The Seward gateway., 1923-01-22
BONE PICTURES ALASKA
 AS WONDERLAND
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(Continued from Page One) Efforts are now under way to bring about a transformation of the North land, and crave your support and aid toward that; end.
 Would Open Up Vast Resources
 "I am a conservationist. I believe in conservation of all our national re sources. l am all the more conse1 vationist after year and half Alaska Conservation politics has been blight to Alaska, but conseTva- tionZreal conservation-is a stranger to Alaska and has been positively un, known from the date of the Seward purchase Hoarding is not conserva- tion. Locked up coal fields do no mean conservation. Twenty million acres Of reserved forests, virtually untouched and overgrown and in need of harvestration, do not bespeak con servation. Uncultivated agricultural lands, unsurveyed and unoccupied acreage beyond computation, do no; spell conservation. To make tive blades of grass grow where one grew before and to utilize our Godgiven re sources for the benefit of mankind l the kind of conservation the country in genera land Alaska in particular needs at this juncture
 From the vast forests of Alas for the fiscal year 1920-21 timber the value Of $61 900 was cut and sold Think of that dent in the reserve. l. was enough to cover the expense 0 the forest administration. For l3 the sales amounted to $35,0C0. HoN staggering these figures to the lumbe' interests of Washsington. AnG he impressive to little mills unheard oi scattered all over the country that cui and sell many times that amount o timber every year and make no nolst about it. But a record will be made this year, and continually here after. Pulp and paper mills are as suredly coming.
 Hoarding Is Waste
 "Hoarding is waste. For half cen tury Alaska has had this waste with out a sesmblance of conservation Meanwhile, and with no outcTy or pro test, the fisheries of Alasksa, save foi the seal herds, have been exploiteU unregulated and unconcerned.
 But a brighter and better day dawning for Alaska. 1ne turnin point has come. Constructive conseTV ation is at hand The completion o J,e government railroad,-the Alaska Railroad now in successful operation is already transforming Alaska prospective oil discoveries on the < aska peninsula will make for further transformation. Alaska coal is com ing into general local use and the day is not far distant when it will Ii markets on the Pacific coast.
 Mininc on Substantial Basis.
 "The year just closed showed stead! progress. Mining is on a more sub stantial basis. Capital is no ionge' looking askance at Alaska. Official dom is less handicapped than for merly. The bureaus operating under an incoherent and impossible system are doing their work more efficiently t/,n ever before.
 1"The eyes of the country are on Alaska. It is becoming bette: known and being recognized as doma1 worthy Of sane attention and construc tive, upbuilding policies.
 .Territorially Alaska is an eXemplal in the simplicity and inexpensvieness of it's local government. The Terri tory is not over-organized in this day of organization, as are most of the states of the Union. It is not bonded to death, but free from debt. it IS demonstrating capacity in the prudc handling of it's affairs and thus ever now equipping itself to enter the Un ion. It needs people. It needs capl tal It needs a chance-the American chance. Given that chance-and it is to be givep that chance-Alaska will come into it's own. and add strength to the republic"
 The Governor emphasized the sig nifiicance of the opening of the Agri cultural College and School of Mines at Fairbanks, and spoke of the mum Der of graduates of the Washington University. State College and Normal Schools now employed as teachers in the Territorial schools.