The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-13
PAYNE CHARMS CHAMBER WITH
 FINE LECTURE
Entertains Local Business Men and Guests with
 Illustrated Lecture

For 30 minutes today the Juneau Chamber of Commerce and 1t: guests were taken for delightful tour of Yellowstone National Parl by Charles A. Payne, lecturer fol the Northern Pacific Railway. Hi: talk was illustrated with colorec slides of points of scenic interest in the park and along the North ern Pacific Coast route from tho west.
 In concluding his talk, MT. Payne / declared, as a traveller of 40 year: experience searching for the un- usual and interesting to lecture tc universities, that the Alaska trip is one of the most interesting sea and continental journies to be found anywhere. His trip here is for the purpose of gathering data and pic lures for lectures to be delivered under the auspices of the Northern Pacific.
 Interested In Alaska
 we in our part of the country are interested in what you have in your part of the country" MT Payne said in a short preliminary talk. The Northern Pacific's edu- catlonal department, in it's effort to stimulate public interest in Alaskan tours, is cooperating with other transportation interests and is gathering and disseminating in- ! formation about the trip, and its scenic attractions.
 His talk to the Clauip-r today was confined very largely to the Yellowstone National Park. .Ie showed scenes in Rainier National Park, Glacier National Park. Cas- cade Mountains, Yakima Valley and the mountainous ring around the Yellowstone. His views of the park and his descriptions covered nationally famous points. the geyser basin, terraces and the hot springs forming them, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Shoshone Can yon and dam, Lewis and Clark and the Covered Wagon trails, game and highways.
 Developing Alaska
 l The Pacific Coast Company, as in Alaska's pioneer days when it was engaged in transportation through the Pacific Coast Steam ship Company, is still interested in the development of the Territory, declared Thomas M Reeder, sales manager for the Pacific Coast Coal Company, who has been visiting here for the past two days from his headquarters in Seattle. The com pany is again in the transporta- tion business operating two steam CTS between Dahl Island and Puget Sound, hauling limestone for the manufacture of cement.
 During the past nine months the company has shipped some 100000 tons of rock to it's Seattle plant. It is successfully manufacturing cement and some of this product will be placed on the local market in the near future.
 MT. Reeder left today on the Dorothy Alexander for the south.
 Other visitors at the Chambers meeting today were: Roy c. Lyle, Federal Prohibition Administrator, J. B. Warrack, head of the War rack Construction Company, J. P. Van Orsdale, Harry J. Gee, Leonard Wyckoff and c. A. Nenzel, repre- senting the Foshay interests here.
 New Mail Route
 l Petitions from II communities on lower Chatham Strait have been received by the Chamber for pre- sentation to the Postal authorities requesting the extension of the Ju- neau- Petersburg mail route to that district. The mail service there at present is out of Ketchikan and all classes of mail are greatly de- layed. During the winter months the time required for transmission of mail from Juneau to most of the ports is from 30 to 70 days.
 There are said to be approximate ly 2,5O0 people in the district af- fected. A majority of these, in fact practically every business man and plant operative, have expressed desire to trade out of Juneau and are endorsing the new mail route project.
 Work on Basin Road Repairs are to be made shortly on the road through Gold Creek Basin. the Chamber was informed today by President Faulkner. He said he had tazen up the matter with local road officials and had been assured that the necessary work would be performed.
 H. G. Walmsley, reporting for the Fourth of July Committee, said plans had been formulated for the Continued or Page Two)