The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1923-12-07
Bone Makes Eight Specific
Recommendations In An
nual Report to Work.
ASKS FOR 100000 MORE
FOR TERRITORIAL BLDG.
Increased Appropriations for
Road Building. Share Of
Seal Money Urged.

Containing eight concrete recon-
mendations, including Capitalization
of Federal authority in Alaska in
enc departm mt, $780, 900 additional
for constructing a capitol building,
complete cont.'ol over the fisheries
to the Department Of Commerce
through the Buresu Of Fisheries,
$1,50O,000 annually fer roads and
trails, allotment of cnc-Ealf of the
net revenues from the seal industry
to the Territcry, the annual report
of Gov. Scott G. Bone to the Secre.
tary Of Interior, was made public
today.
The report, as is customary, con-
tanned detailed statistics on the sta
tus of the industries of the Terri
tory, rocounted progress made dur
ing the rast year, and was optim-
istic in its tone as to the future
of Alaska. =. n :
In his Introduction to it, the
Governor said:
The year OF our Lord, 1928, the
fifty-sixth in number since Alaska
passed from Russia to the United
States, will ever be memorable and
stand out as the most notable in
all the history of this Northern Ter
ritory.
1t was Alaska's most successful
year-not In actual development or
unprecedented production of wealth,
or in hum of industry, or influx of
population, but in making known to
the world at large Uncle Sans last
remaining frontier, and centering
and concentrating popular interest
and attention in and upon 1t.
For the first time a President OF
the United States, accompanied by
three members of his cabinet, set
foot upon Alaskan soil and journeyed
along the picturesque coasts and ira
versed the vast interior to meet
fellow Americans sturdily engaged in
working out the destiny of pioneer
land and to become acquainted with
conditions and problems confronting
them.
Preceding the head of the Ma
tion, distinguished delegation OF
congressman, Senators and Repre-
sentatives, on similar mission bent
made a comprehensive trip to and
through the Territory and acquired
direct knowledge of domain hith
erto virtually unknown to them.
The American press sent staff rep.
resentatives for observation and the
chronicling of facts and opinion
and motion picture producers and
photographers contributed graphi-
cally and helpfully to depicting AL
a1ka, not as All upheaval of Ice
and snow, as 1t has existed in
fiction and fancy, but the inviting
and habitable land it really Is.
Seriously planned and steadfastly
devoted to inquiry and study, the far
reaching benefits of these visitations
are manifest and of incalculable
value.
Indeed, 1t may we'll be believed
that the year 1923 will mark the
turning point of Alaska and that
growth-slow. perhaps, yet steady
and sure-will henceforth ensue, with
a development and utilization OF the
Territory's natural resources, prac-
tically safe-guarded and conserved In
the interest of Alaska and mankind.
President Harding's journey to the
Northland, SO beautiful and so won
derful, and, in its termination, so
tragic and deplorable, will live In
song and story. Alaskans hailed
him as great and good friend who
had travelled far to see them and
under whose wise guidance the fu-
ture of the Territory would be Sc
cure. His speech on Alaska, the
last of his public utterances, in which
he lauded its mightiness and mag
nificence and paid high tribute to
its citizenship. and foresaw its early
equipment for Statehood, will for
ever be treasured. That the broad
policies which he touched upon and
outlined. preliminariiy to putting
them into definite and concrete form
will be duly formulated and carried
out, is confidently to be believed.
Alaska's dimensions are great and
its sectional or local interests wide
ly divergent Therefore, anything
like unanimity of views as to the
Territory's needs Is still wanting
But, whatever the differences ol