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Show ALASKA GOVERNOR mm w tafi HEATTLB, Waah.. March II. Oovor-aor Oovor-aor Walter B. Clark of Alaska arrived from Juneau yeaierday and will leave for Waahingtoa tonight. It la reported that ha waa summoned to a eonferenoa with P reel dent Taft and Sacratanr of tho In tartar Walter Flaher over tho Inpeadlng opening of tho ALaaka ooai flolda. Governor Clark an Id: "Alaska needs bettor traaaportatlon fBcllitlea and atda to navigation, we cannot can-not have cheaper transportation until the coal mine are opened to glvO cheaper power for teamehtp and rallro4. Opening of the coal fielda would lower the prlcea of food and other ouppllea. hut would not reduce tho waaea of labor, for It would oauao laoraaasd tfamajid for labor. "A atael mil! an Pugat Boun4 la Importing Im-porting cargneg of rron era from China and coke from Belgium. Alaska has abundance of Iron ore and coking coal and should have steel trtlll of her own. beaidea aupplylng- Puget Hound mill with raw materia. In a abort time Alaska will ba a hipping copper and gold ore to Puget Sound to be smelted. Of thla ore TO per oent la gengue, but the ore cannot can-not be smelted n Alaska because there la no ooai a via table. Tho Interior department de-partment should adjudloate tha ooai cieime at om-a, "The toes to ahrnplng during tho past wtnter ha been appalling becauee of leek of liahthoueea, buoya and belle, and rales of Insurance are now ao high aa to ba almoet prohibitive." |