The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-31
BREEZY NEWS
 ABOUT ALASKA
 FROM SEATTLE;

SEATTLE, Aug. 31 Special to the Daily Times) Current events of in- terest in Alaska, as received and rec orded in the last week by the Bureau of the chamber of commerce show a general trend toward development in The following is a resume: Good out look for a railroad to tap the Katalla coal fields; five-stamp mill starts operation on Lynn canal; large sum of red salmon in Aleutian Island dis trict; seal islands census shows 10 per cent increase in fur seals; six back of Hyder; exhibition of Yukon products on Discovery Day, August IT, Cordova fishermen protect stream fishing in the Copper river.
 A Washington special says: "In statement issued Secretary Daniels said: Purchase of extensive additional equipment to facilitate the work of de- veloping the navy's coal lands in Alas ka has been authorized at the request of Commander Bowling, who is at the Chicka1oon field as head of the Alaskan coal commission. Commander Bowling has requested that the de- partment furnish him a geologist and twenty-five miners to augment his working force and also to purchase and forward one steam driven air compressor and two tubular boilers with feed pumps and accessories. The request has been approved"
 A Washington special says recom- mendations for the development of Alaska will be feature of the an- 1 nual report of Secretary of the In terior Payne and which are expected to form the basis of the secretarys suggestions to congress in his forth 1 coming annual report, include the 1 lowering of ocean freight and pas senger rate, and the improvement of transportation and mail service. the concentration and coordination Of federal road construction, an investi- gation of commercial feasibility ot smelling Alaskan copper ores in the territory, and the immediate develop ment of Alaskan pulp wood industry. Additional appropriations will be sought for the completion of the Alaskan railroad.
 Seven field parties have been dis patched by the Geological survey to Alaska for investigation of it's min eral resources; the work is being done under an appropriation of S75," 900 by congress- The purpose is to extend the surveys and investigations which were begun in 1898.
 Within the last ten years the for
 est service has brought about the sale of 42O,0OO,OO0 feet of timber in the
 national forests of Alaska, for pill" ing, sawlogs, and shingle bolts. These forests contain 1O0,O00000 cords of timber suitable for the manufacture of paper, according to estimates by the service. Under careful manage ment production can reach 2,0O,OOO cords of pulp products now consumed in the United States.
 Alaskas total population for 1920, unofficial estimates made by w. T. Loop, chief of the Alaska division of the federal bureau of education, showed, will not exceed 57,000 whites and natives. Of this total it is thought the final figures, which may be com piled within the next two weeks, will show between 3O00O and 35,O0O whites, the rest being natives. Off, cial census figures for the last re- maining towns of importance in the territory were announced by MT. LOpp. They were: Fairbanks, 1,158; Nenana, 820 Panama, PIP; Fort Yukon, 319; Nulato, 258. Fairbanks shows big loss in population as compared with the 1910 census of 3,541. Nenana, a new town developed as result of
 the government railroad construction, did not exist in 1910. Panama also lost slightly, it's 1910 count being 398.
 Fort Yukon had 321 in 1910 loss of two persons in ten years.
 The Alaskan bureau of the chamber
 of commerce has advices that J. F, Laverne has developed a new indus try for Alaska. by forming 8 company