Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1915-01-27
COAST NNp GEODETIC stRNEA
uNS IUSI FINISHED CHART.
Nc SIREAM
CHANNEL OF KUSkOkW|N
survey commenced IN iOli hn''
Continued Through Three
Seasons lclurc Work
Was Completed

NitINiNfh ga NNiNitlAi N'Nfi'iN
made the official announcement tn
du, that practical ua,itablc chan
upl from the Beriug Sen Into iho /
mou,h of the KpskohWim River had !
been di,cotCred boy Captain Lukem I
of th, Coast and Goodotic Suvt>. /
The Kuskokvim River is tn' |
second greatest river la Alaska II /
is % miles wide al its mouth aul
for over GOO miles inland. /
The great submerged flats OF ih" !
dclt, of this river extend 100 miles
out TO sea. ana It was through this
unchurtcd delta that the surveying ,
steamer Yukon mad, the discU'
cry of the channel which means SO
much 10 he commerce of that sec
ton of Alaska
The KuakokVim is ono ui The
three great Alaskan riycrt nmpi'
mg Into the lering Sea which haf
been opened To commerce az a re-
Hnlt of the charting operation of
the Coast and GJodctlc Survey. Tho
mouth OF the Yukon was SURVEYED
In 1888 and in few years that
river hcramc one of the greatest
commercial arteries ol Alaska. IN
1909 ana 1910 Nuahagak RaN was
chariDd. aud nov The kuakokNim
b., FAR The most dreaded ana uu
known of these rivers. viii no long
cr be- a menace or a mystery 10 tho
navigator who has one of the uc'
charts of its entrance about 10 hc
issued by the Coast aud Gocd'tie
Survey.
The survey of the nrring Sea IN
, the Ncinit. of the kuakokNim was
started In lHll and continued th
lolluviug summers ol INI1 nnu
/ 1919. But il was not uutil the paat
1 field season that q surveying ''..
sci succeeded In tracing and char,
/ iug channels through th" great area
uf tho suhmrrgrd mud HATS Whicn
make up the delta Of the kuskos
| vim.
m making tho uArvG cnpim
| llutops rcDoris he took i,-'o
snundlurs cot'r'h" on area oi ~
( TOO square miles This Ia itseli o.
mitc nn achievement when co'td'r
rd iu cuuue,li,u With 'hc customary
bad weather n AHsba aud Oh, ii.i
HAT Ip some instance " W1 u.fc
,gr, tn locate Huuudiurt by ohsf-tt
lions ou mountain peak. more ilw
go miles dieipuO The Uhu.' wuth
ur season .as confined tp .a ,'"'
and boz July alone '9is OF th"s d0f.
we're los, un account ol the wealth
being either bad COZ not sufficiently
clear to 500 o., distant sr Sym
.m0rk-
When fu, u.u "u.H aud Gr'HH''
.curet chart showing 'hr newly dI.
covered channel is issued. It Nill "
pu. Do, for steamship rompaui' ''
|.rIl tp-.oI. fu thD Euskoh f|m au
Thu. muIaf, the Development ni fW
.unrrI mnwe fishing and aerlrH
.rmaI resources of that region
TI. Eusknkvim Valley cove.
Imauy thousand ol square uil
land uo olo can predict wth r"riHl.
IL, what ib. practically virgin trrrI
tory win develop whom u D. thor
ourhly pro.pDo,od. hU 70 s not %"
reasonable t0 suppose that tho u.a
mmr. VHN s,U 'H, kukuF"iH on.
r- af commercial IWpor an,r ,umpa.
IaNa with that of iho Nnkun river
u uas been lIoau iur somu'm
.fHaf fhrr, vprr large area. ui W'n.l
Zoo land. along fur EuskukRlW "f
prnmi.lnr prospects ot mercury hw.
/ ne ruuahar gold bearing guH't
placer grounds llH coal lands. Who.
F. .... mI development 0ulE "u.
r.i.hIp mean of frIr port b. '