Alaska: Its History and Resources, Gold Fields, Routes and SceneryLowman & Hanford stationery and printing Company, 1895 - 128 strani Includes chapters on history, topography, climate, resources, land and sea animals, the reindeer, Eskimo habits and customs, Indians, missions and schools, scenery, routes, Yukon gold fields, and the boundary dispute. |
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... ACADEMIAE CHRISTO HARVARDIANAE VERO TAS IN ONY AON CCLESIS Harvard College Library . Library Fines . 29 June , 1895 . FRANKUN ENG - AT ALASKA ITS HISTORY AND RESOURCES GOLD. Bought with Money received from RUSSIAN BLOCK HOUSE AT SITKA .
... ACADEMIAE CHRISTO HARVARDIANAE VERO TAS IN ONY AON CCLESIS Harvard College Library . Library Fines . 29 June , 1895 . FRANKUN ENG - AT ALASKA ITS HISTORY AND RESOURCES GOLD. Bought with Money received from RUSSIAN BLOCK HOUSE AT SITKA .
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... Russian Placer Mining in Early Days A Promising Mining Section . - The Yellow Cedar .-- Spruce and Hemlock Abundant.- Timber of the Interior .-- Where Bituminous Coal is Found . CHAPTER V. FISHERIES . Immense Salmon Canning Industry ...
... Russian Placer Mining in Early Days A Promising Mining Section . - The Yellow Cedar .-- Spruce and Hemlock Abundant.- Timber of the Interior .-- Where Bituminous Coal is Found . CHAPTER V. FISHERIES . Immense Salmon Canning Industry ...
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... Russian Missionaries Sent to Alaska in 1793.— A Strange Admixture.— Lit- tle Progress Made.— Indian Attendance at ... Russia and England . - Line of Demarkation Clearly Established . - Absurdity of the British Claim.- The Ten Marine ...
... Russian Missionaries Sent to Alaska in 1793.— A Strange Admixture.— Lit- tle Progress Made.— Indian Attendance at ... Russia and England . - Line of Demarkation Clearly Established . - Absurdity of the British Claim.- The Ten Marine ...
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... RUSSIAN BLOCK HOUSE AT SITKA , II INDIAN CANOES , 39 ESKIMO CANOE , 44 MINERS HAULING SLEDS , 53 A YUKON NUGGET , ESKIMO WITH DOGS , SEAL , SEAL IN WATER , BARANOFF CASTLE , 60 8 62 63 66 93 INDIAN WOMAN , INDIAN DOCTOR , 95 99 REINDEER ...
... RUSSIAN BLOCK HOUSE AT SITKA , II INDIAN CANOES , 39 ESKIMO CANOE , 44 MINERS HAULING SLEDS , 53 A YUKON NUGGET , ESKIMO WITH DOGS , SEAL , SEAL IN WATER , BARANOFF CASTLE , 60 8 62 63 66 93 INDIAN WOMAN , INDIAN DOCTOR , 95 99 REINDEER ...
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... Russian America . It is only a matter of conjecture how long this region would have remained a terra incognita had not the Imperial government at St. Petersburg sent Vitus Bering , a Dane by birth , on a voyage of discovery . The year ...
... Russian America . It is only a matter of conjecture how long this region would have remained a terra incognita had not the Imperial government at St. Petersburg sent Vitus Bering , a Dane by birth , on a voyage of discovery . The year ...
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Alaska Commercial Company Aleutian animals Bering sea Bering strait Birch creek boat boundary British canneries canoe Cariboo channel Chilkat church claim coast country Company Congress continent Cook inlet deposits distance dollars Eskimo extended feet fifty miles fish Forty Mile fur seal Glacier bay gold head of Lake Hootalinqua river hundred miles inches Indian interior islands Juneau Kadiak killed known Koyukuk river Lake Bennett land large numbers located Lynn canal ment Metlakahtla Mile creek mountains mouth MUIR GLACIER natives navigating nearly ocean pass placed placer mining portion reached region reindeer rich Russian salmon season Seattle seen Seymour Narrows ship shore Siberia side Sitka Sixty Mile skin Southeast Alaska steamer streams summer summit Tanana territory thousand timber tion town trading post Treadwell trip twenty twenty-five miles Ty-a Unalaska United vast vessels Washington whale winter Wrangel YUKON MINERS
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Stran 118 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Stran 118 - That whenever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction parallel to the coast from the 56th degree of north latitude to the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia as...
Stran 118 - Greenwich,) the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude ; from this last-mentioned point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast...
Stran 118 - ... west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of. coast which is to belong to Russia as above mentioned shall be formed by a line parallel to the windings of the coast, and which shall never exceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom.
Stran 118 - Island, which point lies in the paraUel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude, (meridian of greenwich,) the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Stran 118 - Line of the 141st degree, in its prolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean, shall form the limit between the Russian and British Possessions on the Continent of America to the North-West.
Stran 71 - ... Here they are waylaid by the natives and slaughtered in great numbers for their hides. Deer forms one of the main food supplies of Alaska, and an effort is being made to make their killing unlawful for a term of years. Unless Congress authorizes this the extinction of the species will not be far off. They are hunted, in the rutting season, by a call made from a blade of grass placed between two strips of wood, which produces a very clever imitation of the cry of the deer. This call leads them...
Stran 64 - The sea otter seems to exist chiefly on a line parallel with the Japanese current from the coast of Japan along the Kurile islands to the coast of Kamchatka, and thence westward along the. Aleutian chain, the southward side of the Alaska peninsula, the estuaries of Cook inlet and Prince William sound, and thence eastward and southward along the Alaska coast, the Alexander archipelago, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. At the beginning of the present century large numbers of these animals...
Stran 17 - JUDICIARY OF ALASKA. exportation of their fish, and by parties actually engaged in manufacturing enterprises within the territory, and the exportation of furniture and other wooden-wares, etc., etc., and manufactured from our native timber. " The judiciary of Alaska is anomalous, lying between and dependent upon the general laws of the United States and the general laws of the State of Oregon, and having no true basis from which it can be interpreted. Therefore we ask that a code of laws be enacted...
Stran 28 - ... winter to summer are rapid, owing to the great increase in the length of the day. In May the sun rises at about 3 am and sets about 9 pm In June it rises about 1:30 in the morning and sets at 10:30 pm, giving about twenty hours of daylight, and diffuse twilight the remainder of the time. Notwithstanding the marked variations in the climate Alaska is essentially a healthy country. The only prevailing diseases are those of a bronchial nature, and in most cases these troubles can be directly traced...