The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-08

party. No one was allowed to go over
 the Chilkoot Pass without 1000
 pounds of provision for fear that they
 might starye in the Klondike and we
 were constantly hearing of the terri.
 blc things that had happened the win
 ter before It is 5000 miles from New
 York to Seattle Then you are only
 halt way to Nome, IS it is 2 h00 more
 from Seattle to Nome Nome is 500
 miles weSt of Honolulu, From Cape Prince cf Wales American coil, you
 can see Asia across the BehrinG sea
 only 30 miles Since i;s purchase
 Alaska has sent us ten millio iii Ted eral revenue, eighty million ir furs
 ninety-siS milton in fish and one aun-
 dred and twenty million in gold, and
 when you realize that Alaska is only
 in her infancy you can sec what enor-
 nlcus wealth she win continually pour
 into the Uuited States
 And then there is another thing that
 we must not forget Prof William Fl.
 Brewer ot Yale probably did mere to
 encourage the keeping of Alaska than
 any enc else, as most of the people
 were very severe in their criticism of
 the purchase and the keerins of Alas
 Ea at that time. But Aaslsa's norlh-
 ern lights must have reflected a pic
 ture in the future r. Prof Brewer, for
 he pointed out to MT Seward the great resources and D ssibilties that Alaska had for ns and said that her
 fish industries alone were worth the price paid and that Alaska would be to the Pacific coast what Labrador is to the Atlantic in her fish industries. This is one of many cases where Yale las stood foremost in the interests and progress of America.
 There are 25 newspapers in the ter | ritory, several of which are issued daily. Alaska has eighty p,stoffices and mails are delivered regularly north of the Arctic circle. Berries grow in abundance in all sections of Alaska and the most beautiful wild flowers abound
 There are millions of acres of land availa ble for certain kinds of farming i. and stock raising There is TO alnc wn Y mineral which may not be found d somewhere in Alaska Alaska does I more business per capita thar any oth- q CT geogra phical division of tho United
 States Alaska contains about 500 900 { square miles and has more than .V or0 T miles of seacoast, alm,s st twice and a 4 half as much coast line as the rest of 4 the United States The climate of a Alaska is nearly as varied as the At "A lantlc coast extending iron. Maine to x North Carolina Northern Alaska is \ warmed by the Japan currents and is ] as mild in temperature as Portland, t Oregon or Washington, D ..
 N The Yukon, one of the largest tiy- IFS on the American continent. is nav Il igable for D. 0G miles. Its mouth is 90 n miles wide.
 k The Alaska mountains constituting II the Susitna-TGnana divide, includes s the highest peak on the North Amer s ican continent Mount McKi1lev 2O- N 464 feet in elevation Any person Gho is qualified is entitled to enter 220
 acres of land under .he h,mestead Alaw.
 Our first experience in sleoPing out s was at pyeal We landed OUT snud-
 
 # them, we crawlcd int, our sleeping Hbags by the side of them When We Hiwoke in the morning we found our kselves covered with snow l was chos- Hen cook We hustled about and got hour breakfast This was the com Hlmencement of our trip over land We .iibad come some 400 miles by water Aand we were now 500 miles from Apaweon We hired team to take over Hour goods to Sheep camp, some { Aniles. and paid Si00 for the rip. This A,vas a city of tents. Here we camped iNsrch 14, and commenced getting
 scur goods over the Chilkoot Pass. We Hwould go up the pass distance drive
 I'd stake. put block and tackle. hitch 1.-two sletls to the ropes, one leaded ana alAhe other empty. Ne would ret on to
 1.-the empty one and s.i1s down. while liit pulled the loaded one up. NC kept