Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Alaska; Value of Alaska; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; Pacific; Yukon
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/102199

Alaskan Gold Repays Price ALASKAN GOLD REPAYS PRICE WASHINGTON. —(U.P.))—Annual gold shipments from Alaska are more than double the price paid for the territory by the United States 70 years ago, Alaskan governor John W. Troy revealed today. In his annual report to the secretary of the interior, Harold L. Ickes. Troy said that gold shipments for the fiscal year ending June 30 totaled $15,877,705. During the adminisration of President Andrew Johnson, shortly after the Civil war, the United States paid Russia $7,200,000 for title to the Troy said that since 1880, the earliest year for which records are available, minerals recovered in Alaska were valued at more than 100 times the purchase price for' the territory. The cumulative total amounts to $722,222,000. The governor recommended that Alaska be granted a full territorial form of government and also urged construction of an international highway through British Columbia and Yukon territory connecting the United States and Alaska.