The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-06
GOVERNOR. ASKS {. co ORDINATION GOVT AGENCIES
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Continued From rase One '' gainsaid in. any quarter It's forests offer undisputed opportunities for wood pulp enterprises that will help 10 solve an urgent problem of the lay and generation. It's coal and oil deposits are abundahtly in evidence. These resources are so plain that all have seen who care to see.
 Asks Colonization Plan.
 But the great area of fertile land in the interior now awaiting home steaders and home-makers is little realized or understood. The oft repeated assertion that there are 100000 square miles of land in Al aska susceptible of agricultural de- tvelopment involves no hyperbole of statement. The Government Rail Iiroad reaches the best of this area in the Susitna, Matanuska and Panama liValleys. Once industries are started md a population created, these fer tile lands will offer exceptional op- portunities to settlers.
 Colonization plans should now be worked out and inducements offered to people to take up homesteads.
 The agricultural lands of Alaska can easily supply the needs of a million people, probably three mill lions Wheat growing is no longer m experiment. It is demonstrated fact A iouring mill is in success ful operation at Fairbanks. Home steaders in the interior are today earning livelihoods out of the soil. General farming only awaits con suming public and accessibility to markets.
 Inducements to settlement must be offered to would-be settlers, just as inducements to investment must be offered to capital.
 Alaska's hand has seemed to be raised against both settlers and capi- talists in the past decade, owing to restrictive regulations and cumber- some administrative methods and machinery
 Must Have Encouragement
 Dr. Alfred Brooks, the eminent geologist, who knows Alaska and has rendered great service to Alaska, has well said: "You cannot get men to face the hardships of frontier life unless there be reasonable assurance of large financial reward. Similarly, capital will not invest in pioneer en- terprises unless there be hope of large profits. If Alaska is to make industrial advances, every encour- agement must be given to the settler and capitalist"
 Hitherto the difficulties encount- cred have been discouraging and dis heartening in the extreme to settler and capitalist alike.
 Interest. Is Awakening. | The most promising sign of the times today for Alaska is the awak- ened interest in Washington in the opening of this rich domain and the expressed determ nation in both the Executive and Legislative depart ments of the Government to coor- dinate and simplify the methods and system of administration and meet 1 the manifest needs of the Territory | Surely it was never intended that the rich natural resources of Alaska should be unuSued. Nature never | intended it so. The gold and silver and other precious metals, and coal l and oil, clearly are intended for the use and benefit of mankind. So, too ! the countless acres of untitled soil The fact that more than half cen tury has elapsed since the purchase of the Territory with so little done ! toward developing it and making 1 it's resources available for the public good is past understanding to those who know and comprehend Alaska richness Now, with the completion of the Government Railroad, a sys tematic course of development be comes doubly incumbent. It is tht part of wisdom and the part ol actual economy as well.
 Details of Change.
 Following the consolidation under one directing head at Washington O the many bureaus whose activities reach Alaska, which. it is assumed will be brought about by early Con gressional enactment. it is thorough ly advisable that representativ, of each of these essential bureaus b. stationed in Alaska and empoweret to act upon matters under their jur is6iction which constantly arise Juneau should be the executiv headquarters of these necessar agencies, if administration bushes is to be expedited and delay avoided. The annual visitations o bureau officials to Alaska to famil iarize themselves with condition and make reports are not conduciv