The Nome nugget., 1922-01-28

NlSaDlc. nut absolutely necessary, with the proposed consolidation of bureaus under one directing head, tn administer the affairs uf Alaska in Alaska to the fullest extent consist ont with continued governmental 1 supervision.
 Even with the administration of i's affairs brought closer home. the difficulties will still be great be- cause of the magnitude of the Ter ritory and its widely divergent in tcrcsts. For example. Nome is even farther removed from Juneau. in point of time. than is Washington and Fairbanks, the terminus of tho railroad in the interior. is also far away Tho colossal size of Alaska points conclusively to u division or tho domain. in due course of time. into two or more territories. prclim- mary to statehood. Under present conditions. in the very nature of things. administration is and will continue to be beset with delays and difficulties. In view of the short ness of the season. especially in the northernmost part of the Territory and the interior. such delays often entail actual hardships. Where red tape is encountered at every turn. through divided and iil-defined au- thority. these hardships are inten- sihed
 Distractions met by capital seek nE investment and by people in quest of homesteads plainly account for the slow development of the Ter ritory These obstacles have been iessened somewhat in recent years. but by no means removed.
 Capital and people med only a chance-a fair chancc--tc do their part in the development of AlasEa Both are entitled tr have the parh made easier than 1t has ,ver been in the past
 A count, that. unopened and handicapped heavily in many waNs, has nevertheless p,oGuceG out of its natural resources wealth approSi- mating billion dollars, certainly is a country worth looking after and engaging the constructive attention of the Government,
 AlaSka's mineral wealth is dem NUStrated fact It's iucompa bic fish cries are toe well understood to bS gaiusnid in any quarter. It's forests Offer uudisputed opportunities for wood pulp enterprises that will holp to solve an urgent problem of the day and generation. Its coal and oil deposits are ahundantly in evidencN,
 These resources are SD plain that all have seen who care 10 see
 Hut the great area of fertile land iu the interior now awaiting home s,caders 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- velopment involves no hyperbole of statement The Government Rail road reaches the best of this area in the Susiiua. Mstanusks and Panama valleys Once industries are started through the investment of capital. and 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 eau easily supply the needs of a million people, probably three mil lions. Wheat growing is no longer sn experiment. l, is a demonstrated fact \ Touring mill is in success tul operation at Fairbanks, Home s,eaders in the interior are today earning livelihoods out Of the soil, General fsrmiug only awaits con- sumius public and accessibility to markets,
 Inducements to settlement must be ! cfersAd tc wouli-he settlers, just as | inducements 10 investment must be | offered 10 capital
 AlaSka's hand has seemed to be ! raised against both settlers and capi- | tAhsts in the past decade. owing 10 i restrictive regulations and cumher- some administrative methods ana; machinery,
 nv- Alfred Brooks. the eminent i stolosis,. who knows Alaska and has | rendered great service to Alaska. has well said, You cannot sci men 70