Valdez daily prospector., 1913-07-30
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1913.
THE DAYS WORK.

ley, the highest mountain on the American continent, have been staked and recorded, and Sour dough Alaskans did the work. Scientists and professional mountain climbers with interna- tional regulations have tackled the job, time and time again and they have failed every time. Ev- cry time a Sourdough Alaskan has tackled the climb he has walked right up the mountain side nutil the top was reached. There are 10000 Alaskans who could climb McKinlty, and there is proalby not a Cheechaco who could, without an Alaskan Sour dough guiding his footsteps.
 Mt. Mckinley would have been climbed many years ago and a roadhouse with saloon attach n1ent erected on the highest peak if there had been any call or eX- cuse for such work. Alaskans ar essentially practical, and as they are climbing hills every day in their days work, they can see no sense in climbing the highest of hills just to be able to say that they did it. Such work seems foolish to them. If the Cheechacos had not tried and failed so often to ascend Me- Kinley; had not written so many stories of the superhuman feat (as they call it. and lied so much about Mckinley, it is certain that the mountain would never have been tackled by our boys. With sudh an advertisement as the supposed difficulties of the climb were given, some of the Sour douGhs began to wonder if there was anything in the stories, and if inert was a difficulty in Alas ka that an Alaskan could not surmount. It was to satisfy this curiosity and vindicate the Alas kan'S belief in himself that the Lloyd party walked up Mt. Me- kinley and dragged long flag pole with them. Professional climbers tried to follow their trail and failed, and in failing sought to cast suspicion on the achievements of the Lloyd party and create the impression that the Lloyd flag is not there and never has been.
 ArchdeacOn Stuck, in his pride of Alaska, proceeded to set the matter at rest for all time to come by gathering three hus ky AlaSkanS together and going up Mckinley with them. The Lloyd party climbed the north peak of Mckinley, so the Stuck party tackled the south peak, which is the higher peak of the two. Today the American flag floats from both 'summits of Mckinley, and Alaskans did the work. The world will believe ArchdeacOn Stuck, and the worlds people will never again doubt that the Lloyd party and the Stuck party have done the work that the profes- sional climbers have been un- able to do.
 It is not strange that Alaskans can climb their own mountains, and it is not strange that the Cheechaco cannot, The Cheecha- co climbs mountains ''by the book" He follows the prescrib- ed style in all his climbing, and if he comes to new difficulty never before encountered by one of his class, he sits down by the traiIside, pulls out the book and looks for instructions. If he cannot find paragraph to fit the case, he packs his kit and turns back, declaring the mountain is unclimbable, The SOurdough Alaskan when climbing hills knows nothing about the rules of the game as prescribed by the professionals, so he just keeps putting one foot before the oth- CT and following them upward until he arrives. If he comes to a hole that is too wide to jump and which he cannot bridge, he goes around it. It never occurs to an Alaskan to quit on the