The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1940, Page 31

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1940. PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT EDITION enter upon a colonial system. At a "eatre Nearing C ion in the Capital City * ' THIRD DIVISION IS : ectire Nearing Com plctwn i the Caputal Cuy time when we are heavily loaded & | with debt we are to pay more than Foe seven millions of dollars in gold lEADING AlASKA ot ; ‘ " for a remote and barbarious region, wh re un which, under ordinary human con- I7 v 3 ‘ ditions, will never be largely peo- | l" BABY DERBY i pled except by savages, and for the y | l d dH annual government of which the — { expenses will be enormous. The ad- . . | anded Here 60 Years Ago e e e w muse son.or | Births Most Numerous in | it is a political device . . . | —— T B present situntion of wis | Westward-Southeast | sixty years after their founding country, with an unbroken line upon N - |of the City of Juneau, Richard o3 l | both oceans and across the conti- Marrlage Market Harris and Joseph Juneau are to| nent, territorial expansion is wholly be honored by the crectlon_ of a| undesirable. It is a sourr.e of W(jak- During the caiencar year 1939 ¥ | monument and by the placing of ness and not of strengt b and who- certificates of birth were filed in the 3 { bronee, piRguics ork. Sets RREKAY evef advocates it must show the ad- | ;ffico of the Auditor of Alaska, X 4 graves in the Juneau cemetery. | vantage with irrestible force. There Frank A. Boyle, as Registrar of Vital : o Igloo No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska, | may be immense advantages In the | goictios as. follows: | which has carried through the mon-‘ acquisition of this Russian desert; ument proposal, plans dedication but they are not suspected by the First Division 535 ceremonies on Memorial Day, May country, and they are thus far care- Second Division 445 30. PSR T [ully concealed by the government.” | Third Division 693 ; : st o | Fourth Division 290 Marks Disecovery o s bt ECTED Y The monument, already in place, S ALASKA LUMBER [ T e stands at the spot where the foun- N MEMORY OF | P ? id ir fi R p 1932 females, and five not stated. * ders ":"‘d“l*"“‘: If“:“;tuff'l";p 138’;‘; d’:; A0 T BARRIS AND. JOSERH QUNEAU BEI"G USED I" ikl Dt coyereu ghit: o s g HEEE AGGHST 19, 1060 AND | s that time Gold Creek emptied into TeD GHISSPOT A8 THEIR FIRSE CAMP A'RBASE WORK | During the same year deaths were Gastineau Channel at that point, £uE THEY DISCOVERED GOLD WHICH LT reported as follows which today lies in the front yard THE FC NG OF JUNEA Pirst Division 388 of the Memorial Presbyterian Church WHITE SETTLEMENT ESTABLISHED A little publicized put highly im- | Second Division 333 at the corner of Eighth and E UNDER [PUNTRISHUSINR Dortant development in connection Third Division 305 Streets. with the naval airbase coneruc—; Fourth Division 220 ' Built of granite and masonry, the tion at Sitka and Kodiak is the e menument shaft will be topped by | | boost that work is giving the Alas- | Totals 1246 a bronze statue of a prospector 4= | ka lumbering industry. . Deaths included 797 males, 447 fe- panning gold. A large bronze plaque | poc and the Rev. David Waggon-| UP to the first of this year the | males, and two not stated. ( bearing bas relief likenesses of the | .. (‘\)nlracmrsv I}Rd already purchased | Marriages two founders and a text written an.se)lh Juneau was born in 1836 almost a million feet of Alaska lum- | During the same year the fol- by Charles W. Carter, Past Presi-|. . qicq in 1899 in Dawson, at the | P€T The Columbia Lumber Com-|lowing marriages were reported: dent of the Igloo, has been received (Umc‘ of the Klondike stampede. Har- pany of Sitka has furnished 232,537 | First Division 334 here and will be set up on the face | o o horn in 1833 and lived in|fc€t the Ketchikan Spruce Mills Second Division 17 of the shaft. Tineat until 1907, when he went |313.995 feet and the Juneau Lumber Third Division 233 ot ekt fo Portiand because of ill healtn | Mills 217870 feet. In addition 5135 | Fourth Division 176 G5 ihe et and died there a few months later. “f"i“ RLOS (valbic e a R Bos Both the prospector figure and ‘Both bodies were returned here for | 412K- Total 860 the heads of Juneau and Harris | p,ria), ‘7 - are the work of Robert Fuller, young PP Juneau sculptor, who modeled them (o in plaster of paris for casting. His P .I ® only models for the heads were tiny urchase A F A ‘/ 0 R ' T E i photographs measuring about one | inch square. Those who knew Ju~‘D I b g neau and Harris say Fuller has! amne( .‘ - achieved Food ikentases 9. With Alaskans Serving with Carter on the com- }I“r,}(’r S mittee which arranged for the mon- ument and grave markers are John eE ' N s E A T T ' E - An editorial in Huarper’s ) S YIRS 2 w—a—s | in 1867 had this to say of the pro- r posal for purchasing Alaska from [/ | NATION'S PROFIT the Russians . “A more incpportune moment ¢ | ON AMSKA DEA[‘ than this for the territorial expan- | ! sion of the United States could not | IS 1000 pER(ENT | |have been found; and it would 300 S hardly have beeny suggested ex- Rates Large | That Alaska has proved to be j|cept by an Administration conscious f | one of the very best invest- that it has forfeited the approval rom | ments the Nation ever made is of the country and casting about | Booms evidenced by the following fi- ||to d some appeal to the vulgar | $ . I gures sense of mnational honor which | 2.50 All with y | Including the purchase price, mistakes size for splendor. The sale | Bath | the Government of the United of Russian America to the United | States has a total investment States for seven millions of dollars | ! in Alaska of $289,000,000, which would be undoubtedly a good thing | | includes every item of expendi- | |for Russia; but that it would be |f | ture that our Government made | | equally desirable for us is not evi- |} in Alaska from 1867 to Decem- ||dent. It is a territory covering some ! ber 31, 1938. Against this we ||four hundred thousand square miles, | H. E. DUPAR, Manager ‘ | have collected revenues from ||and is inhabited by sixty or a hun- | | p . all sources of $71,000,000, leav- red thousand people, half of whom \ . 2 |1 an dred th d people, half of wl : s e 2 - 2 - || ing a debit balance of $218- ||are Esquimaux; and it would be| [ ‘ - R 4 - i 000,000. practically a remote colony, with a | o+ S TRVER THOE URY ’H‘{H FATRE /\WARTMEN [bu) = {!'During the same period, Al- | foreign population . . . The advant- AR : e i} e { 5 f <] T ] - | 2 i 1 s @»}}S b' g A\J—H‘EE I‘H \j.,;[ F\rfl— L Re J 2 « e QJO 1| aska has produced from her age of obtaining a large territory | | = | 3 g b - DTN o $3SooATER THRCOTTRER e e, S B || i o g | : e : cellaneous items, $2,114,000,000, || the added control of the fisheries | 2 : . 4 " . 4 || or nearly ten times as much as and the fur trade | Scheduled for cpening this summer is the new 20th Cen- structed on Front Street in Juneau by W. D. Gross. | the Government's bill against !'| B oaiun /o Buvkats i “otel tury Theatre and Apartment Building which is being con I her M eonadi e auspices of Mr. Sew- | R S psanet = TR e e e e e —w—.' | ard the United tes are about to | Wflshbl”‘" | unexhaustible.” AR 1, | LT s | [———— e : & 5 Here is what he had to say about | <1 to these inhospitable regions in pur- Is Nominated o have mines that a thousand years Archie W. Shiels, President of Pa- cific American Fisheries ¢ of “Seward’s Icebox” and Islands,” thinks he has (\L\(‘:)\\xv'li an outstanding candidate for the| title of “World's Worst Prophet.” He is the Hon. C. C. Washburn, | member of Congress from Wiscon- sin in 1867, who opposed the con-! 1d author San Juan is greatly to be hoped that precious metals will not be found there, so that our miners may remain at home and develop what we already poss R - NEARLY MILE OF NEW SIDEWALKS Secretary Seward, who bought Alaska, was negotiating at the same time for the purchase of the Danish West Indies as a naval base. The Seward treaty for their purchase was based on a price of $5,000,000. He got far enough along with the dis- ish government a proposal to sell the islands for $7,500,000. The Shortest and Most Comforiable Route from JUNEAU o INTERIOR {lr];:\’:flfr“:{ ll'x: treaty for the pu 1 pAVED I" YEAR In a speech in the House Con- | gressman Washburn said: “If there be any value up there Then the Alaska purchase ar- gument broke in Congress and, due to the widespread opposi- tion voiced, the deal was dropped. In 1917 we did purchase the Danish West Indies—for $25- 000,000. We call them the. Vir- gin Islands. ALASKA Via FAIRBANKS . . . A e i i i e e e — - E | Sidewalks paved in Juneau during at all it is the fisheries, but it is| 1939 totaled 5237 lineal feet, almost doubtful if they can be developed.” |a mile of new concrete walks. The timber, Washburn s hould | Of this total, 4,832 feet of walk not be counted upon at all, for “why | was installed by the L. J. Dowell 80 to Alaska when the timber of Company as part of a PWA paving the vast country of Puget Sound is | contract, West Indies It Pays toFLY Ask Your Travel Agent i Try the CIRCLE TOURS OF ALASKA ’ TWIN MOTORED LOCKHEED ELECTRAS 1 RADIO EQUIPPED | In Continuous Contact with Ground Stations Pacific Alaska Airways Incorporated i | | | | | | | | | | | | cussion to bring from the Dan- | | | | | | | | | NORMAN R. WALKER CANDIDATE FOR SENATE | | | | i | | | | | | ® 2 | | ! [ | | ® il | | | | | | | | | Democratic Primaries, April 30th i Tour Toterests Are Best Served by Experienced i Legitlators with a Constantly Good Record. - | | PSS SN 5 VP S S 3 1