Review of reviews and world's work . DIAGRAM SHOWING VALUE OF ALASKA PRODUCTS IN1907. TOTAL, $33,500,000. ing diagram. The annual gold output ($19,-350,000 in 1907) far exceeds in value thatof all the other industries. This, however,Is but a temporary condition, not because thegold production will fail to Increase, butbecause the construction of railways will givecopper and coal mining a fair chance. The Territory, for the purchase of whichIn 1867 Seward was so bitterly criticised,has since produced gold, silver, copper, tin,marble, g>psum, coal, furs, salmon, cod, hali-but, herring, timber
Review of reviews and world's work . DIAGRAM SHOWING VALUE OF ALASKA PRODUCTS IN1907. TOTAL, $33,500,000. ing diagram. The annual gold output ($19,-350,000 in 1907) far exceeds in value thatof all the other industries. This, however,Is but a temporary condition, not because thegold production will fail to Increase, butbecause the construction of railways will givecopper and coal mining a fair chance. The Territory, for the purchase of whichIn 1867 Seward was so bitterly criticised,has since produced gold, silver, copper, tin,marble, g>psum, coal, furs, salmon, cod, hali-but, herring, timber, etc., to the value of$324,500,000. The proportion contributedby each of these various products Is shownIn the following diagram. Though AlaskaIs known as the land of gold, the fish-ery products have a value of nearly five- THE ALASKA OF TO-DAY. 51. LODE MINING IN SILVER BOW BASIN. NEAR JUNEAU. sevenths that of the \d output. \aluableas the product of the seal rookeries in thePribilof Islands has been in the past, this
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