Show lokis secretary alvind tia cues information adf ii ilgard ing their nations washington fob feb 22 senator dolt Dolp hd lid bill to constitute mary idland Wr annel jurlean Jur fean sand lont I 1 ko disk atil and ovan laaka alaska ports of delivery within the tile collection district of alaska and to erect the necessary nic essary buildings at mary iland and point was referred by the senate committee on commerce mercato mer ceto to secretary S cretaro windom foran for an of ins views thereon in res response ponee the secretary says mary lelard is of no value va ua except fir for custom house purposes s it ia is recommended as the best beat site for the initial port of peninsular trade by the officers of the tile customs revenue the marine and chast survey and the chipping and mercantile merca niilo interests inte rangel one hundred milea miles north of al mary sr wand has already been constituted a customs elation tation 11 by administrative ac tion it is is an old and some w hat important station oi of trade aunean la is on the main land of the peninsula two hundred miles north of towards sitka the necessary officers and buildings s are re there it is a large and nourishing flourishing town le the center cf of the mining industries es of the territory kudiak is on an island of that name nearly 0 one hundred ed miles west of sitka it is the center of the ealmon salmon fishing and carmine canning industry the moat most important resource of the territory terri terr tiry itry there is a officer and a proper building on the ground sand point is on laland one of the tile aleutian chain several hundred miles from the tile main land it is the rendezvous for hundreds of fishing and hunting ves vestes kes and therefore the mot moet important customs stations in the territory inducements for smuggling and the demoralizing traffic with the natives are ate BO so crea grea tand BO so largely exercised that no time should be loft lost in providing the nece ne cestary shary supera supervision I 1 orm Onni flacks laska ia 14 in the akpu lan chain miles west of sitka at the prim print apal entrance to juehring sea A customs cast ouis has been station stationed ej there many years except at alary leland island and point the secretary says there will be no expense consequent upon the passage of the bill |