The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-10-29
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Not every visiting newspaperman who comes into the Empire office IS as accommodating as. Leverett c. Richards when asked to write his own story, please.
 And not every newspaper man learns as much in short time about the towns he has visited and the territory in general as has MT Richards
 so thank you MT. Richards, for your letter
 Cctocer 29, 1949. Dear Juneau:
 We've been cheated We've been here almost 24 hours now and we haven't found a nugget of gold yet.
 Every schoolboy in oregon has heard of Juneau, glamor city oI the North. with streets of gold. So we searched every street in Ju- nebu-Virgil Langtry, Portland oh ef deputy city attorney; Conrad Burmester of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, and but nary nugget. Prospectors with pneumatic drills were digging up the streets evidently looking for gold, tco. but they didn't have any luck either.
 Coffee. it seems, has supplanled gold in the hearts of Juneau. No matter what you order here you get coffee. More business is done over the coffee cups than across the tars. Every business office seems to have pot of coffee brewing just off stage Good, too.
 Prices Lolo
 We were struck, too, by Juneau's ingenuity in keeping it's shelves stocked with supplies despite the maritime strike. The prices adver- tised here are the best we have seen in our tours of Alaska. Your butter, egg and canned milk prices were lower than Seattle's, almost as low as Portland's.
 For a city that has lost 1,000- mar mine payroll, S120000 month ly sawmill payroll and a maritime payroll Juneau looks pretty pros porous. For cnce it is the bigger businessmen that seem to re sui fering, although it is obvious that the mar time tie-up is hurting ev- eryone in some way. Other cities of Alaska give the impression of bust ling on their way to prosperity, or receding from that high tide. Ju- neau gives the impression of having arrived.
 Find Home, Folks
 Collectively, we Portlanders have travelled far in Alaska in the past three months. But in a sense we have never left home Everywhere we find home folks-people from Roseburg, Eugene, Portland, Red mond. You'd think Portland tor rather, Oregon City) was still the capital" of Alaska, as it was 100 years ago-remember?
 Portland is still headquarters for hundreds of fishermen and some fishing companies who spend. their summers in Alaskan waters. Oregon still supplies much of the goods on which Alaska relieS-and We don't raise the price when we see you coming Portland is still the "capi- tal' of the pulp and paper indus try, which will be bringing Juneau and Southeast Alaska her next big, all-year, all-time gold rush in the next year or two. Portland forestry engineers, pulp and paper mill wrights and skilled production spe- cialists will be up here to help you get started.
 Annual Tourist Crop
 We will te sharing our S105 100000 annual tourist crop with you, too, if we can get the one carrier air connections direct from Portland to Juneau, Our ships will be seeing you, too, one of these days. The Coastwisa Line started service last month from Portland direct to An chorage, which, by the way. is closer to Portland than it is to Seattle by 43 miles, according to the Marine Guide. Coastwise officers have an nounced definite plans to extend service to Southeast Alaska, tco, when peace returns to the coast and when other operational problems have been solved
 Jureat feels like home to Ore gonians. That mountain peeking over your shoulder is closer than our