The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1919-11-07
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great length of the days, that growing season 10
worth about 200 of our days. So that they are
enabled to grow crops suitable to take care OF
large population and take care Of the stock fnat
they may produce. The crops are wheat OATS
rye, barley hay and they have produced an alfalfa
which makes good crop. Its vast forests OF TIM
Der suitable for paper pulp are awaiting ready
market, while its fisheries are the greatest on this
continent.
Mr. Miller OF Washington have been over
nearly all Of Alaska have gone into the hills
with my pack on 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 80
per cent Of them in Alaska. They are there await.
Ing the hand that win develop them.
Something has been said here Of the reindeer
situation. There is no prettieF sight In the world
than to see thousand head of reindeer grazing
on mountain side. The Aleutian islands are full
of them. There are 10000 or 10000 reindeer in
Alaska. They are a godsend to the natives. They
90 out with their little herds. An Indian or an
Eskimo may not have over % or 30 reindeer, but
he herds them as a careful husbandInan takes care
OF his little flock of sheep incidentally they
cleaning out the wolves and lynxes and the other
predatory animals that infest 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 substantial source OF meat supply for our
country is one of the most promising that we have
before u.s.
Now, the climate there is not bad. Over In the
interior, in the Yukon valley, the atmosphere Is
dry, and with the temperature IS degrees below
: zero you can wear an ordinary hat all day long
and your ears will not get t0id. When you 20 out
to the coast you get the moisture. Going away
from the coast into the Yukon valley you 90
over mountain chain some 1000 feet high and
when yoH get over that chain you are In the great
arctic slope. have come out Of that valley with
the thermometer AZ degrees below zero where
could stay out doors all day without discomfort,
and have dropped over that mountain chain only
a 80 miles and come out to the coast where the
Thermometer was degrees below zero and have
nearly persisted with the cold The interior Is d
cold dry climate. Animals can forage all winter
in the interior country.
1t would surprise some Of you to know that Ia
that country the ground Is externally frozen. No
one has ever dug through the frost and they have
been down thousand feet
The fields OF barley md rye ana wheat are
grown on the top Of ground that is frozen for q
thousand feet beneath. 1t thaws on the surface
Ia the summer time 1t gets very warm. There
ii daylight 18 IS and "a hours in the day. and
crops mature quickly. They come right up over.
night OF course, in the winter the nights are long
and dark and cold but the summer seasons are de
isuhtful The thermometer goes up to so 90 aud
IS ID summer but In che winter it becomes exceed
inry cold The coolest weather ever saw In the
yukon valley vas 6s degrees below zero. That ia
cold weather. and it Is dangerous weather; but as
Won 70 down the Yukon river, and perhaps 500
miles from the mouth, there Is Catholic mission
the HoIy Cross mission. There IS one OF the most
beautiful apple orchards have ever seen, perhaps
81 acres Of The most beautiful young apple trees
suss coming into bearing. And grazing over broad
acres 81 clover was one Of the finest herds Of Jer
sew cattle have ever seen All that ID land that
10 frozen It Is queer country. Every ruIe Of the
eeoiozisks fs reversed when you get to Alaska.
And I ten you gentlemen. just as sure as God
the future win unfold for Alaska and the Ameri-