The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-09
GREAT MEAT
 INDUSTRY IN
 THE MAKING
N. Y. Financial Writer Tells of Reindeer Herds in Alaska

the New York American, writes the following interesting article of well knowh Nome man-Carl J. Lomen- who is in the reindeer industry ir Northwestern Alaska, which is well worth reproducing. It follows
 Many years ago Carl J. Lomen was a classmate of mine in the Central High School of St. Paul, Minn. He drifted West, and I drifted East and we lost sight of each other. Tester day he came into my office. This was his card:
 Lomen and Company
 Reindeer Raising and Marketing Carl J. Lomen Nome, Alaska
 President and General Manager
 He isn't a vaudeville performer nor Baron Munchausen. but the pio- neer and leading figure in a great meat industry, which, in a few years, will play an important role in the food supply of the American people. So am going to tell you something about it.
 Lomen & Company own 30,000 rein deer, which graze over an area of 6,OOO,OO0 acres. They increase so ra' pidly that, slaughtering 10 per cent of the herd each year-sparing the females-the herd doubles it's numbers in three years.
 Herd Doubles Every Three Years
 That is, this year he can sell 5000 carcasses, yet have 60,000 deer in 1926 In 1926 he can slaughter 5000 deer and have 100000 in 1929. He will have approximately 100000 in fifteen years, namely 1888. Three years later the herd will amount to 2,OO00OO-in only eighteen years from today
 It is a dull mind which does not see the significance of these figures for the meat supply of the United States. Lomen has only 3O,OOO of the 26O 900 reindeer now in Alaska. The total supply will be 100000 in 1852 and 100000 in 1885, only twelve years away.
 Is reindeer meat good? Try it at any of the great New York hotels where it is now served-the McAlpin the Commodore, the Ritz, the Bilt' more. It is a delicacy rated higher than venison A reindeer chop tastes like the breast of a mallard duck.
 Now reindeer are not wild animals but as domesticated and tame as the COW. The Federal Government brought them to Alaska from Siberia and Lap land to serve as meat supply and draft animals to the Eskimos. They re qulre no care except such as can be given them by few Laplander anc Eskimo rangers who annually roune them up to "earmark" the lawns which corresponds to branding on the cattle ranges. Thus reindeer mea can be raised cheaper than meat car be raised anywhere else in the pos sessions of the United States.
 Reindeer Meat 20 Gents Pound
 Today Lomen sells carcasses deliv cred in Seattle at 20 cents per pound Not so much above the wholesale price of first-class beef on the Pacific Coast. And this price of 20 cents, de livered in Seattle, is made in spite of the fact that the Lomens have moi yet begun to develop the by-products of their slaughter houses-Which vii be as profitable as the meat, when op erations are conducted on sufficient ly large scale. That is, when the by products are being utilized, reindeer meat can be delivered in Seattle, anC New York gets it's supply at the pres ent time by refrigerated vessels from Seattle. through the Panama Canal
 Will there be profit in developing meat at this price? We'll, Carl Lomen out of his profits, has built up herd of 30,O0O deer, 10 corrals, four abba toirs, three cold storage plants and a fleet of small coastwise boats in Alaska.
 It's a story that means something to you and to me. It was told to me quite simply by the Middle-Western boy who has built up Alaska's com mercial reindeer industry. AS we walked from my flat to the subway he looked up at the cloudless night and said: Wonderful night to be behind a team of huskies up North