The Kusko times., 1930-06-28
ERNEST SAWYER WRITES OF INTERNATIONAL. HIGHWAY;
 NEW GATEWAY TO ALASKA
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 longer than ours.-. In midsummer Alaska basks ina; 20 daily hours of warm sunlight, and plants and fow- CTS flourish accordingly. So it is nothing unusual to see big crops of surprisingly large and robust-looking fruits and vegetables come out of Alaska farms
 Ride through the streets of any Alaska city and you will see ordered avenues lined with attractive bnnga- lows that. look as if they had just been moved up from Southern Cali fornia. The gardens that surround these homes grow strawberries, to- matoes and a. profnsion of ether. fruits,, vegetables and flowers. Dur ing the long. winter nights the plants are kept in hothouses, but once the summer begins they are brought out into the open air and given the full benefit of. those 20-hour days.
 Wheat, oats, barley, lettuce, celery, beets, peas and all sorts of warm weather. crops are being grown on commercial. scale in Alaska The crops are. of excellent. quality, and production is increasing year by year, so that nowadays homegrown products are taking care of large part of the Alaskan demand.
 And Alaska has developed her own original sort of cattle industry, too, although we are not used to, thinking of Alaska as a cattle country. Rein deer meat is no wselling in many, of our markets at prices comparable to beef figures, and the reindeer busi-, ness is growing. by leaps and bounls.. The animals were first brought into. Alaska to furnish subsistence for the native population, whic hhad former ly subsisted mainly. on fish,. The meat became popular, the fiocks grew. to. the prezent size of over. 100000 head, and an American demand. grew up. Land in some of the little-known interior values that had been consid- cred valueless has been. found to be fine grazing ground, and reindeer raising is noW. one of the Terrtory's most prosperous industries.
 Of course, -Alaska's mines are still an important source- of prosperity to the country, Mining. has now out grown the placer-mining stage of gold ush-days that demand high grade ore,- and has graduated to the status of a stable low-grade-ore in- dustryt hat yields millions of dollars to miners who work with dredges and motor trucks instead of picks and frying pans., There are also vast for ests awaiting development, and Alaska's salmon. industry brings in $3,OOO,OOO 3 year. @
 Hand in. hand with the Territory's progress in agricultureand industry has come the development of her air. ways and highways. Alaska has al- ready n airports, and more coming. The Territory is also looking forward to the development of air lines from America to Asia, which will doubtless pass through. Fairbanks
 Alaska,s chief motor route is the Richardson Highway. which runs from Fairbanks south to Chitina and to Valdez qn the coast, and measures some four hundred miles in length. The Richardson highway passes thru some of the most. magnificent country in existence, and is served by motor coach company which operates mod srn equipment on regular schedule along its length
 There is also the Steese Highway, running noxth from Fairbanks to Circle, up on the Yukon river, a dls- tance of 162-miles. Alaska's high