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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
UNDEVELOPED RESOURCES
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?railiic Society Point Out
America' Opportunity
WITH the great nations
of Europe wasting their
wealth and resources
with freehanded disre
gard, and this country
being forced to depend
more and more upon
its own capital, agricul
tural and mineral re
sources, the question of our undeveloped
stores takes on an interest such as
it never before has had. In this
connection the National Geographic So
ciety has prepared a statement which
says: U"In addition to the wonderful
agricultural and mineral development
which already has taken place in the
United States, and which makes this
country outrank any other in the world
in the value of her crops and the product
of her mines, we have vast undeveloped
resources. To have more coal, more
petroleum, more phosphate and more cop
per than any other country. Our coal
reserves reach such an overwhelming total
as to make the combined coal reserves of
the next six greatest producing nations
all of whom are at war dwindle into
insignificance. Zinc, lead, silver, timber,
salt, iron ore and other staples of com
merce are here in undeveloped abundance.
Alaska is the greatest of our unexploited
treasure troves. 1 The largest body of
unused and neglected land in the United
States is Alaska. It is now nearly a
century since wo purchased this territory,
and it contains today less than 40,000
white inhabitants, less than 1,000 for
each year it has been in our possession.
The purchase was. made as a means of
protection against possible aggression of
a foreign nation and without hope that
it would be even self-supporting. In
the intervening 46 years we have given
it little more than the most casual con
cern; yet its mines, fisheries and furs
alone have added to our wealth the grand
sum of $500,000,000. Individual fortunes
have been made in that country larger
than the price paid to Eussia for the
whole territory.
' ' Its waters are teeming rich with skins
and fish. How rich we know, because
they have been proved. But how rich its
land are in gold and copper, coal and
oil, iron and zinc, no one knows. The
prospector has gone far enough, however,
to tell us that no other section of our
land today makes so rich a mineral
promise. And in agriculture the Govern
ment itself has demonstrated that Alaska
will produce in abundance all that can
be raised in the Scandinavian countries.
(Sitka has cooler summers and warmer
winters than Washington, D. C.), the
hardy cereals and vegetables, the meats
and berries off which nine million people
live in Norway, Sweden and Finland. It
has been estimated that there are
50,000,000 acres of this land that will
make homes for people as sturdy as those
of New England. Alaska can be made
self-sustaining agriculturally. If "It is a
territory one-fifth the size of the United
Oi.-J. . ...
oidies containing less than 1,000 miles
of anything that can be called a wagon
road. It has a few inconsiderable
stretches of railroad, which terminate
either in the wilderness or at a private
industry, Alaska does not by any
means comprise all of our undeveloped
resources. Vast stretches of the Great
American Desert still remain to be re
claimed for fruit, grain, vegetable and
grazing land. Millions of acres of coal
lands are in store ready to be opened as
the need for their richness arises. South
western oil fields are storing vast quan
tities of petroleum for future use. In
numerable water-powers throughout the
Middle West and West are waiting to be
harnessed. Our vast deposits of phos
phate rock, embracing millions of acres
and containing billions of tons of phos
phate, undoubtedly from the world's
greatest supply. These deposits run for
hundreds of miles through Wyoming,
Utah, Montana and Idaho. In 1910 the
United States produced 52 per cent of
the world's phosphate output. If "A dis
covery of a deposit of potash within the
United States was made some time ago,
though little has been done in the way of
its development. The Department of the
Interior has expressed the hope that this
supply would for some time at least
make the farmers of this country inde
pendent of foreign sources. It lies, how
ever, still undeveloped. Germany, up to
now, has had a world monopoly
of potash."
HOW TO TELL TIIJ2 HUE
Western Union Telegraph HirvM
Oiv It Every Noon
Get next to the telegraph operator
along about noon if you want the exact
time which begins to come in over the
wire at 11:57. There are a lot of beats
and pauses, some twelve of them, by way
of preliminary to give warning, and last
of all a pause of several seconds (three
or four) on the open circuit, which closes
with a pronounced click when the second
hand strikes the meridian.
Wednesday, the Seventeenth
Wednesday, March seventeenth, is the
date set for the annual masquerade of
Carolina employees. U The invitation, to
onlookers will be confined entirely to
Carolina guests; will not be general as
in years past.
llouae Outlet of the Uouitont
Messrs. Eufus Chapin, Frank Phelps
and Eugene Lyman of the Mt. Tom
Golf Club, Holyoke, Mass., are tLe fiouse
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Houston
at Fernleigh.
One of the Neutral!
1 'What do you think about the war?"
asked a golfer of his caddy. H 1 1 De
wah?" was the surprised response.
' ' Done forgot all erbout it dat wuz long
while ergo ! "
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