Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-08-26
ALASKAN FACTS.

VII SlAId-
1t makes San Francisco east of our
center.
Its coast line is $4,000 miles.
1t has the highest mountain in North |.
America.
1t has the only forest covered glacier
in the world.
The Treadwell is one of its greatest
golu 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 700
miles from its mouth.
With its tributaries it is navigable !
$500 miles.
1t is larger than the Danube.
1t is larger than 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 it's basin than
any other river.
Its color is beautifully blue to its
Junction with the White river. LOO
miles above its mouth
Alaska runs 1900 miles west of
Hawaii.
Yukon basin gold is estimated at
$1,000 900 900
The necessary eruptive force for the
formation of great fssure veins is
everywhere evident in Alaska.
Silk should be worn next the body,
then WOODEN and then furs.
Citric acid should be 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 numer-
Gus.
There are two kinds of poisonous
flies.
There are no snakes in Alaska.
Moose are plentiful. The flesh re-
sembles horse flesh.
Capital of stock companies organized
to do business in Alaska aggregates
S20O,OO0,OOO
1t is probable that in twelve months
Dawson will be within four days of
Juneau.
In central and northern Alaska the
ground is frozen to depth of 200
feet
Snowfall in the Interior is very
light-siX inches or so.
The heaviest rain and snow are Oh
the southeast coast.
No land contains finer spruce timber
In its low temperature gold filling in
teeth contracts and falls out. Use
amagam.
Men born in southern ATTITUDES have
become insane in the long dark.
Take chess board and men. They
prevent dementia
The medicine chest should hold pills,
pills, pills.
A temperature of rs 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
forty feet.
In the dark season twilight lasts
six hours, and almost any kind of
work can be done.
Elk, caribou and grouse are common
and easily killed.
Don't eat snow or ice Melt them,
or else quinsy will follow.
In low temperatures the inside OF
the throat sometimes freezes. This il
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
In summer all land not mountain is
swamp.
Underfoot is ice cake, overhead
twenty-five hours sun.
Everybody gets lice. Boil under
clothing. Freeze sleeping bags.