Show I GIVES hIVES PEN PICTURE OF ALASKA'S WEALTH Says It Will Be Richest Region Under Stars and Stripes Alfred H. H Brooks Drooks chief chic of or tIle the United States geological survey er In Alaska recently returned from that region and his views of or Folly the title bestowed on Alaska b by y some who doubted Its Us value alue a 1 few generations ago and embodied In a I drawn well word picture Mr Brook says sas California with its billion am ama and anda a rl q quarter arter dollars record from ill iti placer fields will be outdone b by Alas Alas- ka ha a. a Finland with Its bleak and deslate desolate desolate des- des late stretch of ot northland Is a barren waste vasto compared to the tile agriculture future of ot Alaska Michigan Montana and Arizona will perhaps bo ho surpassed wIth Its Its Its' copper products and coal mining in the north will be an important import Import- ant Industry I have been to Finland and I know lenow it well weB So also do I know enow Alaska When hen the railroads reach each tho fiso coal and copper deposits enter the placer rc regions lons and tap the various mountain ranges where are arc to tobe tobo tobo bo be found Cound the quartz ledges that so many prospectors arc are now seeking Alaska will come Into its own tho the sea ea be he alive with ships bringing It Its commerce to the tho nearest ports In tho the Stat States and Alaska will bo ho recognized d as ns the richest region under the tho Stars and Stripes |