The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-04
WORTH WHILE
 INFORMATION
 ABOUT ALASKA
Issues Booklet cling of Resources of the
 Territory


 gotten out booklet, In which Alaska appears as the leading feature of the contents. The article about Alaska is we'll written and shows the author in- formed on the subject. It is nicely illustrated, there being views of Se- ward, Juneau, the Kennecott copper mine, salmon cannery, big salmon catch, a gold dredge in operation at Nome, reindeer herd in Northwest ern Alaska, Erickson's farm at Fair banks and the coal beds at Nenana. It might be said, in passing, that the name of T. s. Lippy appears as 9 trustee of the company. MT. Lippy, every old sourdough Klondiker knows was one of the original locators and took out better than million dollars from claim in that country.
 Because of the fund of information about Alaska in the booklet, it is herewith republished:
 What does Alaska " suggest to you-a concentrated chunk of ice or a land of abundance and opportunity |? To the majority, Alaska means little more than the personification of dis comfort and shivering cold. Few real ize that Alaska averages the same winter temperature along her south western coasts as New York, North ern Arizona, and parts of Missouri. The temperature, for three winter averages 30 degrees above zero in these sections.
 With the same latitude and re- sources vastly greater than the Scan- dinavian peninsula, Alaska awaits only the development of her wealth and the establishment of local indus tries to insure her a population rival ing that of those European countries.
 Mineral wealth is the resource most thought of in connection with Alaska. According to the U. s. Geological Sur yey, the mineral wealth of Alaska has hardly been scratched. Yet we find the output of the Territory during forty-three years of mining amounts to more than $500O00,000.
 Mining is experiencing a revival fol- lowing a period of postwar activity. Most noticeable activity is in the Hyder district in the Portland Canal district, where the Premier Gold mine, just across the boundary on the British Columbia side, paid more than | $3,0OO000 in dividends for the first year, just ended. Properties on the American side show exceptional prom ise of similar development. Although gaining the attention of 1 the world by more conservative and less spectacular growth than the dis. covery of the Klondike, the Alaska l fisheries are recognized among the greatest industries of the Northland With proper utilization and protec, tion this activity will prove continu ous source of revenue to the Territory | Over-fishing for salmon during the war, when the country was calling for | food from Alaska as well as other parts of the globe, has resulted in de. l creased output of this variety since 1917.
 According to estimates made by the U. s. Forest Service, the Tongass For. est reserve ir southeastern Alaska can supply the United States and possibly Europe with much of the paper pulp material of the future.
 Limited shipments of birch timber, for use in the manufacture of furni- ture on Puget Sound, have been made from Anchorage. Small sawmills, shingle and box factories are scattered along the coast in or near the small towns. Spruce is being shipped from Southeastern Alaska to Australia, Eng land and China.
 Although trapping and hunting pre- ceded the gold miner in the Northland,
 
 fur bearing animals, commercially, are comparatively recent and steadily growing in importance. More than 300 fox farms are now engaged in the business from the Alaska Peninsula south to the islands along the South eastern coast.
 Reindeer were introduced some thirty years ago for the benefit of the starving natives along the Northwest ern coast. They have thrived and in creased so remarkably, offering such a promising food for the future, that companies of white men have organ ized for the purpose of raising the reindeer in Alaska and marketing them in the States.
 With Fairbanks, in the shadow of the Arctic Circle, milling her own wheat flour from home grown Spring wheat and marketing 1t to local resi-