The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-08-19
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AT CONDITIONS
seen ON TRIP
Gov. Parks Returns from
Interior Progress Made
in All Developments

Conditions in the interior. Alas
ka Railroad. Cook Inlet and Prince
William Sound districts are ex-
cellent, and some progress is De-
ing made in all lines of develop
ment, said Gov. George A. PARKS
who returned home today after 4
three weeks visit to those sec
tions. The Alaska Railroad has
had the best season in its history
and showed increased earnings in
both freight and passenger trait 6,
he said.
While at Anchorage, the Gov
ernor was in conference with In
spector J. F. Garland, Spec al
Representative of Secretary Hub
ert Work, General Manager Noel
w. Smith, of the railroad, Df.
Jonathan Wagner, head of the
Alaska Division of the Federal
Bureau of Education, relative to
the coordination Of Alaska br
reaus of the Interior Department.
Continue Work Here
Inspector Garland will finish
his work at Anchorage In a shof.
time and proceed here to resume
his conferences with the Govern
or. Considerable progress has been
made toward a program for put
ting into effect the policy of sec
retary Work of concentrating In
Alaska the Interior Department'x
activities which have 10 do With
the Territory. it was said. This
program will be worked out com
pletely before Mr.. Garland re-
turns to Washington where 1t will
be placed before the Secretary
for his approval and action.
It is certain, said the Governor,
that headquarters of the Bureau
of Education for Alaska will be
removed from Seattle to some
point in Alaska. No decision. how
ever, has been made as to its
location. Purchase OF supplies,
however, will continue to be don :
for the bureau in Seattle by agents
of the Alaska Railroad.
Mining Program Advances
The mining development pro-
gram of the Fairbanks Exploration
Company is making fine headwey
Gov. Parks said. The big ditch
will be completed this season AID
installation of dredges begun next
Spring. Most of the syphons have
been installed. All of the steel
structure on its large power plant
has been erected and concrete and
brick are now being put up.
Smaller companies and indivi'
dual miners are having good
year and an increased gold yield
from the interior mines is fore
cast for this season. 1t has been
unusually dry in the district, bu;
it was not expected that this
would curtail the mineral produc
ticn.
While at Fairbanks the Govern
or made an airplane flight to the
headwaters of the Chatanika Ri.
yer, being in the air about two
hours.
Good Salmon Pack
Salmon canneries in the Cook In
let area have had a prosperous
season, the Governor was inform
ed. All of them got more fish
than had been expected at the
beginning of the year. He was
told that the runs of fish in both
Cook Inlet and Prince William
Sound were larger than had been
expected, and were considered un-
usually good for an off-cycle year.
Enroute here, the Governor Wis
tied at Port Althorp while the
Yukon loaded fish at the Deeo
Sea Salmon Company's plant. Aug
ust Buschmann. owner of the
plant, took him up to the head OF
Port Althorp Bay where many
schools of humpbacks were sight
ed. The Governor took some
Kodak snapshots of some of the
schools.
Aerial Traffic Grows
There has been a remarkable
growth in aerial traffic in the in
terror and at Anchorage. Gov.
Parks said. In Fairbanks the com
panies operating there have been
kept busy all season carrying
freight and passengers to outly-
ing settlements. New planes are
being ordered by. them for next
seasons operations which are ex-
pected to be more extensive than
this summer.
Al Anchorage, planes are being
used by big game hunters to take