From the shipyards of Sitka, Alaska, went forth the first steamships buiit on the Pacific, and the bells which still chime from many rt Catholic- mission hotfse were" cast there. No better equipped naval station existed than ' that at the Alaskan capital, nor busier brass and iron foundries and machine shops. The California " FortyNiner" worked with a pick and shovel made at Sitka; the woollen-stuff clothing which he wore came from Sitka ; the salt fish he ate and the lumber "with which he" built were also the product of far-Away Alaska, carried In Sitkan-built vessels, manned by Sitkan sailors. It is better to b& •-'■sne tJ>-T. in bad company.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7891, 22 December 1903, Page 3
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