The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-06

A closeup Of all Federal actlvi- ties in Alaska and an accounting of general conditions in the Ter ritory are included in the annual report of Gov. George A. Parks to Secretary Hubert Work of the 1ntreior Department made pub. lie today. It covers the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927.
 A general review is given by the Governor. prefacing more de tailed statements which recount she accomplishments of the sev- eral bureaus during the year. Only five specific recommendations are made, being: Additional appro. priations for the United States Bureau of Education to enable them to build and equip one or .nore isolation wards for tuber- cnlar patients; enlargement of the station at Panama by providing a home for defective children, iso- lation ward for contagious dis. cases. and an industrial school; detention home for incorrigible natives in the Territory; repeal of the tax provisions of the Alas. ka game laws as far as they af. feet residents of Alaska; and an apnpropriafiori for the constfuc- ton of Territorial capitol build ing.
 Large Trade Balance
 The Governors report follows in part:
 "A review of conditions in Alas ka for the fiscal year ended June 30. 1927, indicates that the llll- provement noted during the pre- ccding year continued and was apparent in. renewed activities in many industries throughout the Territory. General health cond'- tions were good. although several epidemics of contagious diseases were reported from isolated com munities in the Yukon and kus- kokwim districts. Customs re- ports show that there was a not able increase in the value of inn ports and exports, and the year closed with balance of trade i'll favor of the Territory amounting to $47.955,132. This is an in crease of $1S,655,742 over last year. The increase in exports IS accounted for by the unusually large catch of salmon, and it can not be expected that this condi- ton will prevail during the next year.
 Mining Conditions
 commerce, foreign and domes- tic. reached total of $l12,O9O,- 9s6. as compared to $92,s44,344 for the preceding year. Of this amount, the exports were valued at $sO.01S,0s4 and the imports $s2, ,062, ,902.
 "There was decline in the value of the mineral production due chiefly to curtailed produc. tion in the copper mines and low. CT prices in the copper market. The mineral production for the year is valued at s17.657 800, as compared with s18,220,692 for the preceding year. The production of gold increased from $6,360.2S0 in 1925, to $6,7O7, 900 in 1927, while the value of the copper pro duced decreased from $10,S61.3 1.3S6 in 1925 to s9, 4S9. .00O in 1926. The gold production is derived from lode and placer mines distributed throughout the Territory. The lode mines produced $2.9SS, ,0Oo;; about S5 per cent of this came from the mines in southeastern Alaska. It is gratifying to note that there is evidence of increas- cd activity in lode mining in all districts. and there are more pros poets in the course Of develop ment than in previous years. The principal placer mines are in the second and fourth judicial divi- sions. The largest operations at the present time are found in the vicinity of Fairbanks and Nome. In these districts modern methods are superseding the more expen- sive systema that characterized the early operations, end where a few years aEo there wore lev slredses in operation we nov find more than 60 per cent of tho goh is recovered by these devfces. The production of gold from the Hswnrd Peninsu1a increased be- f:ausS of the extensive dredEe sss s' ss | ' < sF al''