Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22
VETERAN EXPLORER
TAKESF|ELD AGAIN
Frank c. Schrader Has Gone
on Survey of Montana
Mining Districts.

One Of the veteran explorers and ge-
ologis;S OF the Geological Survey-Frsnk
c. Schrader. the man who pushed ur
through the heart of Alaska many
wears ago and was at Nome when the
bic gold STRIFE was getting under way
has gone out into tlle field for further
research this year at the age of IS
Montana mining districts will claim his
attention this Summer. This West Is
familiar ground to him. for his duties
have called him to Idaho. Nevada. Utah
and California.
Mr.. Schrader has been in the Govern
nent service since 1891. having been
horn in Sterling, H., October g.. lS6u'
He is one Of the oldest employees IN the
interior Department.
North of the Arctic Circle has oeen
the theater of his operations i'll the
hevdsy Of his explorations. He ana ms
party Quilted at Bergman, Alaska. IN
1901 and crossed the circle divide. the
Endicott Mountains, over which Capt
Ceorgs H. wilkins and his pilot, Ben
Eieison. few many times to ana from
Point Barrow.
Carried Canoes Over Mountains.
Down the Anaktuvuk River. that
flows toward the North Pole. and then
down the Colyille River to the Arcuc
Ocean they went having packed tnelr
csn,~s over tn, mountains. They
worked their way along the barren
enest. Of the polar ocean and trsveled
with ESk. mos 10 Point Barrow
A whaleboat was secured AT Point
Bsrrow and then south MIR, Scnraoer
and his marty went TO Cape LiSourne.
end then through the famous North
west Passage by collier TO Nome.
In that memorable trip, which
onene6 uu interior Alaska to science
and the better use of mankind, Mr..
Schrader and his party encountered
many types of landscape. On the En.
dicott plateau they found valleys 5,uUo
feet deep. and adjoining this plateau
they traversed gently rolling country
along the Anaktuvuk plateau Ineh
came the costal plain. 100 miles 10 the
Arctic ocean. featuring soft rocks and
silt with beds Of coal running through
them and creeping willows on the snore
of the Arctic Ocean.
Found Mas;odon Bones.
In 1895 on a trip down the Yukon
ps,e, below the mouth OF the Ianaha
Fsver in great bank OF slit M.
Schrader found the remains OF a great
n,as.odon with il-foot husKs As az
was then travelling IN roWooat NY
,,ssk was too heavy to be transported.
So he sawed of a piece, and TINS IS nov
renosinC on the mantelpiece OF ms nome.
The roint where the mastodon was
found was not far from the site OF the
r,reS-nt town of Fairbanks, but tneTe
ras no town there in those DAYS:
In the Fall of 1899 Mr.. ScnraoeI
earns down the Yukon River ano
sFor,nsd at ST. Michaels. and heard tnal
tf,are had been a gold strike at Nome.
In that community accommodations
were al a premium and the six or eight
in the Schrader party hired one room
n hotel and slept on the moor Ina
cald digaings were along the oeacn eilo
a. Anvil Greek. and the proSpecVoEs
were living in tents on the beach.
some Of the miners kept tneT goio
r., oId vashtubs, covered with canvas.
buried in the ground beneath men
tents. Nuggets worth 81 70 go W.
given away by the miners to the Gov
eminent men, 49,, ,,a-
some of the inhabitants OF NONE y. y.
.;eved the gold was washed up ny tns
sea from its depths, as the oeacn Woui9
H. found sparkling with nuggets anu
email nieces of gold. but Dit. Senrader
Vas able to inform them that the
rhl,rnirr of the waves uncovered tiie
rold or the beach Itself.