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Show Alaska's Hidden Treasures. Alaska has more gold than ever had California, Australia or South Africa; It has more copper than 20 Buttes; it has more hard coal than Pennsylvania, and it has more tin than Wales. Tho hay that rots on its tundras and plains would fatten all the cattle that roam upon the prairies of Kansas, Oklahoma Ok-lahoma and Texas. And there tho wild, fertile, untouched plains and valleys await the ax, the spade,, the plow and the reaper of half a million American farmers and gardeners. And yet this virgin empire remains virtually virtu-ally landlocked for nearly 1.000 miles along Its Pacific coast. For a distance of nearly 100 miles from tho coast inland in-land 'the country 1b' so rugged that It is almost, as cheap to build a railroad rail-road as a wagon road. The great river system of this empire flows northward Into seas Ice-locked for seven months of the year. The heart of this wonderland wonder-land Is close to all the great possible channels of commerce, except rail-roadB, rail-roadB, which must be built in tho immediate im-mediate futuro, yea, which are now being be-ing actually constructed from its Ice-fj-ee Pacific harbors. Review of Re Tiows. |