The Nome daily nugget., 1908-02-27
INT TEREST IN
 AUTO RAGE


 ms3 carrier. aud who made the jaur- Iuey last year from Moscow tu Nome ] by way of Siberia and East Cap. passing through the Siberian towns mentioned and along the shog, ot tae Arctic ocean. has informed the Tfnes that h,. believes 1t possible tor the automobiles te make tic journey iudi- euts-f but hr aaes Het hesitate to stv ttJJ tFe Hir Win be a trying and p.r- IlaHe vur in which tHa contestants must pr5rar, tEoms.,,- tr ,udur mauy hsfdshjps Gas"Gu- and sup. plies. he says. Win aa,e ta b, seat ahead jf uet taE.u uitH tbe ceuteSt- ants. a~ ua e7~efHr rpu b. obtained untj Yakutsk con tH. siberian ratl- raJd Is reached. while HttIr food e4a | be obtained from tbe natives n Si- beria ath,r than reindeer mat ard ass.
 Major WHd< F Richardson af rhe Nn.h United states Infantry Uts has been stationed h Alaska for seven years and aHa l. 8e4 eu duty ar Washington ~sid ta 2 Times eorr.- l srende4' a asse day= ago
 l T mm e4,afIs interested lH n, forth coming automobile f8ee W4tHaat question me tsst vig Tor tHa ra4ts.t- ants ta reach Nome nv laud t- va ffla texcetjeHt setd ehi~h rh, United state government has recently completed ffom Valdez ta Tauan Ra- se eharer ut part at it- construction | am convinced that automobft,, sH pass over tais rasl s.itheal .rsun.,. Tn ~taer makes a rrip tNia, .4ra Week between Valdez and THaHd ca. ryins 1ag r. <. man and alsr r.t~-su- gers whHe them are freight t-Hm- ar sled runners going o,Hr the raad .f frequent intervals TFa snow b,aoH packed hard ad @iu hold urs aH an- temebile
 "Ta,rr 5r. stations 9lme IA. rtuts about every twenty miles between Valdez and Panama From tHr G,ttrr peinf down th, Yukon fiv,r 10 tts coast if wit he necessary dp maI,a a road where the snow may bayr drift- d er th, ie. has been forced uf, into hummorks. T. Wiu be far more difi- cult ta get deWa the Yukon te Inc coast than to reach tH, Yukon from Valdez have never travelled from the coast along Nartsm Sound To N"fur. but Major Guy l.. Edir of tho r. :. Medical corps has mad,. rHs ioHma.- and knows thr roat,. thoroughly
 Major Edi. wha k al=e aH dun at Washington at present. buJ a.n vas on duty for several wears t Mask said
 aI have trayeied py,r the irr alun- the zhaTc uf Norton sound from u..fa CHalakIeet To Some and found Htlc difficulty n doing ~a. had u .io, team. it iS true but l believe an auto mobile would not havc serious dim- culty in travelling oyer the ice. pruvd- ins the weather conditions are uat tpa bad. The ice is usually frozen for % depth of many feet for df-raucc gr 200 or ao0 wards from shore
 "l ana told That The road from "alt t. io Tauaua i~ a ver, good one. amt tAs. a,4omohiIr~ would probably have D. serious difficulty in getting through [, that point Il would be d morr seri- ,u~ matter getting down ,hc Yukpa fivcr to the coast. aoaeeer The auf1. ,stS will do well to lose ua mofe tim in getting through to the coast than possible. for il the thaw comes they WiIl be unable to gel down the Yukon unless they mak, Use af q strauhoat after the river tho0S ant in lse spring
 The Valdez route i~ believed by Ara, arican army officers and others con vcr-a,nr with conditions m Alaska L.. bc f,r superior to thai of Skagwa> and Dawson. for the reason that il r. noarly Loco miles shorter Ia the eIy-a point of Panama on the Yukon. wbita ltt saves nearly three weeks in ffue. if not more. and cuts out entirely the rough travelling along the Yukon rivsr for a distance of 10 miles. where ta. Porcupine river cmptirs into the Yu- kou and causes immense hummucks . ico to form. which it would hr diff cult matter for automobiles fa gel through.
 The standard oil company I- now experimenting with a certain lubricant espccially intended for use ia Ala~ka which resist temperature of Hot nor than % degrees below Zero. Athouga il is true that the thermometer marks Ia much lower temperature in Alaska. livery often. il k believed that by usiae lasbestos around tfe engines of the au
 tos and other parts as protection against the cold. it will be found that the lubricant will meet the rcouire.-