The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-18
ALASKANS ARE BIG CONSUMERS
 OF CREMATION

Ask any "oldtimer" about the days '99 after the discovery of gold in the Klondike, when prospectors and min CTS were treasure hunting in Alaska's mountain recesses and searching the sands of the turbulent rivers for the yellow metal that meant a fortune to you of the long mushes over the ice and snow and of the hardships and hunger.
 If you will ask him for details of his daily fare, you will find that he will tell you about Carnation Milk which creamed his coffee and served him faithfully in the land where fresh milk was absolutely unobtainable. For, just previous to the strenuous days that preceded the discovery of gold in Alaska, MT. E. A. Stuart, had purchased a small and defunct con- densery at Kent, and against the ad- vice of his friends started the manu- facture of milk that was destined to help make life more agreeable to the hardy prospectors who were heading into the Alaskan land of promise.
 This first condensery, located in the rich valley of Kent, Washington, pro- cured it's milk from the green-pastured dairy farms on which grazed the "contented cows" which have since become world famous.
 In those early days there were many scoffers who belittled the idea of milk in cans. Not so with the hearty prospectors heading for Alaska, how ever, for Carnation found it's favor with these adventurers. Chechaco and Sourdough alike welcomed the chance of creaming their coffee with Carnation, knowing that they were heading for a land where there were no cows.
 As the development of Alaska went forward, the production of Carnation Milk advanced until it became the fav- orite of the mining camps of Alaska and of the lumber camps of the north west Hardly a trail was opened in the Northland but it's course was marked by empty white and red cans yxJ1oi oh Beside the prospector's abandoned camps and on the refuse heaps near the permanent camps of the Yukon country, large numbers of these empty Carnation cans attested it's popular ity among the miners.
 As thriving settlements succeeded the first nomadic stages of Alaskan history, Carnation still held promi- nent place on the bill of fare In many of these places fresh milk was still unobtainable, and there the gro- cer was the original and only milkman. Indeed many of the oldtfmers had be- come so accustomed to the richness of Carnation in coffee and cooking that they preferred it when fresh milk was obtainable
 Twenty-one years has produced won derful development and wonderful pro- gress for wonderful territory Alaska. Likewise twenty-one years has been a wonderful development in the sale of Carnation milk The keen appreciation of what was then "a new fangled idea"-canned milk-Carna- tlon-was one of the most important assets to MT. Stuart in those days when he was pioneer in the milk in- dustry. For, every one of the pros pectors found that Carnation far ex- ceeded his expectations, and present ly he was writing to the folks" back home and telling them about the canned milk" that he was using.
 And so the fame of Carnation spread its consumption at home increased even more rapidly than it's consump- tion in Alaska until today Carnation is a 'by-word" for pure milk in the best homes of America.
 Today some 24 condenseries located in the best dairy sections of the United States and Canada, are pro- ducing the many million cans of milk that are required to supply the de- mand of the best housewives.