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Show ALASKA'S HIDDEN TREASURE. Alaska has more gold than ever had California, Australia or South Africa; it has more copper than twenty Buttes; it has more hard coal than Pennsylvania, an dit has more tin than Wales. The hay that rots on its tundras and plains would fatten all the cattle that roam the prairies of Kansas, Oklahoma Ok-lahoma and Texas. And there the wild, fertile, untouched un-touched plains and alleyvs await the ax, the spade, the plow and the reaper of half a million American farmers and gardeners. And yet this virgin empire remains virtually landlocked for nearly one thousand thou-sand miles along its Pacific coast. For a distance of nearly 100 miles from the coast inland the country coun-try is eo rugged that it is almost as cheap to build a railroad as a wagon road. The great river system sys-tem of this great empire flows northward into seas icelocked for seevn months of the year. The heart of this wonderland is close to all the great possible channels of commerce, except railroads, which must be built in the immediate future, year, which are now being actually constructed from its icefree Pacific Pa-cific harbors: Review of Reviews. |