Review of reviews and world's work . n Kuskokwim Valley and possiblyeventually the gold districts about Nome. Alaskas advancement depends largely onthe completion of railways which shall openthe great inland region to settlement andcommerce. This central province, includingcopper, gold, coal, and agricultural lands,would seem to justify more than one rail-way, for it embraces an area as great as Cali-fornia and probably of equal wealth of re-sources. xeed of population. With the openiag of this land will comethe population needed for its mining andagriculture. It is to the pioneer pla
Review of reviews and world's work . n Kuskokwim Valley and possiblyeventually the gold districts about Nome. Alaskas advancement depends largely onthe completion of railways which shall openthe great inland region to settlement andcommerce. This central province, includingcopper, gold, coal, and agricultural lands,would seem to justify more than one rail-way, for it embraces an area as great as Cali-fornia and probably of equal wealth of re-sources. xeed of population. With the openiag of this land will comethe population needed for its mining andagriculture. It is to the pioneer placer minerthat we owe the exploration of the resourcesof this field, but there is demand now for alarger and more stable population. It isestimated that there are about 17,000 peoplein the placer districts,—a number augmentedin summer by five to ten thousand hardly suffice to carry on the develop-ment of the known resources, let alone pros-pect new fields. About 12,000 people areemploj-ed in the fisheries, of whom only a. SEWARD. RESURRECTION BAY. THE COASTAL TERMINAL OF THE ALASKA CENTRAL RAILWAY.
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