The Holly chieftain., 1922-03-30

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 route 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, can be had either at Seward Its south
ern terminus, or at Anchorage on Cook Inlet. The
road runs from Seward straight north to Fair
banks, about 400 miles. Mayfower. the presden-
dal yacht, is likely to be sent through the Panama
canal to be of service somewhere along the coast.
wonderful vacation trip, worth the while
Of the President Of the United States of America
And the President is known to be lover Of the
beautiful and majestic in nature and loyal friend
OF our national parks and of such scenic enter
prises as the National Park-to-Park highway. In
cidentay an effort Is being made to get the Presi.
dent to visit on this trip one 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
various things that are far out of the ordinary
There isn't space here to catalogue them, but here
are few that any man would be glad to see:
At KetchIkan a stream plunges through the cen.
ter Of the town. And in the stream is a salmon-run
where millions Of salmon are to be seen making
Incredible leaps to ascend the rapids
Juneau is the Alaskan capital. There the Presl-
right to the edge of Mendenhall glacier. It'll be
summer weather. He pick flowers by the
way He'll see vegetable gardens strawberry beds
and wheat fields surrounded by giant forests and
oyertopped by peaks white with everlasting snow.
OF course the President will strike somewhere
the Yukon-One of the great rivers of the world
and grandy scenic for the greater part of its $500
miles,
The President is likely to run across big herd
OF reindeer anywhere from Point Barrow to the
Alaskan peninsula. There are now about 225OOO
Of these "Camels Of the Frozen North" One of
these days we are likely to be eating reindeer meat
instead Of beef; several thousand carcasses are
TO be shipped in from Nome this year
The seal rookeres on the Pribiof Islands should
be worth seeing; there were 55271s of these curl
ous animals according to the seal census of 1920
and they are increasing, although Uncle Sam takes
more than 250O0 skins a year.
1t Is to be hoped that the President visits the
new Katmai National monument-"The Valley of
Ten Thousand Smokes" Katmai volcano on 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 a lake
ut the bottom Close by is valley several miles
long. from which shooting up thousands of
steam jets, some of them thousand feet high
1t is 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.
II 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
tnns of the world and the central feature of the
200 square miles of Mount Mckinley National
park. 1t rises 20,3OO feet above sea level and is
most impressive. 1t is n 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 new east
boundary line established by recent act of con-
sress. Then there will be rush of tourists-yery
few Of whom will reach Mount McKinley's glacier
covered summit
So Alaska has the makings of mighty interest.
ing vacation trip for the President and his party.
But don't get the idea that the Presidents trip
is wholly and solely vacation pleasure trip. For
the truth is that 1t is combination of pleasure
and business; IL 1t breaks ffty-ffty, the pleasure
angle is in luck. For Alaska is one Of the admin
istrntion's problems" And the President is re-
ported to think the Alaskan problem important