Report on Education in AlaskaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - Education |
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Page 1461 - raising, is abundantly supplied with the long, fibrous white moss, the natural food of the reindeer. Taking the statistics of Norway and Sweden as a guide, arctic and subarctic Alaska can support 9,000,000 reindeer, furnishing a supply of
Page 1460 - necessaries of life has demonstrated the necessity of reindeer transportation, and that the development of the large mining interests of that region will be dependent upon the more rapid introduction of reindeer for freighting. There are no roads in Alaska, and off of the rivers no transportation facilities to any great extent.
Page 1459 - has made a very urgent call for reindeer for freighting purposes. In the original plan for the purchase and distribution of reindeer reference was mainly had to securing a new food supply for the famishing Eskimo, but it is now found that the reindeer are as essential to the white men as to the Eskimo. The wonderful placer mines of
Page 1458 - with efficiency and success. The experience of the past two years has demonstrated the wisdom of their importation as instructors to the Eskimos in the care and management of deer. Their success has been so marked that hereafter, whenever a herd, is loaned to a mission station, an
Page 1460 - flesh of their dead companions for food. They reported that Gideon had died ' June 7, and they had eaten him. When he was gone, they had dug up Pena, who had been buried on May 30, and were now (June 14) eating him. When they reached the ship, they were so weak that some of them had to be carried and all
Page 1461 - demand, by reason of its wonderful buoyancy, in the construction of life-saving apparatus. The horns and hoofs make the best glue known to commerce.
Page 1456 - report to the Government that "the teacher and the missionary, the church and ! the school, have exerted a more potent influence for the elevation, civilization,
Page 1460 - difficulty transported to the mines. So great was the extremity last ■winter, that mongrel Indian dogs cost §100 to §200 each for transportation purposes,
Page 1460 - and at Sradnia 5 rubles. The meat of the reindeer is always excellent, while the beef is more expensive, and is only exceeded in price by the horse, which is a luxury only to be indulged in by the rich." I am in full sympathy with all these requests for the distribution of reindeer in widely separated sections of Alaska. The more widely they are distributed and the larger