Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-11-12 | Page 9 | Wife Market Strong, but Supply is Weak

MARKET STRONG i BUT SUPPLY IS WEAK SEATTLE Wash Nov 12 There There is no such matrimonial market in the country as as there is today in Alaska Publicity Is being given being given the situation by an army officers officer's wife from Fort Liscum m. m who who writing in a Western Vestern paper papery decries decries the fact tact that so many of the best men of the country are living In bachelorhood bachelorhood in the terri terri- tory I never never s saw w such such an active matrimonial matri matri- market market writes the author as ther Alaska And I 1 cannot say too positively that the Alaska men are the equal of any in the worl world L They have to be fine men physically and morally to overcome the hardships of f the new and and wild country The nen new e railroad camp built by the government at Anchorage is made up of ot JUnE nien True they are of ot all nationalities but there are hundreds of fine tine strong American young fellows fellows tel fel fel- fel lows who will decide to make Alaska their future home The busy mining city and capital of the t territory Juneau possesses more single men than married and there is is also the same scarcity of ot young women Wrangell Skagway Seward and Valdez are other coast towns owns whose po population la ion consists c largely of ot th the boarding class of fellows i- i