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Show ANCHORAGE IS ON THE BOOM City in Alaska Has Grown From Wilderness to 5000 in Six Months. Washington, Aug. 31. Growth of the new Alaskan railroad construction construc-tion terminus at Anchorage, Alaska, from a wilderness sis months ago to a city of 5000 population today, with big government realty transactions to take care of tho Influx of people, is told in telegraphic reports to the Interior In-terior department Commissioner Tallman of the gen-oral gen-oral land dfflce, received a message from Chief Field Agent Chrlstensen, saying that in addition to a recent sale of COO lots of government do- : main at Anchorage at a total price of $145,000; 180 more lots were sold Saturday at a total of $23,000. The slto is one of the termini of tho new government railway from Seward to Fairbanks, for which congress con-gress already has appropriated $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 out of a prospective outlay of $35,000,000. |