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Ketchikan, Alaska, with a population of 5,000, is the first city one reaches in Alaska from the South. It is situated at the base of graceful Deer Mountain, on the famous inside water passage, made up of waters of the Pacific ocean, sheltered by a submerged mountain range which rears its tops in a series of islands from a few feet to 4,000 feet in heighth.
Ketchikan was founded in 1898 and has grown steadily from a small fishing and mining town to the biggest city in Alaska. It has a sound industrial foundation in its halibut and salmon fishing, and is the headquarters for the largest halibut fleet in the world and more salmon is canned in this city than in any other city in the world. Its lumber industry is also of importance and each of these outrank the mining activities of the vicinity.
Ketchikan, contrary to general opinion, has a mild climate, as its shores are washed by the warm [J]apanese current, and the thermometer rarely reaches zero. Its snowfall is exceedingly light, but its rainfall heavy.
A large tourist traffic, in comfortable ocean-going steamers, touch here each summer. The city in 1931 has two active Boy Scout troops, a Rotary Club, many civic and fraternal organizations and a number of musical organizations.
[Black and white photograph of a child holding an issue of The Saturday Evening Post.]
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