"But, in place of mining, the Ashing industry has sprung up, and has proved to be Alaska's greatest asset. Last year, there were 7,000,000 cases of salmon—two-thirds of the fish out put of the entire United States—produced in Alaska, averaging about $6 per case: s0, there alone, there was tremendous wealth in the shape of an annually recurring crop, which, unlike farming and other agricultural pursuits, requires no developing: the Pish simply go ints Alaska and spawn, while all the fishermen have to do to cath the fish, can it, and—sell it.
"Alaska has a hybrid form of government which is controlled largely [through Washington. They can pass certain regulations and laws, operated and controlled largely by' the District of Columbia code, as the US. Court fof China is. They have a judicial system, divided into four judicial features, with a U.S. district marshall and commissioner. children were homeless and foodless that bitter cold, being eventually rescued by the U.S. governmen through the ald of a Russian ice breaker vessel. I is a similar country, In many ways to China, with {ts varying contrasts. I believe the working man lives better ta Alaska than in any other place in the world is a'working-man's country. With regard to the Eskimos, they exist on the beach, and when the freeze-up they are forced back Into the sem{ mountainous regions, where they have nothing to eat, so they are forced to starve, and in some cases cannibalism has' not been unknown: when he break-up comes in the spring of the year, they move back fon to the beach and catch fish—it is the only diet they have, Further down the coast, down the Pan-handle. you find that men live more abund-fully than in any other place in the world: the average man can make a living in Alaska, and enjoy life more completely and thoroughly, I believe han anywhere else on this earth. It is, however, no place for women: women don't, like it—perhaps. that's tone reason it's such a great country laughter)... T don't know!
An Immense Glacier "Last year there were 26,000 persons who went as tourists to Alaska admire and enjoy the magnificent scenery and mountains: they go. tone of the marvels of Alaska called Muir glacier, 1,500 square miles in diameter, or' one-fifth the size of Switzerland, and it is a fact that in the summer time there are $0,000,000 eu. fi. discharged from that lade: alone every day! The fourist. ships are run right ino the face of the facier, and no human being has ever traversed it—they have flown over part of it, but no man has ever walked over it. Tt is a relic of the lacial age! The tourists go up in thousands every year fo see if, travel into Nome, visit the gold diggings of the Klondyke, and then back down the coast amongs the fishing industry.
think Alaska is one of the best Investments the U.S. has ever made. and they are very jealous of it: they won't give it statehood, or full territorial government, "and the only Mag we have is the American fag.
"Alaska with a coast line of 26,000 miles, is a man's country, and no weakling or member of the "we-won't-work" brigade could hope to thrive there. Game hunting of vari ous kinds abounds, and with ite mar vellous fishing and other sports, its bracing climate, and its kindly people, one could indeed do far worse than spend a few summer months there in search of health, pleasure and sport, 2 search that is, without doubt, bound
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