Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1913 — MANY CLIMATES IN ALASKA [ARTICLE]

MANY CLIMATES IN ALASKA

But There Is One Island Where Cold Weather Is Absolutely Unknown. “There Isn’t a section of the United States, I venture to say, where at some time frost has not been known,” remarked Hugh C. Todd of Seattle, chairman of the Democratic state committee of Washington, at the Willard, according to the Washington Post “But in Alaska, which is looked upon as the coldest country on earth, bar Greenland and the arctic region, there is an island where frost haß never been heard of. This is Middleton island, one of the Aleutian group of islands close to the Japan current There the temperature is always mild. Twenty miles away on the other side of the islands, it 1b nearly always freezing—in fact, is a country of such varied climate that almost anything can be produced. It is possible to grow strawberries, blackberries and other early summer fruit for the winter market. In the Susitna valley, which is the valley that distributes the waters of the southern slope of the coast range, the weather, I venture, is now warmer and finer than in any part of the United States. That is brought about, of course, by the Japan current.’’ Mr. Todd is the youngest chairman in the country, it is said. He was a candidate for governor of Washington in the primaries and was defeated by Governor Listen by only 300 votes. Then he turned in and managed Governor Lister’s campaign and won a victory. “Washington state is a commonwealth that 1b Just as widely diversified in her politics as her resources," said Mr. Todd. "We can produce nearly everything, and we raise all kinds of politicians. In the recent election every party, including the woman suffragists, Prohibitionists and Socialists, got some office.”