Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1891 — ALASKA DISCOVERIES. [ARTICLE]

ALASKA DISCOVERIES.

Lieutenant Scliwatka has reached Des Moines, lowa, on his return from Alaska explorations. His party, including Dr Hayes, of the United States Geological Survey, and ten natives, left Luneau, Alaska, Juno 25. They proceeded up the Nakou river sixty miles, consuming two weeks on account of the swiftness of th« current, Jhence across the country eighty miles to a lake which tho natives told about. Tho lake is nearly one hundred miles long by fifteen in width, and was named by the party Ah Klaln(blg lake,) They then descended the new Berry rlvg for 150 miles. Frond Ft. Selkirk they went southwest 220 miles to what was snpposed to be a region in which copper abounds, but none was found. Several weeks were spent In exploring the Copper river, ouo of the most turbulent streams they had ever seeu. After ascending mountain peaks i» the interior and taking a number of observations of peaks never before seen by white men. the descentof the Copper rivet was made in canvas boats for nearly ons hundred miles. The Lieutenant is mors than pleased with his discoveries, and thinks them of great geographical as well as of geologicai value. The whaling schooner Nicolene, CaptaiJ Herendon, arrived at San Francisco «l Wednesday after an absence of over years In the Arctic ocean. The schoone* had several times been reported as lost I