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THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1910
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STORY OF DABNEY'S
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Hood Elver News:
A promised, will try to give you
. few details of my recent trip to
that Immense north country, Alaska.
Our tourist steamer leaving Seattle
at S o'clock lu the evening, slowly
pulls away through the placid
waters of 1'uget Sound, while the
many passengers on board view
with great Interest the thousands of
l?autlful lights In the city as they
play and flicker upon the clear blue
waters, and they were watched with
much Interest until they grew dim
and faded away lu the distance. It
was then that we all retired to our
state rooms, trusting t ) our captain
and pilot to carry us safely across
the rough Strait of Juan de Fueu, as
crossing at ulght. while the people
are asleep, helps to alleviate the dis
tress of seasickness, and by morning
we are moving northward far up In
ieorgla strait, at the rate of twelve
knots an hour. The atmosphere Is
dusky with smoke from the forest
tires which are raging on Vancouver
Island to the left and on the main
land to the right of us, but after we
have traveled four or live hundred
miles north we are out of the region
of forest fires and the atmosphere Is
cleur and crisp. The thousands of
Islands range In size from 40 miles
wide and 17u miles long down to so
mall that a merry widow hat
would almost cover one, and of
every shape that one could Imagine,
nil covered with the beautiful prime
val forest of evergreens. When the
tide Is full the water extends up to
the very base of the timber and
brushes the limbs of the trees with
its foamy billows, but when the tide
1 low the coast line shows the dark
green moss In which the trees are Im
Iwdded, then a strata of gray granite
rock and auother strata of very
dark lava, and Isneath It another
strata of light colored risk, then
l"Ueath that comes a bed of light
green moss or sea weed. This, with
the reflection of the cupped
mountains In the clear, transparent,
rippling water, produces a beautiful
picture that one will never forget.
The most of these Islands are very
mountainous and are, to me, much
more eautlful and Interesting than
those of the St. Law rence.
As we go farther north we notice ,
that many of the mountains are,
treaked ir coered with snow, and
hundreds of silvery streams arc dash-!
Ing and foaming down the mountain
sides, wending their way through
the green forests and plunging head
long luto the channel or bay below.
The timber Is of a much younger
growth and therefore much smaller
than that of Washington and Ore
gon, and not much of It Is suitable
for lumber except In small quantities
found In the basins and In the low
depressions of the moutalns.
Our first stop after leaving I'ort
Townsend wax at New Mettukahtta
on Annette Island. This Indian vil
lage has been made famous by the
great work which the Itev. Win.
Duncan has accomplished with the
Indians by that uame. Mr. Duncan
Is nearly eighty yearn old, but looks
as robust and strong ns many men
of forty. He said that August "th
was the twenty-third anniversary of
their landing on that Island, having
been driven away from DM Metu
kahtta, near I'ort Simpson, on ac
count of religious Intolerance, after
having been with the Indians In his
grtat work for thirty years, making
In all tifty-three years.
Mr. Duncan stated that when lie
first went among them they were
very barbarous and almost down to
low cannibalism. The present pop
ulation of the village Is Itesldes
Mr. Duncan and a doctor who has
recently located there. 1 he village
Is built up with good frame houses,
good sidewalks, etc. They have a
large church, school and other build
ings, and have their own canneries,
sawmills and other Industries. Their
town Is Incorporated and they also
have an Industrial corporation
whose duty It Is to look after the
marketing of their products. These
Indians do all their carpenter work,
blacksmlthlng, printing, and, In fact,
carry on every thing pertaining to a
well-clvili.ed community. The An
nette Island has been especially set
aside by the I'nlted States govern
ment for their exclusive use and ben
efit. It is very rich In minerals, and
someday these Indians will become
a very wealthy and Independent
people.
Our next stop was at Ketchlknui,
a port of entry, and a beautiful little
town of several hundred nestled up
near tlie base of the mountains.
Ketchlkiim creek, with Its white,
foamy waters, Is noted for the thou
sands of salmon which play lu the
stream. This place Is headquarter
for numerous mining prospectors, as
Well ns lishermeii. lint we are no w
In liirefn e strait, plowing our way
through the clear blue waters, no
still that there Is hardly n ripple.
And now our attention Is drawn to
the right of us about two hundred
yards away. A battle royal is on
between a huge shark and a whale.
See how the shark jumps up many
feet out of the water and pounces
down upon the whale's head. For
twenty minutes the fiercest battle
raged, and we all watched them
with great Interest nntll they faded
away In the distance and we were
unable to tell how It ended.
We are now landing at Ft. Wran
gel, on the northernmost point of
Wrangel Island. It was at one time
quite noted for Its many Indians arid
their numerous and peculiar Totem
poles, but many of the better Totems
have been destroyed by fire. We are
now 750 miles from Seattle and It is
raining hard. I asked one of the In
dians If it rained there all the time,
and he said, "No, It sometime snow
We are just passing I'etersburg, at
the north end of Mltkof Island, where
large fish canneries are located, In
which they are using the most Im
proved machinery, enabling them to
put up many thousands of cans per
day of the famous lied King salmon
which are considered the liest of all
Alaska salmon. These fish will uv
erage about eight pounds, and t lie
fishermen receive .'!" cents apiece for
them. We also stopped at the Lake
I'.ay cannery. A great deal of the
work at this place Is dune by hand
and they employ Chinamen, Japs
ami Indians, and sometimes you
have to look twice before you can
tell "tother from which." The Lake
I'.ay fish are of a much cheaper qual
lty and from this cannery many of
the cheaper markets of Kurope are
supplied. The cannery pays eight
cents each for these fish, or one cent
per pound. I was toll that the
Alaska canneries are paying their
owners handsome profits.
It Is tteautlful as we go up Fred.
erick Sound and Into Stephens pas.
sage, and In doing so we puss a lit tit
village to our left called Klllism,
where a good many wnaies are
worked up Into the many different
articles of commerce. The waters In
this part of Alaska are noted for
their many whales, and It Is Inter
esting to see them sleeping or blow
ing the water high In the air. Some
times they will hardly get out of the
way of our ship as we pass along.
In going out of Stephens passage
we enter Faku Inlet, and all on
board are watching the great Ice.
Iiergs and waiting to get the lirst
glimpse of Faku (ilacler. For many
miles back we hail been seeing cakes
of Ice floating on the water, which
ut a distance looked like great white
swans; but as we near the glacier
the lcels-rgs Isrome very large and
numerous, and are of all manner of
shapes.
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