The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-08
SAWYER WILL
 INVESTIGATE DEER CHARGES
Here to Study Reindeer h. {. dustry and Report on
 Andrews Charges

the Seward Peninsula area, grazing lands, etc, and study conditions generally in the Territory, Ernest Walker Sawyer, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Interior and Spe- cial Representative of the Alaska Railroad, arrived here today. He was accompanied by Mrs. Sawyer and their son, Richard.
 MT. Sawyer is extremely en- thusiastic over the proposed Pa cific Yukon Highway, and sees in its consummation an era of. great development for northern British Columbia, Yukon Territory and Alaska. He predicted that some steps looking toward a beginning of the route through British Co., lumbia north from Hazelton, would be taken this summer.
 All Parties United When the project was first ad- vanced in British Columbia only pr. Tolmie and his Conservative following were committed to it. More recently following the cara van expedition from Vancouver to Hazelton, many of the leading Lib erals of the province have openly advocated the project and are ac- lively supporting it.
 The Province of British Columbia will make an aerial survey of the route between Hazelton and the Yukon Territory boundary this summer, MT. Sawyer said. Planes will map the district for the best possible routes to be followed by the road
 | A similar survey, he added, will be made of Yukon Territory by the Dominion Government. It is ex- pected these will be completed this season.
 ' Open Rich Country The road would throw open to development and settlement the rich mining areas of the. Stikine land Taku rivers and their tribu- tary regions. The development of these district he said, would bring revenue to the province that would more than defray all of the costs to it of building the high way.
 In addition, the opening of the project through to AlSska would draw hundreds of thousands of mo- tor tourists into and through Brit I.ish Columbia and the Yukon Terri- tory every year. developing trade and business very largely
 Goes to Atlin
 MT. Sawyer, with Mrs Sawyer and their son, will leave here Sun day on the Alameda for Skagway, enroute to Atlin and Dawson. He hopes to be able to make coflflcc- tions with a downriver steamer at the latter point and go to Nenana, arriving before the end of the month. Mrs Sawyer will visit in Fairbanks and later Anchorage, returning to Washington by sep- tember 1.
 The length of Mir. Sawyer's stay is indefinite. He will fly from Fairbanks to Nome, Kotzebue and other Seward Peninsula points, and later Akiak and Kanakanak on the lower Kuskokwim. On this trip he will investigate the charges of irregularities in the Lomen rein deer policies, preferred by c. L. Andrews, former Bureau of Edu- cation employee and oldtime Alas kan.
 | After this work is completed, Mir. Sawyer will return to Fairbanks and make special trip into the |:Kantishna to study the chances For developing ore tonnage for the Alaska Railroad. Later he expects to go into Willow Greek district to look over the reported develop ment of lode mines.
 Hopes for Coal Tonnage He also wants to study the coal mining industry of the Matanuska valley region. He is confident that there is an export market at Los Angeles for several hundred thou sands of tons of coal each year, and desires to investigate the pos sibility of producing 1t from the mines in that section. p-- -