Show e ASKS LAWS TO Am AID GROWTH OF ALASKA Nor Northern lern Territory Needs Chance to Develop Says Sa ys Curry BT By Inter Newt Serlee Washington March 27 Alaska Alaska often oHen called the national storehouse could be rondo made o a source of or wealth callb and prosperity not only to the residents of or orthe the territory but to the tho United States In general under a broad comprehensive sire sive and sympathetic I policy declared Representative Curry Cum of or California chairman of tho the House territories es com corn committee millee who has Introduced a abill bill blU re reorganizing reorganizing re- re organizing the methods of or administering ad administer ing Ing- laws re regulating the development of or the country countr We Vc Yc have got Sot to amend ou out laws aws so sotar far tar as they apply to so as lS to tomake tomake tomake make it possible for tor a n. mar ma mar marto to go o to Alaska with opportunity oj oj bettering bettering- his condition said saM Mr Curry There Thero Is no reason for a man to leave civilIzation civilization civili civilI- and go So to Alaska when he can make m more money In or Now York I am going 1010 to present measures mea that will permit of or the private private vate development of or Ha Ru Fertile S U n UThe 1 The land area of ot Alaska ka continued continued continued contin contin- Mr lr Curry Is acres The climate In portions of or southeastern southeast southeast- ern Alaska Is more mora temperate and more equitable than that of or Washington Washing Washing- ton while much of ot the northern portions portions portions por por- has a n. milder climate than Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm Stock Stock- holm or Largo Large areas in the interior valleys have havo fertile soil son and will produce cereals vegetables berries berries berries ber ber- ries and hn hay Enormous deposits of ot g gold ld copper coil coll and other minerals have ha been discovered and the unexplored unexplored areas probably will be found to lo contain other great deposits Yet the tho population is less than white inhabitants in- in in habitants hit n tIL nuo Laek Facilities There is but one railway of ot any ulY length lenth or Importance in full tull operation and that is a privately built road primarily primarIly primarily marily for the purpose of or reaching and developing mineral properties held by bythe bythe bythe the owners of or the road There are aro safe harbors and feasible passes for terminal terminal nal Dal facilities and for tor pushing pushing- transportation transportation transportation tation lines from the coast const to the great eat valleys alleys of ot the Interior There ma may be mentioned four primary primary mary reasons which under existing laws and conditions prevent proper development of ot Alaska and her re resources resources re- re sources Lack of transportation fa fa- ta- ta Lack of ot available a fuel Lack of or laws especially adapted to the tho peculiar peculiar pecullar pe pe- pe- pe culiar cullar conditions and public resources of ot Alaska Difficulty of ot administering laws and expeditiously transacting business with present facilities because because be be- be- be cause of or the difficulty of or communication tion with Washington and because ol of ot the fact tact that most of ot tho ho men who administer administer ad ad- al- al minister the tho laws havo a a. ver very limited knowledge o of ot tho the territory The Tho distance from rom Washington ton tc to Sitka Is miles to Fairbanks miles to Nome home 6 miles Journeys Into the Interior with rare exceptions must be made on foot root or with a dog team Long winters and heavy snows constitute obstacles of or serious I Import A Virgin Meld Field The rhe disposition and administration of or natural resources directly by a no resident resident resi resl- dent lent commission would effect an enormous enormous enor enor- saving savIng- in time and money to those citizens having to deal with public public public pub pub- lic lands and and resources and would re remove remove re- re move the repeated complaints of or delay dela range Long government has never been beena a a. success BUC an anywhere where Alaska is no ex ox- ox So small an area of the public lands buds and so BO few tow of or the natural re resources re- re sources of or Alaska have ve been disposed of ot that the territory constitutes a a. virgin virgin vir vir- gin field for trial of or new and Improved laws and rC regulations governing o such disposition an and use are not present the tho c vested ted an and conflicting interest In Interest Interest In- In terest the tho long practice pr cl ice and the tho many man possessory righted which exist In the public lands of or the United States proper proper prop proP- er r. r and which offer oCter a barrier to change chango I in h law administration had and nd procedure dure dure- |