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Reindeer Industry Is Earning A Firm
Position In Modern Alaskan Economy
PALMER—'Reindeer were first
brought to Alaska in 1892 to save
the Eskimo from starvation, it is
reported in an outline released
by the Agricultural Experiment
Station at Palmer. The outline
continues:
Today, reindeer meat is being
shipped from Eskimo country to
the rest of Alaska, to add variety
and god eating to city diets. The
Bureau of Indian Affairs boat
North Star unloaded part of a
110,000-pound shipment at Sew
ard on Oct. 22, 1959, for transfer
to the Anchorage retail market.
Fairbanks gets air shipments di
rect from Nunivak Island. Cuts
are now being sold in quantity
for the second year. Some have
also been shipped to Washington,
D. C., New York City, and
Hawaii.
The meat is from the BIA herd
on Nunivak Island, where the
government maintains an ap
proved slaughter plant and cold
storage facilities. Vern Hirsch,
area land operations officer for
BIA, supervised last year’s round
up. Two thousand animals were
selected from the Nunivak herd of
14,000.
After many years of ups and
downs, the reindeer industry ap
pears to be earning a firm place
in Alaska’s economy, according
to H. P. Gazaway, head of eco
nomics and marketing for the Ag
ricultural Extension Service and
Experiment Station at Palmer.
Reindeer can become a million
dollar industry in Alaska as in
the Scandinavian countries. Dur
ing 1958, 291 families received in
come from reindeer, varying from
a few dollars to nearly complete
livelihood. Sales from reindeer
and reindeer products totaled
around $200,000 during 1958. This
included hair, hides and hoofs
made into specialty items, as well
as meat. For 1959, sales were 25
to 50 per cent higher.
Besides the government-owned
Nunivak herd, the Bureau of In
dian Affairs helps in supervision
of 16 Eskimo-owned herds scat
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tered along the west coast from
north of Kotzebue to Stebbins.
The largest private herd number
ing about 5,000 head is owned by
Siguard Aukongak at Golovin
Bay. Now there are about 50,000
reindeer in the state. Meat from
these herds has been sold for
some time in stores and restaur
ants of the region, but until re
cent years there were no facilities
for slaughtering and shipping
meat from the area on any scale.
“Alaskans are losing a valuable
resource by not using reindeer
meat,” Mr. Gazaway says. “We
have thousands of acres of moss
covered tundra land available,
and the reindeer is the only do
mestic animal that can make use
of it.”
Reindeer meat is similar to that
of caribou, but less gamy and
more delicate of flavor. It resem
bles lean beef, but has more nu
trition value. Christine A. Heller,
nutritionist for the Arctic Health
Research Center in Anchorage, is
making an analysis of reindeer,
which shows a high protein, cal
cium, riboflavin and thiamin con
tent, compared to beef. Reports
by Scandinavian scientists sub
stantiate these findings.
The meat is less fat than beef,
hence holds more of the nutritive
elements by volume and weight.
This makes it an ideal meat for
persons wanting to cut down on
calories. Those who prefer the
flavor of fat with their meat can
easily add it in cooking.
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
It has been discovered to the
relief of mankind that comets have
no influence upon the earth. It
has also been discovered that
some of the planets with great
mass and strong gravitational
power can exert considerable in
fluence on a comet.
The gravitational attraction of
some planets is great enough to
attract many of these celestial
bodies out of their courses, and
force them to make their outer
turn around a point near that
planet’s orbit. Jupiter has a lar
ger family of comets than any
other planet.
If a planet once captures a
comet, it is a captive forever,
unless the near approach of some
planet of greater mass pulls the
comet away and forces it to en
close its new master in the outer
end of its orbit.
More than 30 short period
comets have been discovered and
their orbits lie within the solar
system.
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Begins Friday, March 11, Ends March 19
COAT-STYLE SWEATERS, 10% Wool $4.00
. KHAKI PANTS, New Wool . 3.50
MEN’S UNDERSHIRTS, Bodygard ea. 2.00
DRAWERS, Men’s Better Type Healthknit . . 2.00
UNIONSUITS, Healthknit . 3.00
MEN’S FLANNEL SHIRTS, King Cole 3.00
BIB OVERALLS . 4.00
STOCKING CAPS, Knit.75
OVERSHOES, Men’s 4-Buckle . 6.75
BOYS’ FLANNEL SHIRTS,
U. S. & Winter King. 1.90
LADIES OVERSHOES, Snowlark . 6.00
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