, REINDEER NOTES
Sill T. A.N.EVANS
Ole Bahr has separatee' his he* d of
about a thousand deer from Klemet
fou’s herd.
Notice has been issued of the
Executive order setting aside mads
for the Indians of cook 's inlet ■ c,;;o i
to be known as the Maquau kee tr.d
ian Reservation. This iso. e of sc-*. err. 1
reservations made for the r.ic of id e
u.s. mireati of itducalio: i correc
tion with the work of a-hninisterk g
the affairs of the Alaska:, Natives.
REINDEER and ARCTIC
TEI,KORA PH IJNICS
The Survey and construction of
telegraph lines is comp uitively easy
under ordinary conditions hr! dur
ing eighteen sixty five an expedition
was organized under the Russo - A
merionu Telegraph Co. that encounter
ed unusual difficulties. Parties were
dispatched to survey the proposed
line, one party covering the Alaskan
side and a second the Siberian side
of the work, l'he Siberian party was
compelled to accomplish the greater
part of their twelve hundred mile
trip by reindeer travel. The d c e r
were mostly used as pack animals
both for the outfit and for the men
of the party.
Their first train of deer consisted of
eighteen pack animals carrying a
hundred pounds to the animal.
These carrying the men were the
largest and strongest of the deer and
carried a man not weighing over one
hundred seventy five pounds. With
those animals and Tungusian guides
the most difficult part of the country
was crossed but when after nearly
three years hard work tire announce*
meat was mace that the cable was
snccesful as means of conveying
intelligence from North America to
the Orient the work accomplished
h d to be abandoned.
In nineteen or e the U. S. Govern
ment imported a herd of th.eTuugr.se
deer which were divided ir.to three
herds an:! io'ite ! at Kol.-.clv. e,
Golovin, and Kr.skowim. Sint e
then that tyj c of (Ter have ! een dis
tributed among practically rdi
Alaskan herds thus increasing tl e
she and improving the character of
the aeer in a»i the hert s.
Mr. Walter K. Cochran of Ml.
Village and I)r J .W. Reed of Ri:?
sian Mission were detailed by SrpL
Kvans to inspect ihe villages in the
Yukon Delta between Mt. Y blare
and the vkulirok Mission ‘Mr. coehran
speiksia. complimentary terms oftl C
improvements in general conditions
at the mission. Rather uichsi,formerly
of Toly Cross, is in charge. This isor.e
of the most isolated missions in Alaska
Poets and Song Writers are requested
to send to the .Northern i.ight a i.eiu*
deersong for use at the Reindeer Fair*
The songssnlunitecl will he published
in the Northern i.ight as fast as they
are received. Suft.A A' /•: i xs