TIIE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
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Reindeer Industry
Threatened Said
W. T. Lopp
In the early nineties he was one
of three men to conceive a plan
designed to change the mode of
living of hundreds of north Alas
kan Eskimos—the importation of
neindeer to Alaska from Siberia.
Recently W. T. Lopp, former
chief of the Alaska division of
the Bureau of Education, return
ed southbound aboard the North
Star following an inspection trip
to the northern reindeer grounds,!
and brings with him an unfavor
able report.
Lapp was sent north by the In
dian Rights Association of Phila
delphia to investigate the Eskimo
reindeer industry. Headed by
President Jonathan M. Steere,
the Indian Rights Association is
composed of a group of prom in
ent men in the States who are
active in protecting Indian wel
fare.
Year by year”, Lopp stated, the
"reindeer are growing smaller.
12 years ago the average weight
was 150 pounds per carcass, now*
the average weight is slightly ov
er 100 pounds.
The cause of this is the same
factor which accounts for the loss
of from 50 to 75 per cent of the
deer each year. "This”, Lopp ex
plained. ”is open herding, a met
hod of round-up that, in allowing
the animals to be free for a ma
jor part of the year, has allowed
them to depart from habits of
domestication.
"Although it would be expect- j
ed that the reindeer would profit
by unrestricted grazing, the op
posite is true. Evidently, when
not assisted by advant4ges of do
mestication, they are unable to
find sufficient food. As a result
the deer are growing smaller in
size, similar to the way in which
the small mustangs have develop
ed from the once large breed of
Mexican horses”.
Open herding, Dr. Lopp ex
plained, is a departure from the
original methods of herding, and
calls for a round-up of the ani
mals only twice a year. By the
I
'former system, the reindeer were
I closely supervised, and thereby
j kept more thoroughly domcsti
jcated.
Lopp came to Alaska as a teach
jer in 1890, and it was then that
he realized the place that rein
deer might play in Eskimo wel
fare.
In 1892 a herd of reindeer was
brought to Alaska from Siberia,
through the efforts of Lopp and
Sheldon Jackson, noted mission
ary. From the parent herd, now
more than a million reindeer sho
uld be roaming the frozen planes
of North Alaska, he said,
Also brought over from Siberia
were a few Siberian herdsmen,
who were to instruct the Eskimos
on herding methods.
"The Eskimos have not, in re
cent years followed the earlier
methods, and the only way to
save the industry, as far as I can
see”. Lopp stated, "is to return
to the former apprentice system.”
By this system, Eskimos were
given four years of training, thru
cooperation of the government
schools. As each apprentice
"graduated” he was given so
many deer, and upon periodical
increases of his herd, he, in turn
took on a new apprentice, giving
him the same training and ad
vantages.
With hopes of effecting a re
turn to the more supervised met
hods of herding in order that the
reindeer industry may be saved
from its present sharp decline.
Lopp is to turn in to the Indian
Rights Association a report on ui8
investigation.—The Juneau Daily
Press.
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QUMTION: How muck money does the Canned Salmon Indus
try bring to Alaska and spend with Alaskans here in a year?
ANSWER: Last year the eanners spent here more than
$10,000,000. Since 1867 it is estimated they have paid
out in Alaska a total of $730,000,000 for labor, lumber,
wire, taxes, etc.
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SALMON SOUFFLE WITH PIMENTO CHEESE SAUCE
Vi cap quick-cooking tapioca
1 tap. salt
tfc up. pepper
I cup milk
a cupi (i lb.) Canned Salmon
2 taps, c hopped parsley
2 ups. lemon juice
4
3 oz. pkg. pime- to cheese
2 cups medium \chit; sauce
Combine tapioca, salt, pepper, milk
in top of double boiler. Hold at
scalding point about 5 minutes,
stirring often. Add flaked Canned
Salmon, reserving some large pieces
to top souffle before it is baked;
chopped parsley and lemon juice.
Remove from fire and add well
beaten egg yolks. Cool, then fold
in stiffly beaten egg whites and
turn info buttered baking dish. Bake
in slow oven (325* F.) about 1 hour.
Serve with pimento cheese sauce
made by adding pimento cheese
to medium white sauce. Serves 6.
This recipe is typical of those appearing in the national
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Airplane News
Nome Airport
A Pacific Alaska Airways plane
piloted by Jerry Jones arrived
yesterday with mail and D. H.
Cady, EV Lucas and Sam Brown
as passengers. The plane left
Nome on its return trip to Fair
banks this morning with Mrs. Art
Brown and daugihter, Dr. H. G.
Hughes and Mrs. Leonard Smith.
Another PAA mail plane arriv
ed Nome today with incoming
mail from Fairbanks piloted by
S. E. Robbins and took off again
on its return trip shortly after.
No passengers were carried.
I
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Pilot Frank Whaley of the Mir-1
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Jow Air Service, Sunday made a
flight to Igloo with a round trip
passenger Fred Yenney, and on
to Taylor with Bertha Kanyak,
returning with Jim Kealiher as a
patient for the hospital.
Today pilot Whaley hopped off
for Kotzebue, Candle and Golo
vin with three passengers.
The Mirow Air Service Office
is in receipt of a telegram from
Fairbanks stating that Manager
ilot Hans Mirow and Pilot Don
Emmons of the same company,
j happed off this morning at 10:30
' for Nome flying two Mirow Air
Service planes, including the new
Bach plane recently purchased.
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(by The Associated Press)
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ited Automobile Workers of Am*
i erica announced today their next
step would be to conduct a drive
| to unionize the Chrysler Corpora
I tion, demanding recognition of
their union as the sole collective
bargaining agency.
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