INTERIOR SECRETARY’S AIDE
PICTURES GREAT PROS
PECTS FOR NORTH
(Los Angeles Times)
Alaska, not only as a fertile field
lor industrial and commercial de
velopment but also as a junction
point for the great inttr-continen
tal airways of the future, is the en
chanting picture portrayed by
Ernest Walker Sawyer, executive
assistant to the Secretary of the
Interior, while in Los Angeles en
route back to Washington.
Mr. Sawyer’s analysis for the fu
ture of the great northwestern em
pire already has resulted in stimu
lating Southern California interest
in the Land of the Midnight Sun,
but his picture of the importance
of Alaska as a great airway junc
tion is a breath-taking vision of a
future importance hitherto little
suspected.
A study of the map. however,
shows clearly the strategic position
that Alaska occupies as far as “all
land” air routes are concerned. It
is possible to fly from North Amer
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bouud trains at Moose Pass
Station for Hope and all
intermediate points.
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DEVELOPING
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Enlarging
Photographs copied
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Picture Framing
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That rich, creamy taste of
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ing and sanitation.
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jica directly to Europe via Alaska, o
I the plane can turn south along thi
! eastern coast of Asia and strike di
rectly into the heart of the Orient
AIR DISTANCE SHORT
Few people stop to realize hov
comparatively short the distance t<
Alaska is by airplane. The trij
from Los Angeles to Seattle via aii
is made very nicely in a singh
day’s journey and within the pasi
month a flyer hopped from Seattle
jto Alaska in a single day. While
the trip from Seattle to Alaska wa*
'a trial trip and not part of a regu
jlar schedule, it demonstrates thal
once the demand is established
Alaska will be only two days awaj
from Los Angeles and only 24 hours
of actual flying time.
As for the route from Alaska tc
Europe via Siberia, not only is such
a trip a possibility, but European
countries already have made over
tures looking toward the establish
ment of such a service for trans
portation of mail and passengers.
Starting of such a route seems only
a matter of a short space of time.
ONE REASON FOR BELIEF
Mr. Sawyer’s firm belief in Al
aska’s future as a center of com
mercial aviation is in no small
measure due to the success with
which he accompanied his own
mission of inspection by means of
a plane, covering territory in about
a month that with any ordinary
means of travel would have taken
him a year. In fact, to cover the
territory which he visited and saw
from the air would be an impossi
bility by any other means as he
traveled over miles and miles of
territory still inaccessible by foot
or wheel. He flew 2,000 miles.
The future of Alaska’s business
relations with the Pacific coast is
very promising, according to Mr.
Sawyer, and he reports that the
elements which have hindered Al
askan development are being con-'
quered one by one. The Depart
ment of the Interior, which Mr.
Sawyer represents, has charge of
the Alaska Railroad, Land Office,
Geological Survey and Bureau of
Education, under which latter divi
sion comes some 97 schools and ,
strange enough, the reindeer in
dustry.
REINDEER INDUSTRY
THE NEW tULlIUBlA PORT \
SLE PHONOGRAPH IS A WONDER
OR TONE AND VOLUME. Schal
erer’s Alaska Shop.
t’ According to Mr. Sawyer, the
3 reindeer industry promises to be
. come as great a factor in the future
. of Alaska as the cattle business to
the west. A herd of 1,000,000 rein
r deer is multiplying at the rate of
) about 35 percent a year and he
, sees in the future a great develop
• ment with these reindeer being
moved in great droves to the won
derfully productive Tan ana region
land these fattened on the Tanana
! valley wheat before shipment to i
the states.
. I At the present time Alaska’s de
; jvelopment is being retarded by lack i
are more than 10,000,000 acres of ;
of the right kind of settlers. There j
productive 1 r.d in the Tanana val
ley alone, all available to settlers
land when the proper individuals
are found to develop this great,
'country they will reap a great re- i
iward in the estabii liment of trade ;
relations with the rest of the world.
Mr. Sawyer returned to Washing
iton last week after making a trip
to the Boulder dam site.
October 1, 2, and 3 have been
set as the dates for the American j
| Legion Convention, Department of
Alaska, at Juneau. The Legion;
| Auxiliary will hold its convention
at the same time.
A-1 meat ana nor-<i**j else ?n the
Ppye.Bruhn Meat Market.
(Wander
j
Jeweler
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OLD IVORY, CURIOS AND A £
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repaired on short
notice.
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Ernest M. Polly, Territorial tax
collector, accompanied by Mrs.
Polly, were among yesterday’s ar
rivals from the south on the S.
S. Alameda.
Bringing a heavy cargo for
discharge at this port, the S. S.
Alameda, of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, arrived in port
early last evening from the south.
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'Purchasing Agent
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