Evening journal., 1897-10-07

1t has the greatest salmon fisheries.
It has cod banks that beat New
foundland.
1t has the largest river in the world.
A man standing on the bank of the
Yukon $50 miles from its mouth cannot
see the other bank.
The Yukon is twenty miles wide 700
miles from it's mouth.
With its tributaries it is navigable
$500 miles.
1t Is larger than the Danube. III
1t is larger than La Plata.
1t is larger than the Orlnoco.
1t discharges one-third more water
than the Mississippi.
The water is fresh fifteen miles from
its mouth.
It's color is beautifully blue to its
junction with the White River, 1,1OO
miles above it's mouth.
Alaska runs 1900 miles west Of Haw-
ali
The necessary eruptive force for the
formation of great fissure veins Is evil
dent everywhere in Alaska.
Silk should be worn next the body,
then wooden. then furs.
Citric acid should be taken to pre-
vent scurvy.
Lima beans are good portable food.
Snow glasses should not be forgotten.
Nowhere are mosquitoes so numer-
Gus.
There are two kinds Of poisonous
flies.
Moose are plentiful The flesh re-
sembles horsenesh.
There are no snakes in Alaska.
In central and nothern 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 tim
ber
In its low temperatures gold filling
in teeth contracts and falls out. Use
amalgam.
Men born in southern ATTITUDES have
become insane in the long dark.
Take a chess board and men. They
prevent dementia
The medicine chest should hold pills,
pills. pills.
A temperature of 20 degrees below
zero has been recorded.
When it gets lower than 50 there is
no wind.
A tent is as good as a house, ard is
cheaper.
No shelter is needed except when the
wind blows. At other times a Sleep
ing bag answers all purposes.
Just below rapids ice forms only nine
feet thick. and there fishing is done. In
other places it win reach forty feet.
In the dark season twilight lasts six
hours.
Elk. cariboo and grouse are common.
and easily killed.
For frozen fingers use cold water.
You can bathe only the feet and face.
Don't eat snow or ice. Melt them.
Else quinsy
In low temperatures the inside Of the
throat sometimes freezes. That is To-
cally called frost burning"
Sweat under blankets in summer, or
get rheumatism.
In summer all land not mountain 10
swamp.
Underfoot is ice cake. overhead
twenty hours sun.
Everybody gets vermin. Boil under
clothing. Freeze sleeping bags.
Talk on the ice pack is heard a half
mile away.
Only en expert placer miner can pan
dry.
Alaskan dust is as big as wheat.
Some gold is fine enough to float.
Wear silk gloves, then fur.
The Fiskimo is virtuous; the Chilkat
Indian. is not.
Cans dian rapacity will drive the
miners into American territory.
Cas- sadian police are highly efficient
too much so to suit American ideas.
Reindeer win be the locomotives for
ma r.y parts Of Alaska for long time
Alaskan dogs are wonderfully intelli-
ge7t-the result Of selection and hered-
ity.
THE natives eat much decayed fish;
don't.
They are all honest-the natives. as
well as the fish.
Thousands of miners from other
countries viii go to Alaska.
A New York company leads in Alas.
kan exploration.
Hay grows as high as a mans head
Hardy vegetables can be raised.
All streams show true gold assures
Uuder act Of Congress coinmunitiel
OF miners may make their own laws.
No thief gets a fairer trial anywhere