The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-09-14
The FROZEN GOLD FIELDS.
INTRRRSTINGFACTS ABOUT THE
KLONDIKE REGION--GOLD
IS FINE ENOUGH TO
FLOAT.

Virginia.
The following interesting facts about
the new gold field in Alaska are taken
from the Chicago (ul } Times Herald,
and we submit then as conveying more
in q nutshell than any ether article we
have be yet seen:
Alaska is two and one half times as
large as Texas.
Its coast line is 26. 900 miles.
1t has the highest mountain in North
America.
1t has the only forest covered glacier
in the world.
The Treadwell is one its greatest gold
mines.
1t has the best yellow cedar in the
world.
It has the great seal fisheries.
1t has the greatest salmon fisheries.
1t has cod banks that beat NeWtound
land.
1t has the largest river in the world.
A man standidg on a bank of the
Yukon $50 miles from its mouth can
not see the other bank.
Nowhere are mosquitoes so numer-
ous.
There are two kinds of poisonous
flies.
There are no snakes in Alaska.
Moose are plentiful. The fash re
sembles horse fl ssh.
Capital of stock companies organized
to do business in Alaska aggregate
800. OOO, 600.
1t is probable that within twelve
months Dawson City will be within
four days from Juneau.
In Central and Northern Alaska the
ground is frozen to a depth of 200
feet.
Snow fall in the interior is very light
six inches or 80.
The heaviest rain and SNOW are on
the southeast coast.
No land contains finer spruce tim.
Der.
In it's low temperature gold filings
in the teeth contract and fall out, Use
amalgam.
Men born in the southern latitudes
have become insane in the long dark.
Take chess beard and men. They
prevent dementia.
Tie medicine chest should hold pills,
pills, pills.
A temperature of IS degrees below
zero has been recorded.
When it gets below 50 there Is no
wind.
A tent is as good as a house and is
cheaper.
No shelter is needed except when the
wind blows. At other times sleeping
beg answers all purposes.
Just below rapids ice forms only nine
feet thick, aud fishing is done, In
other places it reaches 40 feet.
In the dark season here twilight lasts
six hours, and almost any kind Of work
can be done.
Elk, cariboo and grouse are COM
mon and easily killed.
Don't eat snow or ice. Melt them.
Else quinsy.
In low temperature the inside of the
throat sometimes freezas. This is To-
cally called frost burning"
All wood in the Aleutian Islands
grew on glaciers in Alaska.
Whole forests break into the sea.
Some streams are bridged by gla-
ciers.
Some wood is beautifully polished by
glacier action.
Avalanches in the interior are I'm.
known.
Owing to dryness there is not much
suffering from the cold.
Take a 40 80 rife with telescope
sights.
One small tribe makes 50, 500 a year
from silver fox skins. They are worth
$3.50 each.
= Exposed portions of the body freeze
in three minutes.
Enough library: One Bible, one
Shakespeare.
Snow shoes are not needed in the
mine country.
Buy mines from discouraged miners.
Trading companies will not carry
goods for competitors.
Next year competition will bring
down their prices so per cent.
Meals On the boat up the river cost
81 each.
Men who have gone this winter to
make their living saving wood will not
have time to say much.
MORAL QUESTION.
IEIs ia shown nv the animal rerork If