. Zoological Society bulletin . laska in 1912 at nearly one million dollarsand reported the income derived from it in1912 at $44,885. These figures are exclusiveof the value of meat and hides used by thenatives themselves. This splendid governmental and missionaryenterprise is destined to make the natives ofArctic Alaska rich in flocks and herds. Theywere formerly dependent to a considerableextent upon the steadily diminishing herds ofAmerican wild caribou. At the start it encountered the opposition ofinterests based more or less on the exploitationof the native residents, and has been carried
. Zoological Society bulletin . laska in 1912 at nearly one million dollarsand reported the income derived from it in1912 at $44,885. These figures are exclusiveof the value of meat and hides used by thenatives themselves. This splendid governmental and missionaryenterprise is destined to make the natives ofArctic Alaska rich in flocks and herds. Theywere formerly dependent to a considerableextent upon the steadily diminishing herds ofAmerican wild caribou. At the start it encountered the opposition ofinterests based more or less on the exploitationof the native residents, and has been carriedalong in the face of criticism from varioussources. across Bering in and landedOther impor-under govern-ment supervision follow-ed for a few years, untiltwelve hundred reindeerhad been placed amongthe Eskimo of ournorthern thrived and mul-tiplied and today wehave over thirty-eightthousand domesticatedreindeer located in fifty-four different places, notincluding twenty-fourthousand which havebeen used for food, or. SIBERIAN DOMESTICATED REINDEERPhotographed in Alaska in 1892 by C. 104() ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN The present writer has been keenly in-terested in the introduction of the domesti-cated reindeer from its beginning, being per-sonally familiar with the manner of lifeof the Eskimo in the Bering Strait in Alaska in summer and spendingthe winter months in Washington during mostof the period when reindeer were being in-troduced, he was in a position to keep intouch with men in the field and to warmlycommend the enterprise to both congressmenand churchmen at home. The late , then agent of education in Alaska,largely through his personal efforts, supportedby a few churchmen and public officials whonever lost faith in the plan to lift the Eskimoto at least the level of the Laplander, carriedthe work along from year to year in spite ofmuch opposition. The whole story, discour-agements and all, would be well worth thetelling i
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