114 INTEODUCTION OF DOMESTIC REINDEER INTO ALASKA. 



ANNUAL REPORT GOLOFNIN REINDEER STATION. 

 By O. P. Anderson, in charge. 



Dear Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of 

 the reindeer station at Golofnin: 



The herders are Nils Klemetsen and wife, Tautook, wife and two 

 apprentices, Amahktoolik and Simon. 



Constantine with Lowry, apprentice, Taktuk with family, and 

 Harold, an apprentice. 



The mission apprentices are John Pomerstchuk, Albert Angotok, 

 and Benjamin. These are now all married, and have gotten their 

 wives from the orphanage. They have all been in good health, with 

 the exception of John, who was sick last winter for some time. 



The herd is doing well. There are of course some deaths from 

 different causes, both external and internal, and from accidents. 

 We have sold some for the meat market, both at Nome and at Coun- 

 cil, and I have given the herders a chance to sell some deer to pay 

 their provision. 



Last winter we had a contract of freighting some goods into the 

 Imachuck with reindeer from our herd and from the herd at Una- 

 lakleet. Although they were met with the most severe snowstorm 

 of the season, they made it a success. This proves that the reindeer 

 can do a great service where horses and dogs can not be used. This 

 might open a field of transportation with the deer in years to come. 



The worst enemy to the reindeer industry is the fire caused by 

 careless miners going through the country. We have been fighting 

 this enemy for two weeks this summer. It has been very dry, and 

 the moss has burned like powder, and before the storm it swept the 

 mountains very fast. A good rain came to our assistance and made 

 an end to it. 



Mr. Klemetsen has marked 19 female deer with the Government 

 mark, for provision gotten through A. E. Karlsen. Tautook has done 

 the same with two female deer for provision gotten at Unalakleet. 



At the orphanage we are all well. We had 35 children in the home 

 last winter and during the school year. The school is growing every 

 year, and it is in need of school benches. The teacher will be disap- 

 pointed if the benches do not come this summer. 



A new teacher has been sent up here by the board of the missions. 

 Her name is Anna Hagberg, from Chicago, 111. She has studied at 

 North Park College. 



My wife, who has been teaching school for five years, will now 

 devote her time to the home and the mission work. 



Best greeting from us all. 



Yours, truly, O. P. Anderson. 



Dr. Sheldon Jackson, 



General Agent of Education in Alaska, Washington, D. C. 



