The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27
In talking about the matter yesterday

In talking about the matter yesterday Captain Moore said Everything is now almost ready and We will get away for the Aleutian Islands next Tuesday or Wednesday. l don't ex- pect that we will be gone more than six weeks, as I know exactly where we are going and we will only remain long enough at the islands to secure samples of the ore for-assaying when we return to San Francisco. I am so sure that the venture will prove a suc- cess that l have risked all my capital in it, but except to have it returned to me ten thousand fold. I am taking my wife with me, so you see I expect the voyage to be more of a pleasure trip than anything else. I discovered the island when 1 was master of a sealing schooner, but the name of the schooner or the whereabouts of the island l am not going to tell you. The name of the schooner would probably recall to some of the captains of other vessels that were north at that time the vicinity of the island and that knowledge I want to keep to myself for the present. The Free Trade will carry two mates, four sailors, a cook and a steward, besides Messrs. Wat son and Pages ValetS. so you see that the vessel will DC we'll manned. I think that on oul return the tales of the fabulous wealth of the Klondike will not be in 1t with the stories we will have to tell"
 Captain Moore began his life on the sea as middy in the English navy. He got tired of service on board a man. of-war and went into the merchant marine. Years ago, when in Van couver, B. C., the American ship John de Costa wanted navigator to take her to Valparaiso and Captain Moore was engaged. After that voyage he served on the North American. Ster- ling, Morning Star and the Robert T.. Belknap. From the sailing vessels he went into the employ of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, but getting tired of steam he went East and came back to San Francisco as mate of the Olympic. After that he made the cruise to Alaska in the sealing schooner before mentioned, and is now getting ready to go back to the AleutiaD Is lands to relocate his Island of Gold '
 There will be taken along on the deck of the Free Trade a most remarkable little steam launch. It is 30 feet long s feet broad, and with eight men in it. only draws six inches of water Tt was designed and built by student at Berkeley named Jarvis and is con Sidered to be wonder in it's way. On its trial trip it ran fifty miles on a consumption of sixty gallons of water and 200 pounds of coal It can carr1, 300 pounds of coal and two men and 2 boy to handle it. In Oakland Creek the other day the little launch carried eight men and lowed a sloop with six tons of shell in 1t six miles against the tide in an hour.
 The most remarkable thing about the craft is the fact that the engines and steering gear are worked by the same wheel. The screw is movable and can be shifted from side to side the same as rudder without diminishing inc speed of the boat. When the wheel is put hard over the engines % fl1Ii speed astern and the boat comes ro11nd as though she was on a pivot. She was fixed up for the trip to Alaska hv James Garret of Newark, and he saws that she can easily make ten knots an hour. According to him she is tha only boat afoat that can go anywhere her handlers want under a fiva-nornd pressure of steam. The gear that worJ,s the screw and the steering appara tus has the same ball bearings as inc chainless bicycle, and everything in inc little boat runs like clock work.
 The Free Trade went into the straa n, yesterday to be cleaned up and paintad Tomorrow she will be doclSed again a crew shipped and then Tuesday or Wednesday start will be made.