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with the reindeer. Arrangements were made that these herders were to be fed, 

 clothed and housed, also furnished with tobacco or its equivalent, at Govern- 

 ment expense, and in addition to the above v$50 worth of barter goods at the 

 end of the year. 



In 1892, the Teller Reindeer Station was established at the extreme north- 

 east corner of Port Clarence bay, near Grantley harbour. This, as the work 

 grew, became the base of supph' from which new centres of the reindeer industry 

 were established. 



In 1893, Congress made the first appropriation of $6,000 for the work. Dr. 

 Jackson, in order to secure some intelligent Norwegian or Swede accustomed 

 to the methods of caring for reindeer in Lapland, sent a notice to the Scandinavian 

 newspapers in the United States that the Government wished to secure the 

 services of a man acquainted with the management of reindeer. About 250 

 replies were received, and Mr. William A. Kjellman, of Madison, Wis., was 

 selected as superintendent of the reindeer station, as he had had considerable ex- 

 perience in buying and selling reindeer and reindeer products in Lapland. It was 

 almost the universal opinion of those from whom replies were received that 





A winter corral on the Buckland River. Alaska — constructed of spruce poles and brush — covers several acres — will 

 accommodate from eight to ten thousand reindeer. 



Courtesy of Carl Lomen, Nome, Alaska. 



there were no full-blooded Lapps in the United States, and that it was essential 

 to the success of the movement that a few families of Lapps should be secured 

 to do the herding, and also to give instruction to the Eskimo young men. They 

 also expressed the opinion that the trained dogs of Lapland were necessary for 

 herding. They further took the position that the Lapps have methods for the 

 care of reindeer superior to the customs of the Siberians. Upon the selection 

 of Mr. Kjellman as superintendent of the station, he was at once sent to Lap- 

 land for the necessary Lapps and dogs. The reindeer fund of Congress for 1894 

 being exhausted, it become necessary to again appeal to private individuals 

 for $1,000 to defray the expenses of sending Mr. Kjellman to Lapland, and to 

 pay the transportation of the Lapps and their families to the United States. 



During the summer of 1893, 127 additional reindeer were purchased in 

 Siberia. 



In the summer of 1894, as the first herds were purchased from private 

 funds, it was proposed to give 100 reindeer to each of the following stations: 

 the Congregationalists, at Cape Prince of Wales; the Swedish Evangelical 



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