The Alaska daily empire., 1921-07-23
PIONEER WITH
 MUCH FAITH IN
 THE TERRITORY
Dr. s Hall Young Hopes to Return to Live Rest of
 Life Tn Alaska.

q am an optimist of the most pro nounced character" Dr. s. Hall Young said today. "and I have great faith in Alaska and am sure that when the miles and miles of red tape is unwound from Alaska that it wiA be one of the greatest countries on earth and l hope to arrange my af- fairs so that I can return here to make my home" he continued.
 Original Pioneer Dr. $ Hall Young said today that in the years 1879 and 1880 he and John Muir camped on the site of Jul neau. while awaiting to cross the Gastineau Channel Bar in their canoes In the latter year he and NIr. Muir met Joe Juneau and Rich ard Harris at Aux Village and the men said they were going prospect ing near here. It was on this trip that they found placer gold in Sil- yer Bow Basin, which caused the stampede that founded the city of Juneau. first known as Harrisburg.
 Dr. Young and John Muir in the years 1879 and 1880 went to Glacier Bay and explored Muir Glacier. Al that time the place had never been visited by white people and the only maps they had of the vicinity were ones made by Vancouver early in the century
 Came In 1878
 Dr. & Hall Young first came to Alaska in 1878 and for 10 years la bored among the native people. Al that time there were but two post offices in the Territory, Wrangell and shA It was at the former place that he located. He travelled all over Southeastern Alaska by canoe and covered many thousands of miles, establishing missions and schools. He built the first protest ant church in Alaska, in 1879, and the first church for white people, the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, in Juneau, in 1882, on the ground where the Zynda Hotel now stands.
 For six years after he arrived in the Territory there was no civil law whatever in Alaska. No courts, no marshals and every man was a law unto himself
 Starts. Paper
 In 1884 Dr. Young started paper at Wrangell called the Glacier, a monthly missionary publication that established his reputation as a lit erary man. Extracts from articles and poems printed in that paper were reprinted all oyer the United States.
 Three books written by him, Al. aska Days With John Muir" 'The Klondike Clan" and Adventures In Alaska" have reached a large sale all over the country.
 On the Stampede
 Leaving Alaska in 1888, Dr. Young did not return North until 1897, when he carried his pack over the Chil koot Pass and established the first Presbyterian Church at Dawson. He later went down the river, started lHlSSlOHS Ut IIdSle anu Rdiupdil |, anu was in Nome in 1899 at the heighth of the excitement there. Built churches at Council and Teller and was in Skagway in 1902-3 and went to Fairbanks. where he started church and was there in 19034-5-6. He then went to Cordova and from there took in the stampede to Idita- rod and Ruby.
 He left Alaska about eight years ago and has since that time been in charge of the Alaska office of ths Presbyterian Board of Missions a; New York. He is in great demand as lecturer
 Dr. Young came North in May this year and has been coming slowly up the coast, gathering material for book that he is to write on the be ginning of Alaskan Missions and the coming of civil law to Alaska. He will leave next week on the Lois and will visit iall the towns along Icy Straits and stay for several weeks at Sitka.
 Dr. Young will preach tomorrow morning at the Northern Light Pres byterian Church. when union serv- ice will be held with the Methodis. Church. After he makes his trip to Sitka and other towns to the west he hopes to return to Juneau to re- main fOr A time and tO piya his Iac