The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-23
PRESIDENTS ALASKA VISIT

President Harding's visit to Alaska next Summer will be instructive and pleasant to him; it will benefit Mrs. Harding's health, as well as delight her, and it will prove of advantage to the Norh]and. It will be the first trip of a Chief Executive of the nation to the Territory, a Territory that in area IS one-fifth as large as the United States and that since its purchase in 1867 from Russia for $7,2OOOOO has yielded in minerals, sea prod ucts and furs a wealth of $1,10000O,000.
 At least twenty days, according to dis patches from Washington, D. C., will be al lotted for the northern journey. In that time, the Presidential party could go by ship from here to Valdez and Seward, thence by automo- bile over the Richardson Trail and Copper River Railroad to Cordova and thence by ship across the Gulf of Alaska and by way of the Inside Passage to Seattle. It would afford opportunity for inspection of coastal waters and of extensive stretches of the In terior and also permit of sojourns in the principal towns along the route of travel.
 At Valdez the headouarters of the Third Judicial Division. the President can view tho famous Valdez Glacier, barrier that checked but could not ston the stampede of host of gold seekers At Seward, named for Lincoln $
 
 nurchasp of Alaska. the President will entrain on the Government Railroad, broad -guage, we'll ballasted system that extends 467 miles into the Interior. He and his party will travel in standard sleeping cars and have the con- veniencn of a dining car An Anchorage. the Chief Executive will be the pnest of a town the Government laid out and administered dur inc the building of the railroad. and there are located the main shops and offices of the system Northeast of Anchoraee he will view the extensive Matanuska and Ch1ckaloon coat fields. At Riley Creek, 347 miles north of Seward his train will cross a steel and wood viaduct 900 feet in length. He will then he at the foot and in the shadow of Mount Me- Kinlev. the loftiest peak on the North Amer- can continent At Nenana. he will go over the Panama on a mile bridge which cost ST. 3OOOOO and the main steel span ot which IS exceeded in length by only one other m the world At Fairbanks. terminal of the ral- road. the President will be at the center of the Terrtorv's interior treasure vault From there in automobiles he will traverse the Richardson Trail. fine roadway built and maintained bv the Government Leaving 1t near Chitina. he will go on the Copper River Railroad which serves the famous Kennecott regions, to Cordova. There he will board shin for his cruise across the Gulf of Alaska and through the Inside Passage, whose scenic crandeurs cannot be exceled bv those of any waterway on the globe He will visit Juneau the capital, famed for its quartz mining, and Ketchikan, the home of salmon and halibut fleets.
 The Presidents trip will be made in the season of the year when the farm lands along the line of the railroad will be productive of berries and vegetables and green with early growths of hay and grain. He will see wild flowers of innumerable kinds and of every hue, and in abundance on every plain and hill-