The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-16
ONE HUNDRED Alaskan FA(T5.

Chicago Times-Herald: Alaska is two
| and one-alalf times as large as Texas.
II is eight times as large as all of New
England.
II is as large as all of the states east of
the Mississippi and north of the Ohio, in
| Guiding Virginia and West Virginia.
center.
Its coast line is 5000 miles.
1t has the highest mountain in North
1t has the only forest covered glacier in
The world.
The TreadweI is one of its greatest gold
! mines.
1t has the best yellow cedar in tine
WoVld
It nas the greatest seal fisheries.
! It has the greatest salmon fisheries.
| 1t has cod banks that beat New Found
1t has the largest river in the world.
A man standing on bank of the Yukon
$50 miles from It's mouth cannot see the
! other bank.
The Yukon IS 20 miles wide 700 miles
| from its mouth.
With its tributaries it is navigabIe $500
miles.
! 1t is larger than the Danube
II is larger than the Orinoco-
| It discharges one-thtrd more water than
The wate4 is fresh Is miles from it's
mouth
It has moHe gold in its basin than any
other river.
Its color is beautifully blue to its juno
ton with the White river, LOO miles
above its mouth
Alaska runs 1,500 miles west of Hawaii
Yukon basin gold is estimated at $, OO0,-
900 900.
The necessary eruptive force for the for
nation of great assure veins is every
where evident in Alaska.
SILK should be worn next the body, then
WOODEN and then furs.
Cftric acid should be taken to prevent
The food there produces rectal diseases.
Take medicine.
Lima beans are good portable food
Snow glasses should not be forgotten.
Nowhere are mosquitoes so numerous
There are two kinds of poisonous flies.
There are no snakes in Alaska
Moose are plentiful. The flesh resembles
horse flesh.
Capital of stock companies organized
to do business in Alaska aggregates $780,
600, 000
It is probable that in u months Dawson
will be within four days of Janeau.
In central and northern Alaska the
ground is frozen to a 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 tineber
In it's low temperatures gold filing in
teeth contracts and falls out Use ANAL
gam.
Men born in southern Iatitudes have be
come insane in the long dark.
Take a chess board and men. They pre-
vent dementia.
The medicine chest should hold pills,
pills, pills.
A temperature of 10 degrees below zero
has been recorded
When it gets lower than so there is no
wind.
a tent is as good as house. and is
cheaper.
No shelter is. needed except when the
wind blows. At other times a sleeping
bag answers all purposes
Just below rapids ice forms only nine
feet thick. and there fishing is done In
other places it will reach 20 feet
In the dark season twilight lasts six
hours and almost any kind Of work can
be done.
Elk. cariboo and grouse are common
and easily killed.
Don't eat snow or ice. Melt them. Else
quinsy.
throat sometimes freezes This is locally
called frost burning
For frozen fingers use cold water
You can battle only the feet and face.
Sweat under blankets in summer or
get rheumatism.
Tnderfoot is ice cake, overhead p
hours sun
q
Everybody gets lice. Boil undereloth-
ing. Freeze sleeping bags.
Talk on the ice pack is heard a half
mile
An expert placer miner can pan dry.
Alaskan dust is big wheat.
Some gold is fine enough to float
Wear silk gloves and then fur
The Eskimo is yirtuous, the Chtlkat IS
not
Canadian rapacity will drive the min
ers into American territory.
Canadian police mighty efficient.
Reindeer will be the future locomo-
tives-
gent-the result of selection and heredity-
The natives eat much decayed fish
They are ell honest.
Thousands of miners from other ma
lions VIII go.
Chicago company leads in Alaskan
exploration
Hardy vegetables can be raised
All streams show true gold assures
- g q
Take plenty of -four. Buy all you
think you need then buy more. Last
winter d man killed himself because ne
had five pounds of baking powder and
no -four
Under act of congress communities of
miners can make their own laws
No thief gets a fairer trial anywhere.
nor any DrOmDter execution.
Make caches on platforms six feet high.
Wolves.
1t viii pay to wait Z, year Or two. It
All distances are gigantic. 1t is 1000
miles from Sitlca to KlondiSe-
A boat leaving Dawson Sept. 20 is
chased TO the mouth by freezing water
All wood in the Aleurian Islands grew
on glaciers in Alaska.
Whole forests break into the sea.
Some streams are bridged by glaciers.
Some wood is beautifully polished by
AVA Ivaianches IN the interior are I'M
Owing to drvness there is not much
suffering from the cold.
Take a 1870 rife with telescope sights.
One small tribe makes $500 a year
from silver fox skins. They are worth
$50 each.
Exposed portions of the body freeze in
three minutes.
Deare.
Snow shoes not needed in the mine
country.
Buy mines from discouraged miners.
Trading companies viii not carry goods
for competitors.
Next year competition will bring down
their prices 80 per cent.
Meals on the boat uD the river cost
81 each
Men who have gone this winter to
make their living saving wood Will not
have time 10 saw much.
The u. S. Govt Reports
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