Show I Alaska Salmon Puts Gold Cold in Second Place Nobody except the thc Ala Alaskan kun per per- Imps considers the salmon u II goldfish goldIsh To 10 him the lash of Its dripping flunks ns liS It I leaps leups cups In the sun Is a n more Dore significant sig glitter than that of genuine gold Salmon runs In Alaska are ure of ot greater value than gold golt mines It II was gold that made modern Alaska AlliS Alas ka beginning with the famous Klondike Klon laon- dike rush of 1890 81 Millions of dollars' dollars worth of 01 the yellow v metal was mined The fhe peak penk year was 1010 uno when hn mineral min oral eral production totaled Ten Tn years later loter salmon exports for tor 1020 1120 were valued at while mineral production had hud dropped to 17 The golden harvest now Is gathered not from the earth but bul from fro the waters of the earth Salmon production Is not always alwn's so tint nal A normal Y your year Ill I'll r ns as in 1027 Is only Kv liven In n so BO the salmon I le Ii a II more valuable asset to Alaska than the gold mine Not so O beautiful as ns the goldfish perhaps but hUI more morl nearly deserving of the tho title As for beauty what fish con can surpass the magnificent spectacle of a n sal salmon leaping aping the merciless surge of a II waterfall wa Dayton Dayton naton News |