The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1906-10-26
TRIP 70 THE NORTHWEST
A. j. puRLAND DESCRIBES AN IN
TEREsTING JOURNEY.
HE WENT NORTH INTO ALASKA
Was Pleased With the Timber Pros,
poets and Observation-Disclosures Sal.
mon Fisheries in That Seetion-How
He Sailed for 200 Miles.
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mon Fisheries in That Seetion-How
He Sailed for 200 Miles.
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A j. Durlaud, who has Just returned
from trip to British Columbia ana
Alaska. where he invested In timber
lands. was delighted with that coun'
try. Timber value depends ON acccs'
sihility to market MIR Durland also
has great faith i'm Washington and Or
egon. because Of their wealth and eli
mate. Railroad activity Is booming
that section now and every place
seems to be aqulvcr with the readl'
ness To boom. Two now trunk lines,
5000 miles long, are being built across
Canada. On his trip Mr., Durland Kept
a diary which Is of much interest, as
Il tells of unique Journey through n
strange land. Following Is the diary,
written in the form Of letter to MS
family In Norfolk:
Accommodation for writing are not
the best but am beginning sort
OF diary OF my trip from vancouver
which II 1t does not run too long or
too short will mail to you later prob
ably from Vancouver as | shall prob
ably 90 there on the first mail boat
As | wrote you we left Vancouver
Tuesday the nth Mt 4 p. m. and had
most beautiful trip through the
island passage all the way among the
most beautiful islands and inlets with
occasional white peaks peerlng
through the fogs and clouds. had
expected we would reach this island
(Graham) in three days, but instead
we arrived in Port Simpson Friday,
z u. m. It rained Saturday, necessar-
lily deferrlng our departure until sat
urday evening or Sunday. Two In
dams were procured by bacroix tour
half breed guide) to take us by little
schooner, thirty feet in length and ten
feet beam, that he had used once be
fore on this trip. This is staunch
little boat riding the water like duck.
has covered deck and cabin for
ward with small stove where we
could sleep and cook very nicely by
part of the diners taking their meals
from the top of the cook house on n
hand-out. | had plenty of room to
sleep but my feet were SO close to the
hatchway that 1t was impossible for
me to keep warm enough We got
off ut a. m. Sunday morning with n
fair wind for few hours then II
changed to n head wind so that we
spent most of the time lacking and
only made about thirty miles that day,
anchoring in a pretty cove on the
north shore of the Northerly Dundas
island 1t was n wicrd looking place,
too, as different as YOU can imagine
from anything | ever saw on water
beforo-stcep shores, not high, but
black rocks and pebbles with almost
no sand star-tish clinging to them on
all sides, odd shaped shells under foot
and scores of shell fish something like
the ablona fastened to the pebbles
which must be disodged quickly If
at all. About the only birds, besides
the water fowl of course in evidence
here are ravens which are not dis
turbed by anybody. Monday morning
we got off at s o'clock with a very
light wind until lis p. m. when We
got fair wind that carried us alonl
about five miles an hour. With the
Indians a wind blowing in the direC
tion you want to so is n fair wind.
Our captain was Masset Indian, anC
therefore presumably posted on dis
lance, etc He said 1t was thirty miles
across from Dundas island to Rose
Spit, the northeast corner of Graham
island, and twenty miles from Their,
to Masset. We sailed along merrill.
after we got our fair wind, passing
Rose Spit at dark After supper | sa
with the captain, who had the helm
for two hours enjoying the sail YER,
much. You can very well understand
that with no moon and the stars no
giving much light the water locke
pretty black and deep, but the BOA
bowled along so fine that 1t was enjoy
able the spice of danger not bein
peppery. When | went in at 1880 tn
captain said we would be there 4
about two hours and, having Gale
the crew, who had gone to sleep be
low soon after | took my station
though | felt that as we were With
couple of miles of land, nosing alon
in the dark, it would have been a
well for him to have been on the bow
in fact when he did go there he el
claimed at once Land" at which tn
captain went forward and seemed [
know where we were, though h
turned her nose Alaskaward at ono,
had discovered that the captain dl
not know the north star nor how I
locate it, nor of the variation of tn
compass, all of which were germai
facts as he was steering by his con
pass.
Hudson Bay Company.
After the crew was awake and @
the bow | felt it was time for me I
retire, though sleep was fitful, as
was uncomfortable from cold. thong