The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-08

TIME sun was shining brilliantly
one midnight early in Sop
TENDER, 1901, when there ap-
peared from down the coast to the
east Of Point BarrUs a weather.
beaten canoe which was being polci
along the shore between the land and
' the ice fields that threatened To close
IN upon II by n stalwart figure drapcd
In a vast array Of flowing board.
Since Point Barrow IL the northern
' most tip NJ the continent. 400 miles
within the Arctic circle. and since
man before this time had known
nothing Of what lay beyond It. the
natives OF the Eskimo village stool
" wondering. The man in the canoe
pulled It ashore. pitched his tent.
plunged for a win in among the
icebergs. and went to sleep for twe:ve
d, hours.
He was Frank c. Schrader. Govern
ment geologist. Five months earlier
ne had climbed Chilkoot Pass into the
b; headwaters of the Yukon. Before the
10 breaking up Of the ice lie had travelled
700 miles by dog team down that
river course and was AT Allakakat. on
r. the Arctic circle. In the very heart of
unknown Alaska. From this point he
q struck north. where the foot Of white
man had never trod. polling and drag
einE mis- canoe laden with supplies.
a INTO the wilderness. ON the northern
p rim of Alaska the Rockies run east
and west AMI the canoe was portagei
over a range 5000 feet high. whore
n. the carabou Is too unfamiliar with
: man to be afraid OF him. placed in
- the waters that flow into the Arctic.
which were followed into the un-
, known. SO was the land to the cas-,
N OF Point Barrow first explored.
There were eight men In the party
' who followed Geologist Schradcr into
camp. They had expected to catch
the revenue cutter Rear. which
~ "a
pushes this far around Alaska once a
year. The Bea- had been to Barrow.
IT.. but the threatening closing in of the
81 Ice had forced her to leave before tho
biologists arrived. This should have
meant that they remain in the north
for a year, but they refused To stay.
q plrNhastpc n u.hnl,l,..
out down the coast, dragging Il along
the shore. They ~succeeiel In making
y Cape Lisburne. 300 miles away. and
there found a collier teady tn put to
sea 1t was a per!lous journey so late
IN the season. hut the geologic partv
took their whalebna, aboard. expect
Ing to set out in it again II the collier
" stuck in the ice, which 1t fortunately
:, did not do.
This is but typical Of the eight,
seasons that +. C.. Schrader has spent
In Alaskan explorations. Beginning
with a reconnaissance of the Yukon
Valley as far back at 1896. he went
p" into these WILLIS every year. The
work Of this g%eologist explorer and
others of his kind supplied the Gov
eminent with information as To what
II possessed ahead OF the coming of
the miner. II was such information
that prevented the nation from allow
ing its unbellevably rich Coal fields to
get away from II. II is such eXplora-
ton that has been of inestimable
value In the development of Alaska.
Take the case of the gold find
At Nome, for instance. This same
: Schrader was in interior Alaska when
that strike vas made. He came ont
past Nome and made a geological
study and report upon the region.
He said that the waters had merely
slfted the light sands out from the
beach and EFT the heavy gold there,
a theory with which the miners dis
agreed. lie insisted hat there were
other geologic beaches further ir-
u land and that these should likewise