INTRODUCTION OF DOMESTIC REINDEER INTO ALASKA. 151 



Ml'. Lyno-, ihv po.stniastcr :it St. Michiicl. is to carrv tiie mail from 

 St. Michael to Weare, but 1 do not think thero will be many ciiance.s 

 to get mail out during" the winter. 



I have also signed some vouchcn's in vnso you lu'ed tiiem. Kindly 

 send 1113^ salar}' to my wife. 



Very respectfully, yours, 



Wm. a. K.tei.lmann. 

 Dr. Sheldon Jackson, 



WdshliKjfoii^ I). C. 



CORRESPONDENCE WITH REFERENCE TO REINDEER Foil VALDES 

 AND CIRCLE CITY MAIL ROUTi:. 



Seattlk, ^^'ASH. . J\f((y .7, ISOO. 

 Sir: The undersigiK^d has contracted to carry the United States 

 mail from V^aldes to Circles City, in Alaska, for a period of three years. 

 The object of this is to ask if it Avould })e possible for me to secure 

 eight of the i-eindeer now in the neighborhood of (Circle City, from 

 your Department, to make the experiment of carrying mail in the 

 winter time in this manner. 



Will you kindly give this your immediate attention, as in a few 

 days I shall send my nuni into the country to pi'eparc^ for the winter, 

 and if it is possible to ol)tain any reindeer, 1 would like to send a man 

 through to Circle to take possession of them. 

 Very faithfully, yours. 



Richard Chilcott. 

 The Secretary op War. 



[First imlorsomcnt.] 



War Department, M(f>/ Jl, 1H99. 

 Respectfully referred to the honorable the Secretary of the Interior, 

 and the writer so informed. 



(t. D. Meikle.tohx. 



Axx!xfi(iif Seo'eft/r;/ of War 



[Si'coiiil iii<li)rsciiiciU.] 



Departmp:nt of the Interior. 



May IK 1S99. 

 Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Education for report 

 as to what source, in his judgment, it may be practicable for writer to 

 procure the desii-ed r(Mnd(>er in Alaska, with approximate (\stimate as 

 to cost per head. 



Tiios. Ryan. 



Act'ilKj S, <■/; idrij. 



