Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1878-05-03
THE LAND AT THE NORTH POLE.
From the Virginia City Enterprise.l

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About four years ago a ftrmer o
/. Surprise valley found in the crop of
wild goose a small quantity Of grain
the like Of which he had never before
seen He planted this grain, and il
grew and flourisled, producing more
than a hundred fold. The straw and
beardless head are said to resemble
wheat, while the grain looks like rye,
but is twice as large. The farmer
has now many bushels Of this new
cereal, and has sent samples of it to
be planted in various places III Cali
fornia, where fo1d for cattle is not cas-
lily obtained at some seasons, as the
stalk OF the new grain when cut be-
fore it is thoroughly ripe, makes ex-
celent hay.
An old sailor Of this city, after read
ing an item which has been going the
rounds Of tie papers in regard to the
new cereal, the substance Of which
i'em'is given above. finds MS memory
refreshed Il brings to lis recollcc.
.tion circumstance BE- had almost for.
gotten, and has sci him to thinking
lie has Thought it all ont, and is now
firmly Of the opinion that .here is am
iehabitab'e land at ,ae nor;ll pole.
Tie old man SAYS he was one of the !
crew of lie investigator, Capt Ne
Ciarc, which sailed trom Fngland in
10, IN company viii the Enterprise,
Commando coIlinsan, in search Of Sir
John FraakIiu, aud hn certainly had
N his possession ole ii tic Arctic
medals given ~ The English admiral
y 10 all persons engaged ia these Po-
lar expeditions from 1878 to 1853.
IL September Of tha; year the In-
reached - land which Capt.
Mcclure named Barine's Land. and
hree days afterward other land, which $
le named after Prince Albert, where.
lbout tho last Of tac mouth they were t
rozcn in. |
IL says M nan has yet gone so
az north bnt he has found wild geese
I'D other wafer fowl flying still fu...
her 10 the northward. As The geese
re undoubtedly vending their way q
a well-known stopping place far to ?
he north, there must be something :
'r them TO feed upon at the point . .
'here they stop. rs wild geese no
lore live on fish than do tame ones. =
here must be, in the country To which : :
ley 80, grass and other vegetation y
Imlar to that found in temperate =
'glons. The wild geese that halt on q
le Pacific coast make the grain fields y
ieir feeding place, and it is not like ~
; that in the land about the pole their =
'tn,c is so changed that they feed o'
oon mosses or fish.
Our old sailor believes that sur. of
unding the open Polar sea is a coun- H.
y where trees grow. and where e
'ow many kinds of grass, and no ~
'nbt few kinds of grain. The -
ain found in the crops of The wild -.
'ese was, he thinks, found by the =,
rds in far northern temperate :;
gion, upon the verge of which men "
We probably looked, bat into which -,
man has ever penetrated. He saws -
doubt all the country would be sla
md waste and desolate for time
er passing the icy rim forming the
itheIn shore of the open Polar sea, "T
believes that in sailing onward prc
eat change would be found; that the
er time a faint green would be hnI
nd on,the shores; that presently BILE
IS clothed with trees and verdurel ors
uld appear, and that soon fruitful arc