Jerome County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1919-1920, 1919-11-06
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great length of the days, that growing season is
worth about 200 Of days. So that they are
enabled to grow crops suitable to take care OF a
large population and take care of the stock that
they may produce. The crops are wheat, oats,
rye. barley. hay and they have produced alfalfa
which makes good crop. Its vast forests OF tim
Der suitable for paper pulp are awaiting a ready
market. while its fisheries are the greatest on this
continent.
Mr.. Miller Of Washington.-I have been over
nearly all Of Alaska. ! have gone into the hills
with my pack my back. ! have teamed what
few provisions had 200 or 300 miles with dog
team out to my dggins. The greatest copper
mines on the face of the earth within the
territory of Alaska You know how searched
the world for metals during the We have %
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 r pretter sight in the world
than to thousand head of reindeer grazing
on mountain side. The Aleutian islands are full
of them. There are 100000 100000 reindeer in
Alaska. They are sodsend to the natives They
go with their little herds An Indian or mn
Eskimo may not have over % or 80 reindeer but
he herds them as n careful husbandman takes care
OF his little flock of sheep. Incidentally they are
cleaning out the wolves and lynxes and the other
predatory animals that nfest the country The
reindeer support the natives. And truly believe
that with the great grazing lands that there are in
reindeer
as n substantial source of meat supply for our
country is one of the most promising TINT we have
before
Now, the climate there is not bad Over in the
interior, in the Yukon valley. the atmosphere is
dry. and with the temperature - degrees belov
zero you can wear an ordinary hat all day long
and your ears will not get cold When Won 90 On,
to the coast you get the moisture Going o,,nv
from the coast into the Yukon valley Won %
over a mountain chain some 1000 feet high md
when you get over that chain you are in the great
arctic slope. have come out of that valley with
the thermometer A. degrees below zero where 7
coulu stay out doors all day without discomfort
and have dropped that mountain chain only
30 miles and come out to the coast where the
thermometer degrees below zero and ho,a
nearly persisted with the cold. The interior is
cold. dry climate Animals forage all winter
in the interior country.
1t would surprise some Of you to know thai in
that country the ground is eternally frozen M
one has ever dug through the frost, and they have
been down thousand feet.
The fields of barley snd rye and wheat mr..
grown ON the top Of ground that is frozen for -
thousand feet beneath 1t thaws on the surface
I'm the summer time. II gets very warm Tbaro
is daylight 1G. Is and - hours in the day and
crops mature quickly. They come right M over
night OF course. in the winter the nights nre lam,
and dark and cold. hut the summer seasons nre do
lightful. The thermometer goes up To 50. 80 and
% i'm summer but in the winter II becomes eXcep,l.
ingly cold. The coolest weather ever saw I'm tha
Yukon valley was 6S degrees below zero That 10
cold weather. and II is dangerous weather: hut ne
Won 20 down the Yukon river. and perhaps 500
miles from the mouth. there is Catholic mission
fine Holy Cross mission. There is one of the most
beautiful apple orchards have ever seem perhaps
80 ncrrs of the most beautiful young apple trees
inst coming into bearing. And grazing over brond
ncrcs of clover was of the finest herds of Ter
sev cattle have ever seen. All that in land that
is frozen II is queer country Every rule of the
biologists is reversed when you get TO Alaska
And tell you. gentlemen. just rs sure as God.
the future will unfold for Alaska and the Ameri-