The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-11-22
ALASKA LETTER

ALASKA LETTER
 SEATTLE, Nov, o. Members of the executive committee of the Alaska Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce met at a luncheon to discuss the pre- paration of resolutions endorsihg . gold bonus bill. The Chamber has been requested by the Northern Alaska Chamber of Commerce at Nome to work for some such measure and the northern body has endorsed the Mo- Fadden bill, TOW pending before Con- gress. This provides for a $10 an oun- ce bonus to producers of virgin gold. The second division of the territory of Alaska is dependent to large extent on it's gold mining industry and this year Alaska's production of gold is even less than that of a year ago. The appeal of the Nome commercial body states that the passage of gold hon us measure, such as the McFadden bill. will enable miners to work gold pr :!lcirE land at a profit. The com mi tee kad ',efore it figures signed by the Nome body, showing the increas- ing crs;s of gold mining in Alaska and some of the advances quoted were:
 MaRice D. Leehey was named by the Alaska Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce to head committee to at. tend the American Mining Convention which opens in Denver, Nov ., Is. At the request of Nome and other mining centers of Alaska MT. Leehey will urge the convention to endorse the proposed McFadden bill, which provid- es for the payment of a bonus of $10 on ounce to the producers of virgin gold.
 Alaskans who suffer the discomforts of oyer-xealous bureau control are not chronic kicke,s as a rule, but the mat ter of mails has always been a .touchy spot with people of the North, and when the first mail was taken to the territory by ariplanes, it was expect ed that Alaskans would have most prompt communication with the out side world. However. the hopes do not appear to be well founded if the record made by letter received by the Seat tie Chamber of of Commerce from Nome is typical of What will result.
 After mushing nearly 5000 miles over the northermost tip of the conti- 'nent and completing the only exhaust i've and accurate census of the barren 'ands inside the Arctic Circle, J. H. Mcguire, of the census bureau, is in Seattle reporting to W. T. Lopp, chief of the Alaska district. He says the hu- man population of the far North is P per cent under that of the canine population. In this most strenuous cen> sus accomplishment on record, Supt. Mcguire, with team of sixteen dogs, and single Eskimo guide, left Nome in October, 1919. Seven months ! ater, after mushing 2,s45 miles to Point Barrow and return to his headquarters at Kotzebue, his task was completed. in his district, in which he presides over the destinies of eleven Eskimo schools in an area of 400 miles square, Mcguire could only find 2se white men 2,690 full-blooded Esdmos and 1s5 of mixed blood, total population of B. 14s in this northsSmost American fronties. There were more dogs than people, total of 4,0s1 canines --and 3S,209 reindeer.
 Bound for Puget Sound from Peru, Chile and Central American ports with ', a cargo of general freight and flat cars and trucks for the Alaskan En- gineering Commission, : the General Steamship Corporations steamship