Alaska and the Panama canal . DTTCTT HARBOR ON ALASKA lOI There is nothing there but a copper mine of very low-grade ore,running from 2j^< to 5 per cent. I was informed that this oreis carried for practically nothing, as ballast for ships, to thesmelters in the State of Washington. There was a time when it looked as if Seward, seventymiles west of Latouche, and the most westerly open-the-year-round port on the mainland coast of Alaska, would become atown of importance, and, except for the conservation and reser-vation policy of the United States Government in tying upthe natural resources o
Alaska and the Panama canal . DTTCTT HARBOR ON ALASKA lOI There is nothing there but a copper mine of very low-grade ore,running from 2j^< to 5 per cent. I was informed that this oreis carried for practically nothing, as ballast for ships, to thesmelters in the State of Washington. There was a time when it looked as if Seward, seventymiles west of Latouche, and the most westerly open-the-year-round port on the mainland coast of Alaska, would become atown of importance, and, except for the conservation and reser-vation policy of the United States Government in tying upthe natural resources of Alaska, there would doubtless beseveral thousand prosperous people at the present time in thistown. At one period the population of Seward numberedsome 2,000, today it is about 700. The Alaska Northern Rail-way, constructed northward from Seward for nearly 100 miles,has been practically confiscated by the United States because itcould not pay the annual Government tax of $100 per railroads in Alaska should pay the
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