Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-04-06

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WH to tentative plans made long In
n ENi,.u. advance they will leave Washing
" MSN ton in June and will not return
V$1HfLS until about the middle of Septem-
I'M Der. It's quite q journey, you
~ XlSH know, from Washington to Alaska
-ESG&Z and back and there reasons
- why the President wants month
or more to look around in the
Land Of the Midnight Sun.
According to the original plans the presidential
party will go by special train to the Pacific coast
probably alighting at San Francisco. Seattle will
be port of call. Thence the will be through
the Inner Passage and on to Alaska. Presumably
Juneau the territorial capital will be visited. Ac-
cess to the government railroad, now practically
completed. be had either at Seward, it's south
ern terminus, or at Anchorage, on Cook Inlet The
road runs from Seward straight north to Fair
banks, about 400 miles. Mayfower, the presiden-
tfal yacht, is likely be sent through the Panama
canal to be of service somewhere along the coast.
wonderful vacation trip, worth the while even
Of the President Of the United States Of America
And the President Is known to be a lover Of the
beautiful and majestic In nature and loyal friend
of our national parks and of such scenic enter
prfses as the National Park-to-Park highway. In
cidentally an effort Is being made to get the Presi
dent to visit on this trip of the nation
al parks and the proposed Presidents Forest"
on the North Rim Of the Grand canyon.
In Alaska-"The Frozen North" we used to
call 1.-THE President will have chance to see
fd1lOuS things IndI are lar OUT OF Lno ordinary
There isn't space here to catalogue them, but here
are few that any would be glad to see:
At Ketchikan a stream plunges through the GEN.
ter Of the town. And In the stream is a salmon-run
where millions of salmon to be seen making
Incredible leaps to ascend the rapids.
Juneau is the Alaskan capital. There the Presi-
dent can take an automobile and drive IL miles
right to the edge of Mendenhall glacier. It'll be
summer weather. He can pick flowers by the
way. He'll see vegetable gardens, strawberry beds
and wheat fields surrounded by giant forests and
Overtopped by peaks white with everlasting snow.
r OF course the President will strike somewhere
the Yukon-one of the great rivers of the world
and grandly scenic for the greater part of its 230O
miles.
The President is likely to run across big herd
of reindeer anywhere from Point Barrow to the
Alaskan peninsula. There are now about 225,000
of these "Camels of the Frozen North.' One of
these days likely to be eating reindeer meat
instead of beef; several thousand carcasses are
to be shipped in from Nome this year.
The seal rookeries the Pribiof islands should
be worth seeing; there were 552718 of these curl
Gus animals according to the seal census of 1920,
and they are Increasing, although Uncle Sam takes
more than 25,0O0 skins year.
1t is to be hoped that the President visits the
new Katmai National monument-"The Valley Of
Ten Thousand Smokes" Katmai volcano the
Alaskan peninsula blew its head off during three
days in June of 1912, covering all Alaska with
thick coating of dust The explosion left crater
$500 feet deep and eight miles around, with lake
at the bottom. Close by is a valley several miles
long from which shooting up thousands of
steam jets. of them thousand feet high.
1t is a sample of earth in the making Some day
these steam jets may cool off enough to become
geysers. like those of the Yellowstone. In the
meantime, cooking is easy in Katmai.
If the President travels on the government rail-
road to the gap in the steel he will have glorious
view of Mount Mckinley, one of the great noun
tains of the world and the central feature of the
22OO square miles of Mount Mckinley National
park 1t rises 20,5O0 feet above sea level and Is
most impressive. 1t is wonderful preserve of
Alaskan wild game-caribou, bighorn moose, deer
and bear-which live and breed there in immense
numbers At present this park is inaccessible, but
the government railroad will touch the east
boundary line established by recent act of con-
gress Then there will be rush Of toursts-very
few of whom will reach Mount McKiney's glacier.
covered summit.
So Alaska has the makings Of a mighty interest
ing vacation trip for the President and his party
But don't get the idea that the Presidents trir
is wholly and solely vacation pleasure trip. Fol
the truth is that it is a combination of pleasure
md business if it breaks fifty-ffty, the pleasure
angle is in luck. For Alaska is one of the admin
.jstration's "prOblems" And the President is re
ported to think the Alaskan problem importan
enough to warrant frst-hand Information.