The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-08
REINDEER STEAK
UPON THE MENUS
Big Arctic Herds Making
Venison as Common as
% Sirloin in West
BETTER THAN BEEF
,,rree Range in North Enables
orthe Producer to Supply
3 Cheaper Meat

an 100. Halms IN tho Americans scandins.
IIarr visn psyiew.
She is honor Of being the pioneer In
ems OF rs rapidly growing reindeer
.'h ",iy boionEs indlsputably 20
artts' ,Bnm. lie statted the buslness
~ n,nua - ago and T. has noufisned
her llvinS, o,r,nrsist .J r.o,ao,'s o.,
All but sa,r - ''.,..'.'
.,, ~. W RvianH. mostly men Of Nor
descent They are now tho
n individual reindeer owners
iu',rInaaina and II IL nos unlikely that
Il''Iua,lon the biggest herds In the
WnA w Introduction of reindeer into
srt ~ WAS instituted with the I'M
nhheI' from Siberia Of III ami
the braWhich we're landed on tho
served ino Port Clarence bay on the
hnd Mts' Airthday July 4. 1892, In
mo tle dlso OF tho next ten years
Mis- Peabos we're brought over. tho
Nhoh Mrs lrtation being 1880. In
Wh! recipe reindeer wore shipped
osklns hrr .'ay 10 Alaska fu tho re-
the pr9ceedi starving miners az Circle
oflehthI coIlhoso we're Hlod deer and
MRS Pea'no breeding stock.
iner' wherepose OF the Introduction OF
tbe story Hto Alaska was to make OF
.chhe' lhenos solf-supportinR peo-
nave tothlmanagement OF the herds
memorial .ibution OF tho deer being
III Nollers der the auspices OF the bu
lceterhducation. department OF the
MocArthl In order to teach tho Eski-
IN her nindeer farming ahout sixty
whlto lawere brought into the country.
hiter ufapps received for their own
most ot few deer on condltinn that
welcon five years they should return
her sdual number ot animals TO Uncle
l. Thcy we're allowed to keep
" ~ . number In excess OF what thoy
thlhd originally received Roth LApps
med Eskimos were forbidden TO
wilaughtcr female deer during the
ime OF their productivity--a rule
rqhat IL stlil In force.
u A Rapid Increase.
III This policy OF protecting tho COWS
vwhile the steers have bocn used for
tmeat and skins, accounts for tho
smasing increase OF tho Alaska rein
tdeor herds. The original stock OF
N1,2s0 animals has multiplied in less
Nthsn thirty years to grand total
vof $4,000. OF this number about
tone hundred thousand have been
Mslaughtered, leaving about one
Nfourth million reindeer In Alasda at
the present time,
Americans of Norwegian descent
nhNr htfu tnt Ilfbt WIlltb men III
Alaska to recognize tho great pos.
sibiiiilss vi tho reindeer Industry.
About eight years aga they hesan
Nto purchase herds from bapps and
. from missionA which wished to dis
y pose OF their holdings, and over since
individual herds have heon passing
into their hands. The largest rein
deer owner In Alaska today IL syn
dicate. Iomen " Co, composed prin-
- A .ssNa
headed by Judge q, ]. Lomen. The
company owns about thirty thousand
deer, or about 10 pcr cent OF tho total
stock In tho country. About 10 per
cent II owned by 1000 Eskimos: the
government owns per cent, and the
remainder Ia distributed among a
few Lapps and missions.
The Lomen company has n big
slaughter house at Nome ana sever
nj smaller ones, all with cold stor-
age plants. and II may be said to be
on big production basis. Several
thousand steers are slaughtered an,
nually and shipped to the United
States by way OF Seattle. Judge
Lomen claims that tho reindeer In
dustry is now the most rapidly grow.
ing industry OF Alaska, and that, fig
uring on n basis OF present prices
should within 90 years range be-
tween four and five million reindeer.
which is all tho country's grssing
facilities can support. and there
would thon be a surplus for slaugh-
ter OF as much as n million animals
yearly Reindeer meat differs con.
alderably from venison. the meat Of
the Wild deer. II II said by experts
20 combine the juicinesa OF beef with
the dclicacy and tenderness OF VENT
son.
Improving the Stock.
Iomen n Co. are undertaking
scientific breeding. by which II Is
hoped that larger and stronger ami
mails can bc produced. Dr, ~. w
Nelson. chief ot the department of
aRrlcmlnlre IN Mnahlnrinn hns naiI