The Stroller's weekly and Douglas Island news., 1921-07-09
THE SAD CASE
 OF ALASKA
Oswald schuette in Lesies of June % Tells How the Doctors at Washington Are Quarreing
 Over Diagnosis and Remedy.


 sides am empire of temperate climc,
 with mu-kecd valleys large enough
 Go hold Norway fertile enough Go
 house and feed millions great
 enough to become a nation of iue'L.
 Today One blight Is on thcso icr-
 ole valleys Wih all iu wealth.
 Alaska b losing its population. Wh an is resources Alaska buy at eyorb.unt prices from Che out- side world Che very thiue chat hc| mcznloItod iu is bosom.
 Ask Che man who returns from ! Alaska why be doesn't a,ay and hc| . viu tou you chat 10 doesn't noy Hc| . win teu you tbat Che difIculuc Im posed by law. on top of Che d.n.cul- uc Imposed by nature. mako One re- ward too small Hc can do better in Che United States. ue can do| better I'm Che Yukon or n British . Columbia Che Canadian uc.ghbou .of Alaska. Uc win tcl you chat. . Canada hos ordered things moro hb-. orally: that chat British domain has' opened un Ils treasures with a mos. generous baDl and has offered larger rewards chan Alaska can give Go Che. men of enterprise who undertake their exploration and thc.r eNn.o..a-' uon. In British Columbia tho set uou have something Go say abou. hc.r eoyerumcnt n Alaska hom. . rui, is a myth. so British Columbia Ina. gone forward while Alaska has gone backward although hl.i ol' British Columbia and an of Che Yu-. kou orc cut oG from access to thc. Pacific by Alaska iueil
 Here arc some cyamp'cs of Che. erotesqua economic absuruu@ Co. which orr development of Alaska Ina. ied. The United Statc Goo'or.. . eaI Survey has put minimum cst-. uate ou Che coal deposits ol Alaska at is0O000ooOO0 tons The ac-. tuaI tonnage. say lta oyper.s may bc . far m cNccae of th.s. although thcse feures of themselves arc greater than One original coat supply oI. p.rnseIvaua. Yct out of .rs vaa. wealth Of coaL only flIff9l3| worth hes been mined. while iu Che. Hast hroe years Iat000 tons. worth .sieIO.000 haye boon Imported from Che United sates and as much more has been carried into Alaska from Che mines of British Columbia
 Timber u Alaskan forests is c-. uma.od to czccod 71O00O0oooo d.t v..h a value mo one dar0s Col put into f-urcr Ye. u thc last
 hreo years Nassa has Imported from Che United sates SI2l2ooo worth of lumber and is manuac-
 ma has exported but Sl6oooo worth.
 Tho oI resources of Aa.sa have
 scarcely been touched lt has not even been found possible to este. mate Che extent ot i,s oU-delds oi-. though Eeo'os.su declare chat a. largo portion of hs Territory holds fe'ds chat should compete easly witch Che best ol Che United states s1 Gar these GeIis have produced h total Of but I76L00o gallons a-anst am importation Of 25tooo.-. o00 gallon needed Go fI thc needs Of Nmk1
 Those needs have been kept at a. minimum. for oil shipment from thc. United States is am expensive under taking The s1mc Us true oi Alas ka's coal and lumber consumption. Forced Go depend ou Imports chat must be carried over long distances and at excessive charges Naskaus have been most u.egard'y iu tho.r use. so chat th.s has been another and a powerful check upon every
 hmr chat approached industrial development Alaska has great stores of ore. ot copper tIu and lead. rs we'll as of Iron Yet sine can not even mcit tbcm and must ship chem to America for roUn.ne while she Imports Iu return such manufactures ol copper lead. Gun and steel aa her
 mmecr industries demand
 Estimates of Che portion ot Aios .ka capable ot agricultural develop mont ruu as high as 100000 square miles. more thau ooc-s.zth ot Che 590SSf square miles Of iu total area. Winter wheat and other hardy
 grains arc oaa.iy raised and Che as- rIcuimraI experiment. stations have demonstrated wide diversity Of. products Vast ranges are available for stock raising Yet thoy Io ai- most untouched. Instead of export inr cereals and meat Alaska In Che
 last thrce years has Imported from
 Che United States S1i39S.o0o worth
 of meam and dairy products and S1l668.0O0 worth Of foods.ufs
 Is it any wonder Chat Che friends ot Alaska view is future with aIarme For thcsc economic details are even moro vigorously uuderscor- ed by Che statistics ot population