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STAR—TUESPAY, OCT. 19, 1915, PAGE 4., IS PROFITABLE FARMING FEASIBL IN ALASKA? HIS morning’s mail brought us a remarkable pic ture—a picture of a garden with immense heads of cabbage and other vegetables filling UES There probably will be no bigger issue in the state election of 1916 than the non-partisan election Stretch of an acre or more, The remarkable thin law, to be initiated thru the efforts of the Washington State Referendum league lents assert, the co, has been almost I about the picture was on the back of it. It was All the reactionaries in all the parties—republicans, democrats, progressives and socialist are going The lady members of th ] of °19 have “This is the market garden of J. P. Rickert at to fight the bill temerity to tear prece t into shreds and demand CO. THAT ISN’T CO. -Get Rid of the Party Bunk! Ty ait, bin cturma rhe U. of C. is a co-educational inst CE ALL BE EARS i BES Fairbanks, Alaska.” Why Because without the party label they cannot feed the public on party bunk, and without representation in the class organ Fairbanks, which is in the Tanana valley, al party bunk. they cannot maintain political organizations and machines to be used in elections on a strict The sroasticall nose. of. the most in the center of Alaska, is to be the northern party basis, 1 dless of issues and the real merits of the contest hool oth BE lop brain it { of br Hf ind that termfnus of the government-owned railroad run 1 am a repulflican,” said Mayor Bill Thompson of Chicago in his Seattle speech, “because my father oh rit Mist: a vI £4} Be codteaclied toyaheaehs ( of i. he: Ring inland from Seward. The picture of the was a republican and my grandfather, too.” areful inspection of the ; ASS rece sigh bg garden set us to looking up on Alaska. We found Wasn't that an intelligent reason the fact that the preponderan € of gray matte + Some interesting facts Yet, it’s the same reason as is offered by many democrats, too, for their political affiliation. po 1 by the wearer OF | a aats instead ol So far as soil, climate and topography de pant Iherefore, the ieman hat the I termine the matter, Alaska has probably 100,000 “let in ey > Square miles of area on which there are possibili are grown in favorable localities far above the Arctic Faifbanks, much greater opportunitie will be Abou 10 per cent of people it ( ulifornia whe ties for farming and grazing. The larger portion of circle, on the Chandalar, Koyukuk, and other opened up for homesteaders. have reached the a d 1 will agree this farming land is in the Yukon drainage area, in streams. A successful cattle raiser is located on a In the near future Alaska is going to feed them. Not alone in California, t in ¢ the inferior. On the coast, notwithstanding ¢ homestead near Juneau; a homesteader at Circle, herself! in the Union havin tate —and most mild climate, tillable land is scarce, as the moun on the Yukon, is establishing a herd and building z : eee ee ll ha the pi h are in tain ranges are close to the coast and the shore line flos and barns; and there are good dairies at ®@ GOOD CHARACTER is of priceless value, yet to be fave f making them cc onal in f 4S is in many places precipitous Skagway, Fairbanks and Nome had without price, vell as in theory. Successful home and market gardens are found A number of farmers are located near Seward THOSE WHO distribute the milk of human kindness If any on 1 | ance 1 single sane reas¢ : at numerous points in southeastern Alaska— and another group # at the head of Cook Inlet ake themniaives the eveard of thi earth vhy the young lad hould not ha as much Juneau, Haines, Skagway and Seward; in the Cook near the town of Knik, Others are located at Turn- to say about cla organizations of which t ie Inlet region; and all along the Yukon and Tanana again Arm. When the government railroad is ex- IT TAKES a man to make the dough—but woman ire members as the male students, we would like in the interior. Some of the more hardy vege tended thru this region and on thru the interior to kneads it to hear from HIM A Married Man’s Troubles : - ° ° ‘ . : . . By Allman | SHov_p say NoT! 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