The Alaska daily empire., 1916-09-08
Second in Command of the StefanSSOn Expedition In Juneau EnrOute
 South
TELLS OF ARCTIC TRIP
Dr.. Anderson Working For Canadians in Arctic Comes Out To
 Report

That immense deposits of native copper have ben discovered on the Arctic shores of Canada in the vicin- ity of Copper Mine River Corona tion Sound, and that the work of Viljalmur Stefansson will be ser iously delayed owing to the loss of the schooner Great Bear, were thel assertions made last night by pr. R. NJ. Anderson, second in command of the Stefansson expedition.
 pr. Anderson passed through Ju neau on the Northwestern bound for his home in Canada He has been in command of the southern, or shore party of the expedition since the ex- petition divided and for the past three years has been making geolo- gical surveys and typographical maps of the country along the Arctic bor- der of Canada.
 Dr. Anderson stated that the mem bers of his party had not seen Stef- ansson since March 1913, at which time Stefansson started north over the ice fields. They have not been in communication with him and never knew whether he was alive or dead. Last summer when Stefans- son visited Herschel Island and bought the power schooner Polar Bear, Anderson and his party were working far to the eastward and did not see him.
 The southern party spent the first winter or the season of 1913 in winter quarters at Council Point and the next two winters were spent in Union Straits. The work of the party started at Point Harold and extended east around the shores of Coronation Sound. and around the Kent Peninsula, near the mouth of the Mackenzie river.
 Discover Copper.
 "The copper deposit discovered by us consists of vast mineralized belt of native copper on the main land near Copper Mine River and extend ing out to Prince Albert Island, said Mir. Anderson. ''We sampled the deposit in hundreds Of places and made survey of it from geo. logical standpoint, but am not atI liberty to disclose the size of the de- posit. As to the value can't say until the samples have been assayed, and also until it is determined whe- taer the deposits can be worked sue cessfully or not.
 "The copper ore is almost pure, as far as we could tell The natives of that section use implements ham mered from the copper almost en. tirely. It makes good snow knives skinning knives and ice picks. They have no steel there and know noth- ing of smelting ore. The copper in their implements is just as it comes from the ground as to purity.
 Implements of Copper
 Dr. Jenness, anthropologist with the party in on board this steamer with 40 cases of implements used by the natives there In their daily life, and the majority of them are made of hammered copper. The col lection includes snow knives, ice picks. skinning knives, dishes, sled runners, spear heas and in fact hundreds of implements of that me tai. He also has samples of their articles of clothing and of nearly everything used by them.
 "For the first two years 1t was pretty monotonous in there. We had no reading matter at all and did not know that the European war was on until the mail reached us over. land on November 9th, last year After that we were all right as we received complete files of the daily papers of Ottawa up to the time the mail left civilization for the long trip overland and down the MacKen- zie River to our camp After it's arrival we had plenty of reading matter
 Large Timber Found.
 There is plenty of large standing timber there 8 few miles back from the coast. Of course on the Arctic coast there is no timber, but back about 20 miles on the Copper Mine River, and little farther back on the Mackenzie there are heavy stands of timber We used drift wood and some coal which we took with us for fuel. Our base camp was stationary and we were not obliged 10 move around much. We had the gasoline schooner Alaska and were very comfortable on board her most of the time
 Secure Fresh Meats.
 eve had no difficulty in securing all the fresh meats we wanted. The annual migration of the caribou herds passed close to our hearQuarters and we shot all we needed. Ducks and other migratory birds are plen. tiful there in the summer time. There are very few geese there in the summer time.
 "We broke camp in Union Straits on July 18th or the present year and reached Herschel Island on Julyl 2Oth. having encountered very lit3I tle ice east of the Island On AugI