WEALTH OF ALASKA
U.S.A’S GOOD BARGAIN. LONDON, October 10. Alaska is year by year proving itself to be the biggest bargain ever made in a finacial transaction between nations. Bought from Russia by the United States in 1867, for what was then regarded as the extravagant sum of 7,200,000 dollars (£1,440,000), the territory last year exported gbods valued at 67,587,207 dollars (£13,517,441). Even so, Alaska’s assets have hardly been touched, its mineral wealth has yet to be exploited, and its vast forests are still untouched, declares Commissioner Jefferson Myers, of the Unted States Shipping Board.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19291204.2.80
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1929, Page 11
Word Count
95WEALTH OF ALASKA Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1929, Page 11
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.