A MIND"'S-EYE MAP OF AMERICA 



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Photograph by Ansel F. Hall 



HALF DOMF, AND CLOUDS REST, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK: CALIFORNIA 



The photograph was made December 13. Note the chief ranger's winter costume — bare 

 head, short sleeves, no coat or gloves. Snowshoeing with fifty pounds of weather instruments 

 is more zvork than art. 



miles to the world's known area in the 

 Canadian Arctic, while living for five and 

 a half years on the resources of the 

 frozen north, called upon me and said 

 that in the northern part of Canada the 

 musk-ox flourishes. 



The musk-ox is valuable for its hide, 

 its superb wool, and its meat, which is 

 very much like beef. It costs nothing to 

 support, because it feeds on the grass 

 that grows in between the moss through- 

 out tens of thousands of square miles of 

 northernmost Xorth America. 



meat supply for the future from 

 Alaska's empty spaces 



Stefansson urged me to procure a ship, 

 load it with musk-oxen, and carry those 

 musk-oxen over into Alaska and let them 

 feed with the reindeer, because they are 

 not competitors but co-operators, feeding 

 off different things. He emphasized the 

 fact that the musk-ox and the reindeer 

 are not enemies, for they learned to live 

 together long centuries ago; and if we 

 could fill up the empty spaces of Alaska 



with these two species we would have a 

 supply of meat that would provide ' for 

 the whole Pacific coast. 



OTHER ALASKAN TREASURES 



Copper ! The second greatest copper 

 mine in the world is in Alaska. 



Mount McKinley National Park ! The 

 greatest protected area in the world for 

 the mountain sheep and the caribou. 



Gold ! Once mined abundantly, but 

 gold cannot be mined in Alaska now. 

 Although thousands of miles are under- 

 laid with gold, the mines are closed for 

 a very singular reason. It does not pay 

 to mine gold. Labor is so high, material 

 is so high, that when you get the gold 

 from the ground at the standard price 

 fixed by the Treasury, you do not get 

 your money back. I suppose this is the 

 first time in the history of the world 

 when mines of gold have been closed 

 down because it does not pay to operate 

 them. 



As you come down out of Alaska you 

 find the fishing industry, which will be 



