Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1919 — SEEK GOLD IN THE ARCTIC [ARTICLE]

SEEK GOLD IN THE ARCTIC

Adventurers Are Now Prospecting th* Coasts of. Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. One of the really pathetic stories of modern history is the mutiny of Henry Hudson’s crew when he was exploring the arctic waters of North America, and his abandonment, with his son, in that vast inland sea that bears his name, a writer In the Brooklyn Eagle remarks. Many lives have been sacrificed in the quest of the North and South poks. Sir John Franklin’s and the Jeannette’s parties nTTSe-north and the recent Seott expedition at the. south only need be mentioned. Plans are afoot to open up the Baffin bay region to commerce. For many years small steamers have been making summer visits to Hudson bay to trade with the natives, and the Canadian government is building a railway to one of its ports. Railroad and cornmerclal development of Alaska by American enterprise has. caused prospecting of the mineral resources of the coasts of Baffin bay and Davis strait, with the result of finding, at the former place, gold In sufficient quantities to justify development, and coal of excellent quality along the latter. The latitude is about the same as that of the Yukon region and only a few degrees north of that of Nome, which has developed into a large community. So Impelling Is the lure of gold that the hardships of an arctic climate will not deter adventurers from hazarding their Ilves against the wealth said to be burled under the eternal snow and ice of Baffin Island.