Williams news., 1904-09-10
GOING TO ALASKA
BY NELLIE ]. DODGE.
IcoNr1NUED FROM LAST WEEK

CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
 The fruits we found were large and fine looking and the juice was of rich flavor. There were red and white entrants, strawberries. dew berries and fine, large, sweet black berries. Salmon berries grew every where. There were also bushels of berries that grow on low bush, and look like the huckle berry, but do not taste the same. 1 did not learn the name of this fruit; it made good wine and nice jelly, but was not nice to eat The entrants jel lied very easily. 1 brought one glass out with me to show what 1t was like. The salmon berry looks and tastes like logan berry, only very much sweeter. There were red, yellow, white and black sal mon berries, and they looked very tempting when in a dish. There may have been other varieties of fruits than those we found. I heard there were nice wild plums, such as grow in northern sections of Can ada, but 1 did not find any. In some places we found fruit of that year and fruit of the year before all ripe on the same bushes, showing the snow had covered them before the frost had come. The section we were in was a veritahle Eden during the summer months.
 The birds have a charm about them which 1 never found any where else. They are beautiful to look at, and their songs form a per feet tone, not the usual twitter we hear from the wild bird
 These are only a few of the things that help to make that country all that is beautiful in the summer. The snow birds up there are larger than our robin, and do not look al all like the snow birds in our home country, in either color or shape The woods are alive with the raven The country is full of wild geese thousands soar over the mountain tops, so high that it ise impossible to shoot one of them. Ducks oi different kinds are just as abund- ant, but seek such secluded spots that it is equally difficult to get them. Grouse and pheasants are easier to shoot, for they are apt tc come where you are. Looms are numerous, but dive under water be- fore you can get a shot at them Their coats were very handsome; ] saw a few that were caught.
 In the late winter or early spring the wild geese and ravens become very uneasy before a storm. Some times week before they will begin their cries and fly around, as il they knew not where to go for pro- lection. It was a warning for all to keep near camp, but many dis regarded it and would get caught out in blizzard. and some were lost. l did not see any snakes frogs or lizards while there, nol hear of any one who did see them There seems to be no poisonous vines or reptiles either. High uf in the mountains the streams arc filled with the finest of speckleo trout. The one great drawback to that country is the fact that every. thing most desirable is so inac cessible.
 But with all it's faults and hard ships, we would like to spend an other year there. At this time O the year the sun is fast disappear ing from sight. When the salmon begin to run and reach the smaller streams inland they kill each other by the thousands, and it is not ; very pleasing sight to see them, a: they become a struggling mass O wounded fish. The salmon tha' survive and reach the inland lake. never get back to the ocean agail and are lost for canning or eating
 Tons of fish were caught ano