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tho world, and there is no reason why Dll
inghsuu oan*t promote seme tourist trade o
of
Maybe Dillingham residents don*t see it
any Store* but this town has one of the
preitioet settles in the world—especially
as seen from tho air* Driving out the road
to the airport trfee.« you through an area af
delightfully pastoral as any sc©ne Grant
Wood e^er painted in Iowa*
It is not outside the realm of possible
llty tliat some of the swampy tundra and
muskeg could he drained so that a herd of
oews oould actually be pastured there* Has
anybody ever inquired of the agricultural
authorities at the University of Alaska if
this ig possible? It was done at Fairhanki
by Creamer*6 Deiry, on land not much diffex*
ent from that surrounding Dillingham*
At p-es*ut Dillingham is a sort of is
land in a sea of tuaira—a Venioo of tho
murker* I understand it is next to l»
poFsiMa to negotiate this park-llke ter
rain cn foot in the summer* But why not
build sor.o kind of * tundra shoos*? Perhaps
something made of aluminum, that would not*
sink down far and would not oatoh on the
Tine-like tundra shoots*
Tne platinum mine at Goodnows Bay Is
proof th^re oan be something under the tu&»
dra wjrtk looking for* Maybe the people of
Dillingham just haven’t get around and loofc
ed ha rd rnorgLw Maybe they haven’t deve
loped the right kind of gear* All God*s
ohilluns got shoest you know—but have the
Dillingham people got the right kind?
Dillingham has gone far in the past few
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that she would be married in Anchorage
soon* The wire arrived Augnst 26t£*
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