TO EXPLORE MORE OF ALASKA

Dunstan Times, Issue 2154, 28 October 1902, Page 3

TO EXPLORE MORE OF ALASKA

.tie CtoT*»nmMit to 9«nd a PsHtjCMl i Smiibw to a Viut Wlld«rnacAi ■ Extensive explorations are about to . be undertaken by the geological survey between the arctic circle and the shores of the arctie ocean In Alaska. Preparations were begun last summer, and one of the large appropriation bills now pending in congress makes provision for paying the expenses, says the New York Sun. , The exploring party will start from Bergman, away up above the arctic circle, nearly 1,000 miles northwest from Sitka. Upward of one-third of Alaska is about as little known as the interior of Africa was a few years, ago. Roughly estimating, the great Alaskan wilderness to be explored is about as large as Itew England, New York and Pennsylvania combined. The party will be divided into three sections. The first detachment, led by W. J. Peters, will proceed to the Arctic ocean. If time permits this party will go eastward to the British boundary, turning westward again and reaching the coast in the vicinity of Point Barrow, the northernmost settlement on the continent of North America. The second detachment will be led by W. C. Mendenhall, geologist, and its work will ba confined to the little known region around Eotsebue sound, in three directions. The third party, led by Mr. Our dine, will continue exploration# that have already been begun 1® the Copper Bfcrer valley. , It 1b believed that the whole territory is a vast desolate plain, rising occasionally into high hills. It is believed that the region is devoid of life, excepting for some of the furbearing animals that are found near the shores .of the Arctic oeaan and in summer by two or three kinds of wild fowls which hover about the neighborhood of the logo on*. Almost certainly the territory is devoid of trees and every kind of vegetable life except moes and stunted wild grass such as is found in summer in the tundra region somewhat south in Alaska. —^-iH An Awful Bm*wbtaflu Jerold —You are going the paerf that kills, old chap! There’s only one end to this sort of thing, you Jkkasl Harold—W-Whasahat? "Some girl will be marrying you ttyj