The Alaska daily empire., 1923-03-29
Big Year for North.
Dawson News.

The year 1923 has started off with the promise of being the busiest in many ways in the history of Yukon and Alaska.
 Steamship companies tourist agencies and hotel men of the coast cities report bookings for tour
 sts for the North this than before and the
 promise of smashing all records in that traffic before the summer closes.
 Several big mining properties are opening in Alaska and number in Yukon which will give an impetus to the industry in various quarters
 The Alaska Railway has just completed swinging into place the last bridge linking tho with Ithe interior terminus The persists that the American Government and the White Pass company have come to terms whereby the ore from the Mayo camp is to go out over the railway and regu- lar line of steamers be maintained between Nenana and DaWson thus completing the big loop route whereby travellers enter Yukon from Skagway and drop down the Yukon, past Dawson Nanana and Fairbanks; thence out the coast via An chorage and Seward, or travel the northern circle route in reverse order.
 The Mayo camp has begun to get grip on the outside world, and mining journals and other papers are beginning to allot it space and to dis cuss Keno liin as known and established quantity IEls camp will continue to attract capital and min ers and there is prospect of much capital going into the camp this and transport faci- tles, road improvements and possibly large mills The Stewart River traffic will be heavier this year than ever No doubt many new people including mining authorities, will visit the camp and the population and tonnage steadily increased
 oia klondikes operations will continue about the Game substantial scale last year, and there are reports afoat that eforst are being made with promise Of succeas in foatnig big enterprise or two oI thls camp Wnlcn, II consummated, will mean the investment Of several millions and the employment loi Tar more men than for years Even last year not an able-bodied idle in the Klondike Few parts of the continent could say as much
 Careful readers of Alaskan papers also note the same spirit of development in promising new fields ol that big territory. The reported sale of the Hilion-uolar copper property in the Kantshna by Altken and Price to the Guggenhoims is but one of the new enterprises. Coal, quartz oil fisheries and lFhlpWocd enterprises receiving extensive atten ton in Alaskan coast and interior areas Along the me Of tho now American railway making tbe country accessible at low cost prospectine IS resulting in the opening of important properties me American Government also is determined to make the country through which the road passes attractive 10 tourists and is opening branch lines ana featuring Mt Mckinley park in it's extensive publicity campaign. The marvellous Valleys of Ten thousand smokes, vast of volcanoes and smoky Assures and fumeroles, is being exploited as ancther world wonder which will be a marvellous drawing card for the North
 Preeident Harding promises to come North this year. and will thus help dispel the prejudces in the eyes cf millions to the difficulties of travel in Alaska and Yukon, and his trip will be n signal tnat uncle sam no longer considers Alaska isolated rms Will have tremendous moral effect in hepine the whole northland forward. The stampede of tour lsts already is The Northland is facing the dawn oi new ora It's greatest days to come and the beginning thereof is at hand