Arizona republican., 1909-10-13
Beauties of the Northland In Summer
 Must Be Seen to Be Appreciated

| the journeyings of the season were
 most delightful. The feature of the vacation was the Alaskan trip. which
 Mrs. McClintock says can never be
 appreciated until one has taken it. Instead of the continuous show
 of snow and ice, as most people inn agine. the Alaskan trip. nothing could be further from the facts. especially : in the summertime. Clear up the
 coast. almost to Sitka, the greater part of the way there are in evidence great forests, and much verdure of a varied character with wealth of fruits and flowers in many places. Meantime. especially along the north ern part of the coast, the scene all
 ternates with glaciers and myriad
 waterfalls while almost the entire journey is through a channel bOrdered
 on either side by islands or coastland,
 or both. There is a variety of seen cry that one can scarcely imagine from the book impressions gained of
 the north land.
 They journeyed first to Skagway.
 making several stops between. one at
 least where they saw the salmon run
 ming up into the fresh water rivers
 and creeks, so thick one could grab
 them and pull them out on the land
 with his bare hand. In fact some
 members of the party did that very
 thing. At that season nobody in that
 country would bother to fish with a
 hook and line. They can pick fish
 out of the streams as a butcher picks
 beefsteak off the block. At Skagway
 or the stops this side they saw large
 quantities of lucious wild raspberries
 and other fruits, and as fine tame
 strawberries as one ever saw in any
 country. together with a vegetation that was generally lUXuriant. From
 Skagway they traversed the pass on
 the Dawson City road beyond Summit
 lake and as far as Lake Bennett, the
 head of navigation on the Yukon. On
 this trip they -beheld the beautiful
 Glacial Falls and much of scenic in-
 terest
 - Returning to -Sksgway and contin-
 uing north they visited Juneau and
 Sitka. Sitka is the prettiest town site
 she ever saw, says Mrs. McClintOck. and the approach to it was most al
 turing IL seemed like they were
 traveiing up hill all the way as tEcy threaded through the thousand is lands that guard the town site from the open sea, each seemingly more beautiful than the others, and green clear to the waters edge Beyond the city were the snow covered modn- tains with waterfalls and glaciers frequently in view They went as close up to the Taku glacier as was deemed safe, it being particular show place and one of the big gla- ciers that run down into the water. From it icebergs from time to time break off and drift out to sea, though they are not as large as some of the great icebergs one reads about in the | books. It seemed as though they | were in very few yards of the big | glacier but the captain of the boat | said it was mile away. Some of the ! icebergs as they drift away are de- ! cidedly blue, while others are green and of varied colors. And this. Mrs. explained. is not a pr Cook story of purple snow either She does not know about the purple snow but has seen glaciers of many colors. One Tn particular in the Ni- cinity of Ska9way. she says, rises up | from the coast line like a great white way from the ocean to the sky. The Taku glacier, a mile across it's face, is blue and pink. The Norris glacier Is another that recedes from the wa ter and is three miles across Its face, but it is not so attractive. peing cOv cred with dirt and debris.
 Tr- Tp(F1 iC also a pretty town and rests against | heavily wooded mountain that makes the picture an inspiring one. One of the unique features of Ju- neau is that all the streets are paved !. with lumber. which is about the | cheapest commodity there.
 But the greatest interest was found | in Sitka which is an old and historic ! place. dating back to the era of Rus | sian ownership of Alaska and there | are still preserved many of the old | Russian curios and perhaps some of | the Russian customs and influences l among the natives. There is a mag | museum, the finest one she | ever saw of Indian and Russian curios | and thet curator takes great pains to 1 explain everything to his visitors. | There is also an Indian missionary, ] and a church and a school for the In- dians. Not far away is the beauti- ] full Indian river park. famed for its | wonderful collection of totem poles ] from many tribes. and some of them | are very odd ones, one in particular 1 being surmounted by whiskered Rus | sian head showing that its makers as- sumed to have descended from Rus sian ancestry. on one side of the house at least. In the old Greek church was seen the famous picture of the virgin | and child, done in different colored | metals instead of paints, picture that is at least worth while for its historic and the genius of its con- 
 During the trip visit was also paid to the famous Treadwell mine and stops were made at a number of smaller but no less interesting towns than Juneau and Sitka, the two names most intimately associated with that region.