| Show I TO EXPLORE ALASKA Preparations for a Expedition to t the Northern Regions AN EXTENSIVE GEOLOGICAL i SURVEY I Cause Ln anJIl 1 VIblco Itlnd Iauble ao d 1 Orl I > Itrbntoo 01 Jek 3t to b Noted oled Waehlngton Iurch 16Prpartlnn alive hen mad by Director Walrot of the Ueologlrol survey for An Eten Save exploration of the geological top graphical alla other features of Allloleo Till I he don under authorIty of Congr hlch appropriated 10000 Cor the purpose In officers of the survey II be ussigraca to tho lorI In Ioe pect All Uorsc 1 lldrldg Arthur Routh J dl Spuir Alfred Brooks r C Barnard IV J locator lboucrt Mud row W H PSt W C Mendenhall and 1 C Sehmder The latter two are 10 ccomlay military exploring parties I ties In nddilon to the above mentioned 18 ramI men I be employed Four parties ure to be organized fit the gn erl charge of Mr 1ldrldg Seattle II be the outraging Point and the vhole xledltion I proceed thereabout there-about April I The gunhoat Wheeling I transport the party At tkabIY tlO Ial Will bo dtaheo the frt under Mr Ilarainall Vroccisillur to tile llundike I region for the Purpose l t rnalchic n topographlo survey of the valgraphla district dJacnt to the eastern bound Hily of Abc am tile IUt meldilln The ly Mill extend WI ard from the 1 nkon between tile CUh and 6th par anl all ot latitude and wi Inclllde the forty miles district Tile map to ho md by Danad flatly voill serve an a hal for I I a crate fill geological Investigation of the ro glon Iy Mr Kcth who will uo Barnard camp us a bI but will Operate to some extent independently The second Pull ty leaving Mr Ildrldge at Sielguay I be In charge of Mr SLur who will cooperate with Da nard In crlng the poulloes and on reach Ing the mouth of the White rive AM enter upon Its 1 Special field I of I work namply I one exploration of the I White and Tannna river systems I Is expected that this pay wall de Social the Tnllnll to I mouth and will explore the Melorikilliet with a low to future operations on the Koukuk After orgnlelng the Bar nard and Rpurr Parties at Skl Mr 1ldrld wth the remaining membois of tile force will go In the I E ling to Cooks Inlet land t the of the Sushltna river lie in coals I t entowlr thobirst 1 up with the the Suaddina entire to bout latitude C3 degrees 40 min ut where several forks of the river I combine At this point a party under Mr Peters will he detached to explore I the Northwlern portion 01 the Suhltna drainage basin with he expectation ex-pectation hat their work wall connect fill that ur a Party Bent train thu lh IIr 11 War department on Copper river and that they IN I close on Mr Spurr our I veys down the Tnllnn After detach Ing Mr Ietr party Mr Jldldge vIll procoed with an 1IBt 1 westward noD h divide between the Suohlt and the Koko Iuk to survey the headwaters of the Inkoknk and to determine the nyl gabIlItY ot that tnm by descending it to the usual portage to the lower I Yukon In the exploration by Mr Peters and Mr Tldrldg Sufficient attention at-tention I lie given to the location of n possible railroad from Cooks Inlet to the Yukon All th Pllrtle will rendezvous at St MIchaes by September Septem-ber 15 I The rout traversed will be critically critical-ly Inpel1 vilth a Iw to uncertain ing the moot practical location for trails wagon roads or railroads tit tri roa I character and extent or the timber I lie nte IInd the rivers or streams wi wi I be exam tied as to the Possibilities of navigation = d height ot falls or rapids and the rise and fall of tided wait he recorded Tbo geological survey sur-vey Is I to be so conducted a t Icr distribution of rock loan the general dltrbuUo I mane s their relations and s far an may be the character and origin of each All occurrences of valuable mine wall he noted and Special nt tntlon given to the preioenc or absence veins ab-sence of gold whether In placers or The Spanish Squadron Madrid March IST Spanish torpedo tor-pedo flotilla which nle from Cadiz Sunday ostensibly for Ports latest will Qnly call lhvr for provisions etc and I afterwards leave for Havens A second Spanish flotilla vill soon tar for Cuban waters and wall pb bly be Stationed at Porto little I Xt 10 1 Oi Offlo11 Capacity II I I Madrid March ISTI friends of Senor Haeta the Spanish premier deny that Senor J M Ceballons the I general ant for he Spanish trans Atat Steamship rmpany at New York has 1Itd President lcWnly I at the Inplrton of the Spooh frov nmnl I I Th recill 31hla of Sofervir Iey Wet March ITe trip of the Fen to Cuba was an < ill She reached Melanges on Salurdaand at once began discharging hr provisions I pro-visions Into lighter On shore II few t > eon had UIrd but thee was no I demonstrations of any kind The I bliare for Matanzas a got rid of In buslneolk way and the I Fern then asallOd l for Bagua la Grande I I hr Use mine program wu gone through volth on Sunday the operation t of landing the stores occupying about It ladlnt ta six hour t Unl1 States Consul Bake boarded I I the rr upon her arrival at Stigma lit was overjoyed to me B American chip r I once mom lie Paid thus were about 2G00 starving rconcnaos in his c I district 1 An Officer of the len sold to the correspondent or the Associated Press I today I seemed a IC the gladness of f the Wretched Cubans at ou arrival was sh te stifled by the oerwerln dread that heard above the people o Cuba and I that could not b dispelled en with the coming of the food for which they have longed Natural we saw little Our wn no eplOlng trip But we saw enough In Ionvince us that tile stories emanatng from latllnennd pcaUI from nted Sagu la Grade ure not exger i I Ir 1 U London March II Is I unofficially 1 announced that the marquis of Sal 10 bury the premier and minister ot I I mlnter foreign affairs wa greatly fatigued tt 11 fly Fridays cabinet council and are turn of the weakness from which he P I tnr long suffered following the attacks at-tacks of Influenza supervened with Ito I the result that the premier WB com = to take II complete rut 1 that I uth of France I II I I 1 |
