GOSHAW URGES
SPECIAL STAMP
FOR TERRITORY
Shishmaref Poslmaster Sees
Great Value in Get
ting Alaska Issue
Joining the agitation for a special
■postage stamp or series of stamp'
commemorating some Alaska event,
or depicting some Alaska scenery,
George R. Goshaw, postmaster at
Shishmaref, above Nome, nas re
cently written to Postmaster Gen
eral James A. Farley making sug
gestions for such a stamp Several
years ago Mr Goshaw made sug
gestions along the same lines in an
effort to get an Alaska stamp.
In his letter to Mr Farley, copy
of which he sent to Judge James
Wickersham here, Mr. Goshaw sug
gested that the stamp be somewhat
larger than any previously issued:
that a general outline map of Al
aska be imprinted thereon; that one
event, or scenery or likeness of an
individual be depicted on it. and that
the colors be green, white, purple,
silver and gold.
Suggestions
In suggesting proper events or
scenes to be depicted, Postmaster
Go;,haw mentions the following:
Purchase of Alaska—Depicting the
flag raising at Sitka, and with the
picture of William H. Seward, Sec
retary of State in 1867.
Pioneers of Alaska—Prospector iri
camp
Territory of Alaska—Official seal
of Alaska with picture of Judge
Wickersham.
Transportation of mail—Dogteam
outfit, steamboat, Yukon river and
airplane.
Trail Builders—Richardson High
! way.
Railroad Builders—Copper River.
Colonization of Alaska—Farming
j in Matanuska Valley.
Industrial Alaska—Scenes of min
j :ng. dredge, placer, hard rock; fish
ing, salmon cannery; timber, for
j ests. Southeast Alaska; -fur. seal
j rookeries, Pribilof Islands.
Scenic Alaska — Mountains, Mt
| McKinley National Park; Inside
j passage; City of Seward; totems.
