ITEMS OF INTEREST November 11, 1911 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

"Give Alaska home rule and it will solve the great problems of the country," says Gifford Pinchot, who has returned from his trip to Alaska. "There is a fashion now of depreciating the resources of Alaska," said he. "They used to say they were of great value, but now they say they were exaggerated and are not much worth taking. But my impression of Alaska is that it is enormously rich and worth while. It will make one of the most valuable resources of the United States. Alaska is going to make an immense contribution not only in a material way, but in hardy manhood and womanhood."

"I found Alaska a country of great mineral and agricultural possibilities; indeed, I should go farther and say a country of great mineral and agricultural probabilities, needing development, ready for development, and inviting development, but held back chiefly by inadequate transportation facilities and inadequate laws," said Secretary of the Interior Fisher, who recently made a trip to Alaska.

Acting in accordance with an opinion handed down by the attorney-general, Governor Bass of New Hampshire and his council took the first steps toward the acquisition of Crawford Notch as a public preserve when they ordered a survey of the territory. The Legislature voted in favor of the proposition at the last session, but through an error on the part of a clerk the copy of the act submitted to the Governor and signed by him did not have an amendment which had been passed providing for an unlimited appropriation.

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