The Alaska daily empire., 1923-02-24
DEVEL OPMENT DOES NOT DESTROY

There is nothing new under the sun, and
 histoly repeats itself. Where are the timber
 and the game and the natural resources of
 the remainder of America which were hers
 in the yesteryears2 Gone with the buffalo,
 and as ruthessy destroyed 10 make holi-
 day for d thoughtless people. Now all the
 xgst tracts containing natural wealth are in
 Alaska and the Outside grafter is after it--
 and the prodgal Alaskan wishes to give it to
 them for the belief and pieayunish mmed-
 fate "drop-ine exploitation's activity may
 give the local feller They have practically
 destroyed fishing industry, which Was
 once the greatest natural resource in that line
 the world has known. They did destroy our
 scaling industry the richest the world has
 known, and the Government is now nursing
 it back to life with nursing bottle. They
 the placer wealth from our land So far
 as they had time to deplee the rich spots,
 and spread the tangs over the ground
 thereabout until the ground good for
 nothing. They busy extermnating
 the growing timber the flowing oil and the
 burning coal of the West that they didn't
 have time 10 bother about vast forests
 and coal and oil deposits, but now that the
 West is depleted of easy destruction in nat
 ural resources. they are after our un-
 touched resources. which are the property ] ofsal the people of the United States, and
 most of all Alaskans are putting in with
 the idea. although any of average in-
 tellieence tell today what the result
 would be- -tFairbanks News-Aliner) It s true tdat the walnut. hickory and othe hardwood forests of the Ohio Valley and lake region gone. But they gave way 10 the billions dol lars worth of farms that crowd another in Ohio Kentucky, Tennessee Indiana, Michigan, Illinois an ether State. They made room for Cincinnati, Co lnmbus Dayton, Indianapolis Louisville, Nashvill Gnd scores of other cities. They ceased to proyid shelter for warning red and made place fo millions of happy and prosperous Americans.
 Likewise the forests of Puget Sound are going an being succeeded by the dairy. fruit, vegetable an other farms of that State and by numerous cities an villages and happy and contcnted people
 THa httff aI1 ttar Aeme in parks and reservations. but his place ha been taken by great herds of dairy and beef stocl AcgA end sheep wheat and corn fields and millions ( human beings. The buffalo in his day fed tn pioneers, but the immense numbers of people wh thrive in the country where he once roamed do nc Require that food new. They have other and bette and if they want to see buffalo they can go to public park
 There has been lot of tears wasted on the al. appearance of the in many of our States Tho removal and destruction part of the transito from leather brooches and Indian fighting to moder civilization Pinohot has been known 10 bewaf th ruthless dcaructon of the Kentucky and Tennesse walnut forests which required centuries to grow He forgot apparently, the fact that for century tn ground that stripped has been raising ne crop every year.
 The forests along the coasts of Alaska and in Il mountainous regions of the Far West which have bee reserved by the Federal Government are for the mo- part different frcm those about the destruction , which there has been much lamentation Much { ihe soil is not suitable fer agricultural purposes noi SC suitable as to be worth more for that purnos than II Is for raising trees. But wherever il s po slDie 10 raiso d valuable crop every year on Il ground it is not conservation to compel it's use way where new crop is producer every half ee, tury more
 mere are very few places in the country whei the utilization of the natural resources has not le greater resources in it's wake
 It is not that the fisheries resources of flask have been practically destroyed. They continue supply the largest item of Alaskan export and la year lar above average pack of salmon was p1 up 10 say nothing of the herring development whic is just beginning It is that thoughtful peopl know that the time has come for the application , stringent regulations on salmon fishing. There shoul have been regulations long ago. but the supply is sti gccd. The run last year in of Alaska was 2, ceptionally large