The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-01

 Seward, whence they will come back to ! Seattle.
 | As for as Skagway, the second ex- cursion will be practically the same as that already described. After reach l ing that port, which is 1000 miles north of Seattle, the visitors will go ] into the interior on the White Pass l and Yukon railroad. They will cross | the coast range of mountains, passing l through scenery equal to any in the Rockies, and land at White Horse, at the head of navigation of the Youkon river. There they will be awaited by a fleet of steamers which will take l them down the great river and remain with them until they are landed on the 1 Island of St. Michael in Bering sea
 The visitors will live on the steamers
 and will stop as long as is needed at 1 the principal ports.
 l The first celebration will be at Daw- son, where the Canadians will do what | they can to show the wonders of the 1 <londike gold mines, present and past l The party will be taken out through tn 0 valley which has been turned over by the great dredges, and they will see the 1, hydraulic giants at work washing down
 the gold bearing debris of the White river channel. They will be received by
 the governor of the Yukon territory,
 and will have chance to see lit l tie of how Canada runs it's territorial possessions in the far north.
 1 Leaving Dawson, the fleet will make l its way down the Yukon, crossing the
 international boundary little above I Eagle. It will stop at Eagle, Circle City and Rampant and, at the latter port. 1 take the eXcursionists across the river ] to visit the government farm where l Uncle Sam is raising rye, barley and | alfalfa on the Arctic circle, not very 1 far from the north pole. The farmers will show their wonderful potato crops, and they may even give the visitors a
 taste of the strawberries which they
 have lately succeeded in raising.
 The next stage of the journey will be among the hills that wall the Yukon | from Ramrart to Fort Gibbon, at the mouth of the Panama river. stop will i, be made at the fort and the soldiers 1 will give the party a reception. Later i the ships will go up the Panama several | hundred miles to Fairbanks the largest
 town in the heart of the territory. Here
 they will stop several days during which ] they will be royalty entertained by the 1 citizens. I have letters from the board
 of trade there which say that they are 1 planning to give an exhibit of their va l rious resources, and that they will prob | ably take the visitors over the gold bear 1 ing creeks and out into the farming sec l ton. One excursion will be made to the 1 government farm about five miles from l the city, and others to the homesteads | and other farms that have grown up in
 the valley The visitors will be shown
 cabbages four times as big as their | heads and turnips that weight almost as
 much as a baby. They will be able to l stand in grass that will reach as high l as their waists and in rye and barley
 that will tickle their chins while they arc in it. Fairbanks has already pro- duced more than $S0,000 GOO in placer gold,
 and the visitors may have a chance to l see a cleanup and aid in washing the
 gold out of the sand. Fairbanks is also 1 the terminus of the railway. and it is not improbable that some of the track ! will be laying at the time they are there. /, They can also visit the fox farms nearby, and possibly may have a chance to hunt
 and fish during their stay.
 l The next journey of the celebration will be through the wonders of the Lower Yukon. The fleet will make it's way back to Fort Gibbon and then go for hun dreds of miles down the wide and slow 1 flowing river on it's way to the sea They will stop at many villages of logs on the | banks, and will see Eskimos-men, women
 and children-wllo will laugh as they pose l for the camera All along the river l they will pass little encampments of ln- d:ans who have fish wheels in the stream, l that are catching their winter supply of salmon. They will see the salmon dry ] ing on racks, just as a washwoman dries l clothes, and now and then will be close 1 enough to the fish wheels to see the great red salmon carried up by the nets
 and thrown into the trough. On the
 lower part of the river they may see 1 great herds of reindeer feeding on the mess of the tundra, and at St. Michael they may have reindeer meat served on
 the ships tables. St. Michael is wonder