Show agriculture IN ALASKA experimental WORK MEETS WITH MOST gratifying SUCCESS arthur hendly arrived la ogden last night atter nearly three years absence in alaska ho left today for southern and will then utah to visit relatives go to pueblo colorado whore hewell meet and marry the girl who has waited for him while he lias been becking fortune in mhd frozen north mr a hendly has been fairly successful and has gathered la of the he does not shining sands 0 alaska expect to there his operations wara confined to the lower yukon he did visit daggon and dad not stay very long in cape nome he states that while the seeking tor gold forms the occupation of a great majority that a large number have into agri cultura success on the same steamer that mr hendly camo down on was prof C C georgeson Goor geson special agent of ithe states agricultural department in charge of the experimental station at sitka prof georgeson is to make an annual report on his work in alaska he was sent north in way 1898 and his first work was ha ascertain what could ba done there in ithe way of vegetables afterward ba succeeded in raising goodbar ley and ami ultimately proved that alaska wail bei as promising a field for farming and stock raising as tor mining said mr it la now hendly there Is not the slightest doubt that grain can be matured almost anywhere in alaska samples of perfectly barley oats wheat and rye have been seen by me from several points in the interior as tar north as eagle |