Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1914-01-19

nearly the fact. and water trnnapor-
tatlon being relatively 80 cheap in
tho short summers. ! do not Hoo how
farming can ever prosper IN cOmpe-
ton with the produce from tho
northwestern corner of the United
States proper. am not speaking
Ia any pessimlstlc spirit; ! am Just
lvOlcing my common sense Judgment
n ! have any. Having spent "a
year and halt az Nome on tho
seward Peninsula, I have seen the
country IN summer, II one can call
the month or two when they have
no snow by the name OF summer
The climate varies good deal
arrived there on August the fOth
1910, ana the remainder OF that
summer until the frcezc-up IN the
middle Of September. or about the
first Of October, know there was
not single day OF pleasant wealth
err !. was misty. cloudy. damp.
siushy rainy slcoty or windy the
entirc portion Of the summer and
faii II that year az least In that Soc
ton Of Alaska. Then the winter
came ON very early, and an immense
quantity 81 snow fell during the ear
/ ~ months OF the froczo-up. do
not cxnEscratc when I say that the
snow In the town Of Nome was So
deep that Il left In many places but
n few feet OF the telegraph poles
above ita surface. and the piles Of
snow IN the street often hid and
sometimes completely buried one
story houses
Unless you have made road IN
Alaska. YOU cannot get around ia
what they call the summer season
very well with horses OF wagons, al
least In most OF the summers The
I coastal plains aud even the noun
tain sides OF the Seward Penlnsul
are covered with tundra or Niger
heads" and this II underlald with
from one tO ten feet Jf muck or
what | could call httcnuntcd peat or
turf 4 "nlggcr- head" surface is
the most miserable walking or driv-
| ing imaglnable---lt ~ lust lmpnssi.
| BILE. The frcezo-up, which begins
often before the first ~ October. D.
the time when the people can get
around, because you can go IN any
direction, everything being frozen
| This. Of course, IL the rule otter
Christmas % about the middle Of
I April The snow lasts when they
have a. from about the fore part
Of October until the middle of June.
The first boat into Nome In 1911
was the Corwin. ana she arrived on
the Sth day of June. but could not
land. and had 10 anchor five miles
from the shore In the ice. AZ this
time there were patches OF snow
I nfN 4 81
and the coastal plain still had plenty
at snow, while the high ranges In
land were sim white Then, strange
20 say. the rest Of 1hc summer Of
1911 was real sunshiny weather. and
very dry. the miners complaining OF
o scarcity Of water.
/ A dry summer for month or two.
such as they had In Alaska IN 1911,
when the grass and tho flowers
grow plentifuily. and because Of the
ions days In that high latitude in
duces people from the states living
there to praise the country ana It's
climate. There In no question but
what Alaska IL very nealshful rli-
mate if one Is properly clad anI
STAYS indoors during the time Of ex-
| IRENE cold. The children and the
women that one meets are the pie
ture ct health. the severe cold MAX
! ing their blood circulate and induc-
lng rosy checks. u the weather
happens "a be reasonably free from
/ billiards.. when Il usually Ia. In the
latter haiti 81 March and an OF April
and May. the long sunshiny days.
with the hard snow undcrfoot, In
ducc the people TO praise the coun-
Try and its climate, but they always
do II la lurs or oyercoats, " they are
| on the street. II Is pleasant To 2
person from middle attitudes 60 ca
pcricnce day of sunshine of from
ItWeuty-one Ca twenty three hours ia
length The sun rises In the north
cast and skins around and hardly
I sets at all. save for half an hour to
an hour or SO. and then Il appears
| only 20 GO behind a mountain IN the
northwest have gone 90 ms room
"a 1880 y ~ and read the news
paper by daylight. There seems 20
/ be- whole day remaining 10 you
, after YOU get your supper. I at
tended q baseball game that began
at 10 p. m. and LASTED until dark at
nearly 1 a. m This was about the
10th 81 June, 1911. or course, you
have the opposite experience IN De-
ccmber. when n 81 Is cloudy, there
Is no daylight % all during he
twen,y-four hours, and al best. there
IL bat thirty or fofty-flyc minutes Of
II AT midday. la the winter OF 1910
N az Nome, the snow was $50 deep
that In spite uf all that could be
shoveled and scrapes away, q was
shoulder high when packed hard In
the streets. I say shoulder high be-
cause the sidewalks In front Of the
stores, were canals or dltehes IN the
hard snow. and az people walked
along the sidewalk, the slelshs ana
dog-teams ON the street were run
ninE along ut an elevation equal 60
their shoulders and heads. and every
store had an Ice stairway cut from
the street down 10 the sidewalk In
front uf Il. Per contra the winter
Iof t9ii-ls12. al least up 90 Ianuar,
20th when LEFT there and N fact
the whole " Alaska suffered from
q deurth of snow had To wait