' AMUNDSON HAS
' PLAN TO FLY
iN FAR NORTH
Captain Roland Amundsen, discov
erer of the South Role and the first
k to sail through the ice locked laby
rinth of the Northwest Rassage, while
in Chicago a few days ago, told of his
plan to crown his career by an aero
plane flight to the North Role.
Captain Amundsen plans to sail
from Norway in June, 101$. He will
skirt the Arctic coasts of Sweden,
Russia and Siberia as far as the delta
of the Lena river. At a point north
west of the New Siberian islands he
will head into the ice pack. With his
ship frozen fast in the ice pack he
will drift across the polar basin and
come out in the Atlantic ocean on the
east coast of (iret*nland.
The ship on which Captain Amund
sen will sail will be launched at Chris
tiania in March. Its keel was laid
*
last June. It will be $00 tons, a
three-masted schooner, equipped with
an auxiliary oil motor of -40 horse
power. It will carry a crew of ten
men, two of whom will be Americans'.
The rest will he Norwegians.
“By heading into the ice several
hundred miles east of where Nansen
began his drift.” said Captain
Amundsen, *‘l believe l will have a
stronger northward current and will (
be carried close to the pole. Nansen
'vent into the pack too far west. He
drifted to 8*> degrees and then mane
his famous dash to 8(> degrees 15
minutes, which was the highest north
then. He floated clear of the ice in
the north Atlantic between Spitz
bergen and Greenland. By starting
my drift farther east, and about 72
degrees north latitude 1 believe l will
reach 88 degrees at least and possibly
If l achieve the former latitude I
will be within 120 miles of the pole.
“I expect to reach 88 degrees after
a drift of a year and a half or two
years. In that time l will have drift
ed half across the polar pack, which
i> 1800 or 2000 miles wide. Then 1
will set sail in an aeroplane for the
pole in an hour or so.
“1 expect my drifting voyage across
the polar basin to occupy three years
in all. I will take along a thorough
scientific equipment. I expect to
bring back much valuable data re
garding prevailing winds, air cur
rents, air temperatures, sea currents,
sea temperatures, salinity of Arctic
waters and so on. I will make tre
quent aeroplane flights. Rising to a
height of 2000 or 3000 feet. I shall
be able to survey the region within a
radius of 100 miles or more.”
“Ho you expect to find memorials
of the Peary expedition at the Pole"'’
* Captain Amundsen was asked.
“No,” he said. Peary’s records
were cached on ice, and they have
drifted far away since Peary stood at
the top of the world on April 0, 1000.”
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Mining Notes
t. M. Nielson, who owns a group of
live quartz claims at the headquarters
of Anvil, near Nome, has taken u
' large shipment of supplies to his
! claims and will spend the winter do
| ing development work on the property
The vein varies from 20 to 25 feet in
; width.
John McCoy, president of the Tiek
| hell Cold Mining Company, left for
the states to purchase the necessary
mining and milling machinery for op
erating the property of the company
on an extensive scale. The property
of the company consists of a group of
seven claims located about one and
one-half miles from the Teikhell road
house, and about the same distance
from the government road. Develop
ment work on the property consists of
considerable stripping and open cut
work and ISO feet of tunnel. The
main vein runs from 8 to 24 feet in
width and gives assay values on the
surface from $8 to $172 per ton. It
ha> been traced for a distance of more
than 1,000 feet.
\ molybdenite claim discovered by
Chas. Cartwright and Joe Guyoi
about eight miles from here gives
promise of being one of the biggest
and most valuable mines tn the vicin
ity of Skagway, says the Ala k;ur
Recent assay tests made in Juneau
show values taken from this prospect
to run from $ >00 to $1000 a ton. A
tunnel has been driven ”>0 feet into
the mountain side and the further in
it goes the richer the ore becomes. •
This molybdenite was tirst discovered
in the surface rock ami traced along
a blanket vein, 110 feet wide, for a
distance of more than one and one
halt miles. There are very few bolyb
denite mines in the world, and the
value of the ore is great since it is a
good substitute for platinum and
non-ft Me. The ore occurs in foliat
tungste The metal is practically
e i masses or scales, and is lead grey
in color, with a metallic luster. In
feeling it is soft and like graphite.
The metal is used largely for harden
ing steel, especially the steel used in
the large fighting machines of
Kurope
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Sundays: Commum/n Mass a'. 8:31*
a. m.
Musa and Sermon at 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school after Mass.
Rosary, Instruction and Benediction
at 7:30 p. m.
Weekdays: Daily Mass at 7:30 a
m.
Daily Mas* 7:30 a. m. in hospital
chapel.
10R SALE
The Town of Seward offers for sale
Lot 38 in Block 14, and the building
thereon for the sum of $1,000.00. The
size of said building is 24 x 30 feet,
and has a furnace for heating.
Terms of sale 1-3 down, 1-3 in six
months and balance in one year. 8
per cent interest on all deferred pay
ments. For further particulars see,
O. H. POEHLMANN,
1-15—tf Municipal Clerk.
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WOODROW is located miles from Seward.
The Govt. Railroad runs through this beautiful tract.
Woodrow lies near Bear Lake the famous fishing
ground of Seward.
Woodrow may be said to be in the warm belt as the
kills are so situated as to shelter this tract from the winter
winds.
Woodrow is situated just this side of the Bungalow
and plotted on the most desirable portion of the Johnson
Homestead.
A tract in Woodrow is equivalent to more than 12 lots
in Seward.
The price is so low that no one can complain.
You can buy a tract of about one third the size of a
block in Seward for $125. — Some fractional tracts are
selling as low as $25—$50 and $75.
The title is clear—A warranty deed, lirst handed.
Woodrow is plotted in tracts situated each on a street
and corner on an alley. Each plot is easy to access.
Woodrow is a beautifully wooded tract and a veri
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Distance between Seattle and Seward and Kodiak, Alaska
Knots iirs. Min.
Seattle to Active Pass . DO 6
Active Pass to Seymour Narrows .112 D 30
Seymour Narrows to Alert Bay. 75 0
Alert Bay to Queen Charlotte Sound . 41) 3
Queen Charlotte Sound to Bella Bella. 7'J 0 30
Bella Bella to Mill Bank Sound . 14 1 30
Mill Bank Sound to Dixons Entrance.l'J4 10
Dixons Entrance to Ketchikan . 42 3
Ketchikan to Wrangel Narrows . D6 6
Wraugei Narrows to Petersburg . 16 1 30
Petersburg to Juneau .106 0
Juneau to Douglas . 3 15
Juneau to Cape Spencer.106 D
Cape Spencer to Yakutat .150 11
Yakutat to Cape St. Elias.140 12 15
Cape St. Elias to Katalla. 25 2
Katalla to Cordova.117 0
Cordova to Valdez . 77 0 30
Cordova to Ellamar. o3 4
Valdez to Ft. Liscum . 3
Valdez to Ellamar. 25
Valdez to Latouche .84 7
Kllamar to Latouche . 65
Latouche to Seward.62
Seward to Pt. Graham .138
Pt. Graham to Seldovia .'.. lo
Pt. Graham to Kodiak .166
Kodiak to Seward.175 14
Seldovia to Iliamna . 60
Seldovia to Kenai .6
Kenai to Anchorage . 62
Anchorage to Goose Bay . •*
’ Anchorage to Kodiak .355 21
GLACIERS AND POINTS OF INTEREST EN ROUTE
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? Between Petersburg and Juneau.Patterson Sumdum G •
\ Between Juneau and Cape Spencer.Mendenhall and Brady Glaciers
\ Between Cape Spencer and Yakutat.I.a Parouse and Yakutat Glacier.
5, Between Y'akutat and Cape St. Elias.da aspina G:uci'*r
j Between Latouche and Seward .Excelsioi Glacier
) Between Seward anil Pt. Graham.Lear Giaeier
; Between Cordova and Valdez.Columbia and Shoup Glaciers
I Sea' Rocks . 36 Knots from Sewa I
| Between Seldovia and Anchorage.Iliamna you a:;
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