Word: christensen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CHRISTENSEN...
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...
...agriculture, Mr. Christensen says that root crops do well because of the long days, but shipping costs preclude development of an outside market; and in his day, not even Alaskans could be persuaded to eat the soggy Alaskan potato. What with the hardships of clearing the land, the short summer season, the extremely cold winters, the plague of mosquitoes and other insects, Mr. Christensen considers the colonists' prospects so glum that the Government will be obliged to support them and eventually return them to the States...
...Northern States, potatoes in Idaho and Maine, sugar beets in the West, sorghum in the South, sugar cane in Louisiana, Jerusalem artichokes can be turned into alcohol. If produced on a large scale such alcohol could be produced for from 7 to 10? a gallon, figured Dr. Leo Martin Christensen of Iowa State College. At that price it is cheap enough to mix with gasoline as a motor fuel, especially if any need occurs to conserve U. S. fuel supplies. But to build the requisite huge farm distilleries requires considerable capital, probably Government aid, and therefore seems not wise...