Valdez daily prospector., 1916-04-27
LANE WILL G0
 AfIfRS STEPHENSON
IS M,W CONSTRUCTING VESSEL
Will Sail for the North About the FirS of June and Will Return with tlre Explorer to Nome in Lat ter Part of September.

Captain L. L. Lane, an arctic nav igator of long experience, has an nounced that he will leave Seattle for the -Arotl, Ocean anout June 1 in 300 ton power schooner now being built there, and expects to return to Nome or Seattle next autumn with Vilhajalmur Stefansson and the other members ot the Canadian government exploring expedition that sailed from Victoria, E. C., for the Arctic ocean June IT. 1913. Captain Lane plans to be at Banks Land, in the Polar Sea. about August 5, and to meet Stefansson there. Lane, in the pow CT schooner Polar Bear, took Stef- ansson and two companions from Banks Land to Hersche] Island last August, and afterward sold the Polar Bear to Stefansson, who returned to Banks Land and then, on the break small power boat Gladiator, intending to spend the winter in exploration in Banks Land, and then, on the break ing of the ice this spring, making further explorations of the new land which he discovered last year, north of Melville Island. Capt. LaIfe is now in Seattle supervising the con- struction of his new schooner.
 Captain Lane is going north, not under contract with the Canadian government, but under verbal con- tract with Stefansson. Lanes new power boat, which probably will he named the Great Bear, will be of wooden construction, and the strong est ice-resisting vessel ever built on Puget Sound. Lane will take with him gasoline and other supplies for the Stefansson fleet. Stefansson has asked the Canadian government to permit his parties to continue their work a year longer, but it is believed that on account of war conditions the explorers will be ordered home. The expedition was planned to con- tinue three and one-half years.
 Unless ice movements are unfavor- able, Capt. Lane expects to reach Banks Land at the time fixed upon. If he has good fortune he will call first at Herschel island, where he may receive word from Stefansson. If he does not get instructions there, he will proceed north to Banks Land, making stops at points agreed upon, last year, where Stefansson may have letters of men waiting for Lane. It may be that the explorers will choose to return to Nome in their own boats. the power schooners Polar Bear, Alas ka, Mary Sachs and North Star, but the vessels will probably be out of repair and unable to make the quick voyage that will be necessary to elude the treacherous ice. which closes in upon the coast rapidly in early au- tumn. If all goes we'll, the explorers should arrive in Nome soon after the middle of September.
 The Stefansson expedition from the beginning was divided into two par ties. The northern, under Stefans- son, planned to seek new land in the Beaufort Sea and succeeded, not withstanding the loss of the principal boat, the whaler Karluk, which was crushed in the ice the first winter out.
 The southern party, under Dr. Ru- dolph Anderson, has been exploring and charting the delta of the Macken- zie River and the country to the east, and also making geological sur vey of the islands and mainland at the mouth of the great river, making especial search for copper and coal. Copper nuggets abound along the wa terways, and the Eskimos have weap- ons and utensils of beaten copper. Stefansson, who discovered blue-eyed Eskimos in the Coronation Gulf coun- try, east of the Mackenzie, some years ago, these people, he believed, being descendants of. the ancient Scandina- vian settlers in Greenland, is not re- visiting these Eskimos during Ms present journey. Stefansson and An derson have large amount of in- formation and material, and will make a complete report to the Cana -sl publish book describing his discov- cries.
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