The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-09

the Glacier Highway.
 Other moneys allotted to flask; under the present administration which went for improvement of tn Territory, were given as follows b! MT. Pegues: Lighthouse Service Sl7l .241; Alaskan branch of thu Geological Survey, $95,000; War De. partment for rivers and harbors s170,775; Public Survey, SPA, Al aska Railroad, $210,008; Bureau ol Indian Affairs, $160,500; Alaska Road Commission, $2,l89,258; Alas ka Game Commission, S57234; PWA for strictly f1on-federal projects S906,765; Federal Emergency Relief Administration for relief of all kinds s1 ,628,916 f
 Industry Revived
 The total of all emergency allot- menss to date is about $6,750 ,000, the speaker said Has the effect of the combined emergency and permanent program been successful in aiding business and industry in Alaska ito recover? Let me present few figures which l believe bear directly on this question
 Income tax collections for Alaska for the fiscal year 1892 were only sl15,229. In 1883 they increased to Sl40,230 and a further increase was noted for the fiscal year 1884 when collections amounted to $154,- 690 but the real jump came in 1885 when income tax payments from the Territory grew to $277O70 or a gain of $120,000 over the preceding year Income tax collections for the Alas ka- Washington district in 1885 ex- ceeded 1883 by more than $50 per cent.
 The transportation business is on the upward trend The Alaska Steamship Company handled 34 per cent more freight in 1884 than in 1893, and 49 per cent more passeng- CTS were carried in 1884 than in 1883. This increase has continued in 1855.
 Freight Revenue
 The freight revenue of the Alas ka Railroad lacked for the first nine months of this year only about S25 900 of being equal to the reve- nue for all of 1884. Passenger reve- nues on the Alaska Railroad in 1884 were almost half again as much 2s in 1893 and they exceeded in the first nine months of 1885 all of 1884 by about S25,000.
 On November 30, 1888, the bal ance of the Territorial Treasurer amounted to $343, ,07406. On the same date in 1884 it had increased to $495, ,49910 and on November of this year a further striking gan was shown with balance of $716,- 05062, or $220,551.52 more than in 1884 and $372 ,976.56 more than in 1933
 Aggregate resources o- all Alaska banks were almost $2,000,000 more on June 30, 1885, than on the same date in 1883
 Gold increased in value from s2O.67 to $35 an ounce and gold val ued at $15,931 ,063 was shipped from the Territory during the calendar year of 1886, exceeding slightly the 1884 production and being approx imately S6,000,000 more than the 1883 output. Silver production in 1885 was $226,500 or roughly $200,- 900 more than in the preceding year.
 Copper Production
 Alaska is again on the map as a copper producer Due to the general policies of the Administration which increased the price of copper, the Kennecott mine was able to reopen and copper was shipped from the Territory during the year in the value of $2,376,738. Substantially all of it came from the Kennecott mine and it should be noted that the mine did not actually begin to ship the ore until after midyear Thus there is every indication that production for 1886 will reveal a greater increase over 1885.
 "The lumber industry in 1885 ap- preached it's 1929 record, and all branches of the fisheries in 1884 made healthy gains over 1883 and in 1885 all of them, except canned sal- mon, continued to advance. The decline of canned salmon was due entirely to the suspension of opera tions in Bristoal Bay and labor strikes in Prince William Sound. Despite these major handicaps, the value of the 1885 salmon output was practically the same as that of 1883.
 Exports Double
 The products of all other Alas ka industries which were shipped to the States in 1885 was more than double that of 1883, and approxi- mately 60 per cent above that of 1884. The value of imports coming into Alaska during 1885 was ap- proximately $32,00O.O00, or $2,00O,- 900 in excess of 1884, and about $12,000,000 more than the imports of 1933.'