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Alaska Transportation and Development Report Highlights
A long excerpt from the Interior secretary’s Alaska report urges congressional aid for transportation, railroads, wagon roads, and port facilities to unlock vast Yukon resources. It explains costs, potential stock and timber wealth, salmon and halibut fisheries, farming prospects, reindeer propagation, mining camps, fur trade, oil finds, and a broad push for federal support to spur settlement and growth in Alaska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Interior
Alaska Territory
East Oregonian
John G Brady
District of
Alaska
Congress
Yukon Valley
Canada
Eagie Valdez
Rampart and
Nome
Fort Liscum
Valdez
Copper Center
Alaskan
St. Louie Exposition
Great Britain
Union
Arctic Circle
Kodiak Island
Enor