Los Angeles Daily Herald

From the Hyperborean Region.

Mr. A. E. Pomeroy, wife and son,
returned yesterday from a trip to
Alaska. They have been absent four
weeks, and return in fine health and
full vigor. In their visit in that dis-
tant land they visited the famous
Treadwell gold mine, owned by Sena-
tor John P. Jones and others. This
mine is supposed to be the largest in
the world. The ledge is 480 feet
wide, and the length is unknown. A
quartz mill of 120 stamps is turning
out about $120,000 weekly, and a
further addition of 120 more stamps
will be completed in a short time.
With this addition the mill will be the
largest quartz mill in the world, and
Pomeroy says the mine alone is worth
more than the whole territory cost,
while the lumber and the fisheries are
worth billions. The Government will
not yet permit the cutting of lumber
for sale, but when people can pur-
chase the timberland of that territory.
it is fair to presume that the lumber
business of the Pacific Coast will lay
the whole of the rest of the earth
under tribute and make the country
west of the Rocky Mountains the
richest and most prosperous in the
world.

A peculiarity of the timber of
Alaska is its wonderful density. The
trees stand close together and stately
in size. The cedar trees that in other
lands furnish soft timber there turn
out a wood harder than maple and
very beautiful and durable. It would
be a wonderful help to South Califor-
nia to be able to open a lumber trade
with Alaska in exchange for the fruits
of this region.

Mr. Pomeroy found the climate
delightful and the sea smooth. In
the beautiful bays and channels in-
side of the islands along the coast of
Alaska the scenery was incomparably
fine. Great glaciers extended in some
places nearly down to the water's edge
and at times under the genial influ-
ence of the summer sun great masses
of ice, as large as a first class dwell-
ing in Los Angeles, would come
cracking, cracking, thundering down,
plunging into the bays with a concus-
sion that set the waves rolling, rock-
ing the steamer like a heavy storm.
He reports the effect of the great
warm Kuro Siwo current in the
latitude of Alaska to be favorable to
vegetation and that the autumn
lingers long and the trees grow in a
most vigorous manner all along the
coast. The scenery of island, bay,
mountain and glacier is rapturously
beautiful.

His representations were so fasci-
nating that his partner, Mr. Gates,
has determined to go there on a
bridal trip next week. He will wed
one of the rarest and fairest daughters
of San Jose next week and proceed to
Alaska while this summer holds
"the beautiful gates ajar" enabling
the beautiful vessel to sail the blue
bay over before the winter's cold shall
close them strong and fast. Mr.
Gates will sail with the best wishes of
his friends for a pleasant journey and
a safe return.