The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-15
ONE HUNDRED ALASKAN FACTS.
Queer characteristics of the Country
where Gold Is Found.

It is as large as the south, excluding
Texas.
1t is as large of all of the states east of
the Mississippi and north of the Ohio, in
Guiding Virginia and West Virginia.
1t makes San Francisco east of our CEN
ter.
It's coast line is 26OOO miles
e. 1t has the highest mountain in North
America.
1t has the only forest covered glazier in
the world
The Treadwen is one Of the greatest gold
mines.
It 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 Newfound-
land
1t has the largest river in the world.
A man standing on the bank of the Yu-
kon $50 miles from its mouth cannot see
the other bank.
The Yukon is twenty miles wide eco
miles from its mouth.
With its tributaries it is navigable $500
miles.
1t is larger than the Danube.
1t is larger than the La Plata.
It 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 that any
other river.
It's color is beautifully blue to its juno
ton with the White river, LOO miles above
its mouth
Alaska runs 500 miles west of Hawaii.
Yukon basin gold is estimated at $1,000,
100000,
The necessary eruptive force for the
formation of great fissure veins is every
where evident in Alaska.
Silk should be worn next the body, then
wooden and then furs.
Citric acid should be taken to prevent
scurVy.
The food there produces rectal diseases.
Take medicine. IS
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 resem-
bleS horse flesh.
Capital of stock companies organized TO
do business in Alaska aggregates 500, O00,-
00O
1t is probable that in twelve months
Dawson will be within four days of Ju,
neau.
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 timber.
In its low temperatures gold filing in
teeth contracts and falls out. Use ANAL
gam.
Men born in southern latitude have be-
inc in no Ia
Take a chess board and men. They pre-
vent dementia.
The medicine chest should hold pills
pills, pills.ta
A temperature of 70 degrees below zero
has been recorded.
When it gets lower than 50 there is no
wind.
A tent is as good as a house. and is
cheaper.
No shelter is needed, except when the
wind bows 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 forty 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
In low temperatures the inside of the
throat sometimes freezes. This is locally
called frost burning"
For fozer fingers use cold water.
You can battle only the feet and face.
Sweet under blankets in summer or get
rheumatism
In summer all land not mountain is
swamp.
Underfoot is ice cake, overhead twenty
two hours sun. l.l
Everybody gets lice. Boil under cloth
ing. Freeze sleeping bags.
Talk on the ice pack is heard a half
mile
An expert placer miner can pan dry.
Alaskan dust is as big as wheat.
Some gold Is fine enough to float
Wear silk gloves and then fur
The Eskimo is yirtuous, the Chilkat Is
not.
Canadian rapacity will drive the miners
into American territory.
Canadian police are highly efficient.
Reindeer will be the future locomotives.
Alaskan dogs are wonderfully intelligent
the result OF selection and heredity.
The natives eat much decayed fish.
They are all honest.
Thousands Of miners from other nations
will go
A Chicago company leads in Alaskan ex-
ploration.
Hay grows as ihEu az n HidiA = hNhNs
Hardy vegetables can be raised.
All streams show true gold assures.
Take plenty OF -four. Buy all you think
YOU need, then buy more. Last winter a
man killed himself because he 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 prompter execution.
Make caches on platforms six feet high
Wolves.
il will pay to walt a year or two. II
costs 81 600 now and will cost $500 then.
All distances are gigantic. IL Is 1900
miles from sitka to Klondike.
A boat leaving Dawson Sept. 20 Is chas-
ed 10 the mouth by freezing water.
An wood IN the Aleutian Islands grew on
glacicrs In Alaska.
Whole forests break into the sea.
some streams are bridged by glaciers.
Some wood Is beautifully polished by
glacier action.
Avalanches IN the interior are unknown.
owing TO dryness there is not much suf-
ferlng from the cold.
Take "a l0-sD rife with telescope sights.
one small tribe makes 81 800 a year from