Jack Johnson, heavyweight dark
hope for pugilistic honors, left town
yesterday to join the crew of Ditcher
102 where he will preside over the
kitchen working out a hunch of
dough.
Have your films develop
ed and printed at Sylvia’s.
STOP AT
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when in Anchorage, Alaska
HOT AND COLD WATER
IN ALL ROOMS
CURRENT PRICES
J. J. MclSAAC, Prop.
KNIFE WIELDER JAILED
On the 14th of this month a war
rant was issued for Nick Amachuck
for assault with a dangeroous "weapon
at Uzinkie, Alaska. He is accused of
slashing the wrist of Gregorie Chern.
ikoff with a butcher knife. Chemikoff
is at Kodiak under the doctor’s care
who says it will be at least a month
before Chernikoff will recover suffi
ciently to do any work.
Officers on the Admiral Watson,
took (the opportunity while in port
yesterday, to ride out to one of the
nearby stream's! and there they snared
over 300 trout. Nearly all of them
were fried and ea£en on the spot.
j Seattle ice cream and fresh
' candies at Sylvia’s.
mi
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Seward Alaska
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snowy mountain aides where your
brown bears roam, and the beautiful
rivers and harbors where your fish
multiply so amazingly.
“However, the Editor put me on a
full month’s notice to answer his
question, and I have had frequent op.
portunity to talk with some of your
thoughtful citizens, especially your
fine pioneers, and I am making use of
their Information and opinions.
“It seems likely, in the first place,
that Alaska is a great reserve of
natural resources, and when the old
er territory of the United States feels
sufficient pressure from increased
population, then a permanent agri
cultural population will flow up here,
and I am told that the Kenai Pen
insula alone, there are five millions
of acres of fine bottom land, suffici
ent for 250,000 potentially fine farms.
The climate is not hard for young
and virile people, but conditions at
first will be trying, and the job will
call for the pioneer virtues of indus.
try, ingenuity and adaptability. It is
a job which cannot be done in an
eight-hour day, or without some har3
study of the conditions. For while the
pcsibilities are here, the farming pop
ulaiion is not, and the main market
is far away.
“Of course, eventually, some great
industries, mining and so forth, which
can be carried on to be3t advantage
in Alaska, will be developed, and the
farmers of the Kenai can then feed
the growing population of Alaska. To
illustrate what I mean, you have in
Alaska, most of the potential coal and
lumber reserves remaining to th3
United States, and eventually they
will be tapped, to keep the outside in
business. Then will come the great
opportunity xor -tuasaa to grow. How
iong wnl this laae? Nobody kuows.
civilization, ana industry are increas
ing tneir demands so rapidly that is
as uard to set a date, but as a guess,
aay zo or 5U years.
“That, however, is too long lor the
present generation of Alaskans to
wait. Ii is fine for the rest of the
United States, to know what a treasure
house Alaska is, but it is hard on the
Alaskans to be asked to wait until
the other half of the partnership
commences to call for the goods.
What to do about it this year and
next is what we want to discover.
“Well, here is specialty farming
and industry. Within the last 25 years
we have seen Uncle Sam start the
fanners of the Connecticut River
vaJley growing Sumatra cigar wrap
pers in New England, and set Alaska
to breeding reindeer, which ought,
eventually, to command high prices
in the butcher shops of the United
States
“About thirty years ago, Florida
iiscovered the grapefruit, and now it
is on every American breakfast tabl?
tn 1900, most of southern California
was desert, and now it is supplying
i good part of the world with cran.
?es. Jim Dole, looking around for a
jrop, to grow on those parts of the
Hawaiian plantations which could not
>o used for raising sugar bemuse
:hey could not he irrigated, found 1^
:oulcl grow pineapples but could not
leliver them ripe because he wa ■ too
hr from the market. So he canned
hem. and now the Archipelago has
mother great industry. The pine- .
tpple used to be an uncommon and
'ypensi7e luxury. Now it is a h use
rold necessity. So with other fruits
md vegetables which are bein/ im
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WILL STUDY REO CROSS
PROBLEMS IN ALASKA
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19. (£>)—'To
study problems facing Red Cross
Chapters dn Alaska, J. Arthur Jeffers,
manager of the Pacific branch of the
Society, will sail from! Seattle for Ket.
chikan on July 7th. The Alaska tour
will include Wrangell, Juneau, Cordo
va, Seward, Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Three room apartment for rent. J. L.
Graef.
CUT RATE ON CANDIES
The candy stock of the former Nash
Cigar store has been purchased by
the Panhandle which Is selling it at
greatly reduced prices. All 10c bars
aire being sold at two for 15c and all
five cent bars are going for three for
a dime. Come and get them!
The Gateway lead?; other follow.
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