The Cordova daily times., 1922-10-04
SEE ALASKA
 FIRST, SAYS
 LATE TOURIST

ident of the Territory, said M. ;. Whittier, Special Deputy Collector of Customs, who returned to Juneau recently after a trip extending from Juneau Westward to Seward, over the Alaska Railroad to Nenana and to Panama and up the Yukon through both the American and Canadian Yu- kon districts. MT. Whittier is very enthusiastic over the Interior dis tricts and their future says the Ju- neau Empire.
 q have been a resident of Alaska for 19 years, but this was my first visit to the Interior. I have, of course heard much of the great valleys in there and the agricultural land available for settlement, but &C., cepted it with more or less reser- vation. My visit convinced me, how ever, that the truth had not been stretched. I am ready to accept as truth that farming products to feed a million people, could be raised in the Interior if the people were there."
 HERRING INDUSTRY GROWS
 Mr. Whittier after leaving Juneau touched at Cordova, Valdez, La touche and several herring packing plants in that district. The growth of the herring packing industry to the westward, he said, was to him the most striking development vis- ible. In the vicinity of Sawmill Bay there are five large plants each of which were working at capacity. The is enormous and for the protection of the industry itself some means must be adopted to eliminate it. One of the plants visited has installed a waste reduction system and was a model in every way. Fish not suit able for curing were reduced to oil and meal The market must be found to enable other plants to utilize their waste fish, he said.
 SUPPORT IS RECOMMENDED A support has been recommended | by Collector Mcbride for Seward. While there MT. Whittier secured quarters for the office in the Fed eral building. It is expected that the Collectors recommendation will be allowed within the near future, it was stated.
 From Seward MT. Whittier went t0 Anchorage Business men there are very optimistic over the outlook for development and are putting up sub- stantial buildings.
 Nenana was the next stop made, where some time was put in looking after navigation matters, registering small boats this year to handle rived traffic that was hard hit by the discontinuance of the White Pass River steamer service. Railroad ac- tivity there was noticeable. Work on the big bridge across the Panama River is about two months ahead of the schedule and steel workers were arriving preparatory to putting in the big span.
 FARMS ARE SURPRISING
 The farming development around Fairbanks, said MT. Whittier, fur nisheA a big surprise. Greenhouses were as frequent as dog kennels "The truck farmers raise the finest produce I have ever eaten-tomatoes celery, lettuce, radishes and in fac, almost everything of that class ex'
 eel I went over the farmers roat north of Fairbanks and saw amazing
 results of the work that has beer
 done. From the main building of tho Alaska Agricultural College & Schoo
 of Mines, where l stood with Presl dent Charles E. Bunnell, there is ; wonderful view not only of farms al ready developed, but of miles of un appropriated farming land," he said The First National Bank of Fair
 banks, he said, estimated that thu placer gold output of the immediate district would reach $1,000,000, a con siderable increase over last year The season was favorable for opera tions and many good cleanups wer reported from virtually all of tn creeks.
 The most hopeful sign of reviva of mining, he said, was the fact tha the old-time prospectors are agail
 in the field. On the boat on whicl : he travelled down the Panama wer' several of these who dropped off a : various points with outfits. Fair banks and Nenana business men ar' Il.o