The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25

found in Santa Claus garb, visiting the
people along the Artic shores where they
do not see the sun for months
This distinguished university man,
preacher, "musher," eater of blubber,
civilized foods and "tom cod," driver Of
dog teams, master Of many tongues and
dialects and representative of the siren
uous type of the strenuous north, was
one of their fellow passengers, and by
his personal associations left an impress
sion that makes the rest of the company
feel that they have been favored with
the presence of one who is but little
less than God. "He is one Of the gen.
ial SOULS said Mrs. MCGOWAN, "who is a
storehouse of information, and ever
ready to tell you what you wish to know.
His talk is simple and to the point, and
when he quits it seems like the ceasing
Of exquisite music that you are afraid
you may never hear again. He gave two
lectures of more than two hours each,
and they were rare treat"
Mrs. MCGOWAN is an easy talker her
self when she has good listener, and
these are some of the matters she spoke
of: cat the Treadwell mine we met the
chef engineer when he had leisure and
he showed us every thing. We got
there just in time to see the night shift
come from their work. There are 200
of them, and when we were shown
through the big stamp mill there was
such noise from the action of the
stamps that our guide could not tell us
much, but he made signs, and we took
in what we could Of the plan of work
They handle the quartz on such large
scale that it is cheaper to put worthless
rock through the mill and dump it into
the sea to be carried away by the tide
than to dump it anywhere else. The
average value of the ore is $500 per ton,
and the mine is just an open hole like
shaft, butit is fifteen acres in extent and
1900 feet deep. We went up and looked
down into it from the top. They call it
the "Glory Hole because so many men
are killed in it blown to glory the
miners say. They blast all the ore out,
and the record of deaths from accidents
with powder and falling rocks is two per
day. Nearly all the common laborers
are Slavs."
"we stopped at sitka and visited the
little Greek church on the hillside-yes,
we saw the old log state house erected
by the Cars governor isn't used for
much of anything now except store
house. No, haven't read the romance
connected with it; wish could get the
book. The old Greek church is still
nicely kept, and they maintain an or
phanage and hospital, SO that it keeps
them busy there. There are some very
valuable pictures and other treasures IN
the church which cost thousands OF
rubles, and are decorated with silver
and gold. They charge fifty cents ad-
mission to see them, and the money is
used to maintain the orphanage, the
church and the hospital
"We didn't enjoy our visits to the can
neries SO very much, there was SO much
odor from the fish, but still one has to
put up with such things to get to learn
how these big industries are conducted.
The glaciers were the grandest sights,
| and they gave us whole day at one OF
them. They couldn't get any ice at Sit
ka SO they laid in supply from the lit
tie chunks that were floating in the bay
near glacier. say little chunks
pieces weighing few thousand pounds,
such as they could hoist to the deck
with rope nets handled by the cranes
and engines
"The ice didn't form at Sitka last win
ter-it wasn't cold enough. Just think
Of tive saw corn, cabbage and a lot OF
garden growing at Skaguay, and we
picked strawberries there. But bisnop