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Ijgust 20th, 1023, at the postoftiee at
TTokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
IMarch 3, 1879.
Takotns. Alaska, June 20, 1931.
{SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED
AND DIVORCED PERSONS IN
THE POPULATION OF ALASKA
WASHINGTON.—The director of
tthe census today announced the re
sults of the tabulation of the popula
tion returns for Alaska by mariial
condition. The total number of males
J5 years of age and over in Alaska
ion October 1, 1929, was 26,350. Of
tthis .number, 13,001, or 49.3 per cent,
-vwere single; 11,089, or 42.1 per cent,
were married; 6.0 per cent were wid
lowed; and 2.4 per rent were divorhed.
•Of the 14,818 females 15 years of age
;and over, 2,768, or 19.3 per cent, were
Lsingle; 10,419, or 70.3 pere cent, were
.married; 8.8 per cent were widowed;
;and 1.6 per cent were divorced.
There has been a decrease in the
(percentage single among the male
whites since 1920, with a correspond
ing increase in the percentage mar
tried in the same class, while among
;the male Indians there has been an
increase in the percentage single
; since 1920, with a corresponding de
crease in th epercentage married. In
rthe female population the percentage
; single is very small in all classes,
(particularly among the foreign-born
■white population. There has been a
islight increase, however, in the per
centage single among native whites
;and Indians. This low percentage sin
gle in the female population is bal
anced by the large percentage mar
ried.
For the population as a whole, the
(percentage divorced has increased
;since 1920, while the percentage wid
owed has decreased.
Mrs. Crabber—Oh, I wish I’d
{thought twice before marrying you.”
Mr. Crabber—Huh, I’d be satisfied
iif I’ thought just once.
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AGENT
Anchorage, Alaska
ALASKA INTERESTS AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
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Walker Sawyer to interest Eastern
capitalists in the development of an
timony in Alaska. He submits re
ports to show that there are large de
posits of high-grade antimony ores
in the vicinity of the Alaska Railroad
and contiguous to the excellent har
bor at Seward.
It has been urged by the Trade
Commissioner of Vancouver that free
air transportation should be fur
nished Canadian prospectors to parts
of British Columbia, Yukon Territory
and Northwest Territories. B ythis
means many weeks’ time could be
saved during the opening of the min
ing season. In connection with the
building of the new British Columbia
Yukon-Alaska highway it is urged
that airplane service over the pro
posed route would no much to help
the development of various mining
sectionhs' Increased flying via Ha
zelton, Dease Lake, Teslin and Atjin
to Fairbanks will also help to popu
larize the projected highway.
The Pacific Frosted Foods, Inc„
with unlimited rapital, expects to
send two investigators to Alaska this
summer to determine just ho wadvan-1
tageously the Birdseye quick freezing
process can be applied to the pre
paration of reindeer for shipping.
President Hoover has announced
that on the current public building
program the list of projects covers a
total of 758 buildings, involving a
total expenditure of $43,000,000. One
of the projects recently completed I
was at Juneau, where the expenditure j
for the Capitol building was $795,000.!
Another project now in the specifica
tion stage is at Fairbanks, where the 1
tost is to be $450,000. Ketchikan is
listed with $10,000 t osecure a site.
Ketchikan and Anchorage will each
expect to receive an appropriation of
8400.000 when Congress meets. While
construction work is going on all over
-he country and preliminary arrange
ments are making for many other
. rojects, it may be stated that a re
cent inquiry at the Treasury Depart-'
n.ent elicited the fact that the force!
m the supervising architect’s office
finds it difficult to keep up with its 1
i expected program. As a consequence !
| the specifications for the Fairbanks
i building are not yet complete and it
! is stated will not be ready to offer to
I bidders before the early part of June,
i The new delay means that it will be
| August before the successful con
structor is ready to start work on
. the new building.
In answer t oan inquiry the De
; partment of the Interior states that
35.000 tourists visited Alaska last
year, a large percentage of them only
niakin gthe Southeastern tour. An
effort is being made to induce more
I to include Cordova, Seward, Anchor
age, Mt. McKinley and Fairbanks in
their itinerary this year.
Leo P. Botts, Jr., of Little Rock,
Ark., has been to Alaska several
| times and is an enthusiast on the
| Northland, having induced many
| tourists to enjoy the incomparable de
I lights of the scenic excursion. Evi
! dences of his activity are apparent in
; Washington, with the result that sev
eral steamer reservations have al
ready been made.
Secretary Wilbur, Ernest Walker
Sawyer and other officials of the In
terior Department are particularly
interested in the development of such
coal veins in the Matanuska field as
will supply government vessels,
Southeastern Alaska and California
with fuel that will be suitable to their
respective needs. One of the import
ant moves toward this end js the se
curing of the services of jF. It. Wad
leigh, a noted coal expert from Penn
sylvania, to spend the ensuing few
months in Alaska. He is now nr
Washington conferring with offitails
of the Interior Department, and with
his wife will leave next Saturday for
the West, expecting to sail north
from Seattle on th esteamer Alaska,
May 30. Mr. Wadleigh will make■ 'm.
complete study of the coal fields
along the Alaska Railroad, to partic
ularly determine the facilities, oppor
tunties, and possibilities of increasing
the exports from Alaska.
An interesting and elaborately il
lustrated booklet has just been pub
lished by the Government Printing
Office, describing an anthropological
survey in Alaska, by Dr. Alex Hrd
licka, of the Smithsonian Institution.
The Doctor is agan on his way to In
terior Alaska for another season’s ex
ploration.
Stephen R. Capps, who has been
representing the U. S. Geological
Survey in Alaska for the past decade,
will go West in a few days and sail
north from Seattle on May 30, in
charge of five parties of expert men
who will do the exploration under the
recent special designation and appro
priation by Congress, in the effort to
increase the tonnage of the Alaska
Railroad. Most of the labor in con
nection with this work will be secured
in Alaska.
D. R. Adams, who was a former
employe of the Alaska Railroad for
nine years and a resident of Alaska
for twelve years, writes from Bolivia
requesting a copy of the Howell Sen
ate report on the Alaska Railroad. He
says: “The progress of this railroad
is of very great interest to me. The
longer I remain in South America the
stronger becomes the attraction of
that Northern country, wherein re
side the finest people it has ever been
my good fortune to number among
my friends.” Mr. Adams is now con
nected with the Bolivian Mining Cor
poration, at Huanuni.
GOODBYE, MOSQUITOES!
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
No more cheering news has been
received for some time, we venture to
say, than that steps are to be taken
to eradicate that pest of Interior
Alaska summers, the mosquitoes.
To those who have fought off
clouds of the insects in the woods and
who have been prey to the mosquito’s
stinging dart even in their homes the
campaign may seem a hopeless one.
But mosquitoes have been stamped
out under worse conditions than will
be encountered here. Once it was j
learned in tropical countries they
were the carriers of disease germs
there was no let-up until they had
been stamped out, at least in the cen
ters of population. If that can be
done, there is no reason why mos
quitoes should be tolerated here
merely because they are not germ
carriers.
The United States Bureau of Ento
mology is going to start the battle
this summer. The Department of
Agriculture was prevailed upon to
send investigators here by the Fair
banks Exploration Company, which
appropriated funds for the work. The
F. E. Co. deserves the nnutiirfai
thanks of this community for push
ing this project.
Provided enough interest is shown
the work will be carried forward
next summer as well as this one. A
letter or wire to the Secretary of Ag
riculture at Washington, D. CL, will
manifest that interest. Such com
munications should be «»nt at the
earliest possible date.
The city should cooperate by seeing
that property owners cut down brush
and grass and keep it cut. And an
allotment for oil to cover stagnant
ponds would not be
“Now that we are married, perhaps '■
I might venture to point out a few of
your Ititle defects.”
“Don’t bother, dear; P guite aware
of them. Those little defects pre
vented me fro mgetting a much bet
ter man than you are.” j
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