The Cordova daily times., 1920-03-25
TOURISTS ARE
 PLANNING TRIP T0N0RTHLAND

From the Bi-Monthly Bulletin, is sued under the auspices of the Alas ka Bureau of Publicity, the following constructive information is obtained.
 Many Tourists Overlooked
 As an indication of heavy tourist travel during the coming season tourist booking association of New York has made overtures to one of the largest companies opperatlng passengers steamers on the Puget SS2und-Alaska run to purchase all its passenger accommodation for the com ing tourist season. Tn transportation company, not desiring to bar local patrons, declined the offer and Will handle the summer travel as formerly. Even at this early date thousands of reservations for the tourist season have been made.
 WouId-Be Pulp Manufacturers Are
 Inqusitive
 Among the most insistent seekers after information as to Alaskas Ill., ducements for the investment Of cap- ital in manufacturing industries are those interested in wood pulp ana the products thereto pertaining. But as the federal laws heretofore have been unfavorable, both as to to|1t encouragement could be offered for the investment of capial along that Nine. However. now that congress has passed a satisfactory powersite wa ter act and the senate has approved bill giving fifty-year leases on tim Der tracts, the main obstacles nave been removed and pulp industries for Alaska. which has millions of acres of timber fit for little else, may be installed with the assurance that they will be protected It is appar- ent that the straight-forward attitude of Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., of Alaska, on the matter of National forest reserves ini Alaska has had much to do with changing the atti- tude of the lawmakers at Washington on the subject. In the annual re- port of the governor just issued, he says:
 "I do not believe in national for ests for Alaska. The administration is not conducive to development. It is true that certain amount of money is expended in roads and in cooperative arrangements for roads. but if the same provisions could be .- made to cover public lands, the whole country would be better off. Those Interested in the possible manufac- ture of pulp tell me that the industry would have been undoubtedly es- tabiished in Alaska if definite terms covering a period of years could have been arranged for, and if the water powers were not subject to a lease revocable at any time. It is hard to gain the confidence of capital when it's very existence lies within the executive I believe the present off cials to be earnest and efficient, and I do not criticize the individuals, for whom I have a sincere regard. Their mistakes are becoming less every year, but unless law is to reign in- stead of regulation a change of ad- ministration might place a fanatic in charge who, by a stroke of the pen, could easily again bring about dis withdrawals of 19O6
 "I my last annual report I sug- .gested that there is no function per brmed by the forest service which could not be performed by the gen eral land office. This suggestion still holds good with the exception of road construction: but I believe that the territory would be better off if all the forests within Alaska were to D returned to the public domain and made free for all settlement and in dustry The benefit to be derived from an increase in population would offset the sop of moneys spent in the construction and maintenance of the roads within forests. The forestry principle involved is contrary to our of oY,{ ov,I is setting up vast feudal system domain to be administered for good or evil according to the will of the Lord for the time being"
 Hi-Yu Fox Farms
 Climatic conditions do not appear to enter into the fox-farming indus try as the animals do we'll both in v the cold and dry interior and on the