The Cordova daily times., 1922-10-27
Voice of Alaska Press
LABELLING ALASKA

The bigger they are the harder they to fall, when it comes to passing judgment camp.
 Down in San Francisco is a higherup insurance man, who probably knows all there is to know, and then some more, about insurance. We ready to believe the who wrote the Insurance Book is or was an idiot, compared with Willard o. Wayman of San Francisco Far be it from to try to set an incendary fire Waymans insurance reputation and learning for we don't know a blamed thing about insurance save that it is always an effort pay the premium thereon. He is declared to be a national figure in insurance circles, and we do not doubt but that he is. Being all these things, why does he pick Alaska? Why did he mix with the decayng beachcombers on the Alaska Coast and then and knock the greatest country that has been? We ask you. He didn't pene- Alaska a greater depth than six inches in any one place yet his voice and passes udg ment 6OO,OOO square miles of Territory! Can you beat it? Here's the story from the San Francisco Examiner:
 General business conditions in Alaska bad,
 says MT. Wayman. With the possible exception of Ketchkan, little business is being transacted and
 the outlook is encouraging. In some parts of Alaska notably Anchorage and in that vicinity, many of the inhabitants passing possible pros- perity the finding of oil and number of com
 panies were going in there to make thorough nvest- gaton and start drilling.
 It be borne in mind that out of the year there are but 100 working days in Alaska, at the
 best.
 Mining conditions in Alaska at stand-stll, and one must bear mind that it takes tremen- dous amount of capital to open mines in Alaska.
 From an agricultural point of view there is noths ing in Alaska it is question in my mind as to
 whether farmer taking up the tilling of the land there would be able keep the wolf from the door. It is not essentially an agricultural country, and never will be, and any who contemplates going to Alaska must consider the fishing mining industries
 General business conditions in Alaska bad, says Wayman. General business conditions in Alaska are better than they have been in ten years.
 be borne in mind that out of the year there but 100 working days in Alaska at the best says Wayman. Ketchikan and Juneau of which he speaks so glibly 365 working days in the and in this office in the heart of Alaska there 400 working days in the year, work that number of the year, for work that number of days every days every year.
 Mining conditions in Alaska at standstill and one must bear in mind that it takes tremendous amount of capital to open up mines in Alaska, says Wayman. In Alaska richer mines than on the coast and paid for their development from the grassroots.
 "From agricultural point of view there is nothing in Alaska, and it is "a question in my mind whether taking up the tillng of the soil would be able to keep the wolf from the door," Wayman. No farmer in Alaska wolf his door, and most of them have autos and tractors This is the first in Alaska that the farmers have had trouble in getting ahead by leaps and bounds
 The who writes speaks of Alaska who has not been in it all it, is taking right unto himself that few if any entitled to take with the welfare of a country it's people. Wayman may be good judge of insurance, but he is a darn poor judge of the Alaska which he which is 99-100 of Alaska, and then some--News- Miner.
 Shear Wisdom