The Alaska daily empire., 1918-07-27
CALIFORNIAN WRITES ABOUT
 ALASKAN TRIP
J. B. Agnew Sees Many In- tercsting Things in Alas ka and Tells It to
 CaIifOrnianS.

new have been making a trip over Alaska. and is now in the North, is enjoying his first visit to Alaska, and writing interesting letters to the Visalia Times concerning what he has seen and what he has learned. MT. and Mrs Agnew have made the trip to Atlin, down the Yukon river to Panama. up the Panama to Fair banks, and thence over the trail to the Coast. Coming from Cordova, he visited several days in France. l He and Mrs Agnew made the trip to Taku last Sunday on the Evelyn G., and the round trip to Sitka on I the City of Seattle.
 The following are excerpts from one of Agnew's letters to the Wis alia Times:
 Going through Wrangell Mar rows, the boat slows down so that l it barely moves, and twists and turns around buoys and lights for an hour or so. It reminded me of Gatun Channel through the lake at Panama There were several glac. | iers just above that dispelled the al l fusion and we were soon running l through a flow of small ice bergs. | They were melting in all kinds of | fantastic shapes and we imagined we were reviewing a parade of l fancy floats. It was easy by slight flight of the imagination to see several fairies, angels and al i sorts of things on the melting ice, coloring The largest glacier we i passed was the Davidson glacier on the left of Lynn canal This was named for Prof. Davidson, whom all the old Californians will remember Why Vancouver, who surveyed the whole North Pacific coast 130 years ago should have called the Lynn channel a canal I can't understand The Lynn was for his home in Els sex, but the canal must have been carved by the same great glacier which ground out the rest of the labyrinth of waterways.
 There are only three Inside Pas sages' in the world, this one Mrom Seattle to Skagway HOO miles long, where the waves of the Pacific orly strike you directly in two or three short stretches, one off the coast of Chile and the third along the Nor wegian coast. They are all three so similar that you cannot tell which one of them a writer is de scribing. One description does for them all. There are hundreds of islands with network of channels between them and it takes an old experienced navigator to pick the course. They all look alike to the chechaco. The timber grows to the high tide as thick as alfalfa in field, simply no room for an)ther three to find root on the mountain side.
 We stopped several hours while the boat unloaded freight at Ket- chikan and Juneau. We wandered around and took in everything to be seen. We saw our first icebergs and glaciers after leaving Juneau. l
 Just across the Gastineau Chan nel from Douglas Island and above the town of Juneau, tho capital of Alaska, is the Alaska Gastineau mine. which milled 7,5OO tons of ore daily during the year 1916. with a re. covered value of 97 cents per ton at cost of 73 cents a ton. They have a maximum capacity for 12,OOO tons per day.
 Speaking of his Atlin trip. Mir Agnew says:
 When you see an acre or so fenced with a high fence in this country you may know it is a fox farms. and according to law you must not go within 75 feet of if
 A stranger coming around may make the foxes nervous and they will take their puppies off and bury them in hole or in the snow, and fre auently this kills them. We saw half dozen farms yesterday and today. A good-sized silver gray will sell for from $4OO to s1,50O, so you see it Is quite some business"