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Show TlielalnporAU.la. Americanti are Just W-ginuing to learn somt thing of the value of Alaska. Kursealsaud iceliergs are not its only 1 reductions. Tlie gold mines are valuable, though they havo not developed as riclily as w as expected, but it seems that the fish-erics fish-erics will outrank all other indus-trieE indus-trieE of im-ottame-, not excepting Cold-mining and seal taking. Ills now known that the rivers of Alaska aro filled witli the finest salmon. The rmautities are so vast that con-stint con-stint capture canuotdlmlnlsh Ihtni. On tlie srcnll Islaud Americans have 'invested a capital of$-l,OliO,-t0O and take and euro S1,KM,009 worlli of salmon annually. Similar establishments are found In other Irts of Alaska, and it is said that there istnougli salmon In tlie Territory Ter-ritory to -supply the world for generation. gener-ation. Travelers have recently been pouring into Alaska, and they ray tnat In the southern -art of the. Territory Ter-ritory vast regions are habitable, that the climate is tolerable, the soil fertile, arai that thu conditions upon which the comfort of man de-lends de-lends are belter than in many northern countries of Europe which Itfcfc9 a considerable -ajiulatlou. f We must allow something for travelers' tales, hut It t fifei-riim. lees a fact that the chronic on the I'acilic coast is much warmer than that cf the Atlantic of tlio same latitude. While it is not prolablo that Alakanill ever receive more than slight immigration, at least not until the world Is crowded, It that day ever arrives, that countrv may become, be-come, notwithstanding the lack of poo-ilc. au important source of supply. sup-ply. Kor fish and furs it will be unrivalled, and these are two com-medities com-medities very important to tlio civ. Ilized world. What Its mineral wealth is no one can tell. It may posmore go-j (JLari ever Australia Aus-tralia or California had, but that is for the future. We only speak of the treasures already reTealtd. There pan be no longer any doubt of the great value of Alaska. Secretary Sec-retary Seward's largaln was not a LouUlaua iiurcbase, but was net the least - rentable lpvcstment the United States lias made. Ul.ictiov Inlcr-Oceaa. |
