Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-22

may be leased for fur farming and should this bill be enacted into law he is of the opinion that in many instances an entryman hereunder would secure control over and use of an entire island without making any payment therefor except the 16O acres or less embraced in his fur farming homestead.
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 Secretary of the Interior Wilbur announced recently that he had designated Charles R. Trowbridge and Howard M. Gilman, both of whom have long been associated with the problems of the public do- main, to soon go to Alaska to assist the local officials in the actual ap- plicatiOn of a carefully worked out plan for reindeer management. They will be followed soon by an expert in range management who will remain permanently in Alaska. At present there is a Reindeer Council that has drafted range rules, the members being the Gov- ernOr of Alaska, the chief of the Alaska Division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Superintendent of Reindeer in Alaska, a represen- tative chosen by the Eskimo, and a representative of the Lomen in tertsts, large reindeer owners.
 Definite plans for the ensuing summer have been drawn and are to be put into eject. Certain of the ranges as, for instance, that around Teller and Buckland in the Seward Peninsula, are to be evac- uated by white owners and left en- itrely to the natives. Unit man. agers are to be appointed for given districts and assisted in their du- ties. Complete round-ups are to be made of certain areas where na- tive deer are largely unbranded and the ownership of those deer determined. Prescribed areas are to be listed under the direction of the Land Office for the grazing of certain herds in accordance with field investigations that have al- ready been made. Courses of train ing are to be set up for native herders and for herd managers. Natives herds are to be protected as completely as is possible. The government representative are to meet with the Reindeer Council for consideration of revision and perfection of range rules and other problems. Study of general admin istration, the distribution of sup plies and deer, and marketing problems, will be made The skill of these combined agencies will be brought to bear on directing the organization of this important in- dustry in such way that it may function competently.
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 Now that there is such general and pronounced interest in the de- velopment of reindeer in Alaska and the establishment of a market for this product, it is interesting to note what Dr. Sheldon Jackson thought of the prospective devel- opment of this industry nearly 30 years ago. AS General Agent of Education in Alaska, the Doctor in 1903 submitted to Congress his re- port on the Introduction of De- mestic Reindeer into Alaska, and among other statements made were the following:
 While the original purpose in the introduction of domestic rein deer into Alaska was to assist in the civilization of the natives and to help them to a better and more certain method of gaining a live lihood, yet the reindeer will prove equally important to the whites who may seek homes or engage in business in subarctic Alaska. With the increase of domestic reindeer in Alaska, it will become possible for white men to own large herds, but the men that will do the herd ing and teaming will always be Els kimos and Laplanders. Thus, the Eskimo, trained as herder or team ster, will prove valuable to the white man, and the white man in turn, as director and employer, will be valuable to the native. AL ready the reindeer have given evil dence of some of the ways in which they will prove an important fac tor in the development of the great north region"