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Entered as secona-etass matter Au
tnA’ 29th, 1928, at the postoffice at
Tadcbtna, Alaska, under tbs Act of
Will 8, 1479.
Takotntc...Alaska, June 16* 1928.
loMen TBLLS OF REINDEER
WORK.', HERDS INCREASING
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Alaska now has 675,000 head of
reindeer, according to the best estj-,
mates. The' herds double in size;
•veVy three years. How long will it
take for the animals to number j
1,000,000, which is considered the!
maximum quantity that can be grazed,
in fhe Territory,
This is the problem propounded by
Judge J', G. Lumen. For 15 of his 28.
years’ residence in Alaska he has
beeVi actively, engaged* until be went
on ’the bench in the Second division,
in reindeer breeding and grazing.
Saturation Point Near..
“We h%ve got sb the point where
are''can say that, not many more
years will elapse before we have all
the animal* that our forage resources
will take care of. When the 4,000,000
mafk is reached jit will he necessary
£or*us to kill oST 1.000.000 annually iu
order to keep them within the limit
of forage safety,” he said.
Fifteen years ago, when Judge Lo
meh and hie-'sons became interested
in the reindeer industry, the herds
wefe small, mainly, owned by Eskimo
or 'other natives. They', were chiefly
used for food and the owners were not
■ar&ely concerned with the questions
of tnarkoting.
Today the herds-, have- inereaseed
imihensely. The Lomen Reindeer
Corporation,. of which Judge Lomen
was first president, owns- lKO.OOO
head, its own slaughter houses, cold
storage, a canning .plant, one steamer,
tha\ plies between- Seattle and Nome,
*nd smaHer craft,.large trading sta
tions, lighterage businesses. There
are other- concerns also engaged in!
killing, freezing ap.d marketing deer.
Marketing Problem-.serious.
The native-owned h erde. .form.the
bulk of the total number of animals.
If they are Vo. realize on them; the
question* 6f marketings must be stud-.
ied carefully. This subject is being
given utmost consideration by the
Lomen Company, which is headed by
Carl Lomen since the retirement of
his father from active participation
in its affairs.
Some success has attended its ef
forts. In the metropolitan area of
j New York is found the largest pres
ent avenue of sales. Several large
I steamships, including the Leviathan,
iise deer meat regularly. It. is being
used on several transcontinental
railroad lines. This year the Lomens
plan to kill and market 15,000 ani
mats. this is far less than the in
crease on their herds will be. In fact.
Judge Lomen said, when fawning sea
! son, that has just started, is over. it.
is expected the herds will be in
creased by 40,000.
j The canning plant, installed last
I spring, will be operated to capacity.
; Expansion in the manufacture of by
I products will he undertaken, all of
which will lessen the overhead and
add to the evtntual prosperity of the
industry. Hides have increased in
value from SI to 82.25 and a market
for all hides has been found. Last
j winter in New York, reindeer livers,
which were formerly given away at
! the slaughter pens owing to a lack of
: market, were sold in New York at 80
cents per pound.
Builds for Future.
Building for the future, the Lomen
1 company has been content, to put its
1 linances into the business. In all the
1 15 years of its work it has never de- ;
dared a dividend, hui its position is
' regarded now os stronger than ever
before. It is attempting to build up
j the size of its animals and the quality j
! of its meat. On NTmivnk-island it is
1 conducting a cross-breeding experi
ment with caribou, using large wood
! land bulls. Already there has been a
j noticeable increase in the strain pro
j duced, Judge Lomen said- •
1 forest fires record
FOR UNITED STATES
A total of 91,793 fires, which burned
over 24,300,000 acres of timber, brush
and grasslands, and caused direct
damage amounting to S2(i,900,000, is
the forest-fire reoord of the United
States, according to figure* compiled
by the Forest Service.
The greatest area burned over and
the greatest damage- done, as well as
the largest number of fires, were in
the. Southwestern- States, where 18,
000,000 acres were affected and dam
age done totaling $11,000,000. In the
Rocky Mountain States 735,000 acres
were burned and damage done
amounting to $5,000,000. In the Pa
cific States the figures were 1,746,000
acres and $34500,000; in the Appa
lachian States, 503,000 acres anil
$2,400,000; in the West Mississippi
States, 1,900,000 acres and $1,600,000;
and in the Northeastern States, 211,
000 acnea and $1,900,000,
Mississippi, with 23,170 fires, had
more than any other -State. Alabama
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was nert, with 14,953, and Georgia!
was third, with G,446. At the other
end o£ the scale, Delaware had but
37 fires, Nevada 21, South Dakota. 60.
Rhode Island 43, and Vermont 73. ;
i The Southeastern States ts a group
—the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Al
abama, and Mississippi—had the most
fires, 54,200. The West Mississippi
States, which include Missouri, Ar-'
kans&s, Oklahoma, Louisiana and
iexas, came next, with 10,057 fires.
, i he Northeastern States had 6,251
fires, the Appalachian States 4,827,
the Fast Mississippi States 7,747, the
i.ake Mates, 3,326, the Rocky Moun
tain States 3,<-> i V, and the Pacific
States 6,842.
Within the areas under protection,
t the 33,867 fires reported burned over
1.040.000 acres of merchantable tim
ber. 1,682,000 acres of non-merchant
-abie timber!*! ubg,-.. R cmfw fwyg
able, or immature tree growth, and
1.394.000 acres with no tree growth
at the time, the total area of forest
land burned thus reaching 4,116,000
acres. Including the unprotected re
gions 24,300,000 acres of land were
scourged by fire during the year.- •
More than 72 per cent of the tires
are known to have tbeen caused by
man and 12 per cent by lightning
The causes of a little more than 15
per cent are unknown. Smokers lead
all others as starters of forest fires
with over 16 per cent of all, railroads
come next with 14 per cent, and
brush burning third with 12 per cent.
During the present fiscal year, 26
States co-operating in forest fire pre
vention under the Clarke-McNary
law wiU receive from the Federal
Government a total of 8876,911.
State and private funds budgeted-for
forest protection during the year
total -$2,890,000, which combined with
the Federal appropriation - amounts
to loss than 40 per cent of the $10,
2UO.OOO which it is estimated would,
be necessary to provide adequate fire
protection to State and private forest
lands in the United States. State al
lotments vary from $64,443,000 for
Minnesota to $375 for South Dakota,
The total allotment to the States,
plus $73,089 for administration and
inspection and $$0,000 for studies, in
foest taxation, make up the full Sl,
000,000 appropriated by Congress 'for
work under sections 1, 2 and 3* of the
Clarke-McNary law during the fiscal
year 1928.
xYLASKA RAILROAD EXPECTED.
TO ENJOY PROSPEROUS YEAR
(Fairbanks News-Miner
Increased tourist business- for. the
Alaska Railroad this summer is pre
dicted by Noel W. Smith general
manager of the road, who-left for his
Anchorage headquarters this, morn
ing after a short stay in Fairbanks.
Freight business is steadily develop
ing, not only to Fairbanks, but to
down-river points.
This summer the railroad will op
erate the steamers General Jacobs
and Alice on the river route, with the
General Davis and the gasboat Mat
anuska in reserve. The Davis will be
used as little as possible, but it is ex
pected that the Matanuska will be
employed from time to time for short
trips and emergency service. Devel
opment of tourist business on the
Yukon river, believes Mr, Smith, is
limited only by the number of ves
sels in service. The river tour* he
finds, is becoming increasingly pop
ular with travelers-.
lne third dredge tar the- Fairbanks
Exploration Company is now being
unloaded at Seward for shipment to
Fairbanks over the railroad, Mr.
Smith said. Transportation of min
ing machinery for the company has
formed an impottanr part of the rail
road’s business, especially since the
dredges began to come in.
An average amount of maintenance
-work will be done on the road this
season, the general manager declared.
Between Fairbanks and Curry many
wooden culverts are to be torn out
and replaced with metal culverts.
The creamery operated by the rail
road at Curry-.is proving successful.
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r it was said. It produces from 75 to
, 100 pounds of butter weekly. The
Anchorage hospital is given first
. choice of the fresh product, and the
remainder is turned over to the com
missary for sale to the employees.
There has been some discussion of
moving the machinery to. Anchorage,
but nothing definite has been decided
upon.
JUNEAU.—Andy Wall, cook at the;
Dundas Bay cannery of the North- j
western Fisheries, died at a hospital
here from wounds received in a fight •
a few nights ago at the cannery.
Peter Jacobs, the cook’s helper, died
at the hands of Wall.
Little is known about the fight, as
the two men were the only ones in
the cookhouse at the time, and Wall
was not questioned.
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