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Lieutenant Schwatka on Alaska’s Future

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 12, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 7.

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Lieutenant Schwatka on Alaska’s Future

LIEUTENANT SCHWATKA, in a lecture in New York on Alaska a few evenings since, said that the Yukon River is so long that if its source were at Salt Lake, its waters might empty into New York Bay; and its mouth is so wide that New York would be on one bank and Philadelphia on the other. “Alaska,” he said, “has a great future before her. In the southern part is timber enough to build great commercial cities, and the Aleutian Islands can furnish beef for a score of San Franciscos.”—Ex.