The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-09-20
Fasteners Tell What Impressed Them Most While
 Touring Alaska

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 The Brooklyn Eagle has Issued a lspecial edition which Is an illustra- ted record of the Brooklyn Eagles Alaska Development tour the past sumner.
 That the undertaking had an i'm portance far transcending that of the ordinary travel tour is evident to all those who scan the pages of the Alaska Tour edition. The Ea- gle party had the distinction of be- ing the first large group of people to penetrate into the Interior. They brought a message of friendship and good will from the psopleaof the East to the pioneers of this far northland
 As the tour was drawing to a close and the party were comfort ably journeying eastward, the re- corder of the tour requested each member of the party to write an an answer to the question: What i'm pressed you most about Alaska 2" Following are few of the answers: Alvah Davison
 "A land of magnificent distances. All the artists in the world oould not exhaust it's landscapes in a thousand years! Every mile a scene to stir the soul. It's unbroken for ests; its virgin soil, it's untitled val leys. Unknown, unbounded in these days. thou art jewel buried at our doorway-seek it round the world, return disappointed, and there 1t lies. In your mountain ranges un- told wealth is locked. Sleep on thou land of the midnight sum- a treasure for future ages. They will break thy long sleep and bring forth wealth sufficient to buy king doms. Your raging torrents will be harnessed to tighten the labor of millions, their energy will heat the homes of the land. Honored is the nation to whom thou bslongest and heppy are the people who possess thy acres"
 Edward M Bassett "A land for fisheries and mining, but not for agriculture; a land for reindeer but not cattle; land for the hardy and vsnturesome. but not for the conservative: land of si- lence and mystery"
 Mrs. Pauline Fnke l Grandeur of scenery with isola- tion of human life-with great question of future prosperity" Miss Ellen Rawlinson.
 "The optimistic belief of the peo- pie in their country in the face of what appeared to me to be about three-quarters hopslessness. The vast stretches of unoccnpied land, the deserted prosperity in the small towns"
 Mrs. Cora Wickham. l That is Americas last frontier. One must go to Alaska now to find miners and trappers beyond the reach of radio and the movies"
 Mrs. Walter Gibb. l Its tremendous, undeveloped possibilities. The vastness and grandeur of everything. Nothing that l have seen can compare with
 'I was impressed by the sad iso- lation of it's. people. Perhaps the intensive. development of the air plane will be the most effective fac tor in bringing the needed relief"
 Dr. Isham G. Harris
 Its wonderful potentialities; its lack of transportation facilities, and It's varied climate"
 Edward w. Merrill.
 My impressions of Alaska from the scenic standpoint are of the very highest. I cannot conceive of any mountains or glaciers being more beautiful. From the agricul- tural standpoint I would say Alaska has no future other than to supply 1only part of its needed foodstuffs. The timber supply probably cannot be utilized to advantage for some time owing to heavy transportation costs. The casual visitor is proba- bly most impressed with the miner al wealth of the country" Ediorially, the Brooklyn Eagle says: "To promote friendship among people is to serve humanity. If The Eagle party's pilgrimage and the