Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-03

Inc warm jackets ana outer clothing
he has on.
Only An Hour Of Darkness
When it is cold, it is as still as q
fog. There is no wind in Fairbanks
such as there is in Montana. The
smoke from all chimneys in town can
be seen circling in the air in a line
perpendicular with the chimneys.
In the summer, during the months
OF June and July, we have virtually per-
manent daylight. June 81 is the long
baseball game is started at 10 O'Clock
IN the evening and is over by What
would be midnight here. The people
them dance for several hours. The
IL way one can tell when If is bed
lime is to look at his watch. The sun
disappears for about an hour but II is
night enough to read books without
electric lights.
In the winter, the days are so short
tnat they max up for this long day-
light spell. At that time. the sun
rises about 10 o'clock in the morning
ana twilight is usually about 8 o'clock
In the afternoon, with pitch darkness
an hour later.
The public school system in Fair
banks is similar to that in Great Falls.
mat is. there are the eight grades
ana the four year course in high school
mere are about 200 in the public
school system, of which number 80 are
enrolled in the high school. They are
al elther white or q part Indian.
There are no Eskimos.
Million Dollar BRIDGE
There are missionary schools in
me Tar inland where Eskimos and fun
FLOODED Indians attend. They are man
aged by teachers usually chosen in the
eastern part of the United States.
business in Alaska will be ire
m~endousiy strengthened and expanded
Win the completion of the government
territorial railroad from Seward to
Fairbanks. a distance of approximate
" SOC miles. 1t is now all finished
but for the bridge over the Tanana
river.
This bridge will be of all steel
and is expected to cost $1,000. 900. 1t
will be high enough TO allow large boats
10 pass underneath. The government
will not build a draw bridge. 1t must
also be high enough to allow the un-
usually large ice breaks to flow under
without endangering the approaches.
At present the smallest coin used
In the interior of Alaska. in places
where the railroad is not built. is the
% cent piece. | believe that. after
the railroad is completed the nickels.
dimes and possibly the pennies. will be
introduced for standard use.
because the railroad is nearing
completion. three large companies
have constructed three large gold
dredges near Fairbanks and it is ex-
pected that five more will be operat-
ing by the spring of 1923. This
an immense mount of work to be
lone and business should develop ac-
eordingly.
Fishing Big Industry
The wheat crop of interior Alaska
will be big this year. The potato crop
also is very large. With the develop
ment of the country, it will be profit
able to farm much more acreage in
the interior of Alaska thar is nov be-
ing done. AT present it is almost i'm
possible TO find markets for a large
yield of vegetables or wheat because
the railroad is not completed.
The interior of Alaska is not as
well off in industrial lines as is the
coast. The fishing industry on the
coast is big and hundreds of men find
employment in the canneries and on
the fish crews. The large canneries
ship millions of fish every year to
the United States.
MANY Eskimos are found on the
coast. They dress in the same fashion
as the pictures seen of them. But.
in the inland there are few of the
northern race aud mor breed Indians.
OF course, the full flooded Indians are
north and inland and they
live in the more primitive ways because
t1A,- a4nNnS ,-,t1 A. .Ls
has not been established.
Fairbanks today is thriving and af-
ter government improvements reach
that town it will grow proportionately.
are probably 1900 people there
low. When / left all vacant store
and houses had been occupied.
Many young men are coming from this
to start in business, TO learn
as apprentices and gradually
work their way TO an independent state
they own their own shops and
their own help. The same op-
p%ortunity exists for any boy who IS
to work hard.
Freezing Bread for Month
In the winter, when the coldness
of Alaska is continual ard stays for
months as it does sometimes in north
ern states of the United States. the
people put up their seasonal supply
of meats in what they call caches.
Caches are either made out of a
spare room in a house into which no
heat is allowed or built on the top of
high poles which resembles a lookout
In the room. whole carcasses
of caribou. moose and other meats are
frozen and treated SO as to be fresh.
I'm my situation as Il school teacher.
we had no time to bake bread each
day. so we baked a months supply AT
one time. The way We treated 1t
for use sounds rather ridiculous but
one would be surprised at the unusual
freshness Of the loaves at the end of
the month.
we frose each loaf and allowed q
sheet OF ice about a quarter of an inch
thick to form on il. The night before
wanted the bread for the next day,
we would thaw it out by leaving it in
oven all night. BY keeping the leo
rom melting too fast, moisture would
work its way into the loaf and by
morning it would be as fresh as though