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Show uu ALASKA'S WEALTH PRODUCING ABILITY The records havo been made up of the salmon-canning business of Alaska Alas-ka for the year 1910. It appears that during tho year all records In this In-dutsry, In-dutsry, not only for Alnska but for tho whojo Pacific coast, were broken The pack of Alaska salmon aggregated aggregat-ed 2,821,317 cases, of the valuo. In tho hands of the packers, of $14,S30,-932. $14,S30,-932. Tho salmon-canning Industry of Alaska alone returns more monej by many millions this year than the output out-put of gold fiom that territory, Alaska Alas-ka takes third place as a gold pro-ducor pro-ducor in this country, but it occupies easily the first place in the valuo of output of canned fish When Alaska was purchased by tho United Stntes from Russia tho price paid was ?7,200,000 The pack of salmon sal-mon In Alaska last year Is valued at considerably more than twice the sum which the federal government paid for the territory Tho peoplo who have developed tho resources of Alaska liavo paid into the federal treasury for tho privilege of doing so very much moro money than the United States paid for the territory, and will continue con-tinue each year to pay millions more, perpetuallj. It is a noteworthy fact that while "insurgent" orators are prating about Alaska's resources belonging to "tho whole people," moaning the people of tho east as much as the peoplo of Alaska, tho "whole people," acting through congress, have never done a solitary' thing toward discovering, developing de-veloping or making of value to the world any of the resources ot that great territory. If tho world had had to wait for the development of Alaska's resources until the "whole people" did something some-thing In that direction, Alaska would have beon In the same condition today to-day that It was a dozen years aftor tho "whole people" took possession of tho property, without population, without law, without any form of government, gov-ernment, without industries, without transportation and without an opened and profitable mine. Private enterprise enter-prise has done everything for Alaska which has boen dono up to this time, and had not tho "whole people." through Ignorant, fad-ridden and Ill-advised Ill-advised servants, checked the prog-reas prog-reas of the territory an sot it back, it would today havo been developed tn at least double Its present proportions propor-tions Seattle Post-Intelllgoncer. |