The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-25

good dividends since It's completion, al
though we have to pay the Govern
ment 500 per mile every year to op-
crate II.
RAILROAD building Is progressing all
over Alaska, and would be more In evil
dence but that 1t is very difficult To
get material
I'VE have no wild and woody men or
things up there. Gambling is cut out
In all the Territory. and now we have
a reputable city. There Is a complete
network of telephone lines all over the
peninsula. Houses are built mainly of
lumber and logs and we have some
really fine homes up there.
lin the matter Of gardens, we raise
about the same truck that you do here
Including turnIps. radishes, lettuce and
cabbage. OF course we have a large
hot-house plant which produces many
other things for those who are able to
pay for them
Peaceful and Lazy.
THE Esquimaux are a peaceful, lazy,
dirty lot, and are fast dying off from
disease and contact with white mems
ways OF living. In the matter of
whisky, the same law obtains there as
here; 1t being a mlsdemeanor to give or
sell an EsQuiInauX liquor. The Gov
ernment makes an allowance for
schools and teachers for them. The free
as good as any here. Incorporated
towns receive share of the liquor IL
ccnse money for the support of the
schools.
Fairbanks Largest City.
THE largest city In Alaska Is Fair
! banks on the Tanana river. having go
900 population. We get mall by steamer
| about once n week In summer and
every once In n while by dog sledge
in winter. The death rate In Nome Is
! very light and medical men must
| piece out their incomes by dabblinG In
mines.
Landing of Freight.
"All landing of freight and passengers
| is still done through the surf on the
! beach, and Is now reduced to compare
| tive safety by means of great cranes,
which lift stuff over the inner SURF
| line.
/ 1--WE have projected and shall build
a jetty out OF the mouth of Suaka river
this year and build an iron pier out
| side of that
THE great sight to a newcomer Is
the Aurora Borealis 1t flashes up into
a dark sky and lights all the country
around. 1t is weird and grand TO see
Lights Not Needed.
I'VE work two shifts In daylight ir
| summer, and in June and July We
never need lights In our houses.
II am on my return. having gone tc
Old Mexico TO look at mining Interests
there. but | can find nothing to equa
Nome Ships Will not begin TO come VI
there TIL June /. when the Ice break!
up. | was in the ice on the steame
Nome City for forty days and II was
trying experience. The underwriters
will not insure q ship that leaves foI
UP there before June l.
Great Placer Field.
Nome is by far the largest place
field I'm the world, and We can see mt.
years of good work even now. DlscoV
cries are being made almost daily, an'
we know that sooner or later quart
mines must be found 1t is hard to 10
cate quartz because no groupings cal
be seen. all OF them being covered b.
| the tundra which acts as great carpe
over all the surface Up the streams
where the surface is broken IT Is cas-,
to trace and find quartz Groupings
While the tundra is a curse TO I'll
quartz miner, 1t is a real blessing L
the placer miner, as 1t keeps the groun
soft for his purposes.
I'VE have a fine Government post u
there called Fort Davis and two com
panies OF infantry are stationed there
We are loyal Americans up there, an
make more Of National holidays tina
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