Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Alaska; Tourists; Visitors; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; Fairbanks; Pacific; Nome
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/102117

Alaska's Big Year Alaska's Big Year INQUIRIES at travel agencies and advance bookings with steamship lines indicate that Alaska will have a great tourist season this year. Transcontinental railroads are cooperating to increase the natural interest in the northern territory by bringing it to the attention of prospective summer travelers. Tourists are awakening to the fact that the Alaska trip offers much in way of scenic interest, comfortable travel and natural curiosities. The journey by way of the inside passage to the Northland has no counterpart in the world. Among steamship men it is predicted that Alaska will have more visitors THIS YEAR than at any time since the great gold strikes at Fairbanks and at Nome, a generation ago. At the height of the travel season which they expect to be reached in June and July, there will be daily sailings of freight or passenger ships from Seattle. In anticipation of the increase the Alaska Steamship Company has added two, large passenger and cargo vessels to its fleet.