The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-28
DAKOTA EDITOR TO INVESTIGATE
 ALASKAN FARMS
W. W. Cadle. Comes from South Dakota to Look Into
 Agricultural Possibilities.
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ceipt of Mir. Whites letter, it was deemed advisable for him to go to Alaska. at least as far as Juneau to look over the field and after a study of the situation to renort on the feasibility of the plan. Through the mailing lists of the different pa rers with which he has been con nected. MT Cadle said he reaches 1000 farmers. and the results of his study of Alaskan farming oppor- tunities will go to all of them. He plans to make notes of the deval- opments already made in farming i, the Territory. present markets an1 those that can be developed, to get fairly representative pictorial rec ord of Alaskan farms and farm products, and to compile this data and the photographic illustrations in pamphlet form for distribution.
 False Ideas Exist
 Declaring his conviction that the Territorial Bureau is "essential" if settlers are to be attracted to the North. MT. Cadle stated:
 "Ninety-nipe per cent. of the citizens of the United States, especially east of the Rocky Mountains, think only of cold and gold when Alaska is mentioned and the dread of the cold Qargely imaginary. as compared with the Dakotas and Montana) some than offsets the desire for gold.
 Likewise the same ninety-nine per cent, vaguely know that mining, fishery and ~f5ulp manufacture are largely financial big game, and this has added to the difficulty of in in Alaska.
 But to interest agriculturalists in Alaska is still more difficult task. Indeed, it would seem to be one of the big tasks that Uncle Sam has before him in order to meet the needs of his nephews and nieces in their land-hunger The idea of agriculture in Alaska ap- pears preposterous to the average Fastener
 fdCt Are NeeoeQ
 "Yet, studying Alaska from the distance (which perhaps lends en- chantment to the view), it seemed to me from all I could read that agricultural possibilities actually ex- isted. l felt convinced that probably some of the important problems of even Alaska, namely, food, popula- tion and labor, might to a consider able extent be solved if the agricul- tural possibilities of Alaska were presented to those agriculturalists possessed of the pioneering spirit and by adverse climatic conditions so economically environed as to be open to conviction through the in- vestigation of one of their own num- Der. Misconception of Alaska now existing in their minds in this way will be erased, and new kind of migration to Alaska result.
 with this end in view, after some correspondence with the Alas ka Bureau of Publicity, I packed my grip and came hitherward. Yet though not from Missouri I still in spite of the faith shown by com ing, have to be shown. Perhaps Alaska itself is largely to blame for this, as even your very essential Blu reau of Publicity, by virtue of the overshadowing importance of the ap- parently bigger industrial possibil- ities of big territory, has not greatly emphasized the matter of agriculture.
 Westerners Ready to Come
 By actual contact both as a farmer and newspaper man, I know there are thousands of farmers in South Dakota and Montana who are so situated that if the claimed pos abilities for agriculture in Alaska with knowledge of interim employ ment in mines, fisheries and woods while developing their farms, could be placed before them after verifica. thee, possessed of their confidence, in an illustrated. popular pamphlet form, the result would be that sev- eral hundred of them would come to Alaska and make for permanent food, population and labor produc- tion and stability.
 'Ts it not a question if Alaska is not more in need of such an ele- ment at Nthe present time than it is of any other one thing? And it is