Alaskan Colonists Face, Years of Toil
PALMER, Alaska, May 13. (/P)— They have Uncle Sam back of them and 500 CCC "hired hands" to help, but these transplanted Minnesotans
face two or three years of toil before their Matanuska farms will bear them an adequate living.
Don Irwin, manager of the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation corporation, and project construction director, explained today that all is not going to be wild strawberries and clotted cream for the Matanuska pioneers.
Worshiped in Open.
The colonists worshiped on yesterday's Sabbath as their forebears might—out in an open field with the spring sunshine declaring the glory of God and the snow-capped towering mountain peaks showing his handiwork. Today they start their first workaday week. Only 15 per cent of the lands will be cleared this year for planting next season. It will take two or three years to clear the remainder of the 40-acre tracts allotted each family.