The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-11-19
Paper That is Published
Three Times a Year.
The Yukon Press Gathers
News Over 1000 MileS.
Crater Lake the Deepest Body of
Fresh Water in the World.

To those people who receive their news
papers regularly every day II will be in
teresting news that in one section of this
continent the only newspaper published
IL issued only three times a year. The
paper Is the Yukon "Press". The reason
IL 10 not issued oftener is because,
the news has to be collected for 1000
miles, and 1t taxes four months each time
to do 1t.
Mr.. Gordon c. Bettles, tn ,ugh also
big mining operator and running three
trading posts, learned the printing trade
IN his youth. At the post of Tanana, near
the mouth OF the Tanana river, 1000 miles
up the Yukon, Rev. Jules L. Provost has
been doing missionary work among the
Indiana. He desired to translate ana
print portions of the Scriptures In tho,
Indian tongue, so Mr.. Bettles told him to
get little printing outfit. ano in bis
leisure hours. in the long winter he
would teach him how TO set the type. The
missionary got the material and then it
struck him that it would be q good idea
TO get out little paper also. So Mr..
BEETLES has been steering the little journal
through. He has also taught the minis
ter so that he can now get 1t out himself.
1t is paper OF sixteen small pages, and
II printed on job press. The news is
very interesting, and the paper is highly
appreciated there, for il seems to brsak
the monotony of things. II has num-
ber of advertisements, but owing to the.
~ yet, limited circulation, the rates are
not high. "It is difficult TO publish a
paper up there, "ssid Mr.. Bettles. "because
It takes so long to collect the news. Why,
the result of this election in the Uuited
States will not be know there for eight
months. There might be war here, and
IL could continue for most a year before
we would hear of it. To get the news .-of
tho Yukon alone means covering 1000
miles of country oy dog teams. 1t is by
these teams that the news il brought.n
One of the remarkable things In
nat are in this country about which little
WAS known until quite recently Is the
body OF water cailei Crater Lake. This
is the deepest known body of fresh
wafer in the wora.
Crater Lake is located in Southern
Or, gon on the summit OF tho Cascade
range of mountains. and until recently
u ia, hso, listed by very few travellers.
Tnoagb i had long been known by the
ln5il.. II was first sean by white men
in -'.53. Tan years ago this body OF water
rs caiefully eS Splored and surveyed by
rfn, bers Of the United States geological
survey. The lake takes its namo from
fte fact that II occupies what was once
sn imntnse volcanic crater, but which
has been extinct for long time, perhaps
thousands of years. This sheet of water |
is entirely surrounded by precipitous
walls which tower about 5000 feet heaven
ward above the lake and whose SUBMITS |
are fully 5000 feet above the level of the |
sss. The lake 10 six miles long and four
miles wide and ranges in depth from 1900 |
to 1000 feet. II IL only with the greatest |
difficulty that the walls about the IAxe
can be descended and the water reached. |
The color of the water In Crater Lake
10 one Of its most remarkable features.
II 10 blusr then indigo, to all appear
anoss. in the deepest parts. shading
into delicate emerald and turquoise hues
~ the shores are approached and shall
lower water found. Another peculiar
feature 10 that no inlet or outlet to the
lake has ever been found. Still another
remarkable fact 10 that in the water no
fsh have ever been found.
The United States ffsn cUmmfssfun hus
lately been engaged In an investigation
Of this lake, the object being to deter
mine whether trout can exist in its
waters. The commission has srrived at
. favorable decision, the greatest trouble
being that the immense depth of the
water may make It difficult for the Hsh to
nnd spawning places. Nevertheless the
lake will be stocked with trout, as II is
found to contain an abundant supply OF
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