The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-30
NEWSY LETTER
 FROM SEATTLE
 ABOUT ALASKA

SEATTLE, March 30.-Cutting in half of the time between Alaskan mails to Nenana, Tanana and other points on the Yukon river and to St. Michatls after July l, is announced by w. c. Van Dervoort, superintend- ent of the railway mails. By agree ment with the American Yukon Navl- gation Company service to these towns will be placed on a weekly instead Of fortnightly basis. Mails will go to Seward and over the new government railroad to Nenana and then by boat down the Yukon to St. Michaels and up the Tanana River to Panama. A contract has been entered into between the Alaskan Engineering Company and the American Railway Express Co.,, whereby the express company will operate over the govern ment railroad in Alaska, according to William Gerig, chief engineer. The new arrangement becomes effective May 15, with first class express rate from Seattle to Fairbanks $11 60 per 100 mounds, reduction from the ordf- nary summer rate of 40c per hundred The present winter rate is S20 per hundred. Express can be shipped from any point in the United States to any point in Alaska on through bill of lading.
 Volney Richmond, president of the Northwestern Commercial Company has brought his family here to reside, as the headquarters of his cofnpany is now located here. This succeeds the old Northern Commercial Company.
 Revival of ttse Alaska salmon pack ing industry explains some of the large number of persons going north thus early in the season,
 Full page advertisements in Sunset Magazine and twelve inch advertise ments three times a week in the news paper along the Pacific Coast are to be used throughout the summer by the Admiral Line in a great adver- Using plan to develop the Alaska summer excursion business. The cam paign, which involves an expenditure of approximately $40,O0O began the middle of March and will continue through to the last of October.
 A Washington special to a Seattle tie newspaper says: President Hard ing will stand definitely behind Sec retary Falls proposal for concentrat- ing jurisdiction over Alaska in one de- partment of the government. The President is convinced that division of Jurisdiction over this immensely rich territory among the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture and Con- merce has done much to paralyze Alaskan development, to use his own phrase He is convinced further that the natural resources in Alaska must be made available and can be made available for industrial purposes with out violating any sound principles of conservation.
 The Department of Commerce will send a party headed by Assistant Sec retary c. H. Houston to Alaska this summer to make general :nvestiga- tion of conditions in which the depart ment is specially interested pertaining to the Bureau of Fisheries, Coast and Geodetic Survey, lighthouse and steam boat inspection service Particular att ention will be paid to the salmon fish Ing industry.
 The tourist information service of the Seattle Chamber Of commerce IS receiving inquiries from all parts of the United States relative to Alaskan trips The national publicity Cn the new government railroad has prompt ed many inquiries about the trip from Seward to Fairbanks.
 Wholesale prices of canned salmon at Seattle are as follows:
 Tails Flats Halves Sockeyes ........ $425 $4.50 $2.50 podc 0oR oOO 9 OO