DEVELOPMENT OF
TOURIST TRADE
URGED BY BONE
Opportunity Most Promising
in History of North for
Development.
The greatest opportunity for im
mediate development In the Terri
tory lies in Its scenic, game, fish
ing and climatic attractions during
the summer and fall seasons for
tourists in the opinion of Gov. Scott
C. Bone who Is gathering data for
his annual report on Alaska to the
Department of Interior. The tour
ist trade, he believes, can be more
easily and more economically de
veloped and in less time than the
pulp and paper industry even in
Southeastern Alaska.
Thousands of people today know
of the existence of Alaskan attrac
tions, something of what it has to
offer the summer traveler, to where
a year or two ago one individual
had similar knowledge, the Gover
nor pointed out. The publicity
(hat came to the Territory through
the visit of late President Harding
carried with it stories of Alaskan
scenic wonders, its wonderful sum
mer climate, which appeared in the
daily press all over the country and
even abroad. Millions of people read
about Alaska and its desirability as
a summer outing spot and play
ground.
Applications Turned Down.
The effect of this is already being
felt by the transportation compan
ies. according to reports received by
the Governor. 1'p to the present
ttmo. these companies have been
forced to rej"ct 3,000 applications
for reservations this season, said
Governor Bone. Next summer the
demand will be many times larger
than that of the present season.
To take care of the trade which
he is confident lies just ahead, the
Governor believes that it will be
necessary to build up a chain of
tourist hotels, catering to summer
visitors and built at spots which
offer particular advantages in that
respect. “One of the moet likely
sites for such u hotel is at Auk
Buy," he added. There the tourists
could have boating, canoeing, hunt
ing. fishing, hiking, horseback
Jaunts over the roads and trails
and every form of amusement ob
tainable anywhere. The construc
tion of such a plant at Auk Bay.
he liointcd out, would be of great
material benefit to Juneau as auto
communication between the two
points is largely maintained and
cats can make the trip over Glacier
Highway in short time Other such
betels, ho added, could be located
at Wrangell and Sitka.
Need Change in Policy.
One drawback to deveh pment of
tourist trade within the Territory,
the Governor said, is the disinclina
tion of steamship companies to
break the toure, that Is to sell stop
over tickets to tourists. The present
policy of the companies to sell
round!rip tickets for certain tours,
he declared, is handicapping local
development of tourist trade and is
not really for the best Interest* of
the companies themselves. While
this matter has been taken up with
the companies In the past without
nl isfactory adjustment, Governor
Bone Intimated that he would make
a special effort to Induce n change
in the policy and also indicated 1!
the effort should bo unsuccessful
there was another method of solving
Hie problem that might be utilized
with the assistance of the U. S.
Shipping Board.
In the opinion of the Governor
the opportunity for developing a
big tourist business was never so
promising as at the present time,
and if it is allowed to slip by, it
may ho many years before another
ruch chance presents itself.
Leaves for Trip.
After getting data for his report
well in hand, which will require
probably two weeks longer, Gov
Bone, accompanied by Mrs. Bone
end their daughter Mi*e Marguerite
will make a trip lo the Westward
and Interior, spending about twr
week, there. They plan to leave or
the steamer Alameda on August 21sl
for Seward. Front there they wll
vl It towns along the Alaska Kail
road to Fairbanks and return to
the coast by the way of the Rich
ardson Highway to Cordova.
Two parties are expected to visit
Juneau before the Governor leaves
Admiral Chase, on the U. S. S
Cuyama. will reach here in the nexl
few days to call on the Governor
The ship is now at Sitka and wil!
come here after leaving that port
probably arriving early next week
The second party is composed o
Senator Wesley I,. Jones, Congress
man Lin Hadley, and their wives
and Commissioner O’Malley, U. S
Bureau of Fisheries. It will arrlvi
about August 19th, on the Cnalga
ELLA OBERG DEAD AFTER
SERIOUS OPERATIOfi
Ella Oberg. Indian. 20 years of age
died at 9 o'clock last night at St
Ann Hospital from the effects o
acute dilation of the stomach. Mr?
Oberg underwent a caesarian sectloi
operation last Monday for the birtl
of a baby daughter. The baby i
In good health. Mrs. Oberg is fror
Hoonah and arrangements for th
funeral will not be made until won
fa.received from there. The body i
af.jtjje, ,^7 yf»ing UBdortakln
priors,'
DRY AGENTS RAID HOME
AND MAKE ONE ARREST
Arraigned this morning before1
[Judge V. A. Paine in the U. S. Com
missioner's Court charged with pos
session of intoxicating liquor in vio
lation of the Alaska none Dry Daw,
iC. E. Demieux entered a plea of
not guilty and w'as fined $25 and
costs which he paid.
Lemieux was arrested Thursday
j night by Prohibition Agents Parr
j and Sharpies and is alleged to have
'hud three bottles of home brew beer
in his possession. There was no
charge made against Lemieux that [
he sold it or had it for other than!
his personal use.
DRY SEASON TO
CURTAIL YIELD
OF GOLD MINES
Placer Districts of Interior
Hampered by Water
Shortage, Says Steese .
1 Ainu st entire absence of rainfall
in the Interior mining districts threat-1
ens to materially curtail placer gold .
production, according to Col. James!
! G. Steese, Chairman of the Alaskan j
i Engineering Commiss.on and I’resi
jdent of the Mask i Road Commission,
who returned to Road Commission
I headquarters here this morning alter
six weeks' absence At the begln
ning of the season gold dust was re
ceived at Fairbanks from the outly-|
ling districts at the rate of $100,000 a|
week, but this rate lias since been j
falling steadily owing to a wide-:
spread water shortage which is j
hampering mining operations in the
placer diggings.
Forest fires are prevalent over a
i wide belt of country north of the
| Alaska Range, said Col. Steese. From
! Cantwell north on the railroad to
1 Fairbanks and from Fairbanks to j
McCarty on the Richardson Highway j
smoke from numerous brush and for-!
est ilrcs can he seen. South of the
range near Meiers on the highway
| flreB are also reported to be raging.
| The entire interior district is dry as
| tinder and been almost entirely with
out rainfall all summer.
Handles Prominent Visitors
A great part of Col. Steese's time]
this summer has been put in looking
after arrangements for and handling
prominent visitors who have been
over the Alaska Railroad and the
Richardson Highway. The most
Important of these was the Presiden
tial party which made the round trip
] over the railroad. The party was
I bandied without any hitch. On the
J return of the Presidential special,
however, from Seward to Anchor
age, an axle broke on the engine
truck, one wheel landing 200 yards
from the track and the other tearing
up the ties for some distance but no
casualties were suffered.
Other parties handled included the
Congressional delegation, the Brook
lyn Eagle Tour party, and the first
large tourist parties. The last offi
cial party to make the trip was com
j posed of Senator Wesley L. Jones,
j Mrs. Jones, Congressman Lin Hadley
land Mrs. Hadley and Commlssionei
O'Malley, who went to Fairbanks
! over the railroad and rejoined the
] Unalga at Valdez. This party was
i it Cordova when Col. Steese came
[ south and was expected to leave for
Yakutat, Sitka and Juneau in a short
time.
Construction Tapers Off
j Railroad construction is tapering
i off now and the end of this season
will find it virlually completed, said
j Col. Steese. Work on the $100,000
j terminal plant ut Fairbanks is pro
i grossing satisfactorily. The tracks
[and yard facilities are already be
ing laid, a warehouse being put up.
: Plans for the main building, which
will tie two stories high, have not
been finally approved and it is pro
bable it will not be erected until
next year. Maintenance work for the
year is well in hand, facilitated by
the unusually tine weather. The
track as far north as Dunbar, the
first station north of the Tatiana
l River, is in good shape, the Fair
1 banks end being soft yet.
Work on the spur to the Moose
Creek coal mines is well advanced
and steel laying will start there by
i September 1st, and will be completed
j by October 1st, said Col. Steese.
Plans for next season call for heavy
expenditures for track ballasting.
Travel Shows Increase
Tourist travel over the railroad
and Richardson Highway shows a
| large Increase over that of last sea
; son. The railroad, it was stated, has
handled at least 500 tourists this yeur
New Season Records Made
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Warm, Clear Days Prevail
A new local record for sustained
high temperature has been estab
lished this summer, accordingto M.
B. Summers, Meteorologist in charge'
or the local Weather Bureau station.
Likewise, he added, after Jooking over
the records, that not since the Ju
neau office was established in 1917
has there been as many totally dear
days as were recorded in this same
period, the total being 24.
From June 1st, to August 10th!
said Mr. Summers, there have been |
24 days on which the temperature;
rose to 70 degrees or above. This is J
a record for the past seven years, the :
greatest number of such days in an |
entire year heretofore being 23, in
1918 and 1920. In the year 1917
there were only eight days on which
the mercury stood at 70 or exceeded
that mark.
and some 200 of these visitors used
the highway either going In or coming
out. Three parties have been sent
over the circle tour by the Service
Travel Bureau of Los Angeles. This
organization has guaranteed the rail
toad it will send 1,000 tourists over
it next season, said Col. Steese. The
tour is finding popular favor with
all who make it, he added.
The railroad has already landed
6,000 tons of Mayo ore at Anchor
age and aupther shipload of 1,100 tons
was due at .Venana when Col. Steese
left for Juneau. The river division
of the railroad is doing well, handling
considerable quantities of freight
down river for the mining camps
in the lower Yukon, Kuskokwini and
Koyukuk districts.
Tourist travel on the river is
small owing to the policy adopted
by the White Bass and Canadian
boats of discouraging individuals de
siring to make this trip. Col. Steese
said no way of remedying this situa
tion had yet been devised
Remains Until September
Col. Steese will remain here until
about September 1st. lie is prepar
ing his annual report on the work
of the Alaska Road Commission and
his estimates for next year's appropri
ation for that organization. He is
encouraged over the outlook for
larger appropriations for road build
ing and believes the visits of various
officials this summer will aid the
Territory in getting more generous
recognition in Federal road allot
ments. He is accompanied here by
J. E. Crutcher, stenographer and sec
retary.
VANDER LEEST ON TRIP.
11. Vander Leest, of Butler-Mauro
Di ug Co., left on the Princess Alice'
on a business and pleasure rtip to
the States. He expects to return In
about two months.
ANDERSON RETURNS.
I. O. Anderson, engineer with
Slems & Carlson, returned to Ju
neau on the Alameda after a trip
to the Westward where he in
spected rfead work being carried on
by his firm.
SITKA GIRL LEAVES TO
ENROLL AT MILLS COLLEGE
Mbs Martha Peterson, daughter
cf Mr. and Mtb. George Peterson,
of Sltkia, was a southbound pas
senger on the steamer Alameda from
here this morning. She is enroute
to Berkeley where she will enroll
as a student at Mills College.
Only once In the past 25 years has ;
there been ns little total rainfall j
in Juneau In the months of June,]
July and the first ten days of Au >
gust as has been the case this sea
son, said Mr. Summers. This was In
1911. the period mentioned having
in that year a total precipitation of
3.25 Inches as compared to 5.53 this
year.
Yesterday marked the end of a
rainless period of 11 consecutive!
days. This, however, according to!
Mr Summers. Is not unprecedented,!
aB there have been a number of!
periods of equal or greater length
during the past seven years. In 19211
there was no precipitation in the 13
days from November 15th to 26th,
and in 1920 there were 19 conse
cutive days from July 3rd to July
21st.
MINING ENGINEERS
ON SCOUT TRIPS
RETURNING SOUTH
Having spent the summer in the1
westward district, investigating min
for the Burkley-Wells interests, in i
the states, W. H. Mader, engineer
for the Buckley Wells interests of
the south orthwest, E. A. Brig- ]
ham, engineer for the Hammond
Dredging Company of San Francisco,,
and R. Giller, engineer for the Tonq-;
pah-Belmont Co., of Tonopah, Ne-I
vada, are aboard the Alameda for
Seattle enroute to their headqua
ters.
Mader has been on a mine scouting
trip and has visited the Kantlshan,
Fairbanks, Hope, Sunrise and Kenai
Peninsula districts, Brigham is chief
of the prospecting party for the Ham
mond interests in the Fairbanks dis
trict. The party will remain in the |
interior until fall. Oilier has been
Investigating properties in the Seward
district.
DELAHIDE GOING SOUTH;
SAYS MINE PROSPECTING
ACTIVE AT WESTWARD
J. J. Dehhide. mines rescue in
structor with the F. S. Bureau of
Mines, arrived in Juneau this morn
ing on the Alameda after spending
the past five months in the mines at
the westwaril district. He has been
at Anchorage, Kennecott, Latouche
and Eska. Mr. Delahida will leave
on one of the next boats for the
south, going to vtoit Salt Lake City
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where he will represent the mines
rescue department in Alaska, of
the Bureau of Mines, at the Interna
tional first aid and mine rescue res
cue contest to he held August 27,
28 and 29. He expects to be absent
from Alaska about six weeks.
General mining activities at the
westward have heen about normal j
this season Mr Delahide said, but |
there has been considerable pros- j
pecting both by individual interests ,
and by representatives of big min-!
Ing interests in the states. Develop i
ment work is progressing at the
Hershey mine at Hope, which is be
ing operated under the management
of Sumner Smith. A lower tunnel is
being driven and tho 10-ton Gibson
mill is in operation.
GODDARD MADE WARDEN
TO RELIEVE WENRICH
The appointment of Erwin M.
Goddard, of Sitka Hot Springs, as
temporary Territorial Game Warden
for this dlrtrlct, was announced this
morning from the Governor's office |
He is relieving Wright Wenrich who
has been granted an indefinite fur- j
lough and left several days ago for,
the States. '
Mr. Wenrich has been in ill |
health for several months and waSj
given a leave by the Department of i
Interior to go South for n change
of climate. He expected to return;
in a few menths at the time of his
departure.
John Hazolet of Cordova passed
through Juneau on the Alameda:
on a business trip to the states.
Old papers Tor sal* at Km^lra
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STRIKERS AND
PEASANTS ARE
KILLED; RAIDS
BERLIN, Aug. 11—l.-'ven persons
were killed and many wounded in a
clash between striking workmen and
peasants in Aix la Chapelle accord
ing to reports received here. After
yesterday's raid on a nearby farm
by city workers, the peasants or
ganized for self-protection. Squads
this morning repulsed the invaders
who attempted forcibly to seize crops,
stores and food.
CREFELD, Aug. 11—During the
plundering of food shops and other
demonstrations against the food short
age and currency stringency, four:
demonstrators were killed and 30 ■
wounded, some probably fatally. They
clashed with the new organized po-j
lice.
J. H. Irving oi the House of Irving;
at Seatttle, left Juneau on the Ala
meda for Ketchikan. Irving spent
several days in Juneau on business.
He formerly owned a tailor estab
lishment here.
Mrs. J. V. Davis and her daughter
Grace Vivian are aboard the Alaska
for Juneau. They have spent the
pant several weeks visiting rela
tives and friends in the states.
A
ANNOUNCEMENT
The official premium list of the
second annual Southeastern Al
aska Fair is now ready for dis
tribution to those who have
products or animals which they
intend to exhibit.
$500 IN CASH PREMIUMS
Will be distributed among the
successful exhibitors.
Silver cups will be offered for
the best exhibits of blue foxes.
Write or call in person today
for your copy.
We aim to make the fair better
in every way tills year, than it
was last year. You can help to
make it bigger by exhibiting.
Southeastern Alaska Fair
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