Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1919 — Alaska Has Proved a Good Investment for the U. S. A. [ARTICLE]

Alaska Has Proved a Good Investment for the U. S. A.

Alaska has been worth much more, cost to the United States. A half-century ago Alaska was purchased at a cost of $7,200,000, and that original investment has been returned to the nation more than seventy fold, for from the products of the land and sea Alaska has added z to the national wealth upward o/ $500,000,000, the greater part of which has been produced during the last 20 years. Two sources of large and steady income are copper ore and the fisheries.