The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-28
NEW HAVENER REACHES NOME FROM SEATTLE IA Wonder Trip Through the Marvels of
 Nature, MILKING AN ICEBERG. The Alaskan's Method of Filling Ice Water
 Bottles.
MILKING AN ICEBERG.
Nome, Alaska. May 10. 1907.

w SdlI6u Ou tIle D. D. NOIWlu 1IOlIl Seattle for Nome the 10th of May (F'ri- day night) with thirty7eight first class passengers and thirty-two steerage, taking the inside passage. The Corwin is small steamer of only 400 tons. She was United States revenue cut ter but has been remodelled for the Alaska run. The dock was crowded with friends and people as usual to see the first steamer off for Nome.
 This inside passage surpasses every thing in the world for wild and beautl- ful scenery. We reached Union Bay Saturday night and were there two days to take on coal This is on Van couver Island and the great coal mines of Cumberland are twelve miles out from Union Bay. They are owned by Earl Dinsmyer, who also owns all the land for miles and miles in Union Bay and Cumberland His father was a poor man, who married half-breed Indian One day he was sitting at the foot of a tree and picked up some coal crop pings He at once took up land grant tehn got others to buy up all the land for miles about and afterwards bought it all back. The last man was paid $2,0O0,O0O for his interest.
 Union Bay is little harbor of some 200 inhabitants. The coke kilnss and car shops are the only industries. Two friends and myself were invited to go out to the coal mines to meet MT. Clin- ton, the American consul and superin- terdent of the mines. It was my first lexperience riding on an engine and enjoyed it immensely. The road rar through twelve miles of great timber forests. Eastern people who have nev- CT seen the northwest have no concep- tion of this great timber country ant after paying $40 per cord for wood ant $150 per ton for coal, as we did al Nome in '99 and 1900, you can imagine my thoughts when I saw such great forests and coal mines. MT. Clintor met us and spent the day showing Il! the town and coal mines. Cumberland is very pretty little village of 200 inhabitants, seemingly dropped int the heart of the great forest. They havt 1,200 men taking out 1,5O0 tons of coa a day. These mines extend four mile, underground. The main shaft run Gcwn 5000 feet on a slant to the leve of the mine. Loaded and empty cars arr running in and out all the time, dra WI by the great cables. MT. Clinton cam, from Pittsburg twenty-five years az, and he seemed very much pleased tt have an customer call on him, and h. insisted on my making him visit whel come out in the fall.
 We left Union Bay at Il o'clock Mon day night and made Seward ct 5 o'clocl Sunday evening. Seward was started which intends to extend the road al through Alaska They have employed 2,00O men. It is situated on Ressurec. ton Bay and an ideal spot for a littl, city between the mountains towering up from two to five thousand feet or each side with fine timber and all kind of game and good fishing. I found sev eral of my old Alaska friends here il business and it was quite a reunion, al we had not met in five cr six years You can imagine my surprise when A A. Anderson of New York, the celebrat ed artist. stepped up to me and wantec to know what I was doing there. of course, as quickly returned the sam question to him.
 He Is on hunting tour and is gons to try his luck with the great Kadial bears. He also thinks of coming tC Nome in July
 We left Seward at 12 o'clock Mon. day, May 20. It is impossible to dsscrib, tho beauty and grandeur that unfold' itself as we sailed among these island and mountains the scenes are so va ried, wild and grand. Some ;imes WI are held spell-bound watching th, streams that dash down the mountain thousands of feet, forming all kinds 0 beautiful water falls and cascades a. they dart and leap from the giganti, boulders hedged in with the evergreen trees. There we see the snow-cappet mountains as though they were in an other world We hear the wing If tn water fowl and clouds of them rise be fore you to soon settle again on th placid waters, for this is the home c the wild duck and all kinds of wate | 4I, +r.an ord n n seem below us as wall as above, am it seems like one great mirror that w are sailing on. Sometimes we seen entirely surrounded by mountains with out a possible outlet. Then we glid through a narrow pass with the noun tains almost touching the steamer e each side. Now we are passing tn great seal and sea lion rocks. Thes , rocks are some two or three hundre , feet above the water and three hun } dred feet long,
 , Sometimes they are almost entlre l covered with seal and sea lion. The ) rise and plunge into the water as W pass. As we go on some of the noun } tains are entirely covered with snol . ard glazler after glazier appears le 2 tweer these snow covered and snow } capped mountains, which have be forming here for thousands of year' } Groups of whales attract Us as the, . throw their water spouts nigh in tn } aiy and the thrashers' dangerous olac
 fin spur is occasionally seen severs feet above the water. The Shrasher an l swordfsh are deadly enemies but the : will help each other to Kill whalt l l The swordfish swims under the whbl