Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1902 — Along the Yukon. [ARTICLE]

Along the Yukon.

The outlook for gardening and some agriculture in the cold interior region of Alaska is decidedly encouraging. Although the season was unusually late last year, new potatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, beets and other vegetables were ready for the table before the middle of August, and lettuce, radishes and turnips grown in the open had been In use for some weeks. Flower gardens containing a large variety of annuals grown from seed furnished last year were In full bloom. At the station at Rampart, rye, seeded the previous fall, wintered perfectly and was ripe In July. Spring seeded barley had ripened about the middle of August, and there was quite a prospect for oats and wheat to mature. Extensive areas of excellent land were found on the Lower Yukon, upon which there was an abundant aud often luxuriant growth of grasses over six feet in height. The abundant moisture and long days during the pummer months account for the surprising luxuriance of vegetation In that far north region.