MUST MAKE OWN WAY IN ALASKA
Men Should Not Go There Expecting to Find Jobs, Says Secretary Wilbur.
WASHINGTON, May 18. (/P)—Any one who takes Secretary Wilbur's advice and goes to Alaska to engage in pioneering had better take along sufficient supplies and funds to tide him over until his earning power is established.
The interior chief made it clear today that Alaska was no place for a Job hunter and that its opportunities were only for the man equipped to
seek fortune on his own. Both in mining and farming, he said, the surface barely had been scratched in the great northwestern territory and thousands of square miles await the pioneer, but he pointed out there were no payrolls looking for takers.
Wilbur recently called attention to the opportunities of Alaska in connection with new geological surveys which are to be made this summer in
search of important mineral deposits. Alaskan business men and newspapers became perturbed lest a horde of unemployed, without means, should descend upon their small communities and become public charges.