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PAGE TWO HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 30, 1930. T ALASKA NOW BEIhib OPENED Reindeer Meat is Among Products Uncle Sam Would Popularize. By CALEB JOHNSON. Had your reindeer steak yet? The introduction of reindeer meat as a staple food product is the Gov ernment's latest method of getting the rest of the United States inter ested in Alaska. In the larger cities reindeer steaks, chops and roasts are being served in many hotels and restaurants, and it is expected that in time a great meat-packing indus try will develop in the northern ter ritory. Alaska is getting closer to the rest of the nation all the time. Now the United States and Canada are co operating ni the construction of a great motor highway which, when completed, will make it as easy for automobile tourists to visit Alaska as it is now for them to drive to Florida, The driving force behind this latest project is the indefat igable Col. Samuel Hill of Seattle, who more than anyone else has been responsible for the building of good roads in the Northwest It will take only 750 miles of new con struction to complete the highway link between the Mexican border up the Pacific Coast through Can ada to Fairbanks, Alaska, and the new road will pass through the fa mous Peace Portal which stands on the International Boundary line. Although Alaska has been the property of the United States since it was bought from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000, large parts of the ter ritory are still unexplored. Nobody knows what riches may yet come out of this northern wilderness. So far, products worth more than 200 times the original cost of the terri tory have been yielded, chiefly in gold, salmon, seal furs and lumber. There is at least one oil field and a good grade of steam coal is found at several points. The United Stat s navy is making an aerial survey of the whole territroy, photographing it from the sky. This survey has already resulted in the discovery of a waterfall capable of generating at least 20,000 horsepower, and of forests which can supply all the wood-pulp the United States needs for paper making. Few realize how big Alaska is, You could put into it all of the At lantic Coast states from Maine to Florida, add Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi and still have room to spare. In all of this territory there are only about 55,000 inhaD- itants, of whom half are Esk'.mos. Yet the climate in a large part of Alaska is milder than in most of the northern parts of the United States, the principal drawback being that it gets pretty warm in Summer; In the interior the thermome'er sometimes goes to 60 below in Win ter and raises to 90 or more i.i July, but along the coast, where the warm Japanese current tempers the climate, it seldom drops below zero and 80 above is about the highest in mid-summer. There are considerable areas of good farming land, where wheat can be grown economically, but there are less than 600 farms in the whole territory so far. The Govern ment estimates that 60 million acres are adaptable to farming. One drawback has been lack of trans portation facilities. The Alaska Railroad, owned by the Govern ment, is extending its lines and the proposed new highway will open up sections heretofore inaccessible. It will be many years, however, before the interior of Alaska will be very easy to get at, except as industries develop and establish their own means of communication. The reindeer herds, which pasture in the great ranges in the north western part of the territory, hav developed from a few which were brought to Alaska years ago from Lapland, to provide food for the cNp' ad to oAid Development in oAlaska , , , , , . - Col. Samuel Hill of Seattle, famou9 international capitalist and promoter of good roads, is behind the project to build the connecting link between British Columbia and Alaska which will make a continuous motor road from Mexico to the Far North. The road will pass through the Peace Portal which stands on the Interna tional boundary line. The Reindeer meat industry in Alaska is being fostered by the Government which own great herds which serve as food for the Eskimos Eskimos. They now number more than a million head, of which 700, 000 are females, and are increasing at the rate of 300,000 or more a year. It is the Government's pur pose to induce capital to establish packing-houses for the slaughter and shipment of reindeer meat, which can compete with beef .n quality and price, and to establish colonies of farmers to take up free land on which to grow grain to fat ten the reindeer for market Other industries which are being tried out experimentally in Alaska are sheep-grazing and fur-farming, the latter with considerable su: cess. Alaska is the last great unexplor ed part of the United States. There are still more than a hundred mn loin acres which have never even been seen from an airplane. Young men with the pioneer spirit which has made this country what it is are the ones to whom Uncle Sam is looking to open up this great territory. FRANK PARKER business. It can share in the na tion's general prosperity only by adopting business methods. In the process, many farmers will have to give up farming and go into some thing else. That may sound harsh, but it is the plain logic of the trend of events. William M. Jardine, former Secre tary of Agriculture and himself a practical farmer, says there are too many farms and farmers. In any sound business, producers regulate their output to the demand for their products. Farmers have not done that because they have never worked together. The Farm Board program is the greatest experiment in cooperation ever attempted in the world. Its success will depend upon the intel ligence and vision of the men who run it DAWES They are talking about Charles G. Dawes for Mayor of Chicago. The election will be in April, 1931. If the former Vice-President, present Ambassador to Great Britain, can be nominated, he probably can be elected. If he is elected, Chicago will get the most complete cleaning up it has ever had. The trouble will be to get the nominally Repub lican but actually bi-partisan ma chine to let him be nominated. The ostensible basis of opposition will be that he is not a resident of Chi cago but of the adjoining city of Evanston. POPULATION Take out your watch and look at the seconds hand. Count thirteen seconds. Somewhere in the United States a baby has been born. Follow the hand to the 3-second mark. Someone has died. Watch it for a minute and a half. Another immi grant has landed on our shores. Hold it for Ave and a half minutes. Somebody has sailed away from America to stay. The average of all those computa tions, worked out by the United States Census office, is the addition of one person to our total popula tion each 23 seconds. While you slept eight hours last night, 2,215 babies were born, 1,208 persons died. The net increase in population is 3,624 a day. At midnight on December 31, as the first stroke of 1930 sound ed, there were 121,873,140 living In habitants of the United States, the Census people figured. If there were no immigration and nobody left the country, the excess of births over deaths would add 3,000 a day to our population, or more than a million a year. COLD " The other day I saw a covered truck on Sixth Avenue, New York, with the name of an ice-cream mak er on the side and the words "Tem perature 105 degrees below zero." Freezing ice cream so solid that it will keep for weeks if stored at any temperature below 32 degrees Is on ly one of the commercial applica tions of the new freezing process in which both liquid air and solid car bon dioxide are used. Fish, meats, fruits and vegetables frozen so quickly and thoroughly that their juices do not form ice crystals to rupture the fibers are now on the market In the large cities. They taste, when thawed, just like fresh food. Chicago pack ers are preparing to put out frozen meats in the form of single steaks, chops, roasts, each sealed in cellu lose and shipped in containers de signed to keep them frozen until delivered to the consumer. If this method develops as it promises, the world center of the meat Industry may shift from the United States to Argentina, Aus tralia or South Africa, where land and labor are cheap and cattle and sheep can be raised at small cost TUM-A-LUM TICKLER Published In the Interest of the people of Heppner and vicinity by THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO., Phone 912 Volume 30 Heppnar, Oregon January 30, 1930 No. 5 TThRINTING Hill' -J Is the Inseparable Companion of Achievement ROYALTY Fifteen years ago the news that the Kaiser's grandson was working in Henry Ford's assembly plant In Buenos Aires, Argentina, for $3 a day would have furnished a topic for Sunday pages in the big news papers. Now the fact that the son of the Crown Prince has had to go to work under the name of "Doctor Ferdinand" is hardly a theme for a passing paragraph. Some of the results of the Great War may be debatable, but that it finally exploded the old idea of roy alty ruling by Divine mandate is all to the good. COOPERATION The purpose of the Federal Farm Board is to convert farming from a hit-or-miss mode of living into a Shop Where COURTESY and SERVICE Prevail But not only that we have a large stock of pure, fresh groceries and at reasonable prices. Trade with us and you'll always get real VALUE ! We have what you de sire in the line of groceries and always the best of any particular product. Just give us a trial Phelps Grocery Co. The Home of Good Eats. I ver Twenty-t hree Million Produced in 1929 (23,045,000) Goodyear now builds almost twice as many tires as any other rubber company. COME IN AND LET US SHOW YOU WHY MIL LIONS MORE PEOPLE RIDE ON GOODYEAR TIRES THAN ON ANY OTHER KIND. THERE IS NO OBLIGATION TO BUY. SPECIAL 30x3 1-2 O.S. $5.80 29x4.40... 6.30 30x4.50... 7.00 rates 'H'iwSy Vaughn & Goodman (HEPPNER GARAGE) HEPPNER, OREGON EDITORIAL Early to bed and early to rise, cut the weeds and swat the flies, mind your own business and tell no lies; don't get gay and deceive your wives, pay your debts and use enterprise, and buy from home mer chants if you want to be wise. AIiBSBT AS KISS, Manager, Editor. Joe Devine was in town Saturday after a load of coal. TAZ. Reward offered for the apprehension of the persons or persons that stole the mercury from our thermomet er. The fact that part of it has been return ed doesn't help much. KING COAL, is on their trail, too. HOUSEHOLD HINTS We are always Johnny-on-the-spot with suggestions that fit the season. When the water pipes are froz en we suggest that you move the furniture out into the front yard and build a fire on the floor of the living room. After Nature has taken her usual course, the pipes will be well thawed. Col lect the insurance and dash madly to the Tum-A-Lum office for plans and specifica tions for a new home that knows better than to let its water system freeze. P. S. Don't tell Chief Devln. A Tum-A-Lum straw loft chicken house will keep hens laying all winter. With eggs at the present price It wouldn't take long to pay for such a house. This and many other fine plans are for your use at our office. Stop for a while by our hot fire and look over the plan books of farm buildings we have. Chicken houses cost about $1.25 per hen, or the price of 2 Mi dozen eggs. POME 'You may stay out late and get lit up a few," Said the hen to the farmer, "But I'm laying for you." The man who rents is committing finan cial suicide on the In stallment plan and we will lay a 100 to 1 that "Home Sweet Home" was not written by a renter. TAX It is not too cold to do interior remodel ing and painting. 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