Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1909 — STILL LIFE MENAGERIES. [ARTICLE]

STILL LIFE MENAGERIES.

Market In Alaska Where Frozen Ani mals Stand AU Winter, The world’s most unique game market is nr Fairbanks, Alaska, says the San Francisco Chronicle. If you will take thp trouble to examine the latent map of the vast and valuable northwest territory purchased by Uncle Sam from Russia in 18G7 you will find that Fairbanks is on the Chelna river, in the rich Tonama district, of which it is the thriving metropolis. It lies close to the Arctic circle, and in common with other communities in the valley of the Yukon, has an average mean temperature cf about 10 degrees ,hel qw zc no du ring .the. ’•? <. n tT>« nf Nn-. veml.cr, LeiCaiL' r, .TanuaryTTelnmry and March. At intervals during the long winter season the thei ra-'-goes as low asraSmMiigiiee. .hra'aw, die., zero mar;-., hut-sura ran crararave brai- . perature is nest ararara-.-iy ra.-..cra ; ry for the successful operation. of the Fairbanks game market, although it istrue, the intensity of the Araik: cold is the chief factor jn cstebh: iii'ig rad itt:ii' g th® firara's . tO tinctioH'in they item of its g rac raarket. It is almost supein : :s .. suggest that the market, ope»a ting as it does oi::j during the mcaiii- naxie.d, is saved the expense of arraraal. re.. frigeratifc g ‘ appara bus. - Now livre is vViere. 1 Ira iiulra b':gins. Instead of skinning the game and curing up the carer ds in' the ordinary way, everyday market, the deer, or the moos-g or the ns the case may be, is grirrply stood up on- the floor of th-e\ market, which is located in one of the pi'liieii'al buildings of the town, rad allowed' tcT freeze solidly, or p-; Irahly it has. frozen' solidly within 1 a. mim.it is after it was'killed. The low tcini-oraliire-that contirfually prevail.; permits the keeping of game in this slrip? ftra raratha at a stretch, as'Ora.- th? frews is frozen there is no demy until the freezing weather- is era. —— One may enter the market and order . a bear steak cut from Bruin who has occupied- a partici ar corm*; in the' establishment, locking., far all the. world - as if ire were alive, it::- i :-veral months; or a haunch of veni qn from the deer that has been in another corner for an equally Jong period; or, perchance, a -choice ent of the or tW~ that have been making lifelike poses in other sections oi the market. Or, if it be a mountain sheep or a goat that the faneyicravra, th? saffie opportunity is offered for selection. The animals appear jt -t as they did in life, and the person who visits the place for the first time is apt to imagine himself in a menagerie rather market. ' The flavor and quality of the game under such conditions is said to be unexcelled. The freezing pi ocess and the length of tim that is allowed to claps" betweran the kilin rand th? eating oi the anin - d seem to impart to the flesh a tenderness and a ripeness that is characteristic. The, market attracts attention to its location by placing on-the sidewalk befoie its doer, just as the cigar man puts out his wooden Indian, a bear or moose, a stag or some other animal from its stock in trade. Last season the same bear was used for the purpose every day for five months, and was then cut up into steaks that, were pronounced to be the most delicious that had ever been eaten in a locality that is ■ famous for its well-flavored bear steaks.