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Show oo FIFTIETH NATAL I DAT FORALASKA I Great Northwestern Country Weighed in Balance and Found Magnificently Worthy. SEWARD'S PURCHASE H Hundred Million Dollars Rev-enue Rev-enue Last Year 2016 Hard to Predict. f WASHINGTON. March 30 Alas- ; ka's fiftieth anniversary today' as a I part of the United States was signal- j ized by Secretary Lane of the interior department with a statement, in which he said: "Alaska's period of trial is over She has been weighed in the balance and found magnificently worthy.' Mr. Lane said the wisdom of William Wil-liam H. Seward, the secretary of state who negotiated Alaska's purchase in 1867, against virulent opposition had been justified and after flftv years an i Dual financial statements" show 'and prove conclusively "that to have neglected neg-lected that opportunity would have been n colossal blunder, a blunder future fu-ture generations could never forgive " f The 600.000 square miles of terrllorv bought for about 2 cents an acre at I J7.200.000. have brought more than ' I $750,000,000 into the channels of Amer ican trade. Mr. Lane said, and the profits pro-fits are just beginning to come' in. ' ; ! J |