The Newark journal., 1919-11-20
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great length of the days, That growing season k worth about 200 of days So that they are enabled te srow crops suitable to take care of I large population and take of the stock that they may produce The crops wheat. oats, rye barley, Lay. and they have produced alfalfa which makes good crop. It's vast forests of tim Der suitable for paper pulp are awaiting q ready masket while it's fisheries Inc greatest on this continent
 Mir Miller of Washington--I have been over neari3 all of Alaska 1 have gone into the hills With my paek my back. have teamed what few provisions 1 had 200 or tG0 miles with q dog fe:n out to my digsins The greatest copper mines on the face Of the earth within the territory of Alaska. You know how We searched the world for metals during the war. We have 99 Der cent of them in Alaska. They are there await ing tite hand that will develop them
 Something has been said here of the reindeer situation. There is pretticr sight in the world than to thousand head of reindeer grazing on mountain side. The Aleutian islands are full of them. There 10000 or 100000 reindeer in Alaska. They are q :,odscnd 70 the natives They so out with their little herds. An Indian ar al, Eskimo may not have over 2j or 30 reindeer but he herds them 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 iafest the country. The 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 a srhstantia source of meat supply for our country is one of the most promising that ,ye have before
 Now, the climate there is not bad Over in tbe interior, i'll the Ynlon valley. the atmosphere k drA, and with tue temperature 2a degrees below zero you can WORT ordinary hat ail day Ion., and Hour ears will not get cold. When you go out lo the coast you get the mo sture Goup ,vov from the coast into the Yukon valley you .,o oYcr mountain chain some 1000 feet high ana vixen yoa get over that chain you are in the aleat arctic slope. l have come out If that valley with tl3e thermometer 42 degrees below zero where could stay out doors all day without discomfort and have dropped over that mountain chain only 20 miles aEd come out to inc coast where fhe thermometer degrees below zero and have nearly perished with fhe cold. The interior k II cold. dry climate. Animals can forage all winter in the interior country.
 II would surprise some of yeu to know ti,st io that country the ground is eternaliy frozen No one nas ever dug through the frost end ,her have hcen down thousand feet.
 The telds of barley and rye and wheat ar. grown on tac top of ground that is frozen for :, yhulisand feet beneath 1t thaws on the surface in the summer time. Ii gets very warm There is daylight 16. IS and 24 hours in the dav and crops mature quickly. They come right ,u o.er pigft Of course in the winIcr the nights are Iaa., and dark and cold, but the sumner SCISSORS arc de- liehtfal. Tho thermometer goes up to 80 9a and T, in sumner but n the winter il becomes t,yceed inriy cold. The coldcst weather ever saw iu fis Yu,ap yalley was 6S degrees below zero YI,af l. cold weather and t is dangerous weather: bu4 os ven go down ;he Yukon river. and perhaps .1, miles from the mouth. there is Catholic missjop the Holy Cross mission There is one of the fnosr heautifll apple orchards have seen. petlaps So acres of the most beautiful young appie trees i,,sf coming into bearing. And grazing oyer hroad sores of cloyer was of the finest herds of ter sey cattle knvc seen. All that in as,d that iS frozen II Is queer country. Every rule of the eeoloSists k reversed when you get to Aiaska
 And I tell you, gentlemen, just sure as God inc future will unfold for Alaska ard fl,e aneri