EDITORIAL
(Continued from Papre Two)
scale are fast coming to be recog
nized.
But it is only within the last two
years that actual demonstration
has been presented that Alaska can
grow apples as successfully as any
of the northern tier of states. And
a Scandinavian by birth, Elmer
Carlson at Hope, 70 miles north of
Seward, is the man who makes the
demonstration. He has produced
several sacks of apples from a fewr
trees for the last two years, the
equal of the best produced else
where. Two years ago he planted
100 young apple trees on his well
improved small farm at Hope with
the intention of engaging in a reg
ular nursery trade.
It is now a certainty that fruit
trees imported from the Scandina
vian countries would grow readily
in the corresponding climates here.
ALASKA’S FUTURE MILLIONS
If you wonder where the people
are coming from who will make
up Alaska’s future population in
millions, the answer is given in
scientific calculations recen 11 y
made by Dr. Raymond Pearl, bi
ologist, of John Hopkins Univer
sity, Baltimore.
It is a startling fact, as he
shows, that the population of
Europe during the last century
doubled every 33 years, and the
population of the United States
in the same period doubled six
times.
By a series of careful and
scientific tests and analysis, he
reaches the conclusion that the
population of the world will in
crease in the next century from
the present 1,800,000,000 to more
than 6.000,000.000, and that the
' population of the United States
wall grow in the next 50 years
horn the present 120,000.000 to
310.000.000 reaching 400,000.000
in the next 100 years.
The only limit on the mathe
matical increase that produces
these results, he points out, is
the food supply. But the United
States, including Alaska, he es
timates, can produce enough to
support 1.000,000,000 in comfort,
so that the ratio of increase pro
mises to continue. It was 30 per
1.000 of population from 1880 to
1900. and 31.5 per 1.000 for the
period between 1900 and 1920.
The ratio at present is even
Maher, and points to higher stand
ards of living.
There is no future fact more
assured then the certainty that
within comparitively few years,
as time passes, Alaska will be
densely populated by many mil
lions of hardy and thrifty people,
as the northwestern parts of Eu
rope have been for many cen
turies.
LEGALNOTiCE
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE
FOK THE JUNEAU LAND DISTRICT
AT ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
In the matter of the Application of CAR
LISLE PACKING COMPANY, a corpora
tion, for a Patent under Sections 2306 and
2307 Revised Statutes to a tract of land as
soldiers' additional homestead embraced
in U. S. Official Survey Ne. 1703.
SERIAL NO. 06612. NOTICE OF APPLICA
TION FOR PATENT.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the
CARLISLE PACKING COPANY, a cor
poration organized under the laws of the
State of Washington, has filed application
Serial No, 06612 for a patent, under and
by virtue of sections numbers 2306 and 2307
Revised Statutes of the United States, as
assignee of Fen S. Hildreth, for a tract
of land embraced in U. S. Official Survey
No. 1703, situate on the east shore of Nush
agak Bay, south of and adjoining U. S.
Amended Survey No. 769, in latitude 58
deg, 48 min. 00 sec. N., and longitude 158
deg. 31 min. 36 sec. W., Territory of Alaska,
and particularly described as follows, to-wit:
“Beginning at corner No 1, whence
U. S. L. M. R. G. M. bears S. 65 deg.
58 min. E., 12.75 chains distant, and
corner No. 3 R. G. M. Survey bears
S. 62 deg. 09 min. 15 sec. E., 23.21
chains distant; thence W. 5.04 chains to
corner No. 2 M. C. on the Bhore of
Nushagak Bay; thence by meanders a
long the Bhore of Nushagak Bay as
follows:
(1) N. 37 deg. 53 min. W., 4.90 chains
<2) N. 39 deg. 20 min. W., 3.41 chains
to coj-ner No. 3 M. C.; thence E. 10.22
chains to corner No. 4; thence S. 6.51
chains to corner No. 1, the place of
beginning, containing an area of 4.94
acres.”
Any and all persons claiming adversely
any of the above described land should file
their adverse claims with the Register of
the Unite}! States Land Office at Anchor
age, Alaska, within the period of publica
tion or thirty days thereafter, or they
will be barred by the provisions of the
statute.
J. Lindley Green, Register
rirst Publication May 20, 1929. Last
Publication August 10, 1929.
|ALASKA GRAIN MARKET IN THI
ORIENT
Shipments of flour from Pugel
Sound to ports in Japan and Chins
often reach 25,000 barrels per week
and are steadily increasing.
The 56,000,000 people of Japan
and the 400,000,000 people of China
are daily taking on the bread eat
ing habit, in place of rice. The>
must import the bulk of their bread
grain since all their tillable soil is
utilized to the limit to support the
present over-population.
The western shelf of the Kenai
peninsula, the Susitna valley, and
the Tanana valley together could
produce annually 125,000,000 bush
els of rye and other grains, most
; of which would find a market in
the Orient long before that quanti
ty of production could be reached.
These valleys in central Alaska
are 1,400 miles nearer the Orient
'than the grain fields of eastern
Oregon and the Port of Seward is
1,000 miles nearer the ports of Jap
an and China than any port of the
Pacific states. Shipments of Al
aska grain in consequence would
have an advantage in freight rates
over shipments from Oregon and
Washington. Besides, grain produc
ed in those states is even now most
ly required for home consumption,
and soon all of it will be.
The management of the Alaska
Railroad could open a field of large
and almost limitless possibilities by
systematically taking up and in
couraging a policy of settling and
developing the agricultural lands
in its tributary territory for the
production of rye and other kinds
of grain that thrive in these lati
tudes. It could start by arranging
for a first shipment of 3,000 tons
of rye and wheat produced on the
farms of the Matanuska, the Sus
itna and the Tanana valleys, in co
operation with farmers already es
tablished there. That industry,
once started, would expand amaz
ingly.
POSSIBILITIES RYE GROWING
Americans are accustomed to
wheat bread, and they are apt to
consider grain raising in Alaska
from the standpoint of wheat rais
ing. But they overlook the bit of
fact that in Europe rye is the prin
cipal grain grown north of latitude
68. Even the northern states of
the United States produce 90,000,
- 000 bushels of rye per year.
| Rye is the one grain that is in
;digeous to these northern latitudes
jof Alaska. It is a sure crop every
' year, because it grows and matures
within 60 days after planting.
The government experiment
:farriis at Matanuska have been for
several years growing varieties of
rye that yield from 30 to 60 bushels
to the acre with never a failure or
even a shortage.
j While rye makes a dark colored
bread, its nutritive qualities are
i equal to the nutritive values of the
hard wheat. Rye bread forms the
staff of Jife for 100,000,000 of
Europe’s northern population.
The Kenai peninsula, the Susit
na valley, and the Tanana valley
itogether contain fully 5,000,000
acres of land that could be under
l rye cultivation every £ear with an
average yield of 25 bushels to the
acre.
j Talk about your gold mines! If
I those tillable 5,000,000 acres all
within the area of the Alaska Rail
road, weie under rye production at
25 bushels per acre, the total yield
would be 125,000,000 bushels.
At $1 a bushel, the average price
;in Europe, we have the Klondike
beat five times in its palmiest years.
Some day those developments
will come with the certainty of the
j world’s fast increasing population.
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LEAVES OUR YARDS. WHETHER FOR COOKING OR
HEATING PURPOSES. A TON OF. OUR COAL WILL
GIVE A GOOD ACCOUNT OF ITSELF. NOW IS THE
TIME TO LAY IN THAT WINTER,S SUPPLY.
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LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE is hereby given, that the
{Board of Equalization of The City
of Seward, Alaska, will meet on the
13th. day of August, 1929, at the
hour of 2 o’clock p. m. and continue
in session until 4 o’clock p. m. of
said day in the Council Chambers
j of the Municipal Council for the
City of Seward, Alaska, and said
Board of Equalization shall contin
ue in session each day thereafter
! between th hours of 2 o’clock p. m.
i
sand 4 o’clock p. m. until and in
cluding Saturday August 17th 1929.
That all persons objecting to the
assessed valuation of any property,
lot the assessment of the same for
the year 1929, shall reduce such
objections to writing and file the
same with the Board on or before
the hour of 4 p. m. August the 17th
1929 and all persons failing to file
their written objections! shall be
deemed to have consented to said
assessment for the year 1929, and
the action of the Board of Equaliza
tion, and shall be forever barred
Ifrom thereafter making such ob
jections.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, August
6th, 1929.
A. D. BALDERSTON, Clerk.
Published August 8, 9, 10, 12, 1929.
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Pure Bred Stock
Produces all of
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That rich, creamy taste of
milk is due to the fact that
nothing but pure bred, tested
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i Ing and sanitation.
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