Show i Alaska Offers OH Land d 10 M 19 o More ore J Families Pr Project Su g Near C WASHINGTON At least It MO 0 new Dew farm families could make m e a I go 0 of it Iti right now DOw in Alaska bureau bur au of ere lani WId management estimates Almost OIt hall half of 01 SIO could i establish a sort son of little project on sula aula southwest of 01 Anchorage the I bureau reported i Simultaneously the bureau of mine estimated that Alaska had bad added two billion dollars doUar to national I wealth in 80 yearn yearl as a United United States Statu possession and Still eon con contained cl Vast unexploited resources Oear L Chapman Chapmn acting secre r tary of 01 the lb interior Said id that Alas Al Teas Tea's mineral resources varied to orm balls L for tor Ti k much more general enat than had bad yet et taken The land management bureau In Ina a listing of Alaskan areas re suitable for agricultural settlement said that Alaska Ala had bael lets lea Ulan than farms farm The bureau estimated e 4 that the MO proposed new Dew families would have bave reasonable expectation e of e tab tab tab- g successful farm tarm enterprises in specified localities It said alel that 40 NO was a conservative minimum j which under favor conditions in several anas are might might- W doub 1 1 It I A a fj family la would c iJU t the v mini mum acreage required r y l the homestead law law 20 20 a ret of each 10 1 acre tract tract-a trac a total of 01 ad acres would be brought Into production prod This would mean at- at least a dou bUn bling of 01 the present cultivated acre age ae reported to be about acres of which left Ie than 1500 acres acre were Of families which the report estimated est could be ie established on Kenai peninsula would I settle etUe In the vicinity of ot Homer nomer at Kenai and 75 at 20 at chIk and 19 15 in the Anchor Point P int area The report said laid there is fa much more good agricultural land on peninsula Other proposed settlement areas area Include valley 75 lies Uca Tanana valley except the up up IUca per part Kodiak island bland and south lOUth eastern Alaska |