The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-07-02

great Yukon highlands. Who knows but some day Panama with its strategic location at the junction of these rivers may be the St. Louis of the Yukon. A potlatch at Tan ana Mission was an interesting di- version, and my admiration of na- tive oratory was distinctly ad- vanced
 "A few more hours and several reels and were once more on the wing over the rolling tundra south of the Tanana to Nenana. A ter rain full of possibilities and futures. The dawn of another day was with us as we circled the green fields of the Fairbanks district. Just spot of grain in the wide expanse. but enough to entice countless thou sands to the possibilities of such a locality.
 On Circle Highway
 Major Gillette kindly escorted me over the Circle Highway past the numerous dredges to the hot springs where the accommodations are reasonable and very beneficial. A week here would put more any one in excellent condition. It is the famous waters of Bavaria trans ported and carefully heated in your owr back yard.
 T started to tell you only the names of the places have visited in the last 20 days but it is im- possible for me to mention names without saying something about the diversified features of your inter esting country. Any one of the dozen sights was worth travelling 5000 miles to see. When it came to leave Fairbanks thought it was all over, and that the next few days would be only travel days. Instead, I found Richardson High way traverses the finest scenery of all
 Great Panama --ariey InSb CdtitC OAtC SACat taAACy VI the Panama River. where the soil is ripe and ready to raise almost anything. In the hog section of the Missouri, such land is selling at $l00 to $2o0 an acre, and not mite better, except Missouri can raise corn where Panama raises oats.
 "On south we drove over the great highway which cost the Fed- eral Government $6,0O0,000. At places we could go 50 miles an hour, but at beauty spots we tar ried for the view which is ever changing. Lakes, mountains and mining prospects in endless suc- cession, and then the Gulkana and the Gakona with their hundreds of square miles of clay deposits which some day will be useful.
 Mt. WrangelI Is Smoking
 Mt. Wrangell is smoking and believing like a wild bull, anxious to find a chint shop. We passed him with awe and forebodiug. Then on to ancient Copper Center with it's bottle windows and strange dia- mond willows, down to the beauti- full lakes of Chitina
 Here my old friend Fred Hansen took me in hand and showed me mountains of copper so far only scratched. Kennecott is but the beginning of operations which years from now will be still developing. The Copper River with its wild rapids and Miles and Childs glac- iers, and the background of noun tain gorges and hanging glaciers is worthy of any mans time. When II stop to think of the struggle there, of man against the elements, I certainly hand it to those who yearly throw costly bridges and railroad tracks across the paths of monsters of ice only to see them swept away like match sticks. A million dollars a year is spent in the struggle but the money spent does not surprise me nearly so much as the persistence of those crusaders who live around with the piledrivers ever ready to renew the attack.
 E Ocean Voyage Pleasant
 "A pleasant two days on board the hospitable steamship Alaska, down past the majestic St. Elias and the Fairweathers, and here I am back in Juneau. Out only 20 days but they were 20 days of 20 hours each filled with its own particular interest.
 Juneau, you are the capital of an area 12 times the size of New York State. which, believe, is called the Empire State. Her nat ural resources are nothing com- pared to yours. Her 10.000.0O0 peo- pie live there to make money, most of them only to exist. You live here because you love Alaska.
 Freedom in every sense is yours and your opportunities are so var fed and immense you pass them daily without a thrill. You can expect things to happen. America will find you out. The newspapers of a thousand cities will be made here. The meat of thousands of grain-fed reindeer will find it's way to the tables of America. More mines will be develped. Coal will