The Alaska daily empire., 1921-07-19

to permit it's settlement and development IT nnot be done except through allowing settlers i've extremely liberal opportunities 10 secure gr' izes for their effort and the chance they take oneerng in country.
 Harold Crary, of the Seattle Chamber of Co erce writing of this subject for the June Pac Id Alaska Review of Seattle, says
 The reason tor Russia selling Alaska to the United States is the subject of the fol lowing interesting statement or the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
 Two cents an acre the approximate price paid for that land from which so many millions in gold and copper have come, and it included the dominion Of waters rom which hundreds of millions in hshery pro ducts have been taken. The reason IS stated to be that Russia failed to colonize the land and to place upon the land populaton # which could make use of it's resources Ill time of peace and defend it i'll time Of war.
 The story began with the mad rush ot the Russian hunters to the newly discovered shores to capture the beautiful and valuable sea-otter skins
 The course of the occupation, coming down through the earlier era of semi-plracy' to the settled rule of the Russian American Company was made part of the tale. The benefits promised by Gregory Shelikof to the Russian Government as part or the re- suits which would follow the granting Of the proposed charter to the Russian Amerl- can Company conveying the sole right to the conduct of the settling of the country with Russian citizens and extending of the boundaries of the Fatherland The result of the period of nearly three-quarters of century of the fur trade which produced no more of a citizenship than there was at the beginning of the time, formed climax which determined the transfer of the Terri tory to the United States, it is alleged
 For sixty-eight years the great Russian company held the land and extended It's trade to the North and to the South, built warehouses. 'Sofices, and ships, and all to get the furs from the land to the markets of the world. At The sea-otter was the most prized of all and each year a brigade or hunters in the wonderful native boats made of skins, searched the waters for these beau tiful belts Trade was promoted and ships sailed to California to China, and around the world to Russia; the company prospered and wished to continue it's tenancy of the won derful land as broad as empire, but the Russian Government that there was not enough people in the land to protect it in time of war and there revenue in time of peace The Territory, containing nearly six hundred thousand square miles of land therefore sold to the United States for the insignificant sum of $7,200- 900, not much more than is required to build one battleshp with which to defend it. in modern days.
 During the time the country was held by the Russians they took from it in furs, 260,79O sea-otter, 3,320,1S6 seals, over half million fox-besides other furs valued in the whole at over 44,000, ,000
 The failure of Russia is held up as warning to the United States that policy which does not create stable citizenry in Alaska will meet with disaster, in the manner did the Russian management.