Arizona republican., 1916-04-23
WILL HUNT IN GREAT UNKNOWN
 LAND IF NORTH
tRepubiican A. P. Leased wirel

1 schooner Great Bear sails from Se- attle about the middle of May on fishing and hunting trip to the . far north--a trip which has been | | planned partly as a summer vaca- l tion and partly as q commercial ven- ture-she will start on a journey that | will take her about 5000 miles from | Seattle and will not end till about | the middle of November. Incidentally | John Borden. Chicago capitalist | sportsman and traveller, and one of | the vessels owners. will help the ex- i plorer, Nilhjalmur Stefansson-if help ! is needed-re- locate the continent he discovered in the polar regions
 Mir. Borden on his journey will be accompanied by Capt. Louis Lane, i long time a resident of Nome, Alas | ka, and for years a gold miner. fur trader and whaler, and by three Chi | cago guests. who are going just for sport-Norris H. Bokum, c. K ! Knickerbocker and R. B. Slaughter and the schooner will carry a crew of twentyfour sturdy seamen.
 With Mir. Borden, Capt. Lane is joint owner of the vessel, which, in cluding her equipments. cost $75.000 and is 137 feet long. 32 feet beam. with draft of IA feet and a speed of seven knots per hour. She car ries three sails and, as an auxilary7i force, an oil burning engine of 16O horse power Her oaken hull is sheathed in iron wood, a heavy tim Der from the Philippines. almost as impervious as its name indicates
 The Great Bear will carry 25,000 gallons of fuel oil. and about S3,000 worth of provisions-canned vege- tables and fruits. sugar, coffee flour. meal and salt meats-enough to last the entire journey. A complete kit chen will be provided and will be in charge of a chef of long experience X medical chest fitted up according ito the list authorized by the govern l ment for it's vessels will be a part of the ships equipment. No physician will accompany the expedition as Mir. Borden says his experience in north ern waters has given him sufficient to handle any ailments. peculiar to the northern country. that might come to himself or his men.
 There will be private state rooms for each of the guests and comfort able berths for each man of the crew Cards. books and big phon- ograph will be among the things on board to provide entertainment for the long Arctic nights.
 Capt Lane, though only 36 years of age. is as much at home in a boat on the icy seas of the north as would be a landsman in an automobile | travelling city. streets. He has been a dweler in the Alaskan country since he was a child of twelve and has spent much of his time on the water He will be in active charge of the boat as captain but will CO., operate with Mir. Borden in all mat ters of management except the actual technical details of handling the yes sell It was Capt Lane who last August came to the rescue of the explorer Stefansson with timely sup plies when Steffansson and the rem nant of the original party that went ! to the northern regions with him had been given up for lost.
 MT. Borden is well fitted by ex perience for his proposed long jour ney. Though he did not go but half as far north as his present plans will carry him, he made a notable voyage in the summer of 1913 in his 100 foot sailing yacht. "Adventurer," from the coast of Maine. around the American continent, through the straits of Magellan. thence to the Pa cific coast and on to a point about three hundred miles north of the 1 Aleutian Islands. It was the de- lightful experience that he had on this trip that got the salt of the sea into his veins and caused the i lure of the North to call him again, call so insistent, he said, that his forthcoming trip is the result.
 The route of the Great Bear will take her through the Pacific ocean for distance of about 1000 miles on the first leg Of the long journey from Seattle, on which she will reach the : Aleutian Islands, where, as she turns northward she will expect to encoun- ter much floating ice. This however is not expected to hamper her as her three great sails and her powerful oil burning engine are regarded as ample to make the handling of the boat easy though the desired speed of seven knots an hour may not be attained at all times.
 Another thousand miles will bring her to the Gulf of Anadyr, off the Si- berian coast Then she will pass into the Arctic ocean and will circle Point Barrow through the Beaufort Sea and having added another two thousand miles to the distance travelled from Seattle. she will reach Coronation Gulf, off the northern coast of Can ada, where the journey will end. The return will be made over the same route.
 The travellers on the Great Bear are going to harpoon the bowhead whale, which is valuable for it's oil and whalebone, and will hunt with shot guns the cider duck for it's val uable down. Thousands of dollars worth of game is expected to be bagged.