POPULATION.

According to the census of 1910, the total population of Alaska was 63,700, of which about 36,000 were whites. The census was taken in winter, when only permanent residents could be enumerated, and these figures should therefore be augumented by many thousands, representing the annual summer migration to Alaska of miners, cannery employees, and others, but of course not including tourists. The governor of Alaska in his report for 1915 estimates the white population as 44,000.

Skagway had a population of 872 (1910). It is not known what the population of the region tributary to the White Pass Railroad is, but it probably includes several thousand people. It is also estimated that there are 2,000 or 3,000 more in the Klondike and other Canadian mining districts of the Yukon which are connected with the White Pass route by river navigation and winter roads.

The town of Haines, on Lynn Canal, had a population of 445 (1910), and the total of the tributary district was about 1,000. These include about 100 miners and prospectors in the Chilkat Basin. It is also estimated that there may be 100 or more whites along the Canadian part of the Haines-Fairbanks route.

The coastal towns of Prince William Sound and adjacent regions had populations in 1910 as follows: Katalla, 188; Cordova, 1,152; Seward, 534. Owing to the increase in mining developments in the adjacent regions and the commencement of construction by the Government of a railway system in Alaska, of which Seward has been designated as a terminal, the population of Seward has probably increased to approximately 2,500. The incorporated town of Valdez had 810 in 1910, to which should be added some 600 or 700 more, representing the population of a settlement immediately adjacent, not included within the city limits. There are no facts available regarding the population of the Copper River Valley, as the census was taken before the influx of people due to the completion of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway. It is probably safe to place this at several thousand, including those resident on or near the military road stretching from Valdez northward.

The population of the Kenai Peninsula, including Seward, is estimated as 3,000, and there are approximately 4,000 in the Cook Inlet region, including the Susitna Valley. During the summer of 1914 the Alaskan Engineering Commission established a base, or headquarters, camp at the mouth of Ship Creek on Knik Arm, Cook Inlet, in connection with the surveys for the new Government railway. Construction of the railway was begun at this point early in 1915, and this resulted in a remarkable influx of population. The town was named Anchorage from the fact that ocean-going vessels anchor just offshore, not being able to proceed farther northward in Knik Arm. In the course of a few months the population of Anchorage has increased to approximately 2,500. The population of the Iliamna region was reported to be 271 in 1910, but of this probably not more than 100 are whites.

In 1910 there were nearly 17,000 residents in the Alaska part of the Yukon and in the Kuskokwim Basins. Of these nearly 8,000 were in Fairbanks and the adjacent region. The population of Fairbanks was 3,541 (1910); Chena, 138; Tanana, at the mouth of the river of the same name, 398; Rampart, 83; Hotsprings, 101. It is estimated that the entire population of the IditarodInnoko and adjacent districts is between 3,000 and 4,000, but there has been such an influx since the census was taken that these figures may be in error.

Though it will be evident from the above statement that the population of central Alaska is scant, it must be remembered that up to the present time the

industrial conditions have been such as to attract only the placer miner. Even placer mining has been limited entirely to the exploitation of bonanzas. It is true, of course, that lode mining has been started at Fairbanks and one copper mine opened in the Kotsina-Chitina district, but outside of this there has been little industrial advancement in the inland region. In the absence of means of communication only the arable lands that lie close to the settlements have been taken up, so that the farming population is very small.

Population of minor civil divisions, 1910.

[District, except as otherwise stated, means recorder's district.] JUDICIAL DIVISION No. 1.1

JUDICIAL DIVISION NO. 2.1

1 Boundaries of judicial divisions are given on page 21.

2 Total for Kuskokwim district in judicial divisions 2, 3, and 4 is 2,711.
3 Total for St. Michael district in judícial divisions 2 and 4 is 2,255.

Population of minor civil divisions, 1910-Continued.

1 Boundaries of judicial divisions are given on page 21.

2 Total for Kuskokwim district in judicial divisions 2, 3, and 4 is 2,711.

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Population of minor civil divisions, 1910—Continued.

The executive power is vested in the governor, who is appointed by the President for a term of four years, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The governor may veto any bill passed by the Territorial legislature within three days after it is presented to him. The bill must be vetoed within three days if the legislature continues in session; otherwise it becomes law without the governor's approval. The legislature may override the veto by a two-thirds vote of all the members to which each house is entitled.

Legislative.

The legislative power is vested in a Territorial legislature consisting of a senate and a house of representatives. The senate consists of 8 members, 2 from each of the four judicial divisions into which Alaska is now divided. The house of representatives consists of 16 members, 4 from each of the four judicial divisions. The term of each member of the senate is four years, one member from each judicial division being elected every two years. The term of each member of the house of representatives is two years.

The legislature convenes biennially at Juneau, the capital, on the first Monday in March in odd years, and the length of the session is limited to 60 days, but the governor is empowered to call a special session, which shall not continue longer than 15 days. Elections for members of the legislature are held every two years on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even year. The Session Laws are sold by the secretary of the Territory (address Juneau, Alaska); the price for the laws for the 1913 session is $5; the price of the laws for 1915 session is $5.

Section 9 of the act approved August 24, 1912, confers the following legislative power on the Territorial legislature: "The legislative power of the Terri

1 Total for St. Michael district in judicial divisions 2 and 4 is 2,255.

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2 All laws relating to Alaska enacted by Congress prior to Mar. 4, 1913, are contained in the volume entitled Compiled Laws of the Territory of Alaska," which was published as Senate Document No. 1093, Sixty-second Congress, third session, and which may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., for $1.50.

3 The boundaries of the judicial divisions are given on page 21.