Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26

BOlu 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 a bank of the
Yukon $50 miles from it's mouth can
not see the other bank.
The Yukon is twenty miles wide ZOO
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
It's mouth.
1t has more gold in its basin than
any other river
Its color is beautifully blue to it's
junction with the White river. LOO
miles above it's mouth.
Alaska runs 1900 miles west of
Hawaii.
Yukon basin gold is estimated at
S5,000,0 900, 900.
The necessary eruptive force for the
formation of great fissure 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
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
$2OO,OOO,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
amaigam.
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.
tent is as good as a 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 lick 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 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.
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.
Talk on the ice pack is heard a
half-mile.
An expert placer miner can dry.
Alaskan dust is as big as wheat
Some gold is fine enough to float.
Wear silk gloves and then fur
The Eskimo is virtuous, the Chilkat
is not
Canadian rapacity will drive the
mir ers into American territory.
Canadian police are highly efficient
Reindeer will be the future locomo-
lives.
Alaskan dogs are wonderfully in
telligent-the result of selection anC
heredity.