Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-29
ALASKANS PLAN
NUGGET EXHIBIT
GOLD AND CELERY WILL BE
SHOWN AT SEATTLE
TANANA VALLEY TO EXPLOIT ITS
MANY RESOURCES
Agricultural and Dairy Products, Be-
sides 100000 in Precious
Metal, Features at the
Yukon Fair


SEATTLE. March 2S.-Alaska WIN
show many wonders among us eAllIo
its at the Alaska Yukon-Paclnc eAPo
sition in Seattle this summer, hot VIC
greatest or the least OF whlch VIM ~ "
81. 600 900 in gold dust, Just as II Sa ti,
from the placer mines Oh Noine anu
Tanana. - OK mn =
ooc every year in original wealth anu
Nome produces as much more.f<Acoepi
ing the American dollar as tue AiI -.
can DEITY. that is something TO pras
of. but. strange though IL De, Alash"
no longer boasts its loudest ana utaN
cot Of its golden riches, but of the lact
tbet n has homes and farms for the
Tens of thousands whom it hopes 10
r,,in 70 the north through proper eX-
nloitation and truthful account OF us
Alaska has been more written about
nv noyelists than historians. Romaiice
has suppressed fact, and the populal
-46ea has come to be that the northern
taS,;+or,, is an iceberg shoaled in the
Arctic and it's trails, the way OIL 'i'e
wolf - ,. - is
warmer in Fairbanks, close to the
Arctic circle, than it is IN NortheIit
California. oregon or the state Oh
Washington. Incidentally, the Gays
are twice as long, for, as a Dawson
poet has written it, the sun comes up
while it is going down. and all piaht
life works a double shift as result.
Dine on Strawberries
In May the residents of the mining
camp of Fairbanks, which is IN tlle
heart of the Tanana valley, dlne on
homegrown strawberries. delicate let
lotaf
months later muskmellons and water
melons equal to those of Rocky Ford
and California flood the markets,
grown by the OVERLOOKING acre at Man
iv Springs, fifty miles north of FAIR
hanks. With the twenty-four day rad
ishes show their tops above the sur
face in five days and mature IN Iess
than three weeks. 1t is the same with
onions, squashes, tomatoes, potatoes
turnips. rutabagas, and other tuberous
prowths thrive as nowhere else.
Dawson City is now producing pota-
toes enough to supply its whole popu-
lation through the winter where 1t was
used to pay rs cents pound for those
that were brought in over the Ice
in winter.
Three years ago the winter price on
eggs IN Fairbanks was SO per dozen,
and every egg was brought in over the
40O miles of winter trail. Then it was
discovered that the Missouri hen ialo
a little bit faster under the stlmulat-
ing influence of Alaska's climate than
anywhere else, with the result that
fresh eggs are daily diet and chicken
is to be had in the restaurants at 10
cents the portion.
Diaries Pay Fortunes
There was also the time, before
Alaska's capabilities were realized by
even it's pioneers, when all the milk
used in the territory was brought In
in tin cans. Today in Nome and Fair
banks spendidly equipped diaries pro-
vide it fresh the year round, and the
Fairbanks dairyman last year took
$4,000 as his profit and did not half
supply the demand of the camp.
The meadows and valleys of the Yu-
kon and Tanana produce abundance
of natural hay. Freighters, dairymeR
and liverymen reap it by the thou.
sands of tons, but it is not the best
forage. This being the fact, they
turned to the reports of the United
States agricultural department and
began to experiment with timothy and
rye Now it is demonstrated that. can
enough farmers be kept from mining
to till the soil, there will shortly be an
end to shipping hay during the winter
at a cost of % cents a pound.
Across the Chenoa river from Fair
banks are an acre of green houses AMI
many acres of gardens growing the
salad vegetables, celery that would
make Kalamazoo jealous, and the sort
of strawberries that come from Hood
river, Oregon. The young men who
went into this venture because they
had "gone broke" in mining, divide
800 900 a year as their profit.
Alaska Shows Farm Exhibit
A few miles out of Nome there are
hot springs which even in midwinter
keep clear of frost several hundred
acres of land 1t is the boast of Nome
that everything can be grown there
except palm trees and that they are
going to experiment with that line
during the next season. All of which
is rank eXaggeratiOn, but it goes to
show the pride of the "sourdough" in
the recently realized capacity of his
country.
The northeastern coast of Alaska.
warmed by the Japan current, has for
years produced fruits equal to any,
wheat, oats and all of the small fruits
berries thriving there marVelously. In
the way of berries, all Alaska, includ-
ing that portion inside the Arctic cir
Gle, produces rankly a wild raspberry
that far excels in size and flavor the
cultivated fruit of the "outside"
Specimens of all its farm products"
Alaska will show at the exposition
which opens in Seattle on June l. 1t is
the claim of Alaska that for any man
who will take there the same amount
of money and business sense that
would establish him successfully upon
small western farm there is the same
certainty of success. with the measure
of it infinitely enlarged. This conten-
ton it will seek to prove by it's dis
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