and statistics and natural undevelOped wealth
 The Philadelphia Public Ledger gives prominence to an article devoted to Alaska and Seattle as the gateway of it's great possibilities. It says in the introduction: Think of this bust ling, fresh air city being the sole cor ridor to natures storehouse twelve times as large as the state of New York and one-fifth the size of the United States; a virgin out doors rich beyond belief in agricultural possibilities, fishing, furs, water power, coal and other minerals, timber and marvellous scenery.
 Seattle has an industrial payroll of more than $20OOO0,000 and a back country that produces lavishly If great staples but if asked to state her most priceless possession I would un- hesjtatingly say Alaska Seattle being tfr sole market place of an area that has more gold than California, more copper than Michigan and Arizora combined, more coal than PennsyIvar- ia and the richest fisheries in the world, is something that the Gods have bestowed"
 So great is the demand for trans portation on the Shriner's special ex- cursion to Alaska, June 26, immed- lately following the close of the an- nual convention this year held at Port land June 21 to 25, that the steam ship Jefferson of the Alaska Steam ship Company, has been chartered in addition to the special voyage of the steamship Spokane of the Pacific Steamship Company's fleet. Both steamers take a full cargo of freight
 The steamship Ketchikan is com pleting cargo for Alaskan archipelago points and Norton sound. She will taEfs a large quantity of supplies for Unalakleet and False pass, near the entrance to Unimak pass, and then proceed to Nome, Golovin and St. Michae1s
 On the arrival of Colonel Ward final papers will be signed in the con- tract with the U s. Steel Products Company for bridge over Hurricane Gulch, ITO miles north of Skagway. The bridge will be 919 feet long, to cost $329322.
 Federal agents seized 40 cases and 36 tins of Alaska salmon on a libel charging a violation of the food and drug acts. The salmon was a portion of a shiment of 612 cases, bearing the Seaketch brand, packed by the Alaska Fish Company.
 A shipment of ''T N T'' and blasting powder makes up big part of the caxgo of the Admiral Line steamer Admiral Goodrich which sailed from Dupont anchorage, stopped at Belling ham to take on a deck load of lum- Der, also to be used in railroad con- struction. Two big steel cranes to be used in the construction of a new rail- way bridge over the Susitna river are going north on the Admiral Goodrich. One has lifting capacity of 100 tons and the other will raise 45 tons.
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