Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-19

win b spent IN completing the wort
mapped oot. The Director of tbs
4osthern Tf1nsoonstneatal Surrey II
kfof. 6epaael fumpelly. the explore,
and ssavoeoe, who has spent . lifetime
N work of this lind. He is q native ID
th4ee, \. I. Afte, oousss of preparar
tlon IN the mining schools Of Para
hanover and ErsiUur2, he started II
ms peo1e10on In the mining fields q
Arizona. Here he spent two years
Next ~ and him In the employ Of the
Japanese Government, exploring the
niand OF Iez0; then In the service Of
the Governmens Of China, by whom he
Vas employed 70 report upon the Coal
supply Of that country. Ihat work fin
asoed, tho professor set out for the Unit
% Ssatos, overland through Moogolis,
Saberaa and Russia, about which he
wrote most entert aiming volumes. In
1870 ne BECAME professor OF mining e..-
Rlneering at Harvard; in 1SsU-7I sur
vsSed the Michigan copper fields; in
1879 was State GeolOxist Of Missouri,
and IN lS50 had charge of the coal and
iron reports Of the United S.afcs censns.
lie entered Upon his present work July
l, 1881, and ls now at Helena, II. T., bis
Held headquarters, superinseudirg the
work OF his army of geolOgisis, chem
ISIS, toQoRraphers, botanists, entotnoio-
glsfs AMI other experts. Prof. Pump
ely 9 staff IS composed OF the following
persons: Prof. L. w. Hilgard of Cali
fornla University, Department of Soils;
DIR. Herman A. Hagen of Harvard, ento-
mologist, with Samuel Henshaw as as
slssant; Prof. A. ID. Wilson OF the Hay
don survey, Chief Toposrapher. witt
Messrs. Loais Neil and Il. L. Good, as
s'ssanss; Prof. Sargent OF Bussey lns.i-
tuition. Harvard, Depsr.Uent of Forest
fy, with NessrS. Brand sgee and Putnam.
assistants; Prof. William NJ. Candy, De-
partment of FORAGE Plants; Messrs.
Bailey Willis. con of \. +. Willis. Geo.
d. Eldrid2e, and Bayard Taylor Put
nara, son Ut George 4. Putnam, geolo-
glsts, with Il. G. Templeman and Geo.
W. Driver, assistants. A complement;
OK young men from various scientific
schools and colleges, laborers, guides,
packers, Cooks, etc, make up the army
of Invasion, and more RECRUITS arc going
forward this summer. One enlistment
yesterday was that of Mr.. j. T.. Wolf OF
tne Cambridge Museum of Comparative
Zoology. who viii JOIN Geologlst Ed
rldridge's party in Moatana III fvg
days.
Ihs Office head quarters OF tho Nor
tbern Transcontlnental Survey are IN
Newport, Rhode Island. They occupy
every room from cellar to roof of an
Old wide spreading tvo-stWy frame
house, at the intersection Of two very
Old-fas.iioned streets. A bronze
knocksr Of MEDIEVAL pattern, and of a.
weight that indicates tina: il must have
been forged by some armor-bearing
stalwart of the miduis ages, Is the
means by which the visitor makes
known his presence at the front door.
To the right of the capacions hall,
wnich is lined with boxes and misce.-
laneOus assortment Of natures bric-a-
brac, Is the business Office where the ac-
counts are audited and the Gnanci Il af-
fairs OF the expedition are duly adjust
0d. Across the hall on the left Is Ii
brary, a very valuable and complete
collection Of scientific works, the prop
erty III part of the survey, and partly
belonging to Professor Pumpelly OF the
census Office. This department ls under
the charge of Mr.. Richard Bliss, the
photographer.
The entire upper etory Of the build-
ing is used as laboratory By DR.. L. A.
Gooch Of Cau.bridge, Chlef Chemist to
the survey, and his assistant, Prof. Vim.
L. Richmond. Every few days mysteri-
ods-lookin2 bags Of great weight are
lugSed up the front stairs and carried
into the workshop of the chemists,
where their contents are put through
the fiery ordeal, and a mess age announc-
ing the result goes back to the geoio-
Rists who are working the diamond dri
in the hills of the Northwest. Some of
the experiments that Prof. Pampeiiy
desires to be made are on a scale be-
yOnd the capacity of the Newport labor
atOry, and the Resources of other works
are drawn upon. At the present time
DR.. GOoch is over in Pennsylvania with
q carload of Montana coals for the pur-
pore of testing their ooking qualities.
The work OF the survey has not yet
reached a stage where it is possible to
group results. Last year beginning
was made by GeologistS Willis and Ed
ridge, who made explorations in Wash
ington Territory and Montana, and as
far north As Manitoba. The result was
the discovery of extensive beds of btu
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The explorers returned to Newport for
the winter, and started for the wilder
ness again a few months ago. They are
now in the Butte and Helena coal fields.
As Prof. Pumpelly is With them in per-
son, the new discoveries arc reported di
rect to him. In the autumn the explor.
ers will return to Newport and prepare
their reports. which Prof. PumpeIly will
submit to the companies. By the time
the NOrtherR route to the Pacific is
open, on the LIST OF July, 1888, it is prob
able that the results of the survey will
In part be given to the public.
One Of the most important of recent
discoveries is tract OF valuable timber
land, lU0 miles long and IS mile wide,
on the Clafk's Fork branch of the Co
lumbia River.
The discoveries of the explorers are
not heralded % the world as soon az
they are made. for obvious reasons
The two railroad corporations own only
= small part Of the>lands on which the
eXplOrorS find treasures.