The Cordova daily times., 1922-01-10
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1922
ALASKA REVIVAL IS FoREsHADoWED

The following extracts are from various Washington State papers and are all optimistic regarding the future of Alaska: .-. ..
 An Alaskan revival of tremendous import ance to the industrial and commercial interests of the Northwest is due during the year, in the opinion of State editors, says the Seattle Sunday Times. Completion of the government railway between Anchorage and Fairbanks, and constructive interest in the Territory on the part of the national administration, fur nish the principal grounds for this belief.
 The Port Angeles News regards the opening of the Alaskan government railway as 'prob- ably great an event in American pioneer ing history as has happened since the opening of the Union Pacific railroad and the conse quent development of the American Vest"
 And the Seattle Post Intelligencer remarks that aside from the opening up of the railroad, 'the best news that has come to the patient A]askans in many months is the assurance of President Harding that he intends to 'open up' the great potential terrtory.'
 Commenting upon the Alaskan outlook, the Seattle Times says, "Within year, unless all signs fail, there will be new era opened for the Northand, an era that will witness extraordinary and far-rcaching expansion in the vast and potentially wealthy domain com prising Uncle Sam's Last West.' It needs only that the government shall adopt policy of encouragement rather than one of repres- sion; that it shall promote settlement, capital investment and industrial development instead of putting innumerable obstacles in the way of these things.''
 Speaking of the present restrictions upon the Territory, the Wenatchee World says: Government red tape and attempted control by the big companies together have had tendency to hold down rather than stimulate business in the territory" but it believes that with the government railroad completed, "benefcent legislation ought to do the rest for the wonderful region.''
 The Aberdeen World believes that Alaska s future will be assured when two of its present most potent drawbacks are eliminated One of these it mentions as the popular but CT roneous belief relative to the territory's ex- tremely rigorous climate, and the other it| says is the network of government "red tape now hampering all forms of development
 To similar effect the Tacoma Ledger re- marks that "ignorance of actual conditions climatic and otherwise, has been the most potent fact working against the upbuildng of Aaska,' and it believes that "removal of the misconception relative to Alaskan climatic conditions, through special and authoritative reports, should secure for our northernmost territory the three essentials of success-capi- tai, labor and settlers.''
 Editorially, the Seattle Times says: "Hav- ing driven 10000 or more white residents from Alaska during the past ten years, the self-appointed watch-dogs of Alaska's riches are planning to defeat MT. Harding's plans for the opening up of the Territory.
 ''The very mild New bil which merely proposes to coordinate all the agencies admin istering Alaskan affairs under the Secretary of the Interior, is being viciously attacked the initial effort of predatory interests 'to obtain stranglehold on A]aska's resources.
 'It is obvious, of course, to these critics, that if they kill the New bill there will be no development in the Northland-no paper mills to compete for business with those in the United States and Canada; no coal for the :