The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-04-07
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~EA HE President and Mrs. Harding
have planned n vacation trip to
Alaska this summer. According
10 tentative plans made long In
n EAl,,u. advance they will leave Washing.
" ASS ton In June and viii return
U E1HXS until about the middle of Septem-
mn ber It's quite a journey. you
RL AyS1 know, from Washington to Alaska
- (es@6 and back and there are reasons
why the President wants a month
or more to look around In the
Land OF the Midnight Sun.
According TO the original plans the presidential
party Will so by special train TO the Pacific coast
probably aghting ut San Francisco Seattle will
be port OF call. Thence the route will be through
the Inner Passage and on to Alaska. Presumably
Juneau. the territorial capital, will be visited. Ac-
cess 10 the government railroad now practically
completed, can be had either at Seward, Its south
erh terminus, or at Anchorage. on Cook Inlet. The
Road runs from Seward straight north to Fair
banks, about 100 miles. Mayfower the presden-
tla yacht Is likely to 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 10 be lover of the
beautiful and majestic In nature and u loyal friend
of our national parks and OF such scenic enter
prises as the National Park-to-Park highway In
cidentaliy an effort Is being made To get the Pres
dent 10 visit on this trip one or more of the nation
al parks and the proposed presidents Forest"
on the North Rim of the Grand canyon
In Aaska-~'The Frozen North" we used 10
call 1.-THE President will hpve n chance 10 see
various things that are fur out of the ordinary
There isn't space here 10 catalogue them, but here
ARE few that any man would be glad to see:
Az hetchikan stream plunges through the CEN
ter OF the town. And In the stream Is Il salmon-run
where millions of salmon TO be seen making
incredible leaps to ascend the rapids.
Juneau IN the Alaskan nuitnl There tha prcst
dent can take an automobile and drive IL miles
right tn the edge OF Mendenha glacier. I'm be
summer weather, lie pick flowers by the
way. Hell see vegetable gardens rawberry beds
and wheat fields surrounded by giant forests and
osertoppcd by peaks white with everlasting snow
OF course the President viii strike somewhere
the fukon-one OF the great rivers OF the world
and grandy scenic for the greater part OF its $500
miles.
The President ~ likely to run across n b,c herd
of reindeer anywhere from Point Barrow 10 the
Alaskan peninsula. There now about o25OO0
OF these "camels OF the Frozen North" one of
these days we nre likely 10 be eating reindeer meat
instead Of beef: several thousand carcaSses are
40 be shipped In from Nome this year
The seal rookerics on the Prbllof islands should
he worth seeing there were 552Tls Of these curl.
Gus animals according to the seal Of 1890
and they arc increasing although Uncle sam takes
more than 2a.Ooo skins Il year
l, Ii 10 be hoped that the President visits the
Ten Thousand Snakes" katmai volcano on the
Alaskan peninsula blew It's head OF during three
days In June OF 1912, covering all Alaska with
thick coating of dust, The explosion left a crater
400 feet deep and eight miles around with n 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
II Is sample Of earth In the making. Some day
these steam bets may cool OF enough to become
geyssrs, Ike those Of the Yellowstone. In the
meantime. cooking Is easy In katmaL
IL the President travels on the government rail.
read to the gnp In the steel he will have glorious
view 81 Mount Mckinley. II the great noun.
tains 81 the world and the central feature of the
2so square Miles ~ Mount Mckinley National
park |; rises 20.3G feet above sea level and Is
most Impressive. II Is wonderful preserve OF
Alaskan Wild gane-carihou bgho,r moose deer
and bear-Whlch live and breed there In Immense
numbers. ~ present this park Is inaccessible bur
the government railroad viii touch the new ems,
boundary line established hy recent net Of con,
grrss. Then there viii be rush 81 tourists-very
few Of whom will reach Aount Mckinley's glacier
covered summit.
So Alaska has the makings ~ IA mighty interest.
ing vacation trip for the President and his party
But don't get the idea that the Presidents trip
Ii wholly and solely vacation pleasure trip For
the truth Is that Il is combination ~ pleasure
and business II II breaks nifty nifty. the plea sure
angle Is la luck. For Aaskn Is one Of the admin
istrations problems" And the President is re-
ported TO think the Alaskan problem important
enough to warrant first hand Information