DOMESTICATED REINDEER INTO ALASKA- 133 



REPORT OF PROGRESS BY W. T. LOPP, SUPERINTENDENT. 



Teller Reindeer Station, 

 Port Clarence, Alaska, August 26, 189!. 



Dear Sir: I inclose the reports which you kindly loaned me. 



Since I last wrote you we have completed the " lean-to" or shed and have the 

 herders living in there. We are just completing a small office in the hall, where we 

 will keep all our trade goods and do all our trading over a half-door. In a few days 

 we will have a log house (15 by 12) finished. I think we wili let Charley and Mary 

 live in it. Charley is anxious to get a herd of deer, and is willing to stay and trust 

 to your generosity for his reward. Of course, I can only promise him 2 deer for the 

 first year, but he thinks you will give him more, as you promised him more last 

 year, and I hope you will give him more than 2 if he stays here and does his duty. 

 Charley is almost as good as a white' man to have around — in some ways much 

 better. 



Moses, from the Yukon, will remain here. It is no wonder he would not stay last 

 spring. They put him in that filthy herders' dug-out, which was already over- 

 crowded, to sleep, and he refused to stay, preferring, he says, an Eskimo house to 

 the one the United States had built. We have 13 herders now. We have 3 on night 

 watch and 2 on day watch, and use all the extra men on the work. The Bear's car- 

 penter built us a scow and dingy, both of which have been very useful already. 

 We made three trips after drift logs for our log cabin and for fuel. That carpenter 

 is a good workman and worked very hard during the summer. Mackey did very 

 well. 



Very truly, 



W. T. LOPP. 



Dr. Sheldon Jackson, 



U. S. General Agent of Education in Alaska. 



Teller Reindeer Station, 

 Port Clarence, Alaska, August SI, 1893. 



Dear Sir: I inclose you our order for supplies for next year and also orders for 

 herders' supplies and for trade goods. I suppose it will be most convenient to order 

 of Mr. Foster. I have no choice in the matter, but I want everything first class. 

 The list for herders' supplies and trade goods express about the proportionate 

 amounts of the various supplies, so you will have to decide as to the quantity. 

 etc. The teachers' supplies are for superintendent and wife and one assistant, only, 

 so, if more whites are employed, additional supplies must be sent. Since making 

 out the trade list I have received quite a quantity of ammunition from the Bear and 

 Mrs. Thornton, but you can see how much it amounts to from the receipt and order 

 which will be forwarded to you, and can decide how much we will need. 



I am ordering no trade goods for myself. If we remain here another year we 

 would prefer to take what little stuff we want out of the reindeer goods, and then 

 you could take it out of our salaries. This would save us the trouble of having 

 separate shipping bills, keeping the goods separate, etc. 



Since Mr. Thornton's death it has occurred to me that it would simplify matters if 

 the station owned all the furniture. As it is here, the station owns part and we 

 own part. 



