The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-22
Brief Visit to Alaska.
(NeW York Sun.)

Juneau will be ffty-four years old on August IF of this year. On that date in 1880 Joe Juneau and Richard Harris made their strike Gold Creek While the way from Chikoot Bay to Sitka they landed on Gastineau Channel There the capital of Alaska is today; the Daily Alaska Empire which prints All the News All the Time ' says in its handsome Development Edition of January 28 that mo part of the United States and it's pos sessions is less understood than Southeast Alaska, where contrary to general belief in the States, there are a mild climate modern living conditions and year round communication and transportation with the Outside"
 A Territorial national balance sheet displayed by The Empire shows that the United States has spent in cash $209 006 in Alaska since Stewards Folly agtated the nation; in that period the Federal Treasury has collected $52500000 from the Terri tory and Alaska has bought merchandise priced at S924 704 196 from the United States and supplied to lit products scheduled $1 690 034 This figures put balance in favor of Alaska amounting to $2- 457 780 284 The Empire does not say whether it's statstician figures gold at the odfashioned dollar price or the New Deal price. [Snce the figures covered Alaskas history under the American Flag, naturally the old $2067 price used Ed Motel In nine years ended with 1882 Alaska bought 2917 passenger automobiles for $2,536,117, dynamite to the amount of 21O27769 pounds for s2,7341ol and 91o49O8 pounds of soap for $1029149 These figures give idea of it's trade
 Governor John w. Troy-from January 1914, until his appointment Chief Executive in April, 1883, he editor and publisher ot The Emplre- has been strengthened by official experience in his lifelong conviction that wherever possible Alaska should govern herself her laws should be made by her Legislature and executed by her own of- ficials" Congress governs Alaska; the Territory's people wish for home rule. It is natural ambition, strengthened by heir knowledge that they are pioneers conquering a land, encountering problems Irequiring prompt action trust in their own ability and their intimate Knowledge of the environment There is a highway from Vancouver British Columbia, to Hazelton, in the same Province, dis tance of 836 miles To extend it to Fairbanks re- quires building 1,236 miles of road, 865 miles in Canada and 371 in Alaska report on this project was made to Congress last year. The Empire points out that if this highway completed it would transform the golden empire of the north from an overseas colony to mainland frontier, making it accessible to all parts of the United States
 The townsite of Skagway Gateway to the Yukon being an old river bed presents rich soil this under the influence of the long summer daylight produces flowers of astonishing size and ravishing beauty and vegetables that not only have the un- surpassed quality of all the northern produce, but have enormous size as we'll" In the gold rush Skagway endured the drama of life; 'it saw the hopeful stampeder and it the hariouSly successful seeker after gold go Outside to the en- joyment of his riches and it saw the crushed ano disappointed dragging wearily home-failures It the open, honest, manly side of life and the seamy, adrab and alley skuking side"
 l The development edition of the Daily Alaska Empire displays attractively the enticements of fascinating land. It should stimulate tourists tC visit the peninsula. Nobody who has not visited Alaska can say with truth that he has seer America.