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Show Wonder, of Alaska. "Well, you must recollect that J contains 600,000 square miles, and: be a considerable period beforealls sources can be named with cefl but relating to my observations m liable reports of experiments ia localities, I will say that Alaska r about .everything possible to us temperate "belts. ' First, there ai: licious wild berries of all kinds,e pecially the strawberry, which abundance and is of fine flavor, fifteen miles of the great Glacier exploring party of ten Indians ana Miliitoa niVlrorl pnoliell Of thfiSe within two hours to furnish us ish dessert for three days, t; the world can finer vegetables ; crops -be raised, while sheep w-raising w-raising has been tested to sat and encouraging experiments i have already been made. Thro doubt in my mind that thenar will do excellently in Alaska. "Rather a dreary country afta "Dreary! It is the kind j-ness j-ness that sent over a tkousi ists into the country last sei has sppts of dreariness that r wonders of the Yellowstone pari-grandeurs pari-grandeurs of the Yosemite va inglorious in-glorious vision of the famed is worth crossing a continent to-makes to-makes pictures on the memory last a lifetime. .r . ' 'Vegetation grows with tropin ness to the south and west, j north the Arctic sun on th." ! glaciers and snow fields invite prosaic and practical men to k-; they are neither poets nor pa; when I discuss the fisheries, sa-neries sa-neries and mines and agrfc""1? bilities . I grow tedioua, and unpermitted un-permitted to expatiate on tn beauty of that couritry I a termaable." Interview in Pnsfc. |
