Show I ALASKAN TREASURES ES T TARE j I ARE GROWING YEARLY Copyright 1913 b br by the tie p Co Alaska is our most northern posses posses- sion slon Few v of ot us give the place a thought except to remember that theres there's a great groat deal of or snow and iC Ice ico there there A French geographer once drew drewa a map showing a great undiscovered country countr between Asia and America Immediately immediately Im Im- im- im media mediately tel Franco France and Spain sent out ships to discover er it for their respective tive tivo sovereigns Peter the Great of ot Russia heard of or it and sent Vitus Ber Ber- lag ing laga a a. Dane In quest of or it The Tho first trip was a complete failure But on the second trip in 1741 Bering rm Alna r nr or f Rt ln l u. u Straits ts are named for hl 1 In Russia sold Alaska to the United States for tor In 1886 gold was wa J discovered in the tho Klondike J river The great gold hunt followed Many lan found round their fortunes Just fortunes Just as man many lost their lives In 1908 the gold output was nearly But gold is not Alaska's only wealth In the mountains moun moun- of ot the southwest there are arc rich copper properties and her salmon fisherIes fisheries fish fish- eries cries today supply the worlds world's greatest greatest great great- est canneries The yearly earl output of or Alaskan canneries Is estimated at So Alaska h has hs s been proved a a. treasure treasure treas tress ure land l |