The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-09-16

Alaska Is TWO auI one HdII tttlsSS As
large as Texas.
|, is eight times as large as all New
England.
| 1t is as large as the South including
Texas.
1t is as large as all the States east
of the Mississippi and north Of the
Ohio, including Virginia and West
Virginia.
1t makes San Francisco east OF our
center
Its coast line is 26, 900 miles.
1t has the highest mountain in
North America.
1t has the only forest covered gla-
cier in the world.
The Treadwell is one of its greatest
gold mines.
1t has the best yellow cedar in the
world.
1t has the greatest seal fisheries.
1t has the greatest salmon fisheries.
1t has cod banks that beat New :
foundland.
1t has the largest river in the world.
A man standing on bank Of the
Yukon $50 miles from its mouth can
not see the other bank
The Yukon is twenty miles wide
100 miles from its mouth.
With its tributaries it is navigable
$4,000 miles.
1t is larger than the Danube.
1t is larger than the La Plata.
1t is larger than the Orinoco.
1t discharges one third more water
than the Mississippi.
The water is fresh fifteen miles from
its mouth.
1t has more gold in its basin than
| any other river.
Its color is beautifully blue to its
junction with the White river I,Ioo
miles above the mouth.
Alaska runs $4,000 miles west Of
Hawaii.
Yukon basin gold is estimated at
$4,000, 100000.
The necessary eruptive force for the
formation Of great fissure veins is every
where evident in Alaska.
Silk should be worn next to the
body then wool and then furs.
Citric acid should he taken to pre-
vent scurvy.
The food there produces rectal dis
eases. Take medicine.
Lima beans are good portable
food.
Snow glasses should not be forgot
ten.
Nowhere are mosquitoes SO nMner-
Gus.
There are two kinds of poisonous
flies.
There are no snakes in Alaska.
Mouse are plentiful The flesh re-
sembles horse flesh.
Capital OF stock Companies organ
lied to 90 business in Alaska aggre-
gate S2oo, 900.
1t is probable that within twelve
months Dawson Guy will be within
four days from Jaueau.
In central and northern Ala ka the
ground is frozen to the depth of 200
feet.
| Snowfall in the interior is very light
six inches or so.
The heaviest rain and snow are on
the Southeast coast
| No land contains finer spruce tim
Der.
In its low temperature gold filling
| in teeth contracts and falls out. Use
amalgam.
Men born in the Southern latitude.
have become insane in the long
dark.
|itTake a chess board and men, they
preven, dementia.
The medicine ches: should hold
pills, pills, pills.
A temperature of IS degrees below
zero has been recorded.
When its gets below 50 there is nc
wind.
A tent is as good as a house and
cheaper.
| No shelter is needed except wher
the wind blows. AT other times /;
sleeping bag will answer the pur
poses.
Just below rapids :ce forms onl,
nine feet thick, and there fishing i
done. In other places it will reac'
40 feet.
In the dark seasons here twillgh
lasts six hours, and almost any klnt
of work can be done.
Elk, caribou and grouse are com
mon and easily killed.
Don't eat snow or ice. Melt then
Else quinsy.
In low temperature the inside Of tn
throat sometimes freezes. This is lo
cally called "frost burning"
You can only battle the face an
. feet.
In summer all land no, mountain
swamp.
. Underfoot is ice cake, overhead
l % hours sun.
:, Everybody gets lice. Boil unde1
clothing. Freeze sleeping bags.
? Talk on the ice pack is heard ha
mile.
An exper, placer miner can pa
; dry; ...,.,.