Report to the Secretary of the InteriorU.S. Government Printing Office, 1943 - Alaska |
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acres activities addition Alaska fisheries Alaska Fund Alaska Game Commission Alaska Peninsula Alaska Railroad Alaska Territorial Alaska Territorial Guard amount Anchorage approximately armed forces Army assistance Bureau catch civilian coal coast Commissioner of Mines construction cooperation crab decrease defense districts Division Edna Bay Employment Eskimo Fairbanks Federal fiscal fur farms Governor Highway homesite hospital increase industry Interior June 30 Juneau Ketchikan Kodiak area labor Ladd Field land licenses logging maintained Manpower Commission Matanuska Matanuska Valley military mineral mining engineer Mount McKinley National Forest National Park natives nurses operations output Peninsula percent personnel persons pounds of fresh pounds of frozen pounds valued Prince William Sound production projects Public Health Service quota radio regulations revenue Richardson Highway salmon schools season Seattle Sitka skins were sold southeastern Alaska stations supervision surveys TERRITORIAL DEPARTMENT throughout the Territory timber tion trail tuberculosis War Manpower Commission welfare wildlife
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Page 5 - ... rules, regulations, and orders, to safeguard from accident and to protect the safety of persons operating or using aircraft and persons and property on the ground, and to develop and promote aeronautics within this state.
Page 15 - Their combined area is 20,850,000 acres. All national forest resources are available for use. Standing timber can be purchased and removed for use by local industries and individuals under specified forestry restrictions. Land classified as chiefly valuable for agriculture, mining, industrial enterprises, and townsites can be patented. Areas needed for water power development, fox farming, and other special purposes may be leased. The total estimated timber volume is 84,700,000,000 board feet, and...
Page 29 - After title to a piece of land is granted by the United States, jurisdiction over the property passes to the State ; the Federal Government retains its authority only with respect to the public lands in Federal ownership. Where the lands are in private ownership...
Page 7 - Alaska, 31 bachelors degrees and two professional degrees were conferred covering courses in agriculture, arts and letters, business administration, chemistry, civil engineering, education, general science, home economics, mining engineering (with options in geology and metallurgy), and pre-mrdicine.
Page 24 - The United States Geological Survey The work of the United States Geological Survey in the Sierra Nevada began in the northern section, and it was not until 1893 and 1894 that the Yosemite quadrangle was surveyed. This was followed by the Mount Lyell quadrangle in 1898 and 1899, and from that time on the work was continued towards the south until the final section of the High Sierra...
Page 19 - ... was given the Bureau of Child Hygiene and the Department of Hygiene at the University of California in Berkeley in working out plans for a three weeks' institute for public health nurses on maternal and child health. Sixty-five nurses enrolled for the institute. Training of Nursing Personnel Through funds provided by the United States Public Health Service and the Children's Bureau, stipends for training in public health nursing were granted to 27 nurses during the biennium. Twentyone of this...
Page 15 - Two public auction sales of fur-seal skins were held at St. Louis, Mo., in the fiscal year 1938.
Page 30 - Maintenance: 2,158 miles of road, 139% miles of tramway, 303% miles of sled road, 500 miles of permanent trail and 224 miles of temporary flagged trail. The cost during the year was $2,587,453.52, of which $1,597,143.68 was for new work and $990,309.84 was for maintenance and improvement.
Page 31 - The highest elevation crossed by the mad is 4.212 feet. Since 1920 all roads on the Forest Highway System in and adjacent to national forests have been constructed and maintained by the Public Roads Administration (formerly the Bureau of Public Roads), which now maintains 249.23 miles of road in Alaska.
Page 15 - FORESTS The Chugach National Forest, located in the Prince William Sound region and Kenai Peninsula, and the Tongass National Forest covering the greater part of southeastern Alaska, comprise the National Forest system of Alaska. Their combined area is 20,850,000 acres.