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Show iKomswiinr iuainRGEs PRESIDENT WILL VISIT MODERN COLLEGE WITHIN 100 MILES OF ARTIC CIRCLE Presidential Party Will Be Taken To Many Places of Interest While On Journey to Far North; Arrangement Ar-rangement Being Made Washington When Secretary Seward Se-ward paid tho IlusBlan government 7,-!00,000 for Alaskn fifty-sir years ngo ho did not dream that (hero would ovor bo n collego within 100 mllo- of tho Artie circle, or that it would bo a wondorland of wealth. When President Harding goes up thero this summer ho will land about Rtrnwborry time, and such strawber ries nB Marlon nover saw to hoar the natives brag. Tho president will boo a government built railroad nnd be nble to tnko n llttlo auto trip right tip to tho noso of n glacier. Tho hoad of tho college noar Fairbanks Fair-banks is Charles 13. Bunnell, formor federal judgo, and tho campus is on n tract of Innd four miles from Fairbanks, Fair-banks, on tho main line of the now rallroud. Tho collego wns formally established es-tablished In 1017. Thero wa undor cultivation In tho immediate vicinity of Fairbanks Inst year, nccordlng to ProfCBSor Bunnoll n total of 1020 acres. This land produced 100 tons of vcgotnblos, 1000 tonB of oats hny, 1270 bushols of oats and barley, o510 bUBhols of wheat nnd 802 tons of potatoes. po-tatoes. Tho wheat represent tho yield of 183 ncres. "An offort 1b now being made to create for Alaskn fo local comlsslon, or development board, which would take ovor tho duties and authority of the various fodornl oxocutlvos, together to-gether with tho administration of nil public rosourcos in Alaska, worKlng solely under tho direction of the secretary secre-tary of tho intorior. This proposaj may well be challenged. After all, tho national Interests in Alaskn nro paramount. para-mount. Alaska represents, In hor ma-rlno ma-rlno flshorlos, hor enormous agrlcu-tural agrlcu-tural ureas nnd her resources ror growing moat producing nnnnnls, one of tho great food sources of the Unltod Stntos. In hor vast forest llos n practical prac-tical solution of our paper shortage." Just what Is involved Is pointed out by tho American Forestry association : "Thero nro 20,000,000 ncros ami othor 7B,000,000,000 foot of timber of a quality qual-ity suitablo for general consumption In the national forosts In Alaska, This la equivalent to nonrly 0 per cent of nil tho timber in tho continental United Statos. Wisely handlod, n pn-per pn-per Industry can bo doveloped in Alaska ub permanent ns tho paper In. dustrles of Scandinavia, and capable of supplying n third of the present paper consumption of the United Stntos. "During the udmlnlstrdtlon of the United Statos forest service nntlonnl forests have been open freely for the use of timber nnd other commercial resources under regulations of an ex-teeedtngly ex-teeedtngly liberal and sluiplo character. Thoy nro being cut today to tho extent of about -15,000,000 board feot. annually. |