The Cordova daily times., 1921-03-02
ALaska--T That s AU
(Former William suzer Royroft asazne)

ty-fourth trip to Alaska and write a few lines about that wonderland for the Roycroft readers.
 Alaska is a marvellous land It has the greatest gold, and iron, and cop per, and lead, and coal, and tin de- posits in North America. Alaska has 599,466 square miles fo terri tory-more than 383, ,645 ,440 acres of land-and the greatest fishing waters in all the world, teeming with the best food fish on earth.
 Alaska was purchased from Russia for $7,200000, less than two cents an acre, and has produced in gold, and silver, and copper more than seventy times what it cost-the cheapest bar gain in lend in the annals of time. Alaska is fourteen times the size of the state of New York, and has more copper than Michigan and Arizona combined. It is one-fifth the size of the United States and has paid for itself more than a hundred times over in real money.
 Alaska has a known coal-bearing area larger than all the rest of the coalbearing area of the United States. Alaska has the greatest cattle and sheep ranges in the north, and agri, cultural possibilities beyond the i'm. agination of the infinite mind "a mighty land is Alaska that welcomes heroic men,
 Take map of Alaska. Look at it. If you place this map of Alaska in actual area on the map of the United States, one part of Alaska will be in the Atlantic ocean opposite Charles ton; another part of Alaska will be in the Pacific ocean opposite San Fran cisco, another part of Alaska will be in the Gulf of Mexico south of New Orleans; and another part of Alas ka will be in Canada, north of the Great Lakes. People have no con- ception of the vastness of Alaska, and there has been disseminated throughout the world more misin- formation regarding Alaska, and it's resources, and it's people, than about any other matter of public moment in the history of our country.
 Let us examine this map of Alas, ka. Southeast of Mt St. Elias is called southeastern Alaska; west of St. Elias and south of the Yukon river is called southwestern Alaska and north of the Yukon is called northern Alaska. These divisions mark the natural divisions of Alaska Nature made them so. In a straight line from Cape Chacon, iu south eastern Alaska, to Point Barrow, 1T northern Alaska is about 5000 miles In straight line from Cuba tc Greenland is less than 5000 miles and there is nearly as much differ ence in the climatic conditions il Alaska on the Pacific coast as there is between Cuba and Greenland or the Atlantic coast. The climate ot Alaska is governed almost entirely by the wonderful Japan current, anC that inexplicable current is muct greater than the gulf stream.
 Southeastern Alaska has a milo climate. The summers are cool. The winters are warm. The mean tenn perature at Sitka is the same as the mean temperature at Washington, D c. Southwestern Alaska has a eli mate similar to the climate ot southern Canada. North of the Yu kon river to the Arctic ocean Alas ka has a cold climate in winter, anC a hot climate during the short sum mer months.
 Southeastern Alaska is composed largely of beautiful islands. It is { mineral and a fishing country, rict now, and destined to become more so Some. of these islands in southeast ern Alaska are heavily timbered witt valuable spruce, hemlock, and rec and yellow cedar.
 The timber resources of these Isl ands in southeastern Alaska are in valuable for wood pulp, and thus fal they have never known the sound of the woodman's ax. They are vir gin forests.
 The fishing industries in southeast ern Alaska are becoming the great est in the world. According to gov ernment reports, there are oyer thirty different kinds of food fishes and only recently the United State; fish commission found the halibu of these fish on the great banks of the coast of Alaska-the home o the cod, and the salmon, and the herring, and the mackerel. This par of Alaska will furnish tor years ant years to come enough food fish fl