INTRODUCTION OF DOMESTIC REINDEER INTO ALASKA. l7 



Of the above the following are the property of the Government: 

 In the herd en route from Point Barrow south, 337; Teller Reindeer 

 Station, 100; Eaton Reindeer Station, 419; making a total of 81:6. 



Congressional appropriations for the introduction into Alaska of 

 domestic reindeer from Siberia: 



1894 m, 000 



1895 7, 500 



1896 7, 500 



1897 12, 000 



1898 $12, 500 



1899 12, 500 



1900 25, 000 



Total 83,000 



E.rpciKlitvrr of reindeer fund, 1S9S-99. 



Amount appropriated $12, 500. 00 



Supplies for stations 5, 749. 57 



Barter goods for purchase of deer d, 272. 67 



Reprinting of report, 1 ,000 copies, at 141.06 416. 43 



Copies of 29 electrotype illustrations, at $0.48 14. GO 



Pliotographs for use in illustrating report 3. 60 



Balance 43. 73 



Total - - 12, 500. 00 



KKINDEEIi DlSTKIIiUTION. 



Instructions were left with Dr. F. H. Gambell, acting superintendent 

 of reindeer stations, to procure from Golovin Bay the reindeer belong- 

 ing to the Episcopal mission at the mouth of the Tanana and turn the 

 same over to Mr. N. V. Hendricks, agent of the mission. Further 

 instructions were given to renew correspondence with the Roman 

 Catholics at Nulato and KoscM'ofsky to arrange for the loaning of a 

 herd to the Roman Catholic missions. The Moravian missions on the 

 Kuskokwim were notified that they could receive their loan of reindeer 

 during the fall of 1000, at which time it is also prolxxble that a herd 

 can be loaned to the Friends'' mission at Kotze])ue Sound. 



( ) VE RT . A N 1 ) E X PE DITION. 



The reindeer which remained of those which were brouglit from 

 Lapland by the War Department for the purpose of carrying relief 

 supplies to the destitute miners in the Yukon Valley have been 

 exchanged with the Episcopal mission on the Yukon for an equal 

 number of deer belonging to them at the Eaton Reindeer Station. 

 While bringing the reindeer from Lapland the necessity for such relief 

 passed away, and when the herd arrived in Alaska, not being needed 

 for the original purpose, it was turned over by the War Department 

 to the Department of the Interior, and I was sent, by th(^. direction of 

 the Couniiissioner of Education, to the Alaska coast to receive the 

 deer for the Department of the Interior and send them across the 

 country from southeast Alaska to Circle Cit}^, Yukon Valley 

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