Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-05

will surely be pushed northvard to OPP
en- up the Clay Belt TO settlers. The
probability Is that we shall have rail-
road connection with Hudson bay with
In couple OF years or so and that a
large part of the game for Toronto.
New York and Chicago will come down
over these roads. The country will then
BIZ filled with tourists and the Hudson
bay region may be favoritc summer
resort for the North American conti-
nent. The woods are fun OF game.
There are caribou by The thousand.
plenty OF moose, many kinds of deci
and no end IT wild birds. With steam-
ers on the bay one viii be able to take
wonderful tours to the least explored
parts of the world and a vast mineral
region may be opened up. The coun-
try Is as yet unprospected and lli..
known. From talks which have had
with Hudson bay traders and explorers,
the land about the bay is rocky Ia
places, and in others 1t Is covered WITH
muskeg and swamps. Near James bay
there are vast bogs of peat, some of
which are 20 feet deep. This could BIZ
made into briquettes such as are usea
in Europe. and 1t may possibly form
the fuel of the country.
NORTH AMERICAS GREATEST
GAME RESORT.
AS TO hunting and fishing these Hud-
son bay railroads will open up the CHIEF
game resort of the world The fui
wealth Is so great that the t.sklmcs
bring in several hundred skins o,
musk oxen every season in addition to
bales Of polar bear skins. caribou
wolves and foxes. Some VI the finest
furs of the world may be seen stacked
up like hay on the shore of Hudson,
bay, awaiting their transportation to
the trading posts, In one locality abor
the bay the Eskimos trapped in one
year more than thousand white foxes,
besides wolves, wolverines and oth-,
animals.
At present most Of the hunting is be-
ing done by EskimOs and Indians. who
make ii a life business. These Eskimos
are much like our natives OF Alaska.
The men average about five feet threo
inches high. and the women less thar,
five feet They have black eyes and
hair, and their hair is straight and as,
coarse as horse hair. They nave naL
noses. high cheek bones and eyes which
are Chinese in shape. The teeth of the
older women are worn almost to tn.
gums from chewing seaskin. I'm order
to make II soft and more easily sewn.
These people live in snow houses dur
ing the winter and in sealskin tents m
the summer. They subsist largely on
seal meat or whale blubber. and their
fires are oil lamps. They have but fen
domestic animals except dogs. although
II Is said that here and there moos.
has been harnessed up and made to
work
THE HUDSON BAY FISHERIES
| hear much about the fisheries of
Hudson bay. Capt. Hall. one of the
Hudson bay traders, tells me that tn.
stories concerning their value are over
drawn. but the explorers sent by ths
government and the vast amount or
whale oil and other products brought
out by the fishermen lead one to sup
pose them about the most valuable on
the continent A large amount of the
whaling has been done by Americans
from Bedford, Mass. These men go
through the strait and winter at Marble
island in Hudson bay, near the west
coast. They spend one season harpoon-
ing whales and buying furs and fish.
taking their cargoes out the following
year. Among the whales caught are
the bowheads, which produce some OF
the finest whalehone known TO the
world A full-grown whale VIII yield
about 800 pounds of bone, and as tn"
whalebone sells for $4,000 ton,
whale of that Kind brings in bone worm