The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-02
drltted rocks that make the tracks .
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drlfted rocks that make the tracks If
ancient glaciers'' VI
w nat can you. grown;
''Where4''
I'm Alaska.''
wen you must recollect that AIasl,a,
contains $4,000 square miles and II will he
considerable period before all her re-
S noHLGee Can De named with certainty, but
reiaGlhg 10 my own observations and reI;l
aOie reports of eXperimentors in several,
Iocalltles, VIII say that Alaska can CROW
ABOUT everything possible to the more tom.
perate belts. First, there are delicions
Wild berries of all kinds, and especia11v tbo
straWoe which grows in abundance and
- - " me navor. Within fifteen miles of
Cee eIreat Glacier bay, our exploring party
Oh ten Indians and three whites nicI-e5
enough OF these berries within two bonrs
10 Iurnlsh lavish dessert for three davs
Nowhere in the world can finer veoe
UdoieS ana root crops be raised while sheen
ana cattle raising have been tested tn satiSe9
IacCIon and encouraging experiments in
garden nave already been made. There is
80 ru uou I;T IA my mind tnat the harder
fruits VIII do eXcellently in Alaska -
Then taking one Consideration ,vit1,
another, you would recommend Alaska as
superior IN advantages to Oklohoma or the
Sioux reservation" "a VIC
VITA my experience in Alaska this
rush into the desert called CALEDONIA and
Tue 1ever1sh desire to occupy those N 000
VOo acres OF arid reservation lands. seems
10 me utter madness However viii +bo
advantages of Alaska in the baclxornr,n Nd
neither advertised by newspapers nor
enanclpated By proper legislation. what
can be expected. The name Alaska bae
peen DugDear. People will not go intoa
country they know nothing of, and there
VIII VIII De lew to do this country justiceuntiI
congress makes settlement p JssibIe.'
NaG1er dreary country after all. I oh
served, win It's glaciers and ice fields TO.
the south A'ii0'' W
"Dreary !" echoed Mr. Bruce. SIT is the
KIND OF drearlness that sent l. COO ton1.ists
INTO the country last season.
1t has spots of dreariness that rival tho
wonders OF the Yellowstone park and the
gIanueur OF the Yosemite valley. The
glorIous vision OF the famed Glacier bay is
worm crossing continent to see and
makes pictures on the memory that will
last lifetime VIII
vegetaton grows with tropical rankness
to the south and west while TO the north
the Arctic sun On the Arctic seas. glaciers
ana snow helds inc1te the most prosaic and
practlcal men to regret that they he
IeiCner poets nor painters, but-when 7
discuss the fisheries, salmon cauneries and
mines and agricultural possibilities 7 c-rorr
tedious, and when am permitted to expat-
late on the natural beauty of that couatry
L am simply interminable. :"
I'm which case, Mr.. Bruce" said pleas
antiy, you must permit me to suggest that.
we leave until later not only some of the
mines and fishery information. but the
eIorles OF the Great Glacier bay, the bay
into whose crystal waters you saw the
ever encroaching glaciers are drifting
breaking and floating in hinge, Jagged. Gift
terlpg fragments out to the sea beyond o
Ihls, together with an explanation of
That wonderful mirage, the famous scien-
Iinc puzzle known as 1.-The silent city, will
De furnished in the next letter.
FLORENCE HUNTLEY.