Here There Everywhere
-Allans,, as well as the unin
tor med tourist, can learn much
from the “Alaska Travel Manual”
just released by the Alaska Visi
tors Association. The manual gives
a concise and yet fairly complete
summary of this: vast territory,
which it states, each new visitor
must “discover” for himself.
* * * * *
"^.e Manual says Alaska has al
ways spelled adventure for the
geld seeker of 1888 or the travel
er of today Over the 586,400
square miles, which comprises
thus vast territory 208.000 persons
make up it inhabitants. 159,000
ire civilians, about 50,000 in the
armed forces and the. remainder
of 30,000 to 35.000 are natives In
formation on the four divisions of
Alaska are given, and even fhe
dweller on the remote Island of
Kodiak can garner much informa
tion of a general nature as to
Western, Southeastern, Interior
and Arctic Alaska.
Further information is given the
traveler as to climate, best times to
travel and how. Air travel is sug
gested, of course, for speed to get
to once inaccessible places. You
can go to Nome from Anchorage
for $60. Kotzebue, $80; Adak, $160.
From Fairbanks you can go to
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$50. It suggests the traveller al
low about $8.00 a day for food. In
oar: travels we haven’t-been-able
to keep within this figure. The •
Manual tells the traveller Eng*
lish is the language spoken, and
that good old American dollar is
the currency used. It may seem to
us here, information of this sort
is unnecessary, but that is is not
the case. Many instances have
shown considerable ignorance
about Alaska exists among Ameri
cans living in the Continental U.S.
*****
The short thumbnail sketch of
Kodiak is fairly accurate in most
details. It is called the “Sunshine
Isle”—though many residents here
are beginning to doubt the authen
ticity of such a term, after this
Spring and Summer. Kodiak is
placed as due north of Hawaii,
and has a population of 2,200,
with a like amount in the trading
area. The charms of this Island
are not put forth to any great
length in such a short resume—its
beauty, of course, must be seen
anyway, to be appreciated.
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The Manual concludes with a
section on “Arctic Alaska," a must
for tourists who want to see Alas
ka it was, or as they pictured
it. It explains tours to Nome, Ft.
Yukon and Kotzebue, and details
of how tp get to these places and
something of how the natives live
in this permafrost land. By means
of pictures, and descriptive writ
ing, you, who live in a small sec
tion of ths gigantic piece of land,
whch is one-fifth the size o| the
U. S., can arrange to pick out parts
of it you would someday like to
see. Don’t wait until you return to
the U. S. before you become ac
quainted with this great territory,
which will some day come into its
own.
A former Kodiakan, Cleste Col
lins (Lewis) wrote Bank President
O. A. Torgerson, and sent him a
shipboard newspaper printed on
board the S. S. Argentine, enroute
to Buenas Aires, in which a clip
ping, apparently from the Kodiak
Mirror, told of a telephone conver
sation between the Bank President
and a lady customer, in which the
latter wasn’t sure if she was talk
ing to an official of the Bank or
the Community Baptist Church,
when he started talking about
"conversion” (of bonds, of course).
It was a good story, and this in
stance brings to mind the thought
as to how many times little hap
penings which we record weekly
about citizens in this off-beat Al
askan town, are carried into the
remote sections of the world—pos
sibly translated into foreign lan
guages several times over. Though
our language isn’t universal, what
happens to us is shared by peoples
of all nations, for they are the
warp and woof of the lives of all
peoples.
The writer of the letter sends
her best regards to her friends in
Kodiak. She works for the Doro
thy Gray Salon in New York as a
beauty operator, and acts as re
lief operator on the Grace Lines
of steamships, together with the
Moore-McCormack Lines, which
accounts for her being on ship
board.
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Three cowboys (or cowgirls)
don’t make Kodiak a frontier
town, but when three horses and
three riders get together to prove
which owns the better horseflesh,
it should make for a good race.
The third challenged owner of a
horse has accepted, and the three
cornered contest ought to give the
celebration on the 4th of July a
rodeo aspect.
John Gibbons announces that
his horse is in fine fettle. He says
be has arranged for that noted
jockey A. J. (Tiny) Cichoski to
ride. If Tiny happens to be out
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