WHERE DOGS CARRY MAILS.
WASHINGTON, Mav 26. The United States Post Office Department has authorised the following: —
Shortage of fish is interfering with the mail in Alaska. On account of their scarcity,- the motive power by -which Dhe mail is carried in that cold territory is curtailed. An abundance of fish is essential to ihe prompt delivery across the region of ice and »now, and a necessary supply is not to bo had. T N he mail carrier out from Anchorage, Alaska., Wrote to tht> department under the date of March. 25 : M l 7 .?ur letter of February 27 is at hand, and- J notice the late arrivals of mail as indicat»sl U1 same. The whele trouble is on account , of my dogs. ' I was unable, and stLl am, to get fish for theni, as it is not to be obtained in the country. The dogs I nse on this mail are wolf dogs that liave been worked on fislv all their lives. It is almost impossible to change from a fish diet to cooked feed and work them. I have done the best I could to lvoep this mail moving, and have had to i stop and rest my dogs several times j while the mail was in transit, as theyi would not stand it . . All of thej late mails were caused on that account."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14665, 24 July 1918, Page 7
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227WHERE DOGS CARRY MAILS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14665, 24 July 1918, Page 7
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