| Show t 4 o IJ I Tee Million Acres gyres In in l 0 It f 71 f N of fi aT I N North Northe or th h S o I z f fh f e d toAd 0 A C t U 15 m t t Jr f J j i e eJ et Ih j t a I Id 1 ra d MI i r J f 0 s s a 1 z r t I f r ZI z r t 1 e r l l b v i d JI s l f f y h t f Sp o 0 Alus kan k an anIl t i r y t s k l L It k s J V w l k ild Il r J vany i w tin r rv rw ua aG ti Y v N 0 5 J r t to r f ro r tf t fI r y l r N f y f Mt F 1 h d e F R 4 M r rr d dA a l A a 1 r r n Ir R fl P aP hr 11 r rw 1 w aj r 1 tt I r nr id y A Av v tit IU Fr l ar Ir V r f A T el elo ti 4 r a a d 1 o r S 1 e r rr h v err r rI Y i I Iyer S 1 i m i i Um 1 arn raw Field of Alaskan Wild Fox with Ptarmigan i V Y u a recent order ot or the tiro secre secretary By B tary lam y of the tho Interior about act acres es of oC land In husks Alaska will b be o a alers opened to tn set sel sellers lers Sept 30 10 next This Immense Immen e emet met la is at a distance of oC fifty lifty miles roni tho arctic circle and und It Il has hus been meld ld In III reserve by the government for fori fort i t national forest but now that lon Jon has hall been abandoned 1 and the land I ins JUS been made available for entry Tile The reason Uncle Sam has hus been hoen led lOll ledo o 0 change his hIli mind In regard to this thin tract Is In to bo be f found uw In the demand which hits has arisen arlen for land lund In Alaska II Iu for Cor settlement Within a u tow few to rears Tears the tho popular notion In regard to his faraway northwestern portion oC nt oCho he ho national domain has hus undergone a I revolution During that I It has hall been demonstrated con i elusIvelY that Alaska can grow many ninny other things besides Icicles The rhe government experiment stations st have shown beyond the tho shadow of a doubt that agriculture has a 11 great fu future future fur ture lure In the territory So tar far nil nit of ot the hardier vegetables Ye have been made to thrive and In the large largo valleys alleys of ot the Interior experiments have 1110 demonstrated ed ell the fact that enough lay hay rind and grain may bo ut raised to maintain work ani animals mals main and nn tn J oven even to make stock ruining raising profitable The great valley along the Susitna river In central Alaska ex cx extending tending north from Cooks Inlet and Resurrection Insurrection bay has hus a comparatively mild climate all nil the year This It Is explained by b tho scientists Is due to the warm ocean currents that pass that way This region will actually grow almost everything that flourishes In the temperate zones ipe t Nome No me Belle 1 rf 7 1 j Those who aro are engaged In preparing the exhibits for tOl the Yukon ex ox exposition position which Is to be opened In 1909 have been both hath gratified and amazed at atthe atthe the evidences of oC natural productive productiveness PIo ness II SS which have come conic to light The exhibit o of the tho nora Mora of oC tho the tar far north al ul already already ready on hand Is a n revelation to the botanist and the tho layman alike mike It hay has been current In botanic tradition that I N Ne 7 a e 1 r U z r WEllY I d Mt r u lW f 11 l ic I Io Bullion District I the whole number of examples ot of the tho vegetable kingdom to ho bo found near the tho arctic circle did not exceed BOO Now Mow conies comes a certain Gustave Gustavo a Il prospector of ot Whitehorse not a II bot botanist botanist anist nt at all who has hns promised to turn In III to the commission a n collection of 1549 1540 specimens of o Alaskus wild growths and ho claims that lint thera there lire are arent nt least lenat fifty more mON which he expects to got get before the opening ot or tho thu th exposi exposition exposition tion Lion According to this tills collector who Is an enthusiast st on the tho subject although ho he hoIs hoh heIs Is h Ignorant of ot theoretical botany there are aro sonic Home plants In the Yukon tho thu seeds seedy of oC which l lie dormant for several years germinating only when some peculiar climatic condition arises A particularly larl dry spring an nn unusually wet one nn an early I season or a 1 late Into autumn may muy develop seeds whoso wha o presence In tho the earth Is unsuspected In the tho summer of which Wilt was a n rare rate season for all 1111 forms of o vegetable growth in the dozens of plants never before be to 10 seen In III tho mho Yukon spring sprang up In shun nhun abundance dance and nourished flourished wonderfully The he following year yeal these plants did not lIot show themselves ea at nt nil 1111 Thus Tints It will willbe willbo be he seen that lint plant collecting In tho the north country Involves both hoth and patience A Picturesque Collector Is a picturesque and Inter Interesting Interesting Interesting esting character Ho He Is a I native ot ut Quebec and out Is IH about forty years ot of age ago In Iii 1897 ho lie was ivas aM curried carried north with the thc gold rush but dropped dripped oft off tit ut his companions In Inthe Inthe inthe the search for tor the tho seductive metal went vent on miles father farther built a n cabin by Limo tho headwaters of the Yukon Yulon and each began to 10 prospect leisurely The life lito pleased hint him so well that ho lio did nut not distress himself over tho the grout great finds which never came but was WIS con content content tent to experiment with wIlh his garden gurden and small patches of grain Two years ago ngo he began to combine the occupation of q prospecting with the collecting of oC specimens Since that whenever ho meets a new lIew specimen he ho carries It carefully to his its cabin mind and mounts It H The collection now covers feet teet of oC wall wull space Hence In the tho cabin cub In has hus found fount only thirteen kinds of ot trees roes In Inthe time the Yukon A few ow hundred miles to tho the southward there thero are tiro eight or ten times as al many varieties An Interest Interesting In erest ing lag feature of ot tho the Canadians collection Is furnished hell by h the tho mosses masses of oC which thero there Is a n 1 great greot variety certain species being edible also U that tI lilt tho the native grasses ot or the Yukon mike make excellent hay There Thero Is a 0 species of oC wild clover too which ho he believes to tobe tobe tobe be equal to that raised In ht more tent tem temperate Clines climes In 1895 three horses went astray and aud were not retaken un ml until un until til three years later when they the had h inn d spent three winters In tho thin open They were In better bolter condition titan than those tholie that lied had spent tho the same sume limo In the Gelal observed o that as nil the tho great Icat freight stages moved along ulong the tho trill trail OO mile Y In III length various cereals on en route to the tho mining camps cumps further north fell from the bags bugH The next spring they sprouted and all grew gre with head ripening within n n r raw I g hn a it largo large collection lien ml s from Gunt the ule 01 of h and l ho llo Offers them an Uti upper 11 A In destined lo to lh Ihn IhnA at wheat growing glowing u 1 Brest Er l Transportation Facilities Increase Most Host of oC nil mill i to In m of or Hi Ihl the territory n the i iris Improvement hens heen n th t ot ur ii facilities within the it nt V all Jho Tho Alaska lu Central II now W ham about fifty tulles mile of uC hil truck track In III u j g gnu operation Lion north t o u I UM Its will in II ci SeWA with timid of roads further I 1 There hero are arc seven Cell I tunnels inV so so on rui tech leet In III length fwd rl tits the t to In bo be opened to I ru Tl Ti a Ilse trod leM aJ y l out nut for fOl coal Melds mul M n n t th vui mile in ion distant IlOn 41 Another i n Ib ad d Ii 1 Copper niver River had u rim miles II ell ot or mail rond OUI from Crom rain 1 th t f close of oC last season and amid at t Ih It u ih almost extended to 10 Popper strike has hn delayed this thin 4 1 work m n i hut but with witha mho tho settlement I of oC the Ih Ala t la will w Ill come collie the spec tension ot or tho the roads When lieu liar tt fall began last snot no the Mines MincH railroad oad hud had SIX rI operation Tho Tim Copper Capper II JUver leer railroad oud hal had am i aM about twenty miles ot of grannie t Nome Nomo and Arctic railroad I ti II line lino It anti the i T Short Line runway railway with in H Alsip terminus nt lit 11 bay is II S about push ush on Onto to tn Nome Nomo Some SOllie of o these theBe u 14 expect to reach tench hat the Kayak Iau S In which coal Is plentiful coal root n 1 I I quality for Cor coking and nod of or el ems ra use usa I All this thin sounds like 1 f ant ani when It Is remembered that i the eat ent ell permanent white pres population or of 1 II W territory Is now It his is II not 1101 i to realize that thai things thing are arc being Tho Tiia accost regular Increase In n m thi population now flow averages t O a Yea a figure which will bo be enlarged ear SI dra a by hy the tho opening opening of th the co coq ambient lands to 10 settlers Last Lasi t gOT ei these dwellers In Uncle Sams north noel western refrigerator as been culled called by the skeptically all ba gar shipped to the tho states nearly m AAn worth of f gold t sliver silver ll fish products copper Conner Mi I INot Not Too Cold For Fer Politics Polities In v view Io leis of or all un this achy Ity It is fa no wonder that Is ii bilious hlll us to become stu stam m a a II P an and i Is at al ready engaged deeply In time tho ram game j d t political extension The low tempera turps which are such lIuch a II feature cj et portion of the national na domain do nom nOI B Interfere with the development at 01 great political activity The fhe already contains numerous who expect to bear benr a hand Band la In ite transformation of ot Alaska into ito me stater hood when It ft conies comes and they art are di at t present engaged in a n to bring It about as Uti speedily us as In time the less Ics than two years yean teat Out sit Om ra Intervene between now and the open opeo ing lag of the exposition great reut changes Ia 3 be bo wrought In it Alaska Much luch that thaI u ii now IIO projected will be bo completed 0 a under way wIY and those Iho e who venture ice Inu this hims newest newet t continental acquisition a tho the republic will be bc amazed at al the evi ert et dences es of oC earnest endeavor that thaI hi been made to dispel the popular mi r 0 Lion that thu t It Il was not lIot designed for or He tte permanent of man elan SILAS 0 WOODSON |
