Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-17

may have in that way. Such stock Rs
We have has been bought from the
LaplandcrS and tho swedish miss ION
We have altogether about 5000 deer
and our present increase per aunum is
about 80 per cent;
DO YOU thinis a market for the mca,
can be created III the United Statcs:'
Yes. There is already such a mar.
hct IN Europe. Norway ana Sweden. as
well as Finland and Russia. have been
shipping large quantities of reindeer
uca; for years They send il TO the
chief European Ccnt"rs, and even 20
the United states. When | WAS at
Panama Year or so ago. saw rein.
deer meat from Norway among tho gov.
ernmcnt supplies. 1t was bought FOR
the men working upon the canal. The
northern part of the Russian empire
cats moro reindeer meat than either
beef or mutton.
AS YOU know. wc are impbrtinc
fresh meat from Australia and New
Zealand L. San Francisco, and New
York. is getting some of its beef from,
Argentina. As il is now. it costs us
IL cents pound in freight to send
our vcniSon 10 san Francisco. and this
rate will probably be cut in the future
! cApcct the deer meat to compete wi; n
the present domestic and foreign meat
supplies. and that we shall he able Ia
put II At a price that will make il pos
sibic to do SO. The meat is delicious
and there Will be a demand for il
among the mcat-catcrs who like ia
nave change of diet now and then -
ENPECT TO HAVE
MANY HI-PRODUCTS
In my talk with Judge l.omen.
asked as To the hy-products of the
industry lie says that tho day will
come when the packing houses here
will HAY" as many by-products as those
of Chicago. At present they are abb,
10 sell The skins and horns only, in
addition. 10 the meat. hut in the fu-
turc the blood will bc used for tank
age, the hoofS for the making of glue,
and certain of the bones for other
purposes. To-day the horns are sold
by tn" pound To men in Nome, who
cut them up and ship them away to he
used as knife handles. The hides are
in demand for huckskin gloves and 70,
shoe uppers. Some OF the skins are
tanned and sold as furs. The rein
deer fur is dyed. ana as such i. is
more beautiful than the ponyslin coats
now worn. The fur is finer and the
skins are lighter.
Tell inc something of tho reindeer
possibilities OF Alaska"
They arc great" said Judge Lomcn
The first deer were only sixteen in
troduccd twenty-five years ago. They
We're brought across Bcrinr strait
from Siberia, and tile first reindeer
colony was established at Cnalaska in
the Alcutiau Islands. That experiment
was not success. aud IL WAS som.
years before real start was made
hY the importation of siberian animals
Tho government began to import In
lN93, and deer were brought in off and
on until 1902. when the Russian gov
eminent prohibited further cNporta-
ton. At that time, fourteen years ago
nine herds had been established, and
the GovcrnNlcnt owned about o"OC
reindeer. worth $4,000 In addition
the natives had 2.S00. valued at SILL
GOO To-day the natives have about
10000 reindeer, which are worth more
than $1,000. 900. and they got an income
Of s3SO.oO0 per annum from them. In
addition. tho government has - large
number of deer. and there arc other
deer owned by private parties"
CRAZE: ON PECULIAR
VARIETY or MOSS
"As Ia the number of deer tina,
Alaska will support" continued drc
l.omcn, lit is difficult to say TIL,
whole country is adapted TO rcindce,
raising. and - vast amount oi il is
tit for nothing disc This is so of AL
Ia" land north Of the Yukon, ana the
most of that which borders on Ecrinu
sea. N a low estimate. | should sal
that We have here territory sin
times IS large as the State OF New