12 INTiJUDUCTION OF DOMESTIC KEINDEEli INTO ALASKA. 



I'P'.KSOXNEL. 



Mr. AVilliuin A. Kjelliiiann remained us .superintendent. 



Mr. Hedlev E. Rcdni3'er, in charge of the special expedition foi 

 driving reindeer from Haine-s Mission, on the southeast coast of Alaska, 

 across the country to Circle City, having, after great haixlship and 

 much personal danger, fulfilled his mission, resigned October 10, 

 18i)9. 



F. H. (xambell, M. J)., remained at Eaton Station as surgeon and 

 school-teacher, and, during the long absences of the superintendent, 

 as acting sui)erintendent looked after transportation and other interests 

 between St. Michael and Nome. 



Herders. — On the 30th of July, 1898, (>7 Laphmders, Finns, and 

 Norwegians, with their families, reached the Eaton Reindeer Sta- 

 tion. This large number would have ))een retjuired if the original 

 project of taking food during the winter of 1898 into the Yukon Val- 

 ley for the relief of destitute miners had l)een carried out, but, when 

 happily it was found that this measure of relief was not needed and 

 the project of taking relief was abandoned, there was a larger number 

 of employees on the hands of the Government than was needed. A 

 request was made by the contractor for carrying the mail on the Yukon 

 Valley, also by one of the large transportation companies, for permis- 

 sion to hire a nimibcr of these extra Lapps. Through a coml)ination 

 of circumstances l)oth the mail contractor tmd the tnuisportation 

 company failed to carr>' out their intentions. In the meantime their 

 contract with the (Jovernment expired on flanuary 31, 1899, and 

 receiving their discharge from the service of the AVar Department 

 they went to the placei- mines near Cape Nome, where the larger 

 number of them secured mines. One of them, Mr. Jafeth Lindeberg, 

 is reported to have taken from his mine over !i>7r),0(M) in gold. One 

 of Mr. Lopp's Eskimo herders at Cape Prince of Wales discovered 

 gold on Anacovak Creek, which was the connnencenient of the new 

 mining district of Konowgok, a few miles from Cape York, on the 

 Bering Sea coast. They left the station for the mines at Golovin Bay 

 and Cape Nome as follows: 



July;}!, 7tV9cV.— JalVtli Liii(U'))er,L'. 



7'>/;r((frr(/ -7, AV.W.— IVrit Nili^tlattiT ICiia, Ida .luliansilatlfr llatta, ami Matxmis 

 Kjcl(ll)er<r. 



J/arr/t i.— Tla.ralf Kji'ldlu-i^r, AVillu'liii I'.asi, (>tt(. iNI. Li-iiiaii, and Ole (i. Herg. 



March 4- — Sainui'l Hansen and Ottn (iivim-r. 



March 10. — Ole Johansen Stenfjeld. 



March 20. — Ole Keogh. 



March 27. — Lauritz Larsen and Ole Olesen. 



Marches. — Johan Peder Johannsen 8tal(>f,'argo. 



March SI. — Karl O. Suhr and Johannes Aslaksen Rauna. 



April 1. — Peder Johannesen, Samuel Josefsen, Peder Johansen, Iver Persen Yestad, 

 Lauritz Stefansen, Johau M. Johansen (Toerle), Nils Klenietsen, Ole M. liapp, Rolf 



