A Wisconsin legislator and U.S. Attorney, Delaney moved to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush and served as the first mayor of Juneau, Alaska, from 1900 to 1901
Originally published in Barron's National Financial Weekly, v. III, no. 32, Aug. 6, 1923; the author questions why Alaska's population and industry had not grown in proportion to its vast resources
Title from accompanying materials. Notes with image: Jack McCord and I had just returned from a trip up the Tolovana River. A chief of the Tolovana tribe and one of his friends welcomed us on our return. It was on this trip that Jack McCord...