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712 Second Avenue.
D. F. & P. A.
SEATTLE, WASH.
SOUTHERN
PACIFIC LINES
Make It a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
]n addition to the cleaner conditions due to
Electrification, you’ll enjoy the comfortable
accommodations and you’ll like the little
courtesies incident to “Milwaukee” service.
Both Steamship Co.’s act as Milwaukee agents in Anchorage.
A. E. HARRIS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Juneau.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway
Going East
Through Rates from Anchorage to
Eastern Destinations Are in Effect
via the
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
To California and the South via Portland and the mag
nificent steamships “Great Northern” and “Northern
Pacific.”
A. S. DAUTRICK .Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent, Room 18,
Valentine Building.
T. J. MOORE, City Passenger Agent, Second and Columbia, Seattle^
Wash.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious • steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Leave
Seattle Seward
Dec. 1 Mariposa .Dec. 8
Dec. 8 Alameda .Dec. 15
Dec. 16, Mariposa.Dec. 23
Dec. 24, Alameda .Dec. 31
Leave Leave
Seattle Seward
Jan. 1, Mariposa .Jan. 8
Jan. 8, Alameda .Jon. 15
Jan. 16, Mariposa.Jan 23
Jan. 24, Alameda.Jan. 31
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
J. 3. IiANKIN,
Agent.
P. B. TRACY.
General Agent.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
Sailings from Seward to
Seattle and Alaskan Ports
Date Steamers
Dec. 18.SPOKANE
Dec. 27.WATSON
Jan. 7 .EVANS
Sailings Seattle to Seward
10th, 20th, and 30th each Month
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday.
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
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V
NATIVE COPPER
IN ABUNDANCE
ARCTIC RECIDN
That immense deposits of native
copper have been discovered on the
arctic shores of Canada in' the vicin
ity of Copper Mine river, Coronation
.sound, and that'the work of Vilhjal
mur Stefansson will be , seriously de
layed owing to the loss of the schoon
er Great Bear, were the assertions
made to the Juneau Empire recently
by Dr. R. M. Anderson, second in
command of the Stefansson expedi
tion.
Dr. Anderson passed through Ju
neau in September on his way to his
home in Canada. He had been in com
mand of the southern or shore party
of the expedition since the expedi
tion divided, and for the past three !
years had been making geological sur
veys and topographical maps of the
country along the Arctic border of
Canada. Dr. Anderson stated that:
the members of his party had not
seen Stefansson since March, 1913, at
which time Stefansson started north
over the ice fields. They have not
been in communication with him and 1
never knew whether he was alive or ]
dead. Last summer, when Stefans- ;
son visited Herschel island and bought
the power schooner Polar Bear, An
derson and his party were working
far to the eastward and did not see
him.
The southern party spent the first
winter, or the season of 1913, in win
ter quarters at Council point, and the
next two winters were spent in Union
strait. The work of the party started
at Point Harold and extended east
around the shores of Coronation
sound, and around the Kent peninsula,
near the mouth of the MacKenzie riv
er.
“The copper deposit discovered by
us consists of a vast mineralized belt
of native copper on the mainland near
Copper mine river, and extending out
to Prince Albert island,” said Mr. An
derson. “We sampled the deposit in
hundreds of places and made a survey
of it from a geological standpoint, but
I am not at liberty to disclose the size
of the deposit. As to the value, I
can’t say until the samples have been
assayed, and also tintil it is deter
mined whether the deposits can be
worked successfully or not.
“The copper ore is almost pure, as
far as we could tell. The natives of
that section use implements hammer
ed from the copper almost entirely. It
makes good snow knives, skinning
knives and ice picks. They h^ive no
steel there, and know nothing of
smelting ore. The copper in their
implements is just as it comes from
the ground as to purity.”
“Dr. Jenness, anthropologist with
the party, is on board this steamer*
with 40 cases of implements used by
the natives there in their daily life,
and the majority of them are made
of hammered copper. The collection
includes snow knives, ice picks, skin
ning knives, dishes, sled runners,
spear heads and in fact hundreds of
implements of that metal. He also
has samples of their articles of cloth
ing and of nearly everything used by
them.
“For the first two years it was pret
ty monotonous in there. We had no
reading matter at all, and did not
know that the European war was on
until the mail reached us overland on
November 9 last year. After that
we were all right, as we received com
plete files of the daily papers of Ot
tawa up to the time the mail left civ
ilization for the long trip overland
and down the MacKenzie river to our
camp. After its arrival we had plen
ty of reading matter.
“There is plenty of large standing
timber there a few miles back from
the coast. Of course on the Arctic
coast ’ there is no timber, but back
about 20 miles on the Copper Mine
river, and a litle farther back on the
MacKenzie, there are heavy stands of
timber. We used driftwood and some
coal which we took with us for fuel.
Our base camp was stationary and
we were not obliged to move around
much. We had the gasoline schooner
Alaska and were very comfortable on
board her most of the time.
“We had no difficulty in securing
all the fresh meats we wanted. The
annual migration of the caribou herds
passed close to our headquarters, and
we shot all we needed. Ducks and
other migratory birds are plentiful
there in the summer time. There are
very few geese there in the summer
time.
“We broke camp in Union strait on
July 13 of the present year, and reach
ed Herschel island on July 20, having
encountered very little ice east of the
island. On August S we reached
Point Barrow, and arrived at Nome i
August 16.”
When questioned regarding the i
i temperature in the Arctic regions,
Dr. Anderson stated that it is not
cold along the coast. He stated that
last December the temperature was
but little below freezing point and
that the average was between 15 and
25 degrees above zero. The coldest
weather encountered by the party
j during their entire stay in the north
was 47 degrees below zero. Last win
ter the thermometer only registered
zero on bne occasion.
When asked to account for it, Dr.
Anderson stated that he could not,
unless it was on account of the
dampness of the atmosphere and the
density of the air.
This is the ninth consecutive season
Dr. Anderson has spent in the Arctic,
having vyorked there four summers
for the American institute of New
York. This is also his first trip out
side since the Stefansson expediton
sailed for the north on board the ill
fated Karluk.
Everybody gets their lunch at the
North Pole Bakery. 144
Chafing Dishes at Loussac’s. 153
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Dance, Alaska Labor Union Hall. 139
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