Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-01

VINO VIII laugh as they pose for the camera.
All along the river they will pass little en-
cafnpmentS OF Indians who have fish-whee!s
IN the stream that are catching their winter
supply OF salmon. They will see the salmon
drying on racks, just as washwoman dries
clothes, and now and then will be close
enough TO the hSh-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 great herds of rein
deer feeding on the moss of the tundra. and
at St. Michael they may have reindeer meat
served on the ships tables. St. Michael is
Wonderfully interesting. 1t is another army
post, and the party will be received bv the
soldiers
The eXcursionists will be met at St Mich
ael by the special steamer that will carry
them back to Seattle The distance in the
ordinary course is further than from New
York to London, but in the route taken TO-.
this celebration it will be considerably long,
er The first stage Of the journey will b.
from ST. Michael to Nome the gold capital
OF Bering sea. The ship will stop several
days there, and the stay will be full of en-
tertanments OF one kind and another There
VIII be reindeer races and other Eskim
sports. There will be dog races and excur-
slons to the gold-mining properties. The
visitors will see them washing gold ont Of
the sands OF the seashore, and will be shown
the great hydraulic lifts moved by river
which is carried over the mountains and
made to raise the rich earth to the sIuice
boxes. The tourists will be entertained bv
the Arctic Brotherhood and the Lob Cabin
club, and the ladies Of the party and Others
VIII have a reception given by the Kegoayah
Kozga, the woman's club of Nome.
Arrangements have been made to take
the party from Nome across Boring sea TO-
the Pribilof Islands. Here the government.
Will give an exhibition of the seal industry.
allowing the travellers to walk among these
beautiful animals, ranging in size from pups.
as big as a cat to giant bulls, weighing 400
or 500 pounds. The next stage of the Jour
ney will be to the Aleutian Islands. which
VIII be entered through the Unimak pass, \
stop being made at Unalaska, one of the
small sem1-Russan settlements of that part
OF the world. From the Aleutians the ship
will go on along the coast of the Alaska pc
nnsua passing the volcano of Katmai and
the great Island of Kodiak, which is as big
as Porto Rico. Then Prince William sound
viii be entered and stop made at Seward,
the southern terminus of Uncle Sans rail-
road and where the cats will probably take
the tourists inland to Anchorage and posi-
bly, to the coal fields of Matanuska Leav-
ing Seward, the great copper mines on the
Island of La Touche will be visited, and a
little later the ship will come to anchor at
Cordova, the port for the Kennecott copper
mine. From there by easy stages the ves-
sci will return through the inside passage
to Seattle.
This itinerary gives but little idea of the
wonders of the Alaska exposition. In addi-
ton to the industrial features will be tho
scenic grandeur of the inside passage, sur
passing that of the Thousand Islands Of the
st. Lawrence, the Inland sea of Japan and
the fords of Norway. There will be the
wonders of the Yukon, the following from
its source to its mouth of one of the might
lest rivers of our continent, going through
a wilderness which, in most places, is as
untouched and undescribed as was the
James river and the Chesapeake bay before
Captain John Smith came into Hampton
roads. 1t will include the sight of noun
tains as beautiful as any in Switzerland, and
the exploration of glaciers far greater than
any in the Alps and equaled only by those
of Greenland and Antarctica. In both ex-
cursions the ships will sail right under. the
great river of ice, which, with wall 800 feet
high, breaks out into the sea at Taku; and
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