22 INTRODUCTION OF DOMESTICATED REINDEER INTO ALASKA. 



It gives me great pleasure to again acknowledge the hearty cooper- 

 ation received from Capt. L. G-. Shepard, acting chief of the revenue- 

 marine division of the Treasury Department; also tbe valuable assist- 

 ance rendered by Capt. M. A. Healy, commanding the U. S. S. Bear, 

 Lieuts. Jarvis and White, and also the officers and crew. The addi- 

 tional duties and responsibilities that have been laid upon them, in 

 being detailed to the transportation of the reindeer from Siberia, have 

 added greatly to their labors, and this without extra compensation. 

 As experience in this line becomes increasingly valuable from year to 

 year, it is greatly desired that when any officers of the Bevenue-Marine 

 Service take a special interest in the enterprise they shall be continued 

 in the service from year to year. I am sure that the officers who have 

 so uncomplainingly and cheerfully cooperated in this movement will 

 feel well repaid for the same when in after years they see the great 

 results that have been attained. 



I also desire to call attention* to the very valuable monographs on 

 the reindeer in Lapland furnished by the Hon. Easmus B. Anderson 

 and Mr. IsT. Width, which I have incorporated in the appendix to this 

 report. 



The applications received from various Scandinavians for positions 

 at the reindeer herd have incidentally furnished much information con- 

 cerning the treatment of reindeer in Lapland. As the experience of 

 Lapland will be of great assistance in the commencement of the rein- 

 deer enterprise in Alaska, I have made extracts from the same and 

 thrown them into the form of a symposium, which also is included in 

 the appendix. 



Thanks are also due to the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for the 

 accurate maps which they have furnished for this report. 



The illustrations are from photographs taken by Engineer A. L. 

 Broadbent, Surgeon S. J. Call, and Mr. Miner W. Brace. 



Also as illustrating the native skill in drawing and their methods of 

 travel and hunting the wild reindeer I inclose a few pencilings made 

 by Eskimos at the Eeindeer Station. 

 Very respectfully, yours, 



Sheldon Jackson, 

 TJ. S. General Agent of Education in Alaska. 



Hon. W. T. Harris, LL. D., 



Commissioner of Education, 



