The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-12

! Government reports ito exceed in ex
 tent the entire coast lines of the United
 states, out side of Alaska, swarminl
 With different varieties of fish, ant
 other commercial values, inviting great commerce with the nations
 In generation from the date of this Alaskan purchase, the eyes of the whole
 world are directed to it, and life strug-
 gle has set in for it's golden deposits.
 The line of transit from steamboat tc
 footpads, are crowded with adventures
 Tor the new Eldorado, and no man who
 enters upon its soil with good health
 strong arm, and with suitable outfit need expect failure.
 1 Rough life, fatigue, disappointment
 and starvation may stare him in the
 race in his undertaking. These four
 ugly demons stand guard over its
 treasures; but it's gateways are open, and crowds will enter and take their re- | ward.
 Alaska is no further off from our door sills to-day, in point of time in reach ing there, than was the Western Re serve in Ohio, in 1925, Montana in 1865. Emigration from Atlantic shores to California in 1849, suffered in lack of suitable outfit in hardships, in disap- pointments, in decimated ranks; just as will hasty adventures to Alaska for speedily acquired wealth.
 The climate of Alaeka is variable On its coast line it is warmer than in the interior.
 The Gulf Stream moving up from Japanese waters, coming in contact with Alaskan atmosphere, warns it's coast line, so that at some places the ther mometer never touches zero.
 When the treaty was pending before the Senate for ratification, Charles Summer, U. S., Senator from Masea chusetts, in reply to some suggestions as to its cold, said--
 Winters at Sitka are milder than at many European capitos mentioning Berlin, Berne, Copenhagen, Stuttgart, Turin, Vienna, and other prosperous European cities"
 At Sitka the mean winter temperature is but little less than at Washington, D. c. It's temperature changes are small averaging ,25 or 35 degrees be- tween summer and winter.
 In July, it rarely reaches 70 degrees; the highest temperature of d single day seldom reaches 75 degrees
 At St. Michaels, short distance above the mouth of the Yukon river, it's summer temperature is only degrees cooler than at Sitka. At Point Bar rows, the most northerly point in the United States, it is less than the tenn perature at Pikes' Peak, Colorado.
 Tn the region back from the coast, the cold is severe and of long duration in the winter. The sun rises from 9 to 10 A. M., and setp from to P. M., daylight being only to hours. The sun rising but q few degrees above the horizon It's oblique rays touching the earth without any warmth.
 A new conner from temperate eli mate, will find no agreeable pastime in the Klondike region for eight months of darkness and unbending cold, shut up in midnight housings, with no sun light, or a checkerboard, with nervous disconeolate chum, waiting deliverance from midnight darkness into morning twilight. Winter breaks into summer with surprising rapidity, bringing with the change 20 hours of sunshine In June, and diffuse twilight the balance of the day.
 The change of temperature, and other from summer to winter is trying to persons of sensitive nerves accustomed to regular habits in life To such as are physically constituted to meet and endure it's changes need not durable with suitable outfit of food and fear the experiment. It's climate is en- .lothing Its midnight may be long and gloomy, it's rising sun delayed but It's hopes are golden and will be rewarded n due time. A New England climate would not be trusted for the winter, l without due preparation.
 Alaska Is no further north than l Greenland Norway, Sweden, Russia | ind other well settled portions of the | globe, and is subject to the same normal | conditions of climatic influences which govern other places in similar attitudes.