The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-02
NORTH POLE TALK.
SOLE AND FATAL OBSTACLE AGAIN
DESCRIBED.
A Kansas Man who Has Some Very
Pretty Theories Which He Would
Evidently Like to Test-LacI< of
''Grub" the Main Cause of Failure
Heretofore.

KANSAS CITY, Dec. IA special to
the Journal from Topeka, Kan, says:
In the course of a conversation today,
Prof L. L. Dyche, of the Kansas State
university, stated that he had received
an offer to go in quest of the north
pole, and that he had about concluded
to accept it.
The young Kansan does not boast of
his ability to accomplish anything, but
there is a matter of course vein about
his north pole talk which carries with
it the conviction that he will find it
The sole and fatal obstacle which
has stopped Arctic explorers from find
ing the pole" said the professor, lis
not cold. but hunger. The explorers
have started out with a lunch in their
pockets, as though they were simply
going out for days run on the bicycle
There is no healthier region in all the
world than inside the Arctic circle.
There is no danger from the cold [
was within less than 1000 miles of the
pole last summer, and l suffered no
more from cold than the people of
Kansas will during the coming winter.
There can be no appreciate difference
between the cold at the point 1 reached
and the cold at the very pinnacle of
the north pole"
Merely Started.
Every Arctic expedition yet set
afoot has simply started out 1t is al
most beyond belief how little in the
way of supplies those fellows who have
been up north took along. Give me
plenty to eat, and 1 think / can get
to the north pole as easily as I got
within 500 miles. Good old fashioned
grub should be the watchword of the
Arctic explorer.
enough to last ten or twelve years.
will take my time, though of course
do not propose to spend any such
number of years in making that trip,
but 1 want provisions enough to es-
tablish well-stocked camps at points
not more than q days Sledge journey
apart.
TT has been the custom Of Arctic
explorers to either stick to the water
with their ships until crushed in the
ice pack, which of course Is followed
by the loss of most Of their provisions,
or TO try and mount and traverse the
huge ice mountains of Greenland, where
it is next to impossible to carry provi-
sions My idea is to creep around the
western coast of Greenland and never
try TO cross the mountains. l would
establish camps at intervals, in which
[ would store great quantities Of pro
visions. and then move on to other
camps, where 1 would plant more pro-
visions.
"As [ worked north I would leave
these provision store houses 50 thick
that any man who strayed into that
country at any time within the next
ten years would be sure to find plenty
to eat.
The Greenland Coast,
"I would thus work around the
Greenland coast until the point was
reached for the last grand dash to the
pole by sledge or boat and then
want none with me but Esquimaux-
young EsquimauX, who can handle
both dogs and paddle.
"I believe that most of the Arctic
explorers have made their greatest eff
forts to go north in the summer. For
my part, 1 shall choose the winter.
The natural means of locomotion in
these parts is sledging and that is GER
tain to be in its best in winter.
when Greeley stood on the summit
of the great Greenland ice mountain,
he saw a chain of islands away off in
the direction of the pole, and I am
convinced that there is practically a
continuous land route from the north
coast of Greenland to the region of the
pole. Possibly that imaginary point is
also upon an island, and if so 1 can
bring back some tangible mementoes
of the discovery.
The professor does not say who has
made him the proposition to search
for the north pole. He has already
cctmmenced to arrange his affairs for
the long trip and speaks of it as prac-
tically decided upon.