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Alaskan Exploration.

United States Geological Survey ha
had four parties engaged in exploring
aud mapping different parts of Alaska
The first under Mr.. W. J. Peters, as
sisted by Mr.. F. G. Schrader, started
from Skagway early in February ani
went, 200 miles with dog team to Berg
man, a trading post on the Koyuku
River in central Alaska, near the
Arctic Circle, where cache of canoes
and provisions had been made the
previous year. The party then pene-
trated north to the divide of the Yukon
making portages to the headwaters ol
the Colville River, and descended
through an entirely unkonwn COUNT J
to the Arctic Ocean. The country
from the mountains to the sea was
found to be an expanse of rolling
tundra. Owing to the lateness of the
season the party were unable to return
overland by another route as planned,
but were obliged to skirt the coast to
the west in canoes and whale boat,
secured from the natives, in the hope
of reaching Cape Nome before the ice
set. After working down the coast
for $50 miles they we're fortunately
picked up by a collier.
The second party under Mr.. T. G..
Gerdine, assisted by Mr.. A. ]. Collier,
penetrated the Seward Peninsula on
which is located Cape Nome, for about
100 miles and spend the season in COM
pleting the exploration and mapping
the western part of the peninsula,
north of the Nome mining district,
which was surveyed last year.
The third party under Mr. w. G..
Mendenhall, assisted by MIR. D. L..
Reaburn starting from Fort Yukon
surveyed the Yukon River for dis
tance of about 200 miles down it's
course, then crossing the divide to
Bergman, where use was made of the
cache established the year before,
penetrated unknown country to the
westward and descended the Kowak
River to Kotzbue Sound, an arm of
the Arctic Ocean.
The fourth party under the command
of Mr.. A. H. Brooks worked in south
! eastern Alaska examing the mineral
deposits and exploring the region
from Juneau to Skagwap. Two
months we,e spent on Prince of Wales
Island and the adjacent mainland,
and much development in the progress
of that section was found.
The work of the Geological Survey
of the past yoar practically marks the
close of the exploration stage of it's ac-
tivities in Alaska. The districts of
which nothing is known are now of
less extent than formerly, and hence
forth more detailed mapping and ex-
animation of the territory's resources
will take the place of the rapid and Of
ten daring reconnaissance trips hither-
to necessary. The size and remoteness
of the country, the shortness OF the
field season. the difficulties of travel,
and the danger of losing supplies or OF
being caught by oncoming winter has
made the exploration of Alaska com
parable to the work of Lewis and Clark
in the early journey across the CONT
| nent, but in spite of the difficulties
the survey s parties have carried out
their work through five seasons with.
out failure or loss of life.
The results of the Alaskan work have
appeared in the annual reports of the
| Survey for the last three or four sea
sons, together with maps of the routes
traversed. They are available for dis
tribution except where the editions are
already exhausted.
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