Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-21 | Page 11 | Alaska About to Hibernate

Long Half-night Winter at Hand Steamboats Leaving Leav-ing for the South. FAIRBANKS, 'Alaska, Sept. 28. Most of Alaska is about to enter its long half-night winter seml-hlberna-tion when ice and snow lock almost everything in their grip -with a wintry clamp. Already last steamboats making connections con-nections "for tho outside world are leav ing U1U I1UI LI1U1 11 JllldWU lliti I""""' a short time, Alaska's big inland summer sum-mer highway, the Yukon river, will be sealed tight with seven months' Ice. Throughout the country preparations for tho winter are being made. Supplied Sup-plied are being laid in, for prohibitive freight rates prevail on the stage lines which serve the country in tho win-tor. win-tor. Fairbanks, Nome, St Michael, Ruby, Eagle, Anchorage, Texana, Nenana and Fort Yukon are tho largest points in the section of Alaska locked by winter. win-ter. Seward, Cordova, Valdez, Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan, Wrangell and other southern points are on open Kv water tho year around. This year An- ulw chorage, for the first time, will be in Hffl touch with the outsido world by rail- KI'H road, the government line from Sew- IW I ard having been completed a short M .time ago. DI H