Deseret Evening News | 1902-02-24 | Page 4 | Future of Alaska

OP Tile The development ot of Alaska during the ten has proceeded at a n arste rate lIat no one could foresee when that vast t country was first transferred to the United States nut But that MM r hat merely begun mining started the Immigration l u and now 1101 It IH II found that thero nr lire many which may become as Important as gold mining milling According to tho annual report ot or Governor tho great river val valleys al alleys leys embrace cultivable areas largo large enough for There The Is II Isn n met southwest lI of at AIt It lying Iring 1 t 11 the sea RM and tho li I sixty long lOll And 1111 from fifteen miles to thirty miles wid which today Is covered C with redtop that stands as a high ns n a II mans shoulder hollMer He say men Inn hove ha there th for tor ot mining but they have he found condi conditions t so O for tor farming that they have engaged In h pursuit with highly results As for the It II Is II 4 thAt It tt better than on th I Rient plains of Wyoming Montana nd some parts of Nevada In nil of ot Alaska there th are more hospitable ho winters They The have he heno no severe storms torms In the Interior And AndIn lId lIdIn In the tho dead Iad of oC winter horses can be H work without any nil danger nf being freien People WM who BO o there think they the will a gnat g change In oil oIt mate mal bat J U thU l Is 18 a 1 an th Ih In pr fe to Will fill in due Ilu Urn time o h fur t lt they the have hae far tor other parts arts I ut ot the The rhe plan suggested Is II to connect with lIh the Ihl road and the Journal think that the tort l l of IC haw hlll n to II ot t tI I ot for tor It the ron that othor projects of C u I scope cOll rea eo reactive ohe by y I