The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-01-09

size logs in the booms of Wrange1
but ! DON know where they came
!, from. ! am no timber expert but
can.tell whether a tree is fit for
whip saving or not and suitable for
lsluice boxes. All my thousands of
travelling through those vast forests
never saw patch of trees that
would not cause admiration. OF
course Uncle Sam has great tim
Der reserve in Alaska. IF Ralph
CoWden would see it he could not
help but laugh. He saw part Of ii
before it was made a reserve, Alas
ka is way up there, all alone fight
ing its way against heavy odds, she
has harder fight than any of the
former Territories but she will win.
The day is not far distant when she
will shine as bright as the Midday
sun. Alaska is rich in minerals in
the quartz formation. Good quartz
mines are working in many places
and as soon as it is possible to ship
machinery it will make big show
ing. Marble is found in big lodges
and pronounced the best by those
competent to judge. The tin mines
OF Nome are attracting the attention
of many. Placer tin is found.
Several large tin lodges have been
discovered. We all know that our
tin supply comes from England and
a good tin mine on Uncle Sans
Territory will be hailed with de-
light. There are thousands of
square miles in Alaska never trotted
over by whiteman, a vast wilder.
ness and we don't know what the
future has in store, as far as new
discoveries are concerned. She is
good country for young man to
grow up in and forge his way to
fortune. Its hard, but it is a good
lesson. Some one must blaze the
trails. We can't all sit at home
and cling to mothers apron string.
If our fathers stayed at home,
Caldwell would not be known.
Think of it. I have spoken of south
ern and middle Alaska so far only.
There seems to be belief that nor
thern Alaska and the Yukon Ter
ritory are only icebergs, glaciers
and snowbanks. I will convince
you that the north--near the arctic
circle-has its good points as we'll
as its draw backs. The winters
along the Yukon river are long and
cold and sometimes bitterly cold.
Darkness reigns supreme during
the winter months, daylight only
lasting a few hours and it is not
bright daylight. The cold is in
tense at times. I have seen quick
silver freeze solid. l saw pain
killer "a medicine) freeze stiff like
syrup. In the first years of Klon-
dixie discovery all articles of food
were sold frozen, but now there are
several warm storage houses in
Dawson. You can buy your pro-
visions, eggs and cream now, not
frozen, but it don't take but short
ride on the sled before it would be
frozen hard as a brick. Meat is
kept frozen the year round in Daw-
son. During the four summer
months it is kept in refrigerators.
Most people think it impossible to
grow anything in a country where
freezing weather has such a hold.
When I tell people that the sum-
mers of the far north are the most
lovely summers I ever spent in any
country I ever travelled in and that
vegetables are grown and matured,
they don't believe it. Dawson
gardeners raise as fine a lot of let
tuce, radishes, turnips, carrots, po-
tatoes and strawberries as I have
seen anywhere. I had nice veg
etable garden of my own next to
my cabin and many a tenderfoot
stopped to look at it. Wheat, oats
and timothy hay are raised and ma
tured and there are several nice
ranches right across the Yukon
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