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Show TO SHIP FLOUR MILL ALMOST TO ARCTIC CIRCLE PORTLAND, Ore , SepL 7 A local milling house has sold a flour mill to b' installed 175 miles south of the An tic circle, in Alaska. This will be the first flour mill to be sent so far north J The acreage of v. heat in Alaska has been Increasing so steadih and the department-of agriculture has been so successful In developing a hardy wheat which matures in ninety days, that the growers have felt tbe need of a mill Th plant, which is a steam operated mill, will be shipped to Seattle thenco by steamer to St. Michael, south of Nome, where It will be carried by boat up the ukon river. 836 miles to the mouth of the Tanana river, and th' nc 27,0 miles to Fairbanks The mill has b.eeu purchased by ihe Tanana Valley, Agricultural association, and its capacity capa-city is 25 barrels a day. 00 |