The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-25
TERRITORY FOR FIRST TIME IS
 DEPRESS|0NHIT
Parks, in Annual Report, Urges Public Work to
 Relieve Unemployed
CUTS IN ROAD FUNDS
 ADD TO ROLL OF IDLE
Report Is Most Compre- hensive Ever Written
 by Present Governor

Alaska, for the first time since national depression set in, seriously feels it's effects, declares Gov George A. Parks in his annual report to the Secretary of Interior, made public today by Secretary Lyman Wilbur.
 "A survey of conditions in the larger communities disclosed m unusual mum Der of unemloyed, and during the summer this was aggravated by an influx of work CTS from the Pacific Coast States and the "care of these people will present serious problem during the coming winter" declared the Governor.
 Urges Relief Aid
 Gov Parks urged adoption of various Rivers and Harbors prof ects, road projects and public build ing items and appropriations for them by Congress to aid the Ter ritory in combating unemployment.
 He takes exception to the action of the present Congress in limiting the expenditure of Forest Highway finds and urges that the regSlar Allotment be made as provided for in Itle Act of Congress of Novem- Fer 9, 1921. The allotment to the Territory from the general Forest, Highway fund for the current fiscal year would have been $934,- GOO, but Congress limited the total expenditure this year from that source to $350,000.
 / Two public buildings were recom- mended for immediate construction Anchorage and Ketchikan. At the time the report was prepared, at the end of June last, neither of these had been provided for. Since then, the Ketchikan project has been approved and funds made available.'
 The Governors report covers a wide range of subjects and is the most comprehensive ever prepared by Gov Parks. It comprises al- most 400 manuscript pages, in- cluding many tables of statistical matter. It cites figures for pro- auctions of mining, fishing and timbering industries for all time and goes into a wealth of detail regarding economic and industrial conditions prevailing during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892.
 It reveals a decline of 16.7 per cent in the Territory's commerce for that period Exports decreased 1905, or 149 per cent and imports $5,238,010, or 202 per cent. Total exports were $48,306.40 and imports s2o,599 ,693, leaving a bal ance of trade in favor of Alaska amounting to s27,707,7f4.
 Copper, with a decline of almost 65 per cent from the 1881 produc- tion, showed the greatest loss of any product on. the list.
 Local Finances Sound
 While the financial condition of l the Territory was not as enhanced as the year previous, Territorial finances were still sound. A ball. ance on June 30 showed $56l ,662. .43 was in the Treasury, as compared to s694, ,S9493 for the same date of the previous year.
 The combined resources of the Territorial and National banks on the same dates were approximate ly. capital, $980,OO0; surplus and net undivided profits $787 500; de- posits, $10,331, TOO, while approxi- mate totals for the year previous were: capital. s915.000; surplus and net undivided profits, $826,000; de- posits, $11, ,275, ,000.
 The total assessed valuation of incorporated towns was $27, ,155, ,357, in 1892 as compared with $26,745,- 956 in 1881.
 From the Alaska Fund, created by the so-called trade and occupa- tional Federal license taxes, dur ing the year there was s189, ,348.83 available Sixty-five per cent of this was available for road and trail construction outside of in corporated towns 25 per cent for