Speech #630117949

Japanese ................................. 279 913 .......... i A l other ........................................... 347 .......... 347 Total ...............................63.591 764 Iclude persons of mixed parentege: tbat is. of native Indian and Itusian or other parentage. o follows: 1900. 2.197. 1910. 3.87. 1r cent of increasc in white population in Alaeka. 1880 189 1909 1910 Total ..................................... 33.423 32. 052 03.92 64.35 White ................................ 2.154 ( 121 30. 491 30. 14 Per cent white ..................... .0.5 19. 1 4. 5 Congress will notice that the population of Alaska is small and is not increasing rapidly. The want of resources in the Territory of Alaska has nothing to do with this small popolation or its slow increa.e. The whole difficulty in the way of a large increase in the population is due to transportation. The western Provinces of CanadaAlberta. Saskatcha wan. Manitobahave taken thousands of hardy immigrants of the United States because they have railroads to carry these people. their household goods. and live stock to farms i those northern regions. Given the same transportation facilities in Alaska. and the population of the Susitna and Tanana Valleys will increase very rapidly.