Show 0 o 0 AMERICAN FAMILIES WILL WILL START l START LIFE ANEW IN ALASKA I I deral Jeral Emergency Relief Commission to Supply Work Animals and Necessary Farm Tools for Tins This S Sensational Pioneering Adventure By fly WI WILLIAM LlAM C. C UTLEY ADLY countless times time since sine f depression and drouth struck gub tub sub at lands and poor farming forming country farmers farmer and andr lr r families discouraged and In some lome someI en I destitute have prayed for a ance anee nee nce to go ro a away somewhere somewhere any any- ere and re-and and start all over again with lag more perhaps than the strength their hands and a few fundamental es ea of equipment but with a clean cleante lie to te and an equal footing for tor alLone all al allone one of or the most spectacular ex ei- meats the Brain Trust has yet de deed ed d the Federal Emergency 1 Relief Belief mission IB le trying to determine I ether a literal answer to that prayer not DOt after all the solution to the theer's ers ner's er plight In many an advanced of economic collapse be e FERA KERA is taking families i drouth drouth farms fn northern Desota Wisconsin lD and Michigan an titles files who had just about given about given up hope of ot ever again making a go goof got t of ot their farms herding them and a of their effects into a boat and lipping Aping them away to a brand new newte ike te ke and a new life In life In Alaska Here is a land which to most of em m Is one so cold that Ice cream are named after It It so 10 wild that ost st of ot the life lite consists of Eskimos bou and grizzled prospectors pang paDg pan pan- ng g for tor gold But they care not DOt For Fa ForIt It Is la the land landof of new lIew hope and andi i It 11 they are going to build a Utopia the wilderness where everybody from scratch and where they e i certain reward will come In actual portion to sweat and sincerity of ort lort The exodus has In newspaper ac- ac nuts somewhat colored been called ke e exiling of families to bleak terri tern r b 1 r rt t. t I- I t t y W WY Y a y i tonal torla outposts Inferring Interring a parallel I to the exile of Russian peasants into 1 Siberia It la is not like uke that at all aIL Nobody No No- body has to go who doesn't want toI to to- to I and nd e everybody e In the party seems to tobe tobe tobe be tickled to death of ot the chance Selecting the Company For the past few months month FERA FEIN workers worker work work- ers ere have been going about quietly I selecting members of ot the company I This has hns been an exacting task for tor only the purest American farming tock stock will win be allowed to settle In the I Alaskan colony They must also be Healthy and well equipped physically I to stand pioneer lire life nud flud temperatures which sometimes fall tall to 40 SO degrees beloW below beI be- be I loW tow zero Most of them are are families I that that have been entirely dependent upon tLe the government for their exist exist- ence nce Along with the families sin sin- gle men CCO workers are being sent Bent t to help in the hard work of ot starting the frontier Utopia They will help In Inthe inthe tj the e clearing of government land and I Ithe In Ine inthe the e bUIl building which will be necessary necessary Each family is allowed to take but buti i 2000 1000 pounds of ot belongings Many an Heirloom itself carried west In an ani i fUller filer day by byan n e earlier pioneer Is being an left behind making way for tor equipment that will be beof of greater value In to the new life Ute There Is le not room for tor foran forin toran an in unnecessary pound Live stock and machinery are Ille being disposed of ot for forat foret forthe et at the end of their Journey these fam- fam Wes plea will get tools tool and equipment bet bet- to ter suited to Alaskan climate and ter ter- raID Not a few heartaches heartaches' may be beed imagined ed as U some IOme treasured possession of f neat great sentimental but no DO practical value due o Is la kissed good good by But then boring oving day dal is I. always a clean lag for or non non kaThe The Tte average family making I th the trip b. b tour four members embers Each family will wille lore he e the benefit fit o of a government draw draw- fag account of which must be PaId back la h so 30 years with 3 per cent interest t. t To finance the the tho Pr project l e some orne has set aside In Barters quarters It has been suggested that halt hult a g a million dollar dollars might be more w wisely I ln In buying baying these then I. I peo pea I pIe new new farm lands In the United State Stares proper r This officials declared would be simply limply handing out alms and one of the objects object of the entire ment Is to find out whether such luch fam tam Illes' Illes can be alms Th The same officials admitted that the payment of the passage In Itself constituted con can alms but they bel claimed that the situation was modified considerably by an agreement that the money will be paid back wh when n the new farm fann land produces more than a living for tor Its people if it ever eter does Besides this It I is le argued the colonists will have havea a new mental outlook they could never attain were their new v homes stab In one of the states C The movement move moye- move movement ment will further serve a useful purpose purpose pur- pur pose I by y helping helping to build up Alaska Bound for Seward On steel rails loyer the Oregon Orlon trail famed In pioneering history the adventurers adventurers ad ad- and their meager accoutrements ments mente will go to Seattle where they will board a steamer for tor Seward Alaska Some of them are re already on their way Will as you ou read this Perhaps a good share of these peo- peo sA l D SiTI 0 OF NEW Y FARM PROJECT Q y oa a Gp O GOt t aD o WHEAT GO lEI B SEA r Q N i al V Oa t e eCO CO D PACIFIC OCEAN tY W k y Y 5 B RF t R a at u. u air I Ju Jut Just t as Th There Theae se Pioneers In the Gold Rush Ruh Days Day of 98 Set Forth to Conquer the Wilderness Will American Families Seek a New Start In Alaska This Summer ummer pie will never again pass south of their point of entry Into the Alaskan peninsula At any rate they will never again return to the farms they have left for tor these In accordance with the FERA FEnA plan of or relocation of or destitute destitute destitute desti desti- tute farm families in many sections of the United States will be turned Into bird refuges wild life lite preserves forests and other adaptations but will never again be farms Up In this rugged country countr Arctic winds chill the climate but at the same time warm Pacific currents from Japan temper It It Is 18 not really as bad as Imagined by those not familiar with Alaska The winters are not really much more ere se than those of ot many well populated ports parts of or Canada and the summers are quite comparable to those of the Middle West although the winters winter are longer and the summers shorter From Seward the little band bans will pass onward through Anchorage which Is the southern gateway to the rich aile valley They will travel by train to Palmer a little village miles mlles north It Is le In the wild country near Palmer almer that their new plots of land will be lie staked out Leader of the party Is ls Don L. L IrwIn the lead lead- son of a man who was among era ers In tl the e Oklahoma land rush lIe He Is la superintendent of or colonization In Alaska Alas Alas- ka The organization Itself Is known as the Alaska Colonization corpora corpora- tion Draw for Locations Location Not until U It has haa reached Palmer will I Ithe the party settle the question or of location loca ben Lion tion of Individual farms There a drawing will b be held which will assure the dispensation of land with complete Impartiality to alt all will I be Ibe numbered Slips SUp of ot paper mixed up In a hat jut just as u at a raffle of will I The number on each slip Blip paper correspond with the number of or a plot of 40 acres of unsettled wooded land dwellings the Alaska For temporary Colonization corporation will have set setup up up-a up a tent teat on ea each h plot Each family move inov will when It draws drawl lr w a number fir into ti the iliA tent designated b by bl t that num num I Iber willbe be bc Ir repeated ber her The Tile h recess will wl when the second half hatt of the migration arrives All of this land of ot new hope Is entirely entirely en fn- overgrown with splice artlice cottonwood cottonwood cotton cotton- wood and birch This must all aU be cleared away and with the help of ot the workers the families hope hop to have a large share of the work done before the short hort Alaskan summer Bummer draws to a close Log dwellings dwelling will wUl be erected at first from the gleanings of the timber clearing According to Jo the plan the women folks will have havo to pitch pUch right In mal maybe be been even en awing an ax or two and help the men with their work FERA architects archItect have designed a sort of ot hamlet for tor the center of the colony and the CCO workers will bt begin upon this project soon after their arrival ar ar- rival rIYaL A modern schoolhouse accommodating accommodating accommodating children will be erected first for tor these people have hue no Intention of or robbin robbing 1 their offspring of the cultural cultural cul cul- tural and educational bene benefits ts of the civilization back home The schoolhouse will serve In severa several sev- sev era eral other capacities It will be the center of all community life It will have a community hall and a n gymnasium um where meetings meeting dances and entertainments enter enter- of ot various kinds will be held If the workers worker are able to maintain the schedule laid out for tor them the coming of or the next nelt winter will also find a comfortable dormitory for the teachers In the school and aad a home for tor the manager of the colony There will be a community Industrial build buildIng buildIng Ing which will Include a creamery and anda a greenhouse Construction will be speeded on a barn for tor 40 tennis teams of horses a n warehouse shops gara garages ell a community poultry farm tarm and other oilier essential community projects The permanent houses of ot the Jam Jam- families rain rain- Hies illes will be equipped as are many modern farm tarm houses In the states with running water wood-burning wood stoves stove chemical toilets and and other conven convene lences About the only thing that will willbe willbe be lacking be-lacking lacking Is electric light Kerosene or oil lamps will be used Just as at their cousins who att attend nd the consolidated consoli consoli- dated schools In the states the children children chil dren will be taken to their lessons each day by motor bus Each family will keep one mUch Longhorn cow supplied by the government government government govern govern- ment which Id fact will supply all allwork allwork allwork work animals and fools tools Eten en here however however- the farmer citizens will not be free reo from close government supervision supervision super super- vision over their Industry for tor the gov gOY eminent reserves the right to regulate strictly the crop production of or each ellch farmer Heason for tor this regulation Is I. said to tobe tobe tobe be that the colony Is being formed to supply stores In the valley with worth of goods good an an- The valley now Imports this amount of goods every year from the United States and Canada The laud land In the valley vallel Is I. fertile and Is especially good for dairy and truck farming Although the sum sumS mers are re shorter the days are really much longer than they are In the states stares and give about twice as 81 much sunlight The land Is I rich In natural natura and mineral resources The rivers and streams abound In fish Hall and there Is I. plenty of game ame In the wilds Alaska could support a population much larger than the It ii now docs dots and tr It Is II quite possible that till this colony may be the start of n a progressive sire sive growth It Is at least the largest larges attempt the federal government has hai yet made to colonize the northern possession pos I Alaska needs more people to make use of Its Us vast agricultural 1 end end mineraI mineral min min- crab eral wealth It Is 1 the only part part or of orthe the United States where unemployment ment meat does not exist alt ough It Is fl not hard to get a Job In Hawaii either It is I. one n of ot the very few parts part of ot the world which Invites Immigration C N Vol Union w f y t lf i. i C Ii |