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Show lllS GOOD PUCE M MM Opportunities for Savings Are Better. Governor Says in His Annual Report , Washington, pec :. in appeal 'for greater co-ordination In Lhe poll-Icles poll-Icles of the federal proernmont end for i "the greatest possible heed of i(-: i(-: government" runs through a series, of I recommendations for governing ihe j territory of Alaska submitted In the annual report of Thomas Klggn. Jr.. tho territorial governor, malo public todaj 'Sentimentalists have done and are 'doing more damage to Alaska.'' Oover-'nor Oover-'nor i:itrq;H declared, "th'in ran fvr he undone unless u broad policy ( de-IveJopmeni de-IveJopmeni is undertaken which reoog ini7.es the rights of invested capital nnri :tho welfare rr the Individual. i.wh 'should goy.ern instead of revocable 'regulations; hut vrhare thoro inust. be regulations, such regulations should be promulgated i authority located iwifhln tho territory, and not -l.iHiO miles away. In the interest of good oitlkehahipi to promote self-reliance nnd m strengthen the deshe tor publie , welfare, Ihr greategt possible need 01 !ef-go erntneiil nhould be allOWed ho residents if the territory." t 1 1 U I I POIII I The Alaska goveinor uri(ej the def-llnition def-llnition of some Mort ot a colonial polio, pol-io, asserting that absence bf such a pollby hag caused capital, supposedly headed for Alaska, to turn to lirlllsh I Columbia, to Ihe loss of Alaska. This causes him to remark that "In Canada the founder of a great new Industry gets Knighted; In Alaska very often Indicted." Honepl and energetic attempts he ladds. hnve been made by the Washington Washing-ton government to open up Alaska through construction of government Irallroads, but little attention has beer, paid to the development of ihe territory's terri-tory's natural resources, and IMIle encouragement en-couragement in the way of legislation has been provided to gel am one to settle along the railroad now under construction. As a remedy for this condition, he submits as his chief recommendation rec-ommendation the enactment i con- Igress of the ponding Alaska devolop-'ment devolop-'ment hoard bill. This measure he as-'serts. as-'serts. will do more for Alaska than any other piece of legislation, and seemingly, seem-ingly, be adds, is opposed only by the government bureau at Washington. i lift BRING RELIEF. The prediction Is made by Governor iRlgga that should the development , board bill and other recommendations be adopted, appropriations for AlaBka lean be rut below similar amounts appropriated ap-propriated for any state and the territory ter-ritory "insteud of simply being the greatest per capita oontrlbfltor to the national revenues will In addition, soon become self-supporting and self-sustaining. Governor Rlggs submits figures ishowlng tho total OOmmeroe of Alaska with the Cubed Stites the laM '.'ih-n-dar year to have amounted to $105.-580, $105.-580, 09S n decrease of $17,80.30C OVer 1 9 1 H, due largely to after effi et of the war, to a smaller run of salmon, and to lessened copper mining resulting from tho stump In tho copper market mar-ket The governor says the -condition of the laboring man In Alaska was better I than in the states. whU the oppojrtunl-tSS oppojrtunl-tSS for saving Were greater, n. there I was n'' the same temptutlon to spend on amusements or "boiled shirts, silk stockings and high heeled shoes." rho governor places the vulue of Alaska's mineral products In 1919 at , $r.'.2').:il3 The mines of Alaska since 1 1880 are estimated as having produced' 43s.i ii.ooo woith of minerals. |