The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-09-10

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 a 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 nayigable
$500 miles.
1t is larger than the Danube.
I. 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 its basin than
any other river.
Its color is beautifully blue to its
junction with the White river, 100
miles above its mouth.
Alaska runs 1900 miles west Of
Hawaii.
Yukon basin gold is estimated at
$1,000, O0O, 900.
The necessary eruptive force for the
formation OF great assure veins is
everywhere evident in Alaska.
Silk should be worn next the body.
then wooden and then furs.
Citric acid should he taken to pre-
vent scurvy.
The food there produces rectal
diseases. 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
resembles horse flesh.
Capital Of stock companies organized
to do business in Alaska aggregate
5000, 0O0,0 00.
1t is probable that in twelve months
Dawson will be within four days o
Juneau.
In Central and Northern Alaska thu
ground is frozen to a depth of 200 feet
Snowfall in the interior is yer.
light-siX inches or so.
The heaviest rain and snow arc OF
the Southeast coast.
No land contains aner spruce tim
Der.
In its low temperatures gold film
in teeth contracts and falls out. Us
amalgam.
Men born in Southern latitude
have become insane IN the long dark
Take a chess board and men. The
prevent dementia.
The medicine chest should hOl,
pills, pills, pills.
A temperature OF IS degrees beloN
zero has been recorded.
When it gets lower than so there
no wind.
A tent is as good as a house, and
cheaper.
No shelter is needed except whe
the wind blows. At other times
sleeping bag answers all purposes.
Just below rapids ice forms only nif
feet thick, and there fishing is don
In other places it will reach fort
feet.
In the dark season twilight lasts 81
hours and almost any kind Of work ca
be done.
Elk, caribOo and grouse are COMMIT
and easily killed.
Don't eat snow or ice. Melt ther
Else quinsy.
In low temperatures the inside
the. throat sometimes freezes. This
locally called frost burning"
For frozen fingers use cold water.
You can battle only the feet al
face.
Sweat under blankets In summer
get rheumatism.
In summer all land not mountain
swamp.
Underfput is ice cake, oyerhe
twenty-five hours sun.
Everybody gets lice. Boil und'
clothing. Freeze sleeping bags.
Talk on the ice pack Is heard a ha
mile.
An expert placer miner can pan al
Alaskan "dust" Is as big as whe'
Some gold is fine enough to float.
Wear silk gloves and then fur.
The Eskimo Is virtuous, the Chilkt
is not.
Canadian rapacity will drive
miners into American territory.
Canadian police are highly efficlct
Reindeer will be the future LOGON
lives.
Alaskan dogs are wonderfully inte'
gent--the result Of selection and he
dity.
The natives eat much decayed III
They are all honest.
Thousands Of miners from other
tlons will 20.
A Chicago company leads 10 Alask
exploration.