| Show alaska salmon puts gold in second place nobody except the alaskan perhaps considers lie he salmon a gomish to him film the flash of its dripping flanks as it leaps in the sun Is a more more sh ant glitter than that of genuine gold Sali salmon tion runs in alaska are of greater value than gold mines it was gold that made modern alaska be beginning inning with the famous klondike rush of 1890 millions lons of dollars worth of the yellow metal was mined tho the peak year was 1910 when mineral production totaled ten years later salmon exports for 1920 1020 were valued at POO while mineral product production lon had dropped to the golden harvest now Is gathered not from the earth but from the waters of the earth salmon production Is not always so phenomenal A normal year as in 1927 Is only even so the salmon Is a more valuable asset to alaska than the gold mane not so as the goldfish perhaps but more nearly deserving of the title As for beauty what fish can surpass tile lie magnificent spectacle of a salmon leaping the merciless surge of a waterfall ter fall dayton da ton news |
