BY BAIL TO ARCTICA
SYDNEY SCIENTIST IN ALASKA. Mr ,C. Hedley, a leading member of the scientific staff of the Sydney Museum, returned to Sydney by the Niagara recently after a five months' trip to Alaska. Mr Hedley says he found Alaska a most interesting country from the tourist's point of view. It is' only recently that the journey has been made possible for tourists by the construction of 500 miles of railway from the sea port of Seward to the Yukon. Mr Hedley was one of the first tourists to travel ''over the line, and he stales that he was able to penetrate to the Arctic circle without the discomfort that might have been expected. The old goldflelds of Klondyke and Dawson are now nearly worked out, but sluicing and dredging is still being carried on there to a small extent. Dawson, once a big town with 30,000 inhabitants, is now a city of empty houses, and its population has dwindled to 1600. At the neighbouring settlement of Mayo, a rich silver field, believed to have great possibilities, has been, discovered.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15035, 5 September 1922, Page 7
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