Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-11-07
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great length of the days. that growing season is
worth about 200 of our days. So that they are
enabled to grow crops suitable to take of
large population and take of the stock that
they may produce. The crops are wheat, oats,
rye, barley hay and they have produced an alfalfa
which makes good croF Its vast forests of tim
Der suitable for paper pulp are awaiting a ready
market, while its fisheries the greatest on this
continent.
Mr. Miller Of Washington.-I have been over
nearly all Of Alaska. 1 have gone into the hills
with my pack my back have teamed what
Few provisions had 200 or 300 miles with a dog
team out to my diggins. The greatest copper
mines on the face of the earth are within the
territory of Alaska. You know how we searched
the world for metals during the war. We have 90
per cent of them in Alaska They are there await.
ing the hand that will develop them
Something has been said here of the reindeer
situation There is no prettier sight in the world
than to see a thousand head of reindeer grazing
on mountain SIDE The Aleutian islands are full
OF them. There are 10000 or 100000 reindeer In
Alaska They are godsend to the natives They
go out with their little herds. An Indian or an
Eskimo may not have over 25 or 80 reindaer hut
he herds them as careful husbandaan takes care
OF his little flock of sheep. Incidentally thew are
cleaning out the wolves and lynxes and the other
predatory animals that infest the country Tho
reindeer support the natives. And / truly believe
that with the great grazing lands that there are in
Alaska, the future development of the reindeer
as substantial source Of meat supply for orr
country is one of the most promising that we have
before
Now, the climate there is not bad Over in tho
interior, In the Yukon valley, the atmosphere is
dry and with the temperature 25 degrees holo,v
Zero you can wear an ordinary hat all dov lone
and your ears will not get cold When Won 90 out
to the coast you get the moisture Going awoy
from the coast into the Yukon valley Won 90
over mountain chain some 1000 feet high ond
VuhAr frofn kI1nko Oh.
arctic slope have come out of that valley with
the thermometer AZ degrees below zero vvboro
could stay out doors all day without discomfort
and have dropped over that mountain chain on,n
80 miles and come out to the coast whore A.
thermometer was degrees below zero and bane
nearly persisted with the cold. The interior 10 n
cold, dry climate. Animals can forage all winter
In the interior country.
1t would surprise some of you to know thar In
that country the ground is eternally frozen NJ
one has ever dug through the frost, and thew have
been down thousand feet.
The fields of barley and rye and what a.
grown on the top Of ground that is frozen for
thousand feet beneath 1t thaws on the surface
in the summer time. 1t gets very warm Tharo
is daylight 16 18 and "a hours In the dav Ga
crops mature quickly They come right mn ova.
night. or course in the winter the nights are lono
and dark and cold. but the summer seasons arc de
lightful. The thermometer goes I'D to 30 on ond
SO in summer, but in the winter 1t becomes excaod
ingly cold. The coolest weather ever saw In r.
Yukon valley was GS degrees below zero That 10
cold weather, and 1t is dangerous weather: but az
you go down the Yukon river. and perhans 5O0
miles from the mouth, there is Catholic mission
the Holy Cross mission. There is one of the most
beautiful apple orchards have ever seen perbons
so acres of the most beautiful young apple trees
just coming into bearing. And grazing over broad
acres of clover was one of the finest herds of Ter
sey cattle have ever seen All that In land that
is frozen. 1t is queer country Every rule of the
biologists is reversed when you get to Alaska
AMI tell you. gentlemen just as sure MS God
the future will unfold fer Alasln and the Amer