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 572 UNITED STATES: — ALASKA TERRITORY

chief manufactured products were (rars made or repaired, 2,336,678 dollars ; lumber and timber products, 751,249 dollars ; flour and grist, 746,299 dollars ; butter, 268,862 dollars.

"Wyoming has no navigable rivers. In 1910, the railways in the State had a length of 1,644 miles, the Union Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincj, and the Chicago and North- Western railways being the principal lines.

The system of stage route transportation is still common.

In December, 1911, there were in the State 30 National, 55 State, and 3 private banks.

Books of Reference.

The Reports of the various Executive Departments.

Report on the State Census, 1905. Cheyenne, Wye, 1905.

Coil and oil in Wj-oming, 1911.

Wonderful Wj^oming, 1910. Board of Immigration, Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Hebard (G. R.), The Government of Wyoming.

OXJTLYIKG TERRITOKIES.

ALASKA TERRITORY.

Governmeilt. — Alaska was purchased by the United States from Russia under the treaty of March 30, 1867, the purchase price having been 7,200,000 dollars. The country is not, in the political sense, a Territory, but only a District with no representative assembly nor any constitution. It is governed directly by Congress at Washington, and locally administered by a Governor appointed by the President of the United States for 4 years, and assisted by a Secretaiy, a Surveyor-General, and other officials.

Governor— Waiter E. Clark, 1909-13 (7,000 dollars).

The area of the territory is about 590,800 square miles, and the census population of 1900 wasreturned at 63,592, of whom 30,507 (27,307 male) were white; 29,536 natives (Indians, Eskimo, Aleuts, &c.,); 3,116 Chinese; 265 Japanese ; 158 Negroes. In 1910 the population was 64,366, of whom 36,347 were whites, and the others Indian or other coloured. About 7,000 people,* employed in mines, canneries, and railway construction, s})end a few months a year in Alaska, but ihese are not included in the enumeration. The largest town is Fairbanks which, in 1910, had 3,500 inhabitants ; the second largest is Nome with 2,500 ; other towns are Skagway (1,800), Juneau (1,300), now the seat of Government, Sitka (160 whites, 900 natives), Valdez (1,100), Ketchikan (1,000), Cordova (800). There are altogether 11 incorporated towns.

Instruction, Justice. — Ii^ Alaska many religious missions are at work, representing very diverse denominations : Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Congregational and others.

The district is well supplied with schools, about 250,000 dollars being annually appropriated to this service by the United States Government. There are in the schools for natives altogether (1912) about 81 schools, 102 teachers, and 1,689 pupils in avernge attendance, with a total enrolment of 3,841. At the United States Indian Training School at Carlisle, Pa., there are about 80 Alaskan children (Indian, Eskimo, Thlinget, and Aleut). Many schools for white children are maintained, both within and outside of the incorporated towns.

For the administration of justice the territory is constituted as a judicial district with 4 subdivisions and 4 r-ourta.