The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-07
47 PER CENT OF ! TERRITORY HAS
 BEEN M APPED
Geological Survey Official, Education Board Mem
 bers at Chamber Meet

Verbal messages from their re- spective communities by members of the Territorial Board of Educa- tion and from R. H. Sargent of the Geological Survey were features of the luncheon meeting of the Jul neau Chamber of Commerce today noon in the Terminal.
 Forty seven per cent of Alaska has now been mapped by the Sur vey MT Sargent reported, and maps of the areas flown by the Navy in 1926 and '29 covering the islands of Southeast Alaska are completed and will soon be available. Der spite drastic slaShes in appropria- tions, the work is progressing, he stated. MT. Sargent has been com ing to the north every summer for years to carry on the surveys and remarked his annual visit to the Chamber here and the Rotary Club in Ketchikan was getting to be al- most habit.
 H. L. Faulkner, rresident of the Board of Education, introduced the Board members, Mrs A. H. Nordale of Fairbanks, P. c. McMullen of Seward, M J. Walsh of Nome and A. H. Ziegler of Ketchikan.
 The Matanuska project is going ahead in good shape, MT. McMul- len, who also is member of the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Cor poration which handles the project. reported He said the area is well filled with homesteaders and Col- onists who are making a success of the undertaking and coupled with the activity which is going on in the Homer distict agricultural C. velopment in the Seward district locks promising. He reported many families, with their own resources, coming into the Homer district where, he said, the prospect is eS- pecially bright.
 Conditions at Nome are about normal, MT Walsh told the Cham7 Der members, with several new min ing developments going forward this season with several new dredges brought into the district. The price of gold has been especially helpful to mining, he said, and has done much to promote the new under takings MT Walsh stressed the fact that there are plenty of men in Nome to do all the mining work and advised against anyone going there to seek employment.
 Not forgetting the Douglas con- vention, MT Ziegler facetiously commented the only reason he had for not coming to Juneau any more was that he was afraid to lose his brief case. Those conversant with the now widely heralded convention recalled the reported strange dis appearance of the brief case of w.. c. Arnold of Ketchikan, one of the active leaders in the conclave. MT. Arnold also carried the proxies from the Second Division to the conven- ton and MT. Walsh smilingly com mented during his remarks today that in view of the usual procedure in Juneau of being represented by proxy he felt just little out of order appearing in person. MT. Faulkner, remarked that as he re- called it there were several persons reputedly represented at the con- vention without any proxy at all.
 Work of BOard
 Work of the Board of Education was gone into by MT. Faulkner, re- lating it's formation and duties, pointing out that during the current biennium the Board has the control of more than a million dollars to carrying out school activities. He explained expense of $100,000 was necessary in establishing schools in Matanuska for the Colonists' chil- dren.
 Allen Shattuck, Chairman of the small boat harbor committee, re- portedto the Chamber that all the data on small boat operations here had been compiled and was being | sent to Col. H. J. Wild with re- quest for setting a date for hear | ing on the matter in Juneau. It is expected to be some time next month.
 1 Report of the Executive Board re- vealed that between 100 and 150 will be the Los Angeles good will tour which leaves Seattle June on the Aleutian for Alaska.
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