The daily Alaskan., 1922-12-07

l ton, beansr melons and fruits. W neat Of finest grade has averaged from Twenty-Five to thirty bushels per acre. Small homesreaders near markets thrive and industrial population will stimulate agricultural development throughout the interior. Berries grow wild in great abundance every where. Millions of acres of inland are naturally adapted to grazing and dairying and the prospects in this direction are very bright, The rein ! deer industry is rapidly exterding and is greatly facilitated by the OD- eration of the railroad.
 Native agricultural products, as the Territory settles up, viii supply the needs of a large population and it is within reason to believe that, in course of years, Alaskan meat and dairying products will figure largely in the outside markets of the world ] The agricultural experimental sta tions have rendered a magnificent | service to the territory in it's retard- ed infancy. The farmingpossibiH- ties of the great interior, added to lfshing. mining and timber resources, strengthen faith to the permanent future of Alaska.
 A potent sign of the times is the Iopening of the Agricultural College and School of Mines at Fairbanks che first institution of higher and technical learning in the entire Northland. It starts with a small enrolment, but under bright aus pices. ..,...
 Tourist Facilities Inadequate
 The tourist season of 1922 was | especially significant and would have been more successful but for in Adequate steamship accommodations. Combined, the American and Can. adian liners carried 5,537 tourists, an increase of 2,O95 over the number. m 1921. The bulk of these travelled on the foreign vessels, the PrinCesses sailing from Vancouver to Skagway and operating in connection with the l White Pass Railroad 90 Lake Atlin md the Yukon. Reservations were exhausted on all the steamers early n the season until it's close and AL askans frequently experienced diff ;uIties and delays in securing accom-
 Iodations.
 Two vessels only of the American companies cater to tourist travel and, as they do a large freight busi-. ness at the height of the season prolonged stops at canneries to dis. cnarge and take on cargOes, and un-
 certain schedules, mar the comfort md pleasure of passengers on sight ,eeing bent The Canadian Company, yn the contrary, with well adyertis-. .d, modern ships equipped and adapted to please tourists, provides short, but attractive itinerary and maintains it's schedules.
 Whether by one boat or another, the Journey through the scenic seas 1f Southeastern Alaska is of incom-I parable charm, and dIscOmforts and delays are quickly forgotten; but if Alaska is to become the Summer par adise of tourists, as 1t should be, up. to-date facilities and aCcommoda- tions must be provided. It is Am erican shortsightedness that permits Canadian enterprise to preempt a. growing business in Alaskan waters properly belonging to America.
 A deplorable phase of the trans portatiOn situation as affecting tour ist travel is that American travellers in large numbers are routed through to the British Columbia boundary and the Yukon, getting pictureiqueI glimpses of an important stretch and strip of Alaska in passing, but see ing and learning little of Alaska asI whole. Few tourists go westward to Seward and take the trip over the Government Railroad to the coal fields and into the interior where development is under way and great Alaska is to be found.
 The United States Shipping Board undoubtedly could find profitable use for two tourist steamers in AL askan waters three months in the year and should not only cover the inside passage, but proceed across the Gulf of Alaska to Resurrection Bay and Cooks Inlet, giving tourists opportunity to go over the Govern ment Railroad to Fairbanks and re- turn. Such a tour, with it's urriv-. aIled scenery, if attractiYely adver- tised as are the tours to South America, would bring Alaska thou