The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-10-20
BISHOP TELLS CF G0NDITi0NS
 IN INTZ RIOR

 ,vr,sc diocese is the territory ot Alaska. and who resides at SitI;a, radc his annual inspection of tha Episcopal church work on th, Yukon ard tributary waters of the Yukon re- ccutly.
 The bishop travelled from Whit"- no,,, down thn Yukon up the koyo- k,,k a r,w hundred miles, up the T"n- ana. Co t.a mouth of the Yukon, aod un rhr coast, for some distance OF t1' revenue cutter Bear. Some of the way he was compelled to use small boat@ and in this way travelled several hun drol miles.
 The Episcopal church has schools scattered along the Yukon at different p,a,cs. and a' least ono hospital tt For, Yukon. This hospital ministers ,o inc natives and whites for long distance. as it is the only institution of ts kind in radius Of many miles.
 The interior is moro sparscIy set tied at this time than it has been sine" .hr gold rush in 1897 aHd 1898. Fco- ,lc have gono out, so tha, tho outlook IS not very promising from the stand. point of lU. present work in the In- terior. It Is expected, of coTs" 'ha; the railroad when completed will ad' something of interest ano business, but it is as yet a question of ho" mu,r ;r vH' con'~jhut.
 Tho bishop feels that 30 far h.ug: site could have borr cnos"N .." '." one taken for thn town of Non"nH. ',' townsjtc tow, and part Is fIood.d a't high walks arc used to gc. t0oo "1' building to another This vi.' m.N tate against the town for years t' come.
 As to the coal at N.aaw m.h.p. has ct hon found except -"ch 's Nn have to bc treated before 0si@". t '7 a low grade The railroad ro' Y" mana is laid for about fifty ai,c-, ru" ning along the Nonana ur"r "hirh is a swift and turbulent stream, ami unless good engineering worI, is don on this section it will frequently be washed out.
 The great need of ,hc Interior is -uel. as this is scarce and necessarily of a high price, practically prohibiting mining at the rr.srnt time. Only tho richest hods of o"n ,an be worked, and even in these .go work is discoTrag snr on arcou. .' the high prices Of everything r,uH. The NoHaua riv"r has latent punH enough for the cIcr- tnfying of a large section Of the terri .ory, could n. u'ant be installed, and f this wore done it would be the means Of providing a muoh-nccdod source c' pown and heat for working the ground. The outlook for tho com ing wint.r is very poor The moians ,css D evident than the Eskimo, ami depending upon the fish from the riy- CT for thoj food. will be terribly short this season. as a'mos. no salmon have como up the river
 The bishop, with others. was instru- mental in preventing the establish mcnt of more than one canncry upon the Yukon, Lat that camcry, with a limited output of 3O,OOO cases, seems to havo successfully shut out tue salmon from the upper river. For tho oasl season ,hc salmon have been very scarce in the upper river. The natives used ro get something from fur trap ping. but since the white man has come he is getting less and less from this source, so that his condition, in stead of improving is growing stead fly worse. The Eskimo, however, is getting along in much better fashion than the Indian. He is more careful more industrious, and gets along more easily than the other.
 The herd of reindeer which the Episcopal mission had near NenanG HaS been turned back to the govern mcnt, as it was found that the eXpeo- SC of keeping the herd was greater than the benefit derived would war rant. This station is somewhat too far