Typed Letter, signed. 1 pp.

To Charles August Sulzer, Alaska Territory’s fourth “Delegate” to the US House of Representatives. Written 2 months after the US entered the World War, supporting “development of Alaska coal fields” as being of “great importance” to the Army and Navy. The Senator from Washington state assures Sulzer that he would be “glad to promote any measure that will encourage private enterprise…in opening up these great resources” – of personal interest to Sulzer, who, while serving only one term in Congress, was partner with his brother William, the former (impeached) Governor of New York, who owned one of the largest mining companies in the Territory.