Show IN TWENTY YEARS HENCE Alaska Will B3 the Greatest Bullion Producer In the World Washington Feb 26A memorial sent by a committee appointed fit amass meeting meet-ing of citizens ot Juneau Alaska to Chairman C W Stone of the house committee com-mittee on coinage 1 weights dh measures advocating the establishment of a United States assay office at Juneau instead of at Seattle or Portland has reached here I makes Important statements about the Alaskan situation saying among other things A conservative estimate of the 1 annual bullion output of Juneau from its quartz mines alone is about 3000yj produced I pro-duced from approxImately W stamps Within 12 months the number of stamps I In operation in lands tributary to Juneau will exceed 1100 and the annual bullion uroduct exceed S10QOOOO During the last I 12 months more than JlSWOOu of gold dust produced from Canadian Northwest Territory I Ter-ritory has been brought through here and there is now on hand in Dawson City approximately STfXHOOJ to which will be added from this springs clean up an additional I ad-ditional 7500000 Two companies hare constructed fleets of lake and river steamers steam-ers to operate between the head of the I Inkes aTd Five Finger rapids on the t Yukon river where tramportago has been established connecting with Hets of river boats running through to Dawson City and assurance is ven that during six or eight months in the year a round Tip can be mId from Junoau to Dawson City In less than 2 days In less than 20 years we believe southeastern Alaska will be the greatest permanent bullion producer in the word r |