The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-22
BONE DISPELS
 ILLUSIONS AT 7 PRESSDINNER

SEATTLE, Jan. 22--Addressing the State Press Association of Washing. ton here Saturday night at the Alas, ka Products banquet under the aus, pices of the Chamber of Commerce and the School of Journalism of the University, Governor Scott c. Bone declared that it is time that many of the misconceptions concerning Alaska should be shattered "In the mind s eye," said Governor Bone, Alaska is a frozen, ice-bound glacial-upheaval formation, unfit for human habitation save for Eskimos and polar bears. The feast here tonight attests to the truth that Alaska is a country inviting in all it's aspects, with average winter weather comparable to that of the Mississippi Valley" Emphasizing his optimism as to the future of the Ter ritory the Governor continued: "A brighter and better day is dawning for Alaska. Constructive conservation IS now at hand The Government rail way now in successful operation is already transforming Alaska, and prospective oil discoveries will make for further transformation. Alaska declared the Governor. "can easily sus tain a popu,atio of million. possibly ten million, people, out of tho products of its forests.
 Tn the Interior the summers are warm. often as hot as in' western Washington. and the winters are no more severe thar In the Rocky Noun taln and northern states. Only in the Artrs is fr.gidity encountered and even within the Circle the mercury rises to the nineties in midsummer
 t1t should not be necessary to re- state and reaffirm these facts, put untruths as to Alaska have become so firmly implanted in the puoilc
 mind that iteration and relterat'on become necessary Io ui"po' ~
 supplant it with fact.
 .1t is a common saying that every thing can be grown in Alaska except cotton, corn, beans and melons. rms statement does not do the Territory fu1, justice in excepting beans ana melons.
 .J am a conservationist. l belle'e !, conservation of all our national re- sources. I am all the more conserve rionist after year and nall III Alaska. Conservation politics mas been a blight to Alaska, but cohsel'"- tion-real conservation-ls s'rahseA +o Alaska and has been positively ui- known from the date of the oe"aiu ,urchase Hoarding is not conserVa- tion Locked up coal fields do not mean conservation. twenty hi'i''o'' acres of reserved forests, virtually uh- ,ouched and oyergrown and i'll neeo of harvestration, do not bespeak cur sarvation. Uncultivated agrlcultura' lands unsuryeyed and unoccupied, the acreage beyond computation ao ho' smell conservation. To make two blades of grass grow where one gre" hefore and to utilize our God-glVeh resources for the benefit of manklno is the kind of conservation the couh- 1rv in general and Alaska in partlcu- lar needs at this juncture.
 "Hoarding is waste. For half cen tury Alaska has had this waste wlth- out a semblance of conservatioh' H. Meanwhile, and with no outcry or pro- test, the fisheries of Alaska, save TOT the seal herds, have been eXplolteu' unregulated and unconserved.
 "But a brighter and better day IS dawning for Alaska. The turning ,oint has come. Constructive con- .orvation is at hand. Alaska coal IS coming into general local use and the .dav is not far distant when It Will fin q markets on the Pacific Coast
 "The year just closed showed steaoy progress. Mining is on a more sup ,tantia1 basis. Capital is no longer 7oo,xine askance at Alaska. Offlc1ai- dom is less handicapped than former 1v The bureaus operating under all barent and impossible system are doine their work more efficiently than ever before.
 ",rba eyes of the country are on