The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-06
Says Electricity Alone Needed
 To Develop Alaska That Has Possibilities; Also Colonization

prize winning children. There are
 no handsomer or healthier children
 in the world than those of Alaska"
 Zorn's own particular interest is
 in mining, since he has been in the
 mining game ever since the time he
 was fifteen. Born in Vienna, he
 started out adventarously in life as
 sailor, his travels carrying him to
 the four corners of the world. Joined Gold Rush
 Many times he rounded the Cape | of Good Hope and Cape Horn in
 sailing ships when youngster. But the mining fever got in his veins and he became prospector and min
 CT, winning and spending fortunes, ! but often meeting with the disap- pointments and blasted hopes of
 those who follow the lure of gold In 1900 he joined the gold rush to Alaska. made stake and pushed up into the Intereior. Now he is potential multi-millionaire, since he has his holdings, immense mineral wealth, which under the law he holds by continued development. He is now planning mining on a much larger scale Throughout the Me
 Kinley ranges, beyond the Zorn prop critics. are found gold. silver, anti
 mony, sulphate of tin, manganese
 and the ever-present platinum of the Alaskan sands.
 But Zorn reiterates his warnings. as he talks, that prospectors need not expect to go up to the Alaskan
 wilds with few hundred dollars
 grub stake and expect to return with ownership of a million-dollar
 mine The millions are there, but
 they require business-like methods
 and capital to take them out of the earth.
 Zorn's late son, Darwin Zorn, a New York boy prospector,' who died in Alaska in 1909, found an en- tire mountain of coal of high grade semi-bituminous variety. The mountain was claim-staked by Zorn. The Mount Mckinley region, the vet eran miner said, had been little pros pected, although explored so it's mineral riches were now well known.
 The foothills of that mountain, he declared presented the most glorious and awe-inspiring scenery to be found
 on the North American continent. river transportation system to take up tourists, he believes, would be a paying investment, since it would connect with the deep-sea lines. The new Government Railway tra- l verses this region and an extension
 of it, to be built next year, will cross Zorns properties on it's west | ward way. This will serve to open up to civilization an area as large as New York State, where hundreds
 of thousands of people may find a
 good living.
 The railway runs through the
 heart of the Territory, extending 467
 miles from Seward, port free of
 ice the year around. Trains run i twice a week in each direction with
 observation and dining cars. Mount Mckinley, throwing it's | n
 monarch of all American mountains,
 may be seen 300 miles from the railway line This scenic route at
 the top of the world is now drawing great numbers of tourists from the
 Pacific Coast ports. MT. Zorn added:
 eve have wealth beyond the
 dreams of imagination and every l inducement to bring settlers, but the trouble is that people in the United States as a whole do not know what | they are missing.
 Alaska as a whole would make 12 states the size of New York and it has three separate climates. The
 southernmost part is mild all the year, the central section, where l live, is balmy in summer and mild
 in winter; the northwestern or Nome
 area is, of course, the coldest, with temperature down to 40 below zero | in winter.
 For fifteen years I lived by the
 shovel and gold pan, covering the
 country with two dogs for faithful