The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-12
INTERESTING ADDRESS
On Alaska by pr. Jackson, Renowned Missionary.

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 On Alaska by pr. Jackson, Renowned
 Missionary.
 pr. Sheldon Jackson, the superintend-
 ent of education for Alaska, who was
 in this city yesterday and addressed the
 meeting of the New Haven Indian asso-
 citation, is figure of no little interest.
 First as missionary to the natives and
 later as government official, he has
 spent Well-nigh a generation in Alaska, and there is probably no one living who
 is better informed with regard to that
 whole country than he is. Years before
 some Of those who are now regarded as Alaskan pioneers ever heard of that part of the world Dr. Jackson was al
 ready 'roughing it" in the widest parts of Alaska. He divided his time pretty impartially between the bleak sub-Arc- tic section, where neither tree nor shrub i is found, and the more accessible south ern section in whose moist and compar- atively warm climate vegetation be- comes almost tropical in it's luxuriance. Dr. Jackson walked over the bleak shores at Nome years before gold was discovered there. Last summer he was there again and found city of 12,000 people, with it's miners taking out gold dust at the rate of million dollars a month. A Norwegian reindeer herder whom the doctor hired in 1898 and brought to this country to help take care of the government reindeer, at salary of twenty-six dollars month, is now a millionaire, all in gold from Nome
 Dr. Jackson is not only eminent for his general knowledge of Alaska, but he is also an enthusiastic believer in its future. He says the resources of that wonderful country have thus far been barely touched and that the world will yet be astounded by the revelations of it's natural wealth, not only in gold and copper and coal, but also in It's fish cries and in the valuable timber tracts of the southeastern sections.
 The salmon pack of the Alaska can neries this year is in itself valued at SS00O,000, or more than the United States paid for the whole country at the time that Secretary Seward was reproached for paying Russia $7,2o0ooO for "a worthless, Godforsaken waste"
 Dr. Jackson says that what Alaska needs now is carefully considered leg islation and more corporations and sym dicates that will go in to build 1t up. In this connection he pays a compli- ment to the New Haven men who are members of the Kaasan Bay Mining company whose record in Alaska he Is familiar with and the character of whose work he comments very heartily He says the Kaasan Bay company has gone into Alaska with the evident in- tention of building up the interests of the country as well as it's own.
 Dr. Jackson also spoke of the Pimas tribe in New Mexico. Up to short time ago they were entirely independ- ent, requiring no assistance. Recently, however, their territory has been in- vaded by the white man and their sup ply of water cut off. Over eight thou sand of them are starving and are in a deplorable condition. This would all be and they could again care for themselves if the government would only appropriate enough money for the. of the San Carlo dam.
 The lecture was extremely interesting and instructive to all, especially those of the local Indian association, who give considerable time and attention to the work of carrying the message of away country.
 Dr. Jacksons friend and associate, Governor John G. Brady, is Yale graduate of 1874 and we'll remembered here.