Alaska and the KlondikeMcClure, Phillips & Company, 1905 - 330 頁 |
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Alaska Indian Aleutian chain American Anvik Anvil Creek Arctic Arctic Ocean arrival Bering Sea boats British Yukon building Captain carried cents a pound claim coast Coldfoot Copper River Dawson discovery ernment Eskimo Fairbanks Father Duncan feet fish freight glacier gold Government ground harbour Horse important inside passage interest Jarvis July Juneau Klondike land ment Metlakahtla Michael miles miners mining district mission mountain mouth natives nearly Nome northern Northwest Northwest Mounted Police officers organisation Point Barrow Prince William Sound prospector railroad Rampart reindeer revenue route Russian salmon Seattle Senator senatorial committee senatorial party Seward Peninsula ship shore side Sitka Skagway sluice boxes station stream summer supply Tanana Tanana River territory tion town trade trail transportation travelled Unalaska United Valdez to Eagle valley village wagon road White Pass winter Yukon River
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第 150 頁 - ... particular about making the street lines straight, nor insist that the street shall have uniform width; let the elevation and width of the sidewalks be determined by chance, it produces more variety and claims closer attention from the pedestrian; fill the lower floors of the buildings along the street with business undertakings of various kinds, and the upper floors reserve for living purposes; throw in a liberal portion of places devoted to the gratification of highly developed thirsts; fill...
第 270 頁 - You see, on the contrary, a tangle of luxuriant vegetation, large forests, and such delicacies as wild raspberries, red currants, huckleberries, and cranberries in profusion. In places the grass grows as high as a man's shoulder.
第 248 頁 - That all that part of the United States west of the Mississippi, and not within the states of Missouri and Louisiana, or the territory of Arkansas, and also, that part of the United States east of the Mississippi river, and not within any state to which the Indian title has not been extinguished, for the purposes of this act, be taken and deemed to be the Indian country.
第 271 頁 - Alaska, but I am impressed with the probability that in the interior of that remote country, where food supplies from the States must always be expensive, it will be practicable and profitable to produce meat and dairy and poultry and garden products in such quantity and at such prices as to solve the problem of development of large areas of gold-bearing gravel.
第 261 頁 - Schools for white children and children of mixed blood who lead a civilized life in the Territory are under the general supervision of a Territorial Board of Education...
第 269 頁 - There never could be a greater misconception in regard to a geographical fact than the popular idea that it is a snowcovered, inhospitable waste, and it is strange that this idea should be so persistently propagated and disseminated among the people.
第 294 頁 - I have seen water saw wood; now I die." "Why do you want to die?" he was asked. "I have seen water saw wood; now I die and take the news to the chiefs who have died but have never seen water saw wood" (39, p. 294). After a time a controversy arose concerning certain aspects of the mission and property rights of these Indians, hence Duncan and his Indian followers migrated to Annette Island granted them by the United States. The new Metlakahla is a village of a thousand people, with a fine large...
第 295 頁 - ... hospital, and city hall and cooperative stores a saw-mill run by water, a system of water works, a cannery where 20,000 cases of salmon can be packed in one season, two steam vessels, dock and warehouses, sidewalks, and comfortable houses of one or two stories with small flower and vegetable gardens. Business is done on a business basis. The cannery and the saw-mill belong to companies in which individual Indians have stock on which they receive dividends, and the employees are paid regular wages...
第 154 頁 - ... creeks, but in the Fairbanks district there seems to be no gold in the creek bottoms; it lies up on the ledges and on the hillsides in a stratum of gravel two or three feet thick, and is located only after sinking shafts 10 to 20 feet from the surface. We have scarcely appreciated the isolation of Nome in winter: The mining has stopped almost entirely, the ships come no more, half the people have gone " outside "; the rest eat and sleep and amuse themselves and wait for summer to come again....
第 294 頁 - ... feat. One old Indian chief who heard that Mr. Duncan intended to make water saw wood, said: "If it is true that Mr. Duncan can make water saw wood, I will see it and then die" (57, p. 35). When the mill was completed the water was brought from the hills. After the saw had cut the length of the log the old chief who sat and watched the operation in silence nodded his head solemnly and said: "I have seen water saw wood; now I die.