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WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 22. -
The newspapers are now telling
of the exceptional adventure that
I involves 3,000 reindeer and a hand
| full of hardy Laplanders and Eski
mos. It is expected that these
| reindeer will be delivered next year
! in good condition to the Canadian j
government, at the delta of the j
MacKenzie River, after traveling j
thru the Endicott mountains and;
along the Arctic Ocean, where no
man has ever treked before. The
herd is now far down the region of
the Colville River valley or miles
to go ere its destination is reached.
The stake is nearly $200,000, which
Canada has contracted to pay upon
delivery of the herd.
Slow as the journey is—it start
ed from Western Alaska in Novem
ber, 1929—it is in purpose a race to
save Canadian Eskimos from star
vation. Canada will use the herd
to propagate a food supply which
will replace the schools of whales
depleted by years of hunting. The
route covers 1.000 miles of almost
unimaginably wild country thru
mountains that only flyers have
traversed before. And as the herd
moves only in winter over the froz
en Arctic, speed is out of the ques
tion- Thus far. the drive has wea
thered several terrible blizzards
without being decimated. In fact,
because the herd does not move in
fawning time, births have far ex
ceeded deaths.
It is expected that shortly after
the middle of September, Charles
W. Hawkesworth, acting chief Al
aska Division, of the Bureau of In
dian Affairs, will come to Wash
ington from his Juneau headquar
ters and aid in the preparation of
the budget for his department. Dr.
W. A. Borland, health officer at
Kanakanak.who is now in Seattle
receiving medical treatment, is also
expected in Washington about the
same time in connection with mat
ters concerning his official work
An important announcement has
iust been made by the Secretary of ]
the Interior that will have benefi- i
cial results to the natives of Alaska, j
Dr. Prank Samuelson Fellows, j
Past Assistant Surgeon of the U. J
S. Public Health Service, has been i
detailed to the office of Indian Af- !
fairs to act as District Medical Di- J
rector for Alaska. His headquar j
ters will be at Juneau and he will «
sail from Seattle shortly after Go i
tober first for his new location. '
This then will be the firsa time in *
its history that Alaska will have J
a supervisor appointed by the Fed- i
eral government to direct the pro- j
gram of health work among the j
natives for the entire Territory. J
Although the new appointee is but i
32 years of age he has had a wide ■
experience in the Public Healtn j
Service, having served at Chicago, J
Norfolk. New York, Seattle and j
Portland >
Much of the time of Dr. Fellows 1
will be soent in traveling over the J
vast northern country by airplane, J
^*t and sled. Among the diseases {i
’■*' Mcularly prevalent among the j i
■”es of Alaska are tuberculosis, i J
‘ ichoma and pneumonia. Heredi-! J
tary diseases are common and the j i
white man has also contributed.11
thru his contact, certain diseases j j
which were unknown to the native, j j
of which there are about 30.000 i
Thlingets, Aleuts, Athapascans and j,
Eskimos. They live in small vil- ]
lages varying from 30 to 40 people j
to 400, and are distributed along i
thousands of miles of coastal range
and along the great rivers. In this
i vast territory the government has
I six hospitals, 10 physicians and 34
1 nurses.
! To the natives and white men
{scattered along thousands of miles
j of the Yukon river, a medical boat
| furnishes the only means of secur
| ing medical and dental relief. Dur
j ing the summer months of each
i year, this boat cruises along the
river as far as the Yukon delta
with a physician, two nurses and a
dentist on board- Their work in
cludes distributing medicines, ex
tending first aid, giving advice
concerning the care and feeding of
children and the care of the sick,
performing operations and trans
porting a limited number of pa
!• tients to the hospitals at Fairbanks
and Tanana.
With large areas in Alaska suit
able mainly for timber production,
a present utilization of but a frac
tion of the actual and potential
annual forest growth, a variety of
species with a large range in pro
perties, and an abundance of water
power and timber resources favor
able to pulpwood development, in
creasing economic forest develop-,
ment is presaged for the Territory, |
j according to the Forest Service, U. i
S. Department of Agriculture.
VETERAN’S BONUS
WASHINGTON, Sept., 21, (IP)—
A special train left Washington,
bearing President Herbert Hoover
and party enroute to Detroit.
President Hoover goes to Detroit
for the purpose of addressing a
gathering of the American Legion j
there- It is said he will talk on j
the veteran’s bonus.
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