Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — All About Alaska. [ARTICLE]

All About Alaska.

Alaska, situated In the northwestern part of North America, was purchased from Russia in 18(i7 by ihe United States during Andrew Johnson’s administration. The Indians who inhabit it are much more intelligent than those tribes farther south. There are many islands oil the coast of Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, celebrated for beautiful scenery, and Douglas Island, noted for its great coal mines. It produces and exports coal, iron, silver, gold, lumber, fish and fur. The mountains of Alaska aro capped with snow and ice, while there aro beautiful tregs at theit baso. Edgecumbo peak is a volcano, which has slumbered for over a century. -Inside is a smoldering fire, while the outside is covered wifch ico and snow. The glaciers of Alaska are very much larger than those of Switzerland. There aro also glapiors on the islands near Alaska. The Yukon is the largest river in North America and has its riso in a series of over one hundred lakes. It is eighty miles wide at its mouth and ten miles wide 800 mile 3 above its mouth. It forms a delta which is forty miles in diameter. The river is I,GOO miles in length.