The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1940, Page 23

WALRUSIS BIG GAME POSSIBILITY % ~ ALASKA THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1940. BIG GAME TROPHIES FOR YEAR | ’ . A TR . . Hunters Bag Animals of Record Dimensions | Three Largest Trophies Taken by Nonresident Hunters in Alaska During the License Year Ending June 30, 1939 — \ i to nine pounds each | animals—they feed on local herbage | weigh from those of the Soviet Union. This may | Alaska defense a key value—that it e Jare s o s y the w . The tusks and at there shall be a reindeer in- |guri ri - average large tusk is about plit by the women. The that there sha e a rel during the rest periods and at night. 8 » ¥ P o produces the best clothing for cold | are also saved and the in- | be true, even when you compare | seven pounds 5.Rte B s dustry in the country where the o _ e P inkled, blotchy skin of this e sometimes used to make | merely woolen-clad Finns with wool- | o Boo o ate PRty | ociinde. WAl weather, that it is a local supply‘ Y animal, together with its great bulk, | windows for the houses, for floats en-clad ‘Soviet troops. ' Occasfonally | 1 oo™ [ clothes “Gah be | il this is written with the idea |of food, that it is in some cases | § (that you might find some appro- | priate way of calling to the attention more difficulty than woolen clothes. | 1 A But the remaining two chief values 12‘ A IR SUR LA CAINERS WAl |deer is one of our dispatches bring out that the su- periority of Finnish clothing is through use of reindeer skins. The reindeer angle of the Finnish war gives |and for clothing. I believe that the following figur |are nearly correct for the average and r)l\\(’l'»kl]l' brought from other lands with no a self-transporting food supply, and | i that it has still further value for | the transport of men and goods.‘i “Up to the present, I believe the | tusks, and bristled, blunt nose, e and formidable C. R. GRIFFIN, Alaska Representative it a very grotesqu arance most valuable MOOSE - - D Circum- | 4 | ference Circum- | Wildlife Agent Describes [Length above ference Breadth _ Points : ; [ g % | of Horn Burr at Burr Spread of Palm Right Left Hunter Guide District | Habits Hummg of { 48" 814" ALy 6 " 14”18 16 W.Osborn ...Carl Anderson . Kenai Pen’sula 'h S i | 547 94" 13%” 641" 18”7 12 12 H A Middling .....J. Waddell Kenai Pen'sula | cies | 39" 9 " 14%” 25" 8 13 C. Bowen .......F. Towle Kenai Pen'sula | North Spe [ CARIBOU [ 2T | Length out- Circum- Length ri %R = | < SOLLI | Ak feeaut ¥ | . _"“‘ ”("“‘":‘;\)m Game | U.'8. Forest Service side Curve ference Brow Antlers Points Wildlife "K‘ e, | This elephant seal was shct by Indians near Klawock, | Right Left Bez& Trez Right Left Spread Right Left Hunter Guide District Sty U mes T nave| Southeast Alaska, last fall. Previously the species had | B2l 2 0 T S B AT e O R ion] Job £Din Healy River 9 "4 s s nee 1927, T have, not been known north of California. 58 5% s 2 S AU RS Carl Anderson .....Alaska Pen. N 7 Alaska Game Commission photo. ; g T > h R e | sppeabonie 7o 20 7 20% 40 12 20 Fredk. Hollender A. M. Crocker ... Donnelly Dome | This group of white mountain sheep was found by a i pecies worthy . . |ty BieAt D T e MOgNe':?": SHEEP cameraman on a ridge in the Rainy Pass country of attention. 1| A' k R I Sk ngth on Front Curve Circumference at Base Greates : Westward Alaska. Hunters can find them as easily. of special ; ’W‘x"‘:‘:,‘:" ihat askan eindeer- n Right Left Right Left Spread Hunter Guide District kil dickisa) e bt Lo sily. - hva v st Clothing for U.S. 4 S BB L TED o omiOhums mamie e n s o an | e st o e ot species from the point of the | ot ung or U.O0. rmy |1: eggTty A e 1% o b o gt o necy. | those of Agriculture and Interior. | was fired off the coast of Alaska, ‘o game hunter and sportsman | «7 v | BROWN BEARS 3 | Do you think it worth while to con- | nearly two months after land forces July. of .this year, I w.‘ I L o 1 b S f : s sider whether an interest should not | had made peace. It was fired by . ority to fly up the Arc-| . 8 rh ca y tetansson S Hide i ey Sk“"wmm A e s |be taken by other departments of |the steam sloop Shenandoah, one e omsr sl X IN.‘Hlldlm | g < | 10 11'8” 19%” 3g 1 * D. S. Hopkins.... Earl Olmstead .....Kodiak jour Government, particularly by |of several English-built vessels used cial study of the WAIES B | ready with rifies and do the shoot- | Vilhjaimur tefansson, Arctic ex-| 108" 105 18% 10% A C. Gilbert . Andy Simons ___ Alaska Pen. *Z‘rfiga,.d‘“’c“y concerned with de- by the Confederacy In the destruc on and on July 1 & ey on|Ing 'As.the boat approaches’ to|plorer aid Wilie, juges ihe desir- 10° 10 11%” 12%” Chambers Kellar F. Kvasnikoff . Kodiak | i 84 b JUPLiOL ERUEeS combetos. ) - LAy OB Cithin 15 or 20 feet of the walrus, |ability of preserving the reindeer in GRIZZLY BEARS | 0 Tt oy ! Tk _1,jme men talk in low tones. This | Alaska as a national defense meas- Hide Skull | Attt et ot D T G R Pacific Walrus were SOPMErV iy ing seems to keep the herd from | ure. Length Wwidth Length Width Hunter Guide District | i & in Bering Sea SOUth 10| pecoming alarmed. As the boat ap-| Recently he addressed a letter on 94" 94" 184" 8% S. E. Hostetter ...Oscar Oberg Admiralty Is. | | i the Pribilof Islands and f\"‘,"fl New. |broaches, the animals rear them-| the subject to Rep. Ross A Coll 87" 910" 1% 10 7 J.C. Garland ... O. Waterud Chichagof Is. | Siai-oner P . | m, and used ‘)" hl“{)u. llowsel\'es erect and watch | of Mississippi as follow: 711" I 17 10%” King. Brewster ._John Adams Wood River | j 1 S riniers 1 e mnumbers. e 1 H L otter i ing AT od f cution TE€ wory and oll hunt-| At the signal, the men in the bow [ T:)‘“'“ ‘}";S being addressed to & "“'ACK BEARS i | ersecution by 1vory mE O heen [open fire, aiming to hit the beasts | 39 PEEANE O your long and deep Hide skull : | s af whalers, Uliey BATE S S e Saok faat, below the back of [Intarest M SILSERE & military | Length Width Length Width Hunter Guide District i H almost e minated in the ‘souv lthe o Wh(:n ‘b atiootngietacts, | standpoint and because, although 7731, 7'314" Q1,7 814" Henry A. Roemer.V. F. Williams S. E. Alaska i i OFFICE FURNITURE ‘ ern portion of their former range. |he walrus charge into the sea and | UPon & military subject, it is one 7’5" 610" 632" Harry Webb M. Shellabarger . Rainy Pass | ] Whale Horses lsenring >ic(' ‘xs clear of all except which I believe should be called to 78! 73" 1 s Fleda Iveson Wesley Myers S. E. Alaska | ' s The name “walrus” is supposed | the dead ones. The walrus that the attention of an appropriate com- MOUNTAIN GOATS i ’ 1o be derived from an old Norse paye escaped into the water come | mittee of Congress rather than pre- = Length of Spike Ciccumference \ n rd “valross,” which means ‘-“hmpjch“g]r;g around the ice, roaring| sented directly to the War Depart- on Front Curve atBaseof . Tipto Greatest | 3 i ;f:l A The adults vary in bulk|and® splashing. The natives wave | ment. | Right Left LargestHorp Tip Spread Hunter Guide District ) ] 5,000 to 3,000 pounds in weight | their hands to scare them away. | Proved in Finland EE T 9" & 6 6 Wm. Phillips ... Wesley Myers .......S. E. Alaska | | 1 : ]M are from ten to twelve | “The news dispatches from Fin- | 8” 8" 4%" 41" B J. Donohoe James Lovett S. E. Alaska ' H }m(} 'r(yx]m The female tusks are long Little Wasted |land bring out a point which you 8" 8" 4 3K 3%” S.E. Hostetter ... Oscar Oberg S. E. Alaska | ¥ | fee e der and curve inward at| The next operation is to cut them and I have more than once dis- Col e R Wil i it ? 3 i i lw ends with a bow at the middle. [up and load the meat and bluhber!f{lxs\l’vdf 11)mt‘ 'gm;(d clothing, and temperatures below Fahrenheit zero stances) its own !rnnsportation'\spendmg large sums upon other de- ' ] The male tusks are much heavier |into the bpats. The animals are | ‘nov\mg ow to keep your clothes there is no form of outdoor activity, problem. | fense measures n that Terrltory,“ ‘ 1 those of the female and are cut open with axes and knives and | in good condition, is about the g 3 iTastly. thera/is the value of veins | 2 | ' ‘(ax: o ; °r broken at the ends the skeleton is cut out of the car-|most fundamental Army problem military or civil, that is not more s -(obr. Bt B ool ‘tht‘.\' should spend also at least ,someii ‘ fil’_‘w‘] 1r-v1\xl'"ltx of the male tusks is|cass. These bones are thrown into | for cold-weather operations. No oth- easy in reindeer clothing than in and goods. ‘F‘requez;t‘;; this vs:)lfxepi: money and some thought upon how | A Y | T trohs, dithough tusks|the watef U7 migat and blubbes |er cold-weathir ‘gIotige, gee neany |other olothes. - Relndeer i, sre e tedl bt it &till remains |its reindeer industry can be con- | 1 up to 36 inches & sometimes ta- ;lmt Ii\ _Ir‘fi, ésh c\:’t 1:_\10 g;-uum m]x‘u 2: ;‘zgqu’x‘\dnlu}:l:‘o‘: hv:';l‘ckla agail | 1105 good in the temperatures be- |true that they are a fast. if not Zerved a{nd hlum up. ’{)lis is lnot} 115 SENECA STREE" ! harles Brower of Pt. Bar- oaded into e boats. ccasionally | i & 4 Saying. - - “ & e *i very strong, beast of transport, and eprecating the peace time values | ' :({'“': rf,:nmh a pair of tusks that|one is skinned, when skins ar de-| “Some of the dispatches from Fin- “‘fi’“ 0 WG X c“_g’“s aboye, | that wnhign Nidits tHey :xo'e self |of the reindeer, as they are ordin- | 1 | measured 39 inches. The male tusks sired to make rope, boats or houses. | land state in a general way that The clothing importance of rein- lsupm"mg even when used as draft | 8¥ily presented, but is merely bring- \ The skins used for boat covers are Finnish soldiers are better clad than deer does not make it necessary ing out that the industry has in SEATTLE ' ] are, from a military point of view, King Island war They feed on clams 3 £ e ok = . o= I the | | mollusks which they dig from beds Num\'al.c. I.&l.’m(l»—flmpm' Bay ':,u :Zrnw specific reason for this let- dependent on there being a reindeer tlffensv »,omceesi When Congrf. rs departments Which Nave DEEN ChICT- | g oo e e e oo iom s e amm m cm ams dms amms il ‘the shallow sea. They break the} St. Lawrence Island 50 | industry in the country where the | o ¥ e — L S e = | ‘There are at least three ways| ‘ = ~ - P . e e shells with their teeth and suck the meat down into their throats. Th Diomede Island in which reindeer can play an im- is being fought. also eat large quantities of a sea Nome, Wales, Shishmaref portant part in any northern war. Food in Wartime | i Snail about three inches long. The| ' Pt. Hope as they are doing in the present| “Reindeer, when in their own | ME E T Two 0 I D F R l END s AGA l N stomachs, when loaded with clams| Pt Lay [ PRIBIBHTERTRL WAL | country, are self-supporting and | are about three feet long, and the| Wainwright Superior Clothing self-transporting. Bands of steers | contents will fill a washtub, T]“'i Pt. Barrow "Rl‘mdl*m'«km» clothes, when suitable for meat can feed as they | 66 - ,, P Eskimos consider the half digested | ___ | properly made from skins of the|travel, can be driven to a place near | The Catermllar L'“e clams and 1ils from the stomachs Total 1300 right age and sex, and when their | the scene of the military operation | a great delicacy. It is known that walrus were be-| proper care is understood by the {and be butched locally. The butch- | Sometimes Charge Boat £ U; u;l‘l’:'“\m‘m‘ are f\.mu and try |08 Tapidly depleted for many years i ape but occasionally they get|until they were in danger of ex- bo e e a boat. 1t the| tinction, due to persecution by whal- tusks are driven through the pot- | €15 and ivory hunters. However, tom of the boat, the natives plug it |after the decline of whaling opera- b = ATt or any handy urticle. | HOnk these lntevessiug aniuihe be- P . |gan to increase again until they wearer, are as durable as any clothes, | ering is much simpler in cold weath- | more flexible than any other clothes, [ er than people of the South realize; | which will keep you warm enough, | there is no problem of keeping the | and warmer for their weight, than | meat fresh, for it will freeze almost | any other clothes yet devised. A | immediately after the beast hasi soldier dressed in a reindeer suit been skinned and cut up. 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