Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will investigate the facts, you will find that this action of the Government in shipping these unfortunate people to the Territory of Alaska [TIME, May 6] is not only an absolute waste of money but a great injustice to the poor people that they are shipping there...
...furnish you many details on Alaska if you are interested in exposing this fiasco...
Serving from 1909 to 1919 under four Secretaries of Interior (Garfield, Ballinger, Fisher, Lane) Andrew Christensen had charge of investigation of all public land matters in Alaska, notably the coal land cases which caused bitter controversy between Secretary Ballinger and Gifford Pinchot, then head of the Forest Service. Later he directed construction of the Alaska Railroad from Seward to Fairbanks...
...Alaska is "the spoiled child of Uncle Sam," a place of impossible conditions, where there are no resources to justify a permanent population. Only profitable resource in the territory, according to Mr. Christensen, is fishing along the southern coast. Alaskan coal- prime reason for building the railroad-is worthless. The few copper, quartz gold and placer mines will eventually be worked...
...rebuttal Government officials insist that Alaska is self-sufficient without an outside market; that her placer mining offers plentiful jobs at $1 to $2 a day in nonfarming seasons, that the Alaska potato was good enough to be used during the War as a dining-car attraction on the Northern Pacific Railroad...