The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 16, 1938, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1938 played such a prominent role in th its later expansion than has ti Post Office Department EEN “€ince becoming Postmaster Ger eral T have constantly of the necessity for improved ar xpanded mail services in the Te Nfl itory, and T am happy to state ths 5 sreat des have been made i this direction during the past fe Forecasts Generai Air Mail vears Juneau Air Mail been awar e year 1d e mot these receipts amounted to| United States were several year: while for the first vlr‘\'(‘n}aao erected in Juneau, Seward, and of the fiscal y 1938 ()1(‘,\" Fairbanks. e totaled about 000. It is| “After attempting to give you an ed that t e will be a pro-|insight into the scope and type of onate increase for the final|postal service which, at present, i d nth of the fiscal year ”Jvmr.: maintained in Alaska, I am close of the last fiscal| now going to mention briefly a 1 ar there were one hundred and|velopment of our Alaskan serv nety-nine post offices in Alaska,| which we have had in mind for v and about sixty star routes. As re-|some years, and which we believe s two weeks ago the Post Of-| will be realized in the near future ce Department had authorized air|T refer to the proposed new air mail 5 At ice Over Territory With- “One of the most significant de-| mail service on thirty-two of these|route which is to link the continen- in Five Years velopments in the history of the Al ar routes. The total mileage of all | tal United States with Alaska. askan mail service was reached | tar routes, including those served Seatite. Tk Al Mk (Continued from Page One) about two months ago when the| oy airplane service and by other! wrpis route will begin at Seattle === city of Juneau, the Territorial Cap-| ne such as dog teams, horses|wash., the great financial and com- ital, was linked by air mail service| ind automobiles, is five thousand,|mercial center of the Pacific north As T begin iy fiist Arip o, Al 1 Fairbanks, the principal com-| 1'ne hundred mile | west, through which practically all aska I am experiencing a real thrill | Mercial and industrial city of the| “During the fiscal year 1637 the|of the business between the United of an o s comes. to| middle northern section. The inau-| st offices in Alaska handled fOrty~ | States and Alaska flows, and wil a emall boy when he is about quration of this service over al wo thousand registered articles, | proceed via ngell, | Ketohikan enter upon an cxciting adventure | foute of about six hundred miles,| wnd thirty-nine ““‘"fl\““]‘ I “’“‘" and Pelersburg to Juneau, the All my life 1 have wanted to v from the coast to the interior, wa es. Quite a large percentase| Copital Gty and one of the princi this romantic and interesting Ter-| the first air mail contract service | f o registered and insu d ar- | pal cities of Alaska, and there con- oy 1 am Y ¢ en. | Of this type to be placed in opera- [ icles were packages containing nect with' the routes to Nome and This route proceed Juneau, through Chil tion in Ala of my two young dau north from accompanying me thusia“ ms ters who are n the days of my early youth o o W when in school, T learned of Alaska to Fairbanks through the geography and histo Modern passen SEULa) S ' and later resd.of ibe mail planes cover the distance i about four hours, as compared witl the previous steamer and train ser: Seward, which requirec days. This new have cheri country Post- Rush days, I to see this ce becomir Cold a strong desire for myself master General I have I even greater appreciation of the Territor and its importance the close relationship which st Office Department main- with Al and the people vice, via about five it is believed, provide ment of the interior of Alaska. From Fairbanks we have in operation sta route air mail cervice to Nome and o Bethel. Each of these air mai tains mendous impetus to the m\v-ln,\,} nd furs shipped out of Alask he United States. The vice has proved extremely ur with the r onstantly use this ! merchandise from the United Stat | and to ship many of their own pro- I iucts out of the Territory hope to > it established durir Postal Savings Systems the sent fiscal year. Our ulti- mate hope is to establish this route over-water outside of the thr mile limit so that we will not hav to fly over any foreign territory. A you know, British Columbia. « Jethel. This proposed new route will provide a real trunk line air tran ion service from the United into the principal points of rritory has made available an \ppropriation for this route and pa popu- sidents of Alaska who service to bring In order to afford the resiaent f Alaska the benefits of the Postal "avings System, twelve post off ave been designated as Postal Sav- nes Depositories, and the average alance to the credit of depositors greater | 2da. lies between the northern bor-|18%, Southern Pacific 16%%, s | atates Steel 58Y, Cities Service 9%, U $uotation of 10', American Can 99% Light monwealth tiss Wright 1¢140', International of the important provinces of Can-|Kennecott 41, and Delegate Dimond, both of \\'hom[ are doing so much for the develop-| ment of the Territory. | “I am indebted to the Alaska| Steamship Company, and to the Na-| tional Broadcasting Company, for making it possible for me to broad- cast my greetings to the people of Alaska, and to remind the people of the United States of Alaska's im-| portance to our country. On this modern and comfortable ship are many Americans who, like myself, going to Alaska for the first other: who, | me, and also many having experienced the thrills and pleasures of a visit to that wonder- ful Territory, are going back for \nother visit. “We in -the United States are| proud of Alaska, proud of its peo- ple, and T am sure that it is the de- ire of every true American that this great Territory shall be de-| veloped in every way to protect and conserve its almost limitles natural resource: ! - | STOCK QUOTATIONS | | NEW YORK, July 16 Alaska Juneau short Closing | mine | session is American and Power 6' Anaconda 34 Bethlehem Steel 58'%, Com- nd Southern 1%, Cu General Motors Harvester 64%./ New York Central United tock at teday’s Northern Pacific AVERAC of the Territory. This relationship| @ gt n Alaska is fifty percent t is, perhaps, closer and more inti-| '8’ routes is approximately SiX| pan jn the continental United| der of the continental United Staies| 8 SO T 8 hundred miles, an € num- 3 ar las] 1 f N % mate than exists between the ' undred miles. and there are NUM- | Syates Approximately one million| and Alaska, so that for a distance of | Pound ~ $4.92%, ritory and any other governm erous other shorter air mail sta)| jonarg is held to the credit of Al-|2bout seven hundred miles airplanes | 111, e 9 s ‘ y nte: » ing fr rtan g s Aoty s ; 75 | agency, except the Department of| Foutes radiating from importan’|.geans jn the postal savings offices fl¥ing over the inland waterway the Interior wints in the Territory. These air-| . the Territory would have to traverse Canadia g plane services are providing quicl “The special Alaskan stamp, is- territory “Today the people of the United States hold an entirely different estimate of Alaska than they did in 1867 when the Territory was pur- chased from Russia for $7.200,000 Because of a lack of information concerning the Territory and its resources, this purchase was round- ly condemned by a great many peo- transportation to heretofore remotc 1 almost inacces:ible points “As 1 think of these modern fa pecting days of 1898 when hundre of adventurous gold ished in desperate but tempts to battle their way over thc ple in the United States. It was re-| 101ty mountains through winter & .i_ blizzards and in sub-zero tempera- as “Walrussia,” “Ameri- ferred to 7y can Siberia,” “Zero Island,” “Pol- aria “Icebergi and “Seward’s Folly.” The latter designation was given it because the purchase was arranged by the then Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Early Progress Neglected “As 2 result of this popular mis- conception of Alaska and its re- sources, the development of the Territory was almost entirely neg- lected for many years after it was breught under the American flag Less than a generation ago Alaska was generally regarded as a land of ice and snow, infested by polar bears, and inhabited by a race of Star Routes “While the eral years, been in operation a net work of air mail star routes, whict superseded the old dog sleds. Until principal means of transportatior in many sections of Alaska, but wit! the advent of the air mail service the dog ber of dog team routes operating i northern Alaska cilities T am reminded of the pros- seekers per- futile at- Juneau-Whitehorse- Fairbanks air mail route is the first contract air mail route to be estab- lished in Alaska, there Ius, for sev- recent years the dog sleds were the led is gradually disappear- ing. However, there are stil a num- he more remote areas of extreme | Airplane mail ser- Studyi “During the much stud ng Route past inree year has been given to th possibilities of a route from Se: led in the Territorial 37, has focused much attention on Alaska. It is of the three-cent ienomination, and stamps of this denomination are the most exten-|to Juneau. The present obstacle to sively used. Up to June 30 of this|jts immediate establishment over- vear more than sixty-eight million| r outside the three-mile limit f these special Alaskan stamps! js have been issued, and they are on sale at all post offices in the contir ental United States Post Office Buildings “In keeping with the Department policy of modern quarters for the housingz of is not now of its post offices, nearly two mil- ploring the possibilities of temp: lion dollars has been allocated for arily establishing the route over post office buildings at Ketchikan, inland waterway with the idea of Nome, Sitka, and Anchorage dur- transferring operations to the out- ing the past four years. The build- side route in two or three year ings at Sitka and Ketchikan have To the inside route would neces- Iready been occupied, while the one sitate permission from the Cana- 1t Nome is now nearing completion n government. It is believed The new building at Anchorage will if such permission can be obtained | be erected just as soon as the draw- this route can be easily flow | ings are completed by the office of two-motored planes which wou the Supervising Architect of the be available at a very early date perts who have given much tho to this route are inclined to side the three-mile limit, h rails 27.18 DOW, JONE The following are ftods Dow Jones averages: industrials 138.53, utilities 21.39. - -oe le, NO SERVICE SUNDAY, TRINITY CATHEDRAL | There will be no services tomo ck of proper equipment. Ex-|row morning in the Holy Trinity | | Cathedral, as Dean C. E. Rice is| attending the ordination services of | opinion that if it is established out-|a candidate for ministry in Ketch four- | kan. Services however Post Office motored seaplanes should be used.{sumed on Sunday, July 24 providing ' A sufficient number of such planes| — available. We are ex- | Eskimos whose only dwellings ROrt REK Treasury Department. Meeting Friends were snow and ice igloos, and who|Yic® 15 bow afforded over xoule’| “.p, aqqition to these new buld-| “Tt is with much anticipated | subsisted on seal and whale blub-| MSFRRRLNE - HhcE HOWERA, 8K ings modern post office buildings| pleasure that T look forward tn ber and the flesh of animals native ndred and eighty-five miles. DUr- | .o/ haraple to those in large and | meeting many of my friends in Al- ng the last hundred and were flown in to a severe and frigid climate. “Even tcday there are many peo- ple who find it difficult to divorce themselves of these preconceiv opinions of Alaska. It is a surpr to ma to learn that in a lar part of Alaska sub-tropical tempe atures are recorded during the sum- mer, and that along a wide stretch of the southeastern coast, zero read- ings have never been recorded “When the Territory, which i one-fifth the size of the United States, was purchased from Russia, there were but few who even dreamed of the vast areas of al-| most unlimited natural wealth con-| > "~ cealed within its borders thm""”" been stearily increasing. Las its 586,000 square miles are found gold, platinum, silver, cooper and| coal. Its fishing grounds are among the most productive to be found anywhere in the world, and its furs are among the finest to be had.| There is also a considerable section | of Alaska which can be success-| fully farmeg Worth of Alaska | “Since Alaska became a United | States possession, its fishing and fur trading industries have shipped to this country more than a billion | dollars worth of these products, while the gold, platinum, silver and| copper mines have produced up- wards of another billion dollars worth of these metals. Millions of fifty thousand hese routes was upwards of a quar fer of a million pounds “That the Post Office De tmen he last fiscal eight hundred thousand dollars was expended for the maintenance o the postal services in the Territory Receipts Increasing HART fiscal year about one miles these services, and ;| ‘he total mail poundage carried over is doing its utmost to improve and expand the mail services in Alaska is evidenced by the fact that during year approximately “It is interesting to note that the gross postal receipts in the Territory | 1tal ularly pr Governor Troy perous cities in the contin : WELDING | SAVES! PAYS! STAYS! Why buy new parts? We can weld them. s)] THE WELD THAT HELD is guaranteed. Rice & Ahlers Co.-Phone 34 Third and Franklin Streets t SHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES | | will be re- Percy's Ice Cream Gives You A Choice of Many Tasty Flavors at All Times. Fruit Flavor in Season: Plus All the Year-"Round Regulars. 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