. PRINCETON PROFESSOR PAINTS
SPLENDID PICTURE OF ALASKA
IN HIS DESCRIPTION OF NORTH
Few lover’s of Alaska’s towering
peaks and sun-kissed valleys have
described it in so truthful a manner
in a few words as Lowell Jackson
Thomas, of Princeton. An article
quoting him appeal's in a recent Is
sue of the New York Evening Post
magazine, as follows:
You know the general conception of
Alaska. Well, that is what Alaska is
not. So says Lowell Jackson Thomas,
who is not only a college professor,
but a soldier of fortune as well. He
speaks with a certaiu authority. For
he has been to Alaska ten times anti
hopes to go a hundred times more. A
man interested principally in the in
dustrial development of the country,
when his business is finished, on each
trip, he transforms himself into an
* eager traveler and explorer, and pene
trates fastnesses to which only the
spirit of adventure would send him.
Even ardent naturalists have balked
at long trips which this member ol
the Princeton faculty and sometime
professor at the Chicago Kent Col-;
lege of Law has taken.
Now a lecturer and author, Thomas.
has also been a newspaper reporter. !
He has seen Alaska through the re-;
porter s eye. T. he Alaskan l orv u
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pines, said to be the farthest north
Indian tribe, have given him the
euphonious name of “Picktoorstsi
Tenjenatai Nunkugatuttahug,” a des
ignation worthy to be compared, per
haps, with that of “Bwana Tombo,"
conferred by the Africans upon Col.
Roosevelt in his quality of lion
hunter. In return. Thomas charact
erizes Alaska as the land that knows
a man only by his real virtues.
“It is a land of strong men, where
weaklings perish on the trail,” he
says. “It measures a man. not by the
usual artificial standards of society,
but by those qualities that distinguish
real men—honesty, generosity, pati
ence. anil indomitable courage. This
is the land which Russia, after greed
ily looting it of its furs, sold to the
United States for $7,200,000, or half
what it cost to build the Brooklyn
bridge or the Woolworth building.
“Governmental red-tape has been
responsible for the slow development
of the territory. The resources of the
region remain virtually untouched.
But this red-tape is being gradually
eliminated. And in this direction
great credit is due to hranklin K.
Lane, secretary of the interior. \ou
must not forget that Alaska is one
fifth as large as the rest of the Unit
ed States. Yet its white population
is less than that of the Yale Bowl on
the day of a Yale-Harvard game and
just about eqaal to the number of
persons at a world’s series baseball
game.
“I have been north of the Arctic
Circle in Alaska when the mercury
registered 100 degrees above zero.
Millions of Americans continue to re
gard Alaska as the land of ice and
snow. But Alaska has two climatic
belts—the coast region and the inter
ior. The coast has a comparatively
mild winter climate, with cool sum
mers; the interior has cold winters
but comparatively warm and short
summers. More furs are worn on
Broadway any Sunday in July than
are worn in Alaska in a year.
Even those persons who associate
the great region toward Bering Sea
with seals (chiefly extinct) and the
gold fever may have heart! of the Al
askan salmon fisheries.
“Watching a salmon run is one of
and tight their way up •usa. *
streams, along the coast, to spawn
In Valdez last summer 1 encouM. r*
a run of humpbacked salmon. I stood
within ten feet of some of them, and
ground 100 feet of film with my mov
the world’s greatest sights,” says
Thomas. “The fish come up from the
depths of the sea in countless million.
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ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia, Alaska
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ing-picture machine. They paid no
more attention to me than if 1 had
been photographing them from the
moon.’'
The railroad from Seward on
Resurrection bay to Pwrbanks, a dis
tance of 466 miles, to secure which
continuous attempts were made for
many years, is now being built.
Thomas says it will be completed
about 1920.
Professor Thomas describes Alas
ka in these words:
“This is the land of colossal ice
crowned mountains, of gigantic
glaciers, or fjords rimmed in by;
ranges of jagged, sawtoothed moun
tains that make the fjord of Norway
shrink by comparison. This is the
land where the red midnight sun
doubles back on its track when the
yeartide is full, and where the Great
God of Nature passes his invisible
paint brush across the horizon for
hours in the broad daylight of mid
night, throwing a new masterpiece of
brilliant colors across the sky every.
few minutes.
“At Tanana, Alaska, 1 saw the sun
rise and set in two hours and forty
live minutes, on December 15, 1915.
If you take a photograph showing the
sun every fifteen minutes, from sun
rise to sunset, you see eleven equidis
tant suns.”
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ARM CONTRACT
Station Men Near McHugh
Creek Shoot 15,000
Pound Charge
Reports filed up to Feb. 1st, of work
on the government railroad divisions
north of Girdwood include the follow
ing:
Clearing Right-Of-Way
Turnugain Arm district.—The mild
weather during the past week made
good progress possible on the work
between Indian creek and one mile
north of Glacier creek.
Grading
Sey^ral coyote holes were shot dur
ing tne week with satisfactory re
sults. Mathison & Company, contrac
tors at McHugh cyeek, made a ahot
which moved approximately 16,000
yards of rock, using 15,000 pounds of
black powder.
The jack hammers operated by two
locomotive air pump at Mile 99 are
working satisfactorily.
Telegraph and Telephone
Work on the gap in the telephone
line between Camp 174 and Montana
creek is 25 per cent complete. The
wire has reached Browne’s Lake from
the south. The work of providing an
additional wire between Potter and
Indian creeks for the Anchorage Sew
ard telegraphic circuit is 50 per cent
complete.
There. are at present connected to
the Anchorage exchange 95 commer
cial and 94 commission telephones.
Matanuska Branch
The freighting on the river above
Camp 24 is going ahead satisfactorily
and within the next thirty days the
entire work above Kings river should
be stocked with sufficient construc
tion material and supplies, with
the exception of hay, to complete the
work.
The majority of the contractors
have commenced drilling coyote holes,
and a number of small shots have
been fired. Construction is proceed
ing satisfactorily throughout the dis
trict, with little change In conditions
from last week.
Main Line
The camp at Willow creek has been
completed, and next week construc
tion of a new' camp about midw’ay be
tween Little Willow' creek and Kash
witna river will be begun.
The piledriver crew has completed
the driving of all trestles south ^of
Camp 166 and has commenced on the
first trestle north of that point
The right-of-way contractors be
tw'een Willow creek and Sheep creek
have reached their stations and begun
work.
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