Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-24

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Frnnk q. Carpenter AT Bnkcr Hot
springs. One hnnd la n hot stream and
the other la one Icy cold.
just now are loaded with luscious ripe
fruit ] picked several handouts and
ate them as We walked along.
Coming To the steaming brook that
fio~S from the spring. we passed n
chicken and hog shed about 100 feet
IN length. II is vacant now from tae
burning OF the hotel. but when bust
ness was boomingSits owner kept there
""o hens. fifty ducks and seventy pigs
lie had also twenty-five horses and
eight cows and bull The sheds were
cut out of the hill from which the
spring comes. The ground is so hot
That 1t kept the poultry and other stock
in comfort throughout the winter. and
that without the stoves necessary to
other parts Of Alaska.
The water changes the tcmperature
of the lard OF almost the whole farm.
TIA adjacent hill slopes are "a natural
h"iocG. Snow, falling on the warm
ground. thaws so rapidly that the sur
face is seldom white for more than "a
couple of days at al time. and the frost
goes down only AN inch or So On the
edge OF the warm land young parsnips
Fave been dug in March from under
the snow. and all other crops arc much
IN advance of those planted farther
away. When the hotel was running
ny" acres were devoted to vegetables,
chiefly turnips. lettuce. cabbage and
carrots, and thirty-two were planted
in potatoes. the yield being seven or
eight tous to the acre
WtrI:R - STREAMING
AS TT rOuRS our
! stopped al the foot Of "a hill where
the springs arc. The warm water
flows out AT the rate Of $50 gallons to
the minute. 1t is as clear as crystal.
but il is steaminS. and that at tenn
pcraturc OF ia degrees Fahrenheit I
watched Mr. Warning, the hot-s springs
expert. as he tested the heat and meas
ured the flow. He says il is hot cnous h
To soft-bol eggs in ten minutes.
Walking down the stream thirty or
forty feet. found another brook How
ing into it, and supposed this would
he OF about the same temperature as
the one we had tested nut i'm my
junction OF the two streams was such
that was able To stand on the fork
and put one hand in the hot water
ana the other in the cold. While doing
so. | had photograph made. In step
ping back To pose properly. mad
vcrtcntly put my foot up to the ankle
In the hot creek. jerked il out
quickly. for thought | was burned
During my stay in Alaska | have met
c. d. Schoheld. OF seattle the Owner
OF some of the largest springs on the
Seward Peninsula. These are more
wonderful than the springs here. They
are situated about seventy miles north
OF Nome. at the foot of the Saw Tooth
Mountains. just about iifty feet above
sea level. There are Il number of them
which boil out OF the ground at a tenn
pcrature OF 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
maintaining the same heat winter and
summer. The springs form n stream
called Hot Creek. that runs through a
farm or 80 acres; and the heat so ar
feels the temperature of the land that
great part OF II is cultivated I'm my
talk with Mr.. Schoheld. | asked him
as t" his farm at the springs. He re.
piled:
we have forty acres under cult.
Haion, and sixty more that could he
put into crops. The whole Of this 100
acres is kept warm by the ground. II
you dig down anywhere inside this
tract You will find hot earth. and the
lower YOU go the hotter il gets. At
depth Of six feet you cannot hold
the earth in your hands There seems
I" he strata Of hot water under the
whoic 100 acres. ON the other hand.
the land outside that area is frozen
solid to n depth tho extent Of which
no one knows. 1t Is - vat OF hot water.
or. rather. hot earth. in il basin Of ice. :.
What do you grow"
We raise potatoes. rutabagas. beets.
carrots. turnips, satisfy and the finest
OF celery We grow kaic, cabbage and
all sorts of root crops. We have green
peas. but beans will not mature.
have line asparagus bed. and as for
mushrooms. grow them as big around
as II dinner plate and as tender as any
III the world. We also raise lettuce
and radishes. ! have a beartllcss bar.
ley and oats and also one kind OF
wheat which natures"
do YOU make hotbeds:'' | asked
PLANTS GROW DURING:
WINTER IN HOTIIOUSt.
we have II glass greenhouse, thir-
ty-six feet long and sixteen feet wide
built above ono OF tho hot springs The
bot water furnishes the heat and no
matter il the THERMOMETERS goes to 80
degrees below zero outside, ii never
gets TO freezing within. The plants
grow in the dollhouse all winter. and
in the summer we have cucumbers. TO-
matoes ana watcrmclons we also
raise lettuce, young onions and other
green stun. We have n tree onion
that grows we'll. 1t does not lie i'm tho
ground, but grows OH tho branches OF
u tree. twelve or fourteen inches high
asked Mr.. schofeld whether many