Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1917 — Alaskan Progress. [ARTICLE]

Alaskan Progress.

A generation ago men would have recoiled from the idea that the Klondike gold fields, even if they existed, would ever be developed. The very possibility of parrying civilization into such a country, building cities, creating industries, operating mines, would have . been doubted. But the thing has been done; now -we are looking to Alaska as a country that ere long will not only produce metal and mineral wealth, but will make itself pgrfculturally self-supporting.