Cleveland High School - Beacon Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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gone into domestic and personal services which take care of the large tourist trade. When you think of Alaska you always think of gold, gold dust, gold rush or gold mining. But gold mining, although it is a great industry, is not as large nor as important as the Alaskan fisheries. Millions of salmon are caught and canned each year and represent 90 per cent of the total fisheries output. Cod, herring and halibut are also caught in large numbers. Gold mining is the second largest industry of Alaska. It is carried out on a large scale, usually by corporations with offices and stockholders outside Alaska. Besides gold, Alaska has large supplies of copper. There are silver, platinum, tin, marble, coal and oil. Furs play an important role in Alaska also. The principal animals are fox, marten, mink, otter, ermine, muskrat, beaver, polar bear and several others. The panhandle of Alaska is the narrow strip that joins the British Columbia coast. Three of Alaska's largest cities can be found here: Ketchikan, Juneau, the capital, and Sitka, the old Russian capital. AUDREY HAVLICEK. , -253 ,i0f'T sa, ,fp 3?-1 N? ling E' - N Mwmg Egg. 2 , X sax f fig MH If I kk ..nh 'O tk, g I iff I ua Y ' 1 ,f 11 no ,HJ ai ,ff f f- S . UHWC mm, Q0 JN ,f Jerome Nickerson 12

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Afaila Many people seem to think that since Alaska contains glaciers it mustbe a frigid country. This is a common mistake for at the extreme Northern tip of the Territory, Point Barrow, the lowest winter tempera- ture is slightly above the lowest records of North Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. In central Alaska the heat in the summer is about equal to that of New York City. Alaska is a country of extremes. It has very old things and very new, ancient Eskimo and Indian cultures and modern gold mining and modern fish canneries. It is one-fifth the size of the United States and offers almost every type of climate, for there are magnificent snow-clad mountains, vast for- ests, broad prairies and many lakes. ' It may be surprising to learn about the suffocating heat and the nu- merous mosquitos of the Alaskan summer. Hunters and miners who go into the country in the summertime have to wear mosquito netting over their faces to keep from being blinded by these insects. The cheapest means of traveling long distances in Alaska is by air- plane. It is so cheap that even an Eskimo, who owns his own dog team and to whom time is of no value, cannot afford to travel by sled. Lodging fees and the cost of food for himself and his dogs would amount to several times the price of an airplane ticket. There are only two railroads in all of Alaska, The Alaskan Railroad and The White Pass and Yukon. The Alaskans are proud of McKinley National Park, where the chief attraction is Mount McKinley, the highest peak on the North American continent. This mighty mountain is permanently snow covered for two- thirds of the way down and it reaches a height of 20,300 feet above the sea. No other mountain in the world rises so far above its own base. This beautiful McKinley Park is the farthest North and is the second largest National Park in the United States. Alaska is the home of the third largest river in North America, the mighty Yukon. Only half known and never fully surveyed, the delta contains numerous little known tributaries and countless islands and channels. ' ' Fishing, canning, mining, fur trapping, and breeding, transporting and farming, these are the ways Alaskans earn their living. Some have 11



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OM! ibbmlfelflff AAKQJLQ It has always seemed to me that one of the things lacking in our education is a general knowledge of Alaska. Perhaps I was the only one who came to school year after year not knowing much more about Alaska than the facts that there's a lot of snow up there, that it gets rather cold and that it was sometimes referred to as Seward's Icebox or the land of the midnight sun. True, there is a lot of snow up there, but itls not all snow and ice as I had imagined. There are the beautiful mountains, most of which are picturesquely decorated with pines and spruce, which tower to amazing heights so that they may not remain unnoticed. Inci- dentally, these supply the source of one of Alaska's most important indus- tries, lumbering. Where there are mountains there are valleys, and these present a display of sparkling brilliancy as the sun plays upon their white softness. To the observer of these wonders there often arises doubts as to whether his senses are playing with the fairies as his imagination wanders over the things too beautiful to really exist. But, even this is not all of Alaska. This does not include the quaint towns with their small curio shops and their frontiersmen nor does it include the fox fur farms, lumber camps or salmon fisheries--yet these things play a very important role in the complete drama of Alaska. The different sections of Alaska differ from each other just as Alaska differs from foreign lands. It is not all backwoods any more than it is all small towns or mountains, wilderness and plains. Some parts of Alaska are just as primitive as they ever were, while other sections are quite well advanced. For example, it is not at all uncommon for one of the larger towns to have within its limits a school, church, post oflice, factory, department stores and other buildings always associated with prosperous towns. I hope that some day I will make the trip to Alaska and maybe then I'll Wonder how I ever imagined Alaska as I do now, just as now I can't understand where I acquired my former impression of it. ANNETTA MEYER. lbataW slraflls l Ill II II Il ll ll ll ll u Pfcif

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