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Show MI WET TRIBTJNE \i-r·rj,. r1\),-.•rf\· \ Jt [,C \1,,I_.•.,1' jl~J r') J Jf) -Ir; JI'\~(. Jj\· I meat I had ever seen. Being very hungry I roasted it over the fire. end boyi .Was it . good? I had never eaten anythin g better . After partaki ng of this delicio us feast I went back to my digging and immediately uncove red anothe r huge buffalo . MY RICHEST FIND Then I conceiv ed the idea that during the A few years ago when I was taking glacia l period many buffalo roamed the Physic al Geograp hy in High School , the plains . Whe1i those immense glacier s be-, . chapter on Alaska which told about the gan to move south with the tilting of the minera l resourc es of t hat country fired earth, they moved with lightn ing like rame with enthusi asm to -do a little pros pidity . This one happen ed to catch a pecting . whole herd of buffalo and crush them to I drew my savi ngs account of about death in the rolling ice. eightee n dollars , bought a supply of Realizi ng t he rarity of buffalo meat grub , packed it into my canoe and set va lue I imme'c liately saw where I its and out for .Alaska . Space ,, ill. no t permit a fortune ~ make could · me to give a descrip tion of my tra vels Nation al Government I sethe From but after many days paddlin g I landed ly on all the lands of monopo a cured my boat at the little trading post of . The next step was to .Alaska rn Northe that Dingo. There I secured a dog team This was very readily l. capita secure took me to Northe rn Alaska . I told J.J. Astor of my when hed complis ac You may wonder why I went to Norththe capita l and bed supplie He . idea is ern Alaska to prospe ct • . The ans wer became engine er of I . r partne my came simple . I selecte d. the ice covered men and equipm ent secured and t projec he t regi on because I knew t hat no one bemining buffalo of on operati the start to fore me had ever been looking there out, dress- · aken t were buffalo The meat. for gold . ed, pa cked and put on the market . I was On my arrival I dug out a shelter at how sales arose . My Gompany amazed I in the face of an ice ledge . Then supply the demand. We .::.sked not could I went down to the water front where one dollar and a half per ved rec,e.i and to od secured severa l piece~ of driftwo dressed buffalo meat . the for pound build a •tire . t was ended some projec the When rethis I had spent many days in showe d that records later, months hree t out gion and my provisi ons had run buffa.Jao hundred seven twenty mined had we forcing me to spea~ seals fo r food. a- _, pounds hundred fifteen d nverage that Then I struck rt. ·•rich. find. piece in we ight, after they were dresse! \ I was digging in the ice wh~n my and that t he Company had rnatle a net pro• pick struck some hairy object~ .Anxfit return of six million dollars w d finishe I ious to find out what it was Kentuc ky my excava ting and expos Ed n large decided buffalo . It looked fresh and I A HUNTING TRIP to make an investi gation . With my while I was hunting in the day One rs knife I skinned one of the quarte Ohio I .ran short of shells . old of of wilds p:teces and exposed one of the uic0,st_ We sometim es hear of the great possib ilities of Indiane , Kentuc ky, Ohio, Minnes ota and the Da kotas. The followi ng lines will give you an idea of a little interst ate compet ition. |
