Show OF 01 ALASKA JASI I cat bits Eu lor Much it Activity 0 ci I lt y yI I lucre hIM I The Tho hl northern are lire already ro ra porting and rich Unda linus In III InI I Alaska and the tho est Territory mid 1111 i t 1110 ho ha Impression that tho tim movement to tho thu Arctic region will bo ha bovery h havery very this spring says the time Mining ami PITH N Unless l new dig diggIng gIng are discovered that section will viii Rot not prove to ho bo n a good for Cr u n man nian of Dr limited I ell mORns moans Vita Tha of ot o Alaska and the tho I adjacent country are ore ns its yet yot ot lUla known hut but has hns already been m to indicate that aside from n a 1 tau few It Is not lIol tim country What Alaska Aln lt Yr now holy needs Is large capital to divert rh nv eri ru build ditches and pipe 1 linen hues dredgers to oper operate I ate tho the mines on n a large lIalo by mod moll modern modera ern era methodi and anI telegraph I and telephone lines will viIi follow ollow Tim rime rhomine mines mine must be he opened to demon demonstrate demonstrate i strate Unit that there 18 Is H to 10 the large e outlay of oC capital to these theo conveniences cs of or transportation transportation tation dad and communication Doubtless electric plants will ulso bo In Installed stalled to 10 transmit power to mitten ned other Industrial Institutions lions The Alaska of ot today Is unlike the lie Alaska of or early Klondike days or orevell even evelt those of or early earl Nome ome Tho The mining methods familiar the tho west western ern United States have hao been Introduced there and have been found an nil applicable to condition In III tho the far tar north as ns they are aro Idaho Montana South Dakota British Columbia or elsewhere In time the northwest With tho the exception of or n a 1 afew few fow operations operation alon tho time coast coa t vein In mining has hus not yet et been beet developed extensively ext In Alaska Ia but enough clough Is 18 already known to mining men inca anti and capitalists that that country will In the future produce a n Inico iame lal ito amount of ot copper coal petro petroleum petroleum leum laura and possibly I also tin till ns ems well M tin III gold The Tho discovery of or veins Is owing to tho the and drift which covers a n great portion of ot the tho country countr and these are arc multiplied by bythe bythe bythe the long winters and deep snows Not Notwithstanding Notwithstanding withstanding these drawbacks tho prospector has been at nt work and prom promising ising laing quartz discoveries have havo been made the tho success of ot which will wll slime stimulate lute late tho the search for tor others people realize that tho the vast extent of ot territory covered by Alaska greater than n tho the urea area of at Washington Oreon OroOn California Nevada and Idaho and the tho Indications are Ire that mountain ranges of ot this thin regIon arc nrc mineral minerai bearing It will 1111 he be heman many man years b before fora the resources resource of the territory are arc developed or known |