The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-20

he has learned their care and is rs.
surcd prosperity ana distinction OF
being Il man Ot means.
The bureau of education maintains
great number If schools in Alaska, and
in many Of these the teachrr is also
the guardian Of Tic rcipIccr nerd.
While the Youngsters are taught the
WAYS Of the white man. tncy arc also
urged 10 dcyclop ambitions and to grasp
their opportunity tu become reindeer
raucbcrs The Eskimo children arc
most plablc and the older members VI
the communities are good workers aud
have a particular turn towards the
tending Of herds ATTEMPTS have been
made 10 get some Of the Indian tribes
TO take up the raising oi reindeer, but
without success. 1T IS the industry OF
! the Eskimo.
The prospcctors and miners IN AlasEn
aud al the people who have fol'Owc3
in their wake have ha0 grcaa difficulty
in getting fresh mra. aud have Saf-
fcrcd greatly for Lack of IT, Cola stoT-
age meat from the States has been
brought IN and mas hccu sold for fabu-
! lous prices. Other than the chance
game there has been no other altcrna-
/ tive. But the reindeer has become suf-
| ticicntly plentiful 10 permit Of tho dis.
! posal Of considerable numbers of them
as meat during the present winter. Dis
posing of great numbers of males in
| this way does not interfere with the
development of the herds. All the
/ towns in Alaska have come TO depend
\ TO a great extent on this meat, and there
/ is no question but it viii soon become
/ the regular diet \ recent regulation
| separates this meat from the old clas-
| sfication of game and II may DOW be
| shipped to seattle and Portland ut aIl
! seasons Of the wear This opcuS a
! 4 sk,. f,r
! il promises TO soon become staple IN
all the Western cities,
Meat for the World,
Alaska is capable OF producing rein
/ deer meat for the entire world. Hcrds
of these animals as large as those Of
cattle on all the Western plains could
be maintained in Alaska. Such num-
bcys may sometime be raised ms TO
make Tins meat q strong competitor
( in tho markets of the nation. All tho
interior Of the great territory is n
/. plain hat yields nothing Sc, abundautly
! as the white moss upon which the rem
deer feeds There is sufficient of it
10 support herds Of millions, aud these
! arc sure TO develop. Nobody owns The
lands. nobody uses IT; II is of no value
other than for this very purpose, Yet
rs reindeer pasture there arc hundreds
/ and thousands Of miles of 1t that are
unsurpassed.
The government has all along apprc-
ciatcd the fact of the remarkable op-
portunitics tLst these conditions have
4 offered to the American il he were able
TO establish herds. But the government
has a monopoly of the reindeer and re
fuses 10 give them up To ner own citi'
zcns for exploitation. They are kept
for the native. with the idea OF teach,
inu him to use the chances that would
| otherwise make many white men rich.
The government will not dispose of
herds 60 white men nor allow the
natives TO do So The native mav
sell to each other or 10 the
outsider for beef, but the regulations
forbid them from disposin2 of females
Cn this way the producing herds arc
kept i'm the possession of the govern
mcnt or the Eskimo.
Like Domestic Animal
The reindeer is we'll adapted 10 play
the role OF domestic animal. 1T is hall
rs big as y COW aud dresses into halt
rs much meat, which is regarded rs