Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-31
NEW COUNTRY Is WANTED

A fresh impetus has been given to work
Of explorers in the Arctics and in I'M
known lands by the recently published
statement of the English explorer, DR..
Rivers, that the population of the earth
has outgrown it's present accommoda-
tons and that newer and larger quarters
must be found for it's inhabitants. Re-
publics must be formed and lands must
be found for them.
Where will the mex republic be To-
Gated?
The Burghers settled the subject
years ago when they migrated to South
Africa and formed their republic. They
elected rulers, made laws, built up the
country and ~prospered.
Are all portions of the earth so filled
! up. now that future settlements are Inn
possible; will those who want to get
away in the overflow of any country
find it impossible to select a spot which
shall be comfortable and fertile?
Hardly!
There are explorers out all the time
looking for such a land, and any hour
may bring tidings of their success.
Said DR.. Rivers on the subject:
With an unexplored area equal to
|; one-fifth of all the known land on this
globe, it can scarcely be claimed that
the work of the explorer is finished.
Even in America-North and South
! there are two millions of square miles
Of which WE know absolutely nothing.
In Australia there is an equal tract OF
unexplored territory. In Africa there
! are over six millions of square miles of
unknown land to attract the adven-
turous traveller, and in the polar re-
giOns there remain between nine n
| ten millions still unmapped.
surrounding the southern axis of the
| earth, we are warranted in drawing the
coast line of a We unknown continent,
covering the greater part of the terri
| tory lying within the Antarctic circle.
Such lands as are now charted have
been sighted at a great distance, n
the mapping is greatly in need of au-
Identification. No one, or at least no
n in modern times, has passed a
observations as have been made ave
been confined TO the short summer
months.
$50 little is known of this vast terri
tory that speculation suggests that this
unknown, and, in many places, unap-
p~rOachable, land may prove to be a
continent, covers a region of eight mill
lion Quare miles, an area equal to one
sixth of the entire land surface of the
globe-a continent as large as North Am.
erica.
Africa will soon be an open book, if
! exploration in the future keeps pace
with what has been accomplished in the
past. A great part of the work has
been, done by might be. called
amateur explorers-people Who travel
for amusement and to add strange and
fierce wild beasts to their game score.
"Frederlck jackson, in command OF
the expedition fitted out in England by
| A. 3C... Harmsworth to seek the North
long at work on this polar problem:
Nansen also aimed for the same point
by his w way, which was to drift
there in a specially designed ship, and
+ e~s - Tho 1T totN1 rAN
logical survey, went to establish a new
route by the way Of the west coast of
Ellesmere Land and Jones sound.
For the exploration of the south
polar regions DR.. Frederick A. Cook, of
Brooklyn, who was surgeon of Peary's
first and most successful expedition, de-
voted himself to raising the funds
necessary to fit out two vessels to pro-
coed there one of which remained dur-
ing an entire winter.
But what do all these people expect
to find upon these UNEMPLOYED lands?
ITO be sure, there are those who
claim that the Garden of Eden was To-
Gated at what is now the North Pole,
and say that, owing to the fact that the
, earth is flattened at the poles. the sur
face is SO much nearer the internal
fires that the soil is warm and the ver-
dure luxuriant, and that there still exist
there the descendants of some of the
children of Adam and Eve.
lucEG was d Adpldl ~ III al
Englishman, who lived for some years
in Louisville, KY, who had a theory
that there was a greater depression
than the twelve miles which constitute
the difference between the polar and
the equatorial axes OF the earth would
account for, or. in fact. that there was
a hole that ran directly through the
earth from pole to pole, and people
lived on the inside. as well as upon the
crust of the earth. This was known as
'Symmes' Hole
"Andree went to discover 1t.
There was once a man in one of the
western towns in this country who had
a plan for tightening a load by means
of gas that has never been applied to
polar travelling.
''This western thinker had an idea
that by making a double garment Of
Indian rubber, one to hit tightly to his
person, and the other loose enough to
hold sufficient gas to take up the
| strength would enable him to travel
! rapidly and easily. He had the suit
made and put 1t o. one night, as the
| didn't want to excite the ridicule that
would attend a failure. Down to the
I gas works he went and had his gar.
mentuinnate until he looked some
| thing like a gigantic football.
"Then he started up the road and
found: that the ordinary effort of walk
ing would carry him along thirty or
IOrtyt1eet at d Step, anu ne had d most
delightful and celebrating experience.
Sometimes he would run, and then his
stepsft would be a hundred feet apart,
and a jump would lift him easily over
four or five hundr yards. He never
enjoyed himself SO much in his life.
"A party clad in such suits might
travel with great facility in the north.
Neither hummocks, bergs nor lofty
rocks would stop them, and the rubber,
gas-lined suits, would be absolutely inn
peryious to the cold"