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Show HARDING WILL SEE ALASKA RESOURCES PRESIDENT WILL VISIT MODERN COLLEGE WITHIN 100 MILES OF ARTIC CIRCLE Presidential Party Will Be Taken To Many Places of Interest While On Journey to Far North; Arrangement Ar-rangement Being Made Washington When Secretary Se-'vard Se-'vard paid the Russian government $",200,000 for Alaska fifty-six years ago lie did not dream that there would ever be a college within 100 miles of the -Artie circle, or that it would be a wonderland of wealth. When President Harding goes up there this summer he will land about strawberry time, and such strawber. ries as Marion never saw to hear the natives brag. The president will ses a government built railroad and ba able to take a little auto trip right up to the nose of a glacier. The head of the college near Fairbanks Fair-banks is Charles E. Bunnell, former federal judge, and the campus is on a tract of land four miles from Fairbanks, Fair-banks, on the main line of the new railroad. The college was formally established es-tablished in 1917. There was under cultivation in the immediate vicinity of Fairbanks last year, according to Professor Bunnell a total of " 1920 acres. This land produced 100 tons of vegetables, 1006 tons of oats hay, 1270 bushels of oats and barley, o516 bushels of wheat and 392 tons of potatoes. po-tatoes. The wheat represent the yield of 183 acres. As a result of 'red tape," Alaska lost 23.4 per cent in poulatlon in ten years when it should be growing by leaps and bounds. On this. Colonel W. B. Greeley of the forest service has this to say : "An effort is now being made to create for Alaska a local comisslon, or development board, which would take over the duties and authority of the various federal executives, to gether with the administration of nll public resources in Alaska, working solely under the direction of the secretary secre-tary of the interior. This proposal may well be challenged. After all, the national interests in Alaska are paramount. para-mount. Alaska represents, in her marine ma-rine fisheries, her enormous agrlcu-tural agrlcu-tural areas and her resources Tor growing meat producing animals, one of the great food sources of the United States. In her vast forest lies a practical prac-tical solution of our paper shortage." Just what is involved is pointed out by the American Forestry association : "There are 20,000,000 acres and other 75,000,000,000 feet of timber of a quality qual-ity suitable for general consumption in the national forests in Alaska; This is equivalent to nearly 6 per ent of all the timber in the continental United States. Wisely handled, a paper pa-per industry can be developed in Alaska as permanent as the paper industries in-dustries of Scandinavia, and capable of supplying a third of the present paper consumption of the United States. "During the administration of the United States forest service national forests have been open freely for the use of timber and other commercial resources under regulations of an ex-ceeedingly ex-ceeedingly liberal and simple character. They are being cut today to the extent of about 45,000,000 board feet annual iy. |