Seward daily gateway., 1925-03-07
GEOLOGICAL MEN
 WILLPRESS WORK
 IN NOATAk REGION
PLANS FORMULATED TO MAP OIL RESERVES IN REGION OF
 COLVlLLE RIVER
DISTRICT UNEMPLOYED
Dog Teams Awaiting Party at Fort Gibbon, Where Headquarters
 Were Established

Among the arrivals coming in on the steamship Alaska last night was Gerald Fitzgerald, topographic en- gineer working under the Department of the Interior. He arrived direct from Washington, D. C., where plans were formulated the past winter for their summers mapping in the Arc tic regions.
 In company with MT. Fitzgerald in charge of the party is Fay Dalzene, of Nome and Alaska sweepstakes fame, who will work with the party during the coming seasons work.
 Tn an interview with a representa- tive of The Gateway, MT. Fitzgerald told of his trip into the Arctic last year under the leadership of Dr. P. s. Smith, noted geologist, mapping the country in the vicinity of the Colville river above the Arctic Circle, mapping the entire headwaters of the hereto fore unexplored Colville and Chipp Rivers, coming out at Point Barrow. About 10000 square miles of unex- plored country was mapped by last years expedition under Dr. Smith. It is intended, according to Mr. FitZger- aid to go direct from here to Fit. Gib- bon, Headquarters. They will have two dog teams stationed there, which will be used on their long journey down the Yukon. Another member of the party from last years cruise is Walter Blankenship, who has winter ed at Fort Gibbon and taking care of the dogs and outfit
 Upon their arrival in Fort Gibbon, they will draw up a definite route which will bring them to Kotzebue, on Sound. They intend follow ing the old mail trail down the Yu- kOn and cross on the lower river and journey north to their destination
 Their outfits will be secured at Kot- zebue. Dog teams, canoes and any other means of travel will be used by these explorers in reaching the field.
 From Kotzebue the party will work up to Noatak river to point about 200 miles. From there they will at tempt to carry the work north and along the western edge of the Naval petroleum reserve No. 4, making a and geological reconnais- sance of the unexplored southwestern corner of the reserve, later making their way out in September by way of the Mead river to Deese inlet and Point Barrow, or down the Noatak to Kotzebue.
 This is MT. Fitzgerald's third year on the Arctic coast and Naval petro- leum reserve No. 4.
 Dr. w. R. Smith has also had sev- eral years work in Alaska in oil re- 
 When asked by a reporter what comment ensued over appointment of George A. Parks for governor of Al aska, he said that they were most fa- He said the appointment fell lpOn MT. Parks like a meteor from heaven he not having the slightest of the plans which were directed to his appointment. Everyone seems in accord with Pres dent Coolidge over the choosing of MT. Parks to lead Alaska's destinies," add I'd MT. Fitzgerald.
 On leaving Washington, MT. Fitz- serald said that MT. Parks was pre- ,aring to leave for his home in Colo ado where he will visit for short ime with his parents before coming to Alaska.
 While in town he is making his lome at the Van Glider and expects o leave on Mondays train for the h. erior