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...lack of good roads, the need of markets for agricultural products. The first question might be solved by the creation of a national fish preserve, but this would tend to create a monopoly among the canners already installed. On the question of roads, Secretary Wallace suggested that the Alaskans avail themselves of some $4,000,000 which they might have under the Federal Aid Road Act, but this would involve a conflict with the War Department, which likes to keep control of Alaskan road building. As for markets, it seems that Alaska is too remote ever to find a satisfactory...
...Alaskan nuggets for the First Lady of the Land...
...President is undertaking the organization of his Alaskan " vaca-tion." He, with Secretary of the Interior Work, Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, must in three weeks master the problems of the Territory enough to undertake a constructive program in the Fall. Alaska is now administered by 35 departments and bureaus of the Government. The problems to be mastered include centralization of the Government, colonization, mineral survey, railway building, road building, laws governing fishing, hunting and protection of the seals, removing dangers to navigation, building a territorial capitol...
These figures do not include the recently discovered vast Alaskan coal fields (which can supply the Pacific States for 1,000 years), the imperfectly explored coal fields in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and the Rocky Mountains generally, or the deep lying coal deposits which at present there is no profitable means of mining. Neither does the estimated consumption consider the saving of coal which may be effected by more efficient mining and consumption. It is calculated that a saving of 600,000,000 tons a year is possible. Moreover, the United States is now supplying 50% of the world...
...change in Department of Fisheries is typical. A ruthless reorganization has resulted in the retirement of former Chief Smith, who grew up in Government service and is an international authority in ichthyology. Today, nobody in the bureau gives a thought to any uncommercial fish. All the talk is Alaskan salmon and Maine sardines...